*smacks you over the head with a poorly put-together history textbook I made in crafts* LEARN BISEXUAL HISTORY BEFORE YOU ACT KNOWLEDGABLE
“Bisexual—being emotionally and physically attracted to all genders.” - GLSEN in fucking 1998
“Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in naturs [...] In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.” 1990 Bi Manifesto
“But there are also many bis, such as myself, for whom gender has no place in the list of things that attract them to a person.“ 2002
“Bisexual people are those for whom gender is not the first criteria in determining attraction.” 2003
“Assuming that all bisexuals are never attracted to trans or genderqueer folk is harmful, not only to bi individuals, but to trans and genderqueer individuals who choose to label themselves as bi.”
“Bisexual: A person who is attracted to people regardless of gender (a person does not have to have a relationship to be bisexual!)” 2003
“These data support the argument that, for some bisexual individuals, sexual attraction is not gender-linked.” 1992
Here’s a collection of older sources because I was too tired to continue last night and I also wanna link a better blog. Sources collected and put into a post by @verilybitchie
Love this. The first link is dead though, can anyone help with that? I think it’s maybe from Out of the Past Teachers Guide by GLSEN, Sep 1, 1998. The fourth quote doesn’t appear to have a clear date attached, as the PDF itself cites more recent dates than 2003. The fifth quote doesn’t have a date attached, but I can trace it with the wayback machine to 2016. I can trace the next 2003 one back as early as 2008, though it’s probably older.
It’s sad we have to do this kind of work.
Since OP mentioned my post, I think they won’t mind me adding it here:
1974
Kate Millett concluded her December, 1974 talk by lauding ‘the very wealth and humanity of bisexuality itself: for to exclude from one’s love any entire group of human beings because of class, age, or race or religion, or sex, is surely to be poorer - deeply and systematically poorer.’
quote from “The Bisexual Movement’s Beginnings in the 70s“, Bisexual Politics, referring to 1974
1984
J: Are we ever going to be able to define what bisexuality is? S: Never completely. That’s just it – the variety of lifestyles that we see between us defies definition.
Boston Bisexual Women’s Network Newsletter, January 1984
1986
I believe most of us will end up acknowledging that we love certain people or, perhaps, certain kinds of people, and that gender need not be a significant category, though for some of us it may be.
From an issue of Bi Women: the Newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network, 1986
1990
[B]isexual usually also implies that relations with gender minorities are possible.
Bisexuality: a Reader and Sourcebook, Thomas Geller, 1990
1992
Bisexuals fall in love with a person, not a gender
A bisexual’s survey response in Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism, Weise, 1992
With respect to our integrity as bisexuals, it is our responsibility to include transgendered people in our language, in our communities, in our politics, and in our lives.
“The Next Natural Step” by Naomi Tucker, Anything that Moves, No. 4,1992
1995
The bisexual community should be a place where lines are erased. Bisexuality dismisses, disproves, and defies dichotomies. It connotes a loss of rigidity and absolutes. It is an inclusive term.
Martin-Damon, K., “Essay for the Inclusion of Transsexuals”. Bisexual Politics. New York: Harrington Park Press. 1995
[B]isexual consciousness, because of its amorphous quality and inclusionary nature, posed a fundamental threat to the dualistic and exclusionary thought patterns which were - and still are - tenaciously held by both the gay liberation leadership and its enemies.
“The Bisexual Movement’s Beginnings in the 70s”, Bisexual Politics, edited by Naomi Tucker, 1995
1998
The probability is that your relationship is based on, or has nestled itself into something based more on the relationship between two identities than on the relationship between two people. That’s what we’re taught: man/man, woman/woman, woman/man, top/bottom, butch/femme, man/woman/man, etc. We’re never taught person/person. That’s what the bisexual movement has been trying to teach us.
My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein, 1998
@verilybitchie You’re 100% correct! What happened was GLSEN remade some of their website about a month after I made this post and the source link got destroyed, so I reached out and got a digital copy directly from them! The rest of the sources are saved on wayback machine to be safe.
You can now read the full 1998 guidebook here on Google Drive!
























