Bisexuality
Attack and Response
“Bisexual women just can’t admit they’re actually lesbians.”
“Lesbians have fought for years for our rights. Now bisexuals are taking over.”
“Bisexuals exploit heterosexual privilege.”
“Bisexual women can’t be true feminists.”
“Bi women bring AIDS and other STDs into the lesbian community.”
“Bisexuals undermine lesbian groups.”
“Bisexual women are ______.” (Fill in the blank with various gross generalizations.)
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HOW TO COMBAT BIPHOBIA
Intellectual Ammunition from the Lesbian Avengers/San Francisco
We need to respect how other people define their own identities. Anything else is arrogant, disempowering, and destructive.
Bisexual women have always been active in the movements for queer and dyke liberation, but bi contributions have been erased by historians who can only think in dualistic either/or terms.
The real issue here is the closet, not bisexuality. Closeted lesbians benefit from heterosexual privilege, and out bisexuals are vulnerable to queer bashing, job discrimination, loss of family ...
Sexual orientation is not the same as political perspective. Lesbianism does not equal feminist consciousness, and bi identification does not automatically make you a male-identified dupe.
Unsafe behavior, not sexual identification, spreads HIV/AIDS and other STDs.
Biphobia undermines our ability to fight the homophobia all dykes face.
Bisexual-identified women are just as diverse as the population at large – culturally, racially, ideologically, economically, physically, behaviorally ...
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