Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative

By Fred Langridge, Kaye McLelland, Grant Denkinson, et al.

Book Overview

An insightful guidebook on bisexual identity interwoven with fearless testimony of bisexual activities striving for self-realization in a society built on the reductive axis of "gay/straight."

Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends with decades of misinformation stereotyping them as innately indecisive, self-loathing, and untrustworthy.

Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table. This guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement fuses a chronology of bisexual organizing with essays, poems, and articles detailing the lived experiences of bisexual activities struggling against a dominant culture driven by norms of monosexual attraction, compulsory monogamy, and inflexible notions of gender expression and identity.

Kate Harrad's anthology of a thriving identity yearning to realize itself provides a vision of bisexuality that is beyond gay and straight, rather than left to merely occupy the space between.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194493460X
• ISBN13: 9781944934606
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Thornapple Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"