LEADER 04464oam 2200661I 450 001 9910453259403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-56023-479-2 010 $a1-315-78380-0 010 $a1-317-71260-9 010 $a1-317-71261-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315783802 035 $a(CKB)2550000001257131 035 $a(EBL)1665857 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001215457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11770812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001215457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11191790 035 $a(PQKB)10366999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1665857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1665857 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10858594 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL588861 035 $a(OCoLC)876512887 035 $a(OCoLC)651801524 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001257131 100 $a20180706d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBi America $emyths, truths, and struggles of an invisible community /$fWilliam E. Burleson 210 1$aNew York :$cHarrington Park Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 225 1 $aBisexuality 300 $aFirst published 2005 by Harrington Park Press. 311 $a1-56023-478-4 311 $a1-306-57610-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; My Own Story; Sources; Who and What This Book Is About; Chapter 1. BECAUSE; Welcome to BECAUSE; The Workshop; Chapter 2. Relating Bisexuality to the World; "Bring Out the Bisexuals": The Jerry Springer Show; The Invisible Bisexual; The Relationship Between the Bi and the Lesbian and Gay Communities; Chapter 3. Bisexuality Defined; "Something Men Just Do"; Sex, History, and Culture; Models of Sexual Orientation; Perspectives on Bisexuality 327 $aBisexuality As an OrientationBisexuality As an Identity; Chapter 4. In Search of a Bisexual Community; The Picnic; Who Are They?; Is There a Bi Community?; Meet the Bi Community; Back to the Picnic; Chapter 5. Women's and Men's Experiences:Penthouse Bisexuals and Support Group Men; Kiss the Girls; Bisexual Women; Bisexual Men; Chapter 6. The Transgender Community; Bi Cities!; What Is "Transgender"?; Transgender History; Bisexual and Transgender; Chapter 7. What Is the Relationship Between Nonmonogamy and Bisexuality?; The Wog; Bisexuality, Monogamy, and American Society; Styles of Nonmonogamy 327 $aLast Thoughts About MonogamyChapter 8. Bisexuality in the Time of AIDS; Safer Sex Sluts; HIV/AIDS 101; HIV Risk and Bisexual Men; HIV Risk and Bisexual Women; AIDS and the Bisexual Community; Chapter 9. The History of the Bisexual Community; Boston, June 2002; The Seeds of Bi Activism in the 1960s and 1970s; The 1980s and the Second Wave of Activism; The 1990s and Conference Culture; Where Does That Leave the Bi Community Today?; Chapter 10. The Future of the Bi Community: GLBT Identity versus Cyberspace; The College Workshop; Into the Future; Bisexual Inclusion; Here Comes the Internet 327 $aDo We Want to Have a Community?What Is the Future of the Bisexual Community?; Chapter 11. BECAUSE Reprise; Back to the Workshop; Sunday Morning Breakfast; Appendix A. The Survey; Appendix B. The Bisexual History Project; Appendix C. Resources and Further Reading; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aGain an in-depth understanding of the unique struggles of the bisexual community! ?To me the gay and straight worlds are exactly the same; equally limited, judgmental, and bourgeois . . . just mirror images of each other. I truly like and overlap with some of the gay world, but my roots refuse to take hold there and grow. Unfortunately, my well-established roots in the straight world are simultaneously shriveling and dying too, leaving me feeling extremely unstable.? ??Cool,? a bisexual woman involved in a support groupThere are at least five million bisexu 410 0$aBisexuality. 606 $aBisexuals$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBisexuals$xSocial conditions. 676 $a306.76/5/0973 700 $aBurleson$b William E.$0938750 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453259403321 996 $aBi America$92115826 997 $aUNINA