worn-smooth:bailxrganas:cairawr:radioforyoureyes:4lung:itchycoil:h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y:A New Sexual Identi

worn-smooth:bailxrganas:cairawr:radioforyoureyes:4lung:itchycoil:h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y:A New Sexual Identity Emerges…1995 @newsweek (rg @ray.chandler) #bi #biguy #biculture #blazer #1995They look so sneaky … Me1995 - bisexuality discovered Bisexuality turned 21 this yearsomeone tell me all about the cappuccino vs cowboys dilemma@thoodleoo it was born in the same year as us …… coincidence?So, the old(er) person’s perspective on this part of queer history.This cover story was almost certainly in response to Marjorie Garber’s book Vice Versa which came out that summer. I was actually asked to be part of the publicity for her book, as a Real Live Bisexual. But I was a total fuck-up and decided that I could not be on television representing bisexuality. Which was, I think, a very wise decision, but also makes me sad for my younger self. I always felt like I was not good enough to be an Official Queer, and eventually distanced myself from the queer community, and started identifying as a druggy who fucked women and bisexual men.I moved from Berkeley to Boston in 1991 for school, and the way that queer issues were dealt with in the two places could not have been more different. San Francisco had a long history of being a gay haven (probably going back to the military bases there and how many men were discharged for homosexuality) and the AIDS crisis had forced a very pragmatic view about sex and the dangers of stigma. So Bisexuality was a thing that people were talking about in the Bay Area in 1991, especially in youth groups like the Pacific Center and LYRIC. At one point I had a day glow Bisexual Pride sticker that I got at A Different Light. But San Francisco was pretty far ahead of most of the country, and I think a lot of people in my age group (I turned 18 in 1991) didn’t learn about bisexuality until much later.Bisexuality had also been a contested issue in the Lesbian Sex Wars of the late 70s and early 80s. Gayle Rubin and Samois (the sex radical movement) specifically mentioned bisexuals as a stigmatized group (along with BDSM, butch/femme, and what we would now call trans identities). (Their opposition to age of consent laws now seems very problematic, but at the time they were specifically focusing on the way these laws were disproportionally used against queer people, and used to suppress queer teen sexuality, though it is also true that sex positivity has not had the best track record of protecting vulnerable groups over the last 20 years.) -- source link

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