Sunday, March 24, 2013

9. Bisexual history.


All people, male and female, are born bisexual and like a light switch held between on and off, will usually fall into one of two extremes. On the whole, did not consider homosexuality to be an aberration or sickness in and of itself, but those societal pressures would undoubtedly contribute to unhealthy fetishes and sexual behaviors.

I've read an article about “Lesbian history” by Gregory S. Storms. Bisexual women activists realized this point early on, especially because it impacted their lives with greater force than perhaps it would have lesbian separatists.  Bisexuals could not create communities of isolation for the simple fact that many aligned with a definition of bisexuality that reflects Holly’s above, that of a merging of two sexual communities, not a rejection of one for the other.  If bisexual women were to create a separatist bisexual nation, there would be essentially no community to form.  By rejecting straight communities many bisexual women felt that they would be rejecting a part of themselves.  Instead, they sought out ways to integrate the two communities, gay and straight, by a concerted effort of undermining multiple systems of oppression simultaneously.

Within this mindset, many bisexual women not only reacted against lesbian feminists by establishing a separate movement focused on bi women’s concerns, but also attempted to show the commonalities between lesbians and bi women.

"I believe that gender is something between your ears, not between your legs." - Chaz Bono. I believe with this quote. This quote means, your gender is in your eyes to what you attracted to romantically or sexually. And to your heart to what you feel with someone whether it is a female or male.

Doubts about the veracity of bisexuality as an identity are not new. Variously characterized within dominant discourses of sexuality as, among other things, a form of infantilism or immaturity, a transitional phase, state of conclusion, even a lie, the category of bisexuality for over a century has been persistently refused the title of legitimate sexual identity.



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