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THE BISEXUAL GIRLS

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Do you guys see what I'm seeing?

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Did you know that we have a bisexual woman to thank for pride as we celebrate it today?

Brenda Howard was a bisexual, Jewish and polyamorous feminist activist. She is also known as the Mother of Pride.

Friends with many inside the Stonewall Inn the night of the uprising, Howard created a one-month Stonewall anniversary rally in July 1969. Then, one year after Stonewall, she coordinated the one-year anniversary of the Christopher Street Liberation Day march.

She originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations now held worldwide.

Without her, pride as we know it wouldn't exist.

She also campaigned heavily for LGBTQ+ rights in general, as well as women’s rights, national healthcare, equal treatment for POC, rights for those affected by AIDS.

“She was an in-your-face activist,” Nelson said in 2014. “She fought for anyone who had their rights trampled on.”

Howard was arrested while participating in her activist work multiple times. Her friend Marla Stevens remembered one particular jail time fondly. In 1991, Howard was protesting with ACT-UP in Atlanta because a lesbian staffer in the state attorney general’s office was fired due to Georgia’s sodomy laws. Stevens and Howard were thrown in jail, later “reading steamy novels aloud to the assembled grrlz and being as much of a pain in the rear as possible so they'd not want to hold us any longer than absolutely necessary,” Stevens wrote.

While she was undoubtedly an accomplished activist, some of the work closest to her heart was in the bi community.

Howard was a constant champion for bi inclusion in early LGBTQ+ activism. She successfully lobbied for the inclusion of bisexuality in the 1993 March on Washington, at a time when the movement was focused primarily on gay men and lesbians.

The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them "A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be."

- Tom Limoncelli

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hate the phrase 'xyz is AT LEAST bisexual'. 'Cause y u mean??? Bisexuality is not ur fucking stepping stone

Same! It makes it seem like bisexuals are not "fully gay". Pisses me off so much

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Bisexuals were banned from attending the Mardi Gras gay & lesbian pride event in the 1990s.

In the membership forms, if applicants tick the boxes marked gay, lesbian, or transgender their membership will be accepted with no further ado.

However, if the applicants tick the boxes marked bisexual, they had additional questions to answer to justify their presence at the event.

The irony, given Mardi Gras builds on the celebratory traditions of Pride – an event devised by a bi woman following the Stonewall riot in 1969 – will not be lost.

(picture taken from Melbourne Star Observer 3 May 1996)

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ur cool! what it ur favorite bisexual media?

Thank you!

My favorite bisexual medias would be The Owl House and Yuri on Ice!

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all these wildly biphobic takes coming out of twitter are like, if you removed the specific references to bisexuality and swapped the icon with an american flag sunglasses guy everyone would immediately understand this is virulent misogyny. but when u add “bi” to the equation suddenly self-proclaimed feminists think women being called damaged goods & promiscuous manipulators because they have dated men is just “discourse” and a reasonable matter of opinion. makes you think

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It's sexual assault awareness month and I want to make people aware of the alarming rates bisexuals experience sexual assault at.

4 in 5 (almost 80%) bisexual women and over 56% of bisexual men reported experiencing contact sexual violence in their lifetimes.

Bi women cite bisexual-stigma as a reason for why they were victims of sexual violence. specifically stereotypes that they’re interested in having sex with everyone and in engaging in any type of sexual activity, or are expected to engage in sex acts to “prove” their identity

Researchers have found that bisexual women encounter greater challenges in recovering from sexual victimization compared to their lesbian and heterosexual counterparts, such as higher rates of problem drinking, PTSD symptoms, and depressive symptoms

Going further, “het women reported greater perceive social support and fewer negative reactions to disclosure of sexual assault than bi women”

“18% to 31% of people reported believing that bi women are inherently hypersexual, promiscuous or unable to be in monogamous relationships”

A big part of our dehumanisation and fetishisation is correlated to “unicorn hunt”

straight men immediately think of bisexual women as promiscuous sex objects out of a porn fantasy that will for sure be down for a threesome and they start sexually harassing us or worse

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personally if I saw a bi woman at pride with her cishet boyfriend I would be very happy to see that she has someone that loves and supports her given that 61% of bisexual women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence

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The constant exclusion and sidelining of bi women in sapphic spaces really does make it feel like yall see us as silly straight women just playing pretend that you're forced to tolerate and it makes me really fucking mad.

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Instead of talking about how bisexuals cannot use butch femme have you considered killing yourself

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Historically, bisexual identities have been misunderstood, ignored, erased, and stigmatized within the heterosexual communities, the LGBTQ+ community, and mainstream society, and this intersects with the experiences of bisexual butches.

the discrimination crosses over into pressure to conform to either heterosexual or homosexual communities with there being very little space for bisexuals to exist on our own without input (unwanted) from either group.

this is why it is so important to not only recognize the diversity in bisexual identity, but to uplift us and affirm us within our subsections of the queer identity. we have been here alongside you for centuries and it’s far past time to recognize us and our existence.

It’s one of the biggest reasons I refuse to hide my identity away. I take pride in being able to advocate for the bisexual community, the butch community AND the bisexual butch community. we need more visibility and we need more acceptance in all areas of bisexual presence but especially within the broader LGTBQ+ community, and the more of us refuse to be silent the stronger we will be.

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"And I would say that people who were referred to as [...] butches, et cetera, nowadays we think of them sometimes as just being synonymous with a certain kind of sexuality but in fact there’s a lot of butch women who sleep with other butches or who are bisexual."

Leslie Feinberg in In the Life: Interview with Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg [unedited footage]

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Journal of Bisexuality

Hello bisexuals! I have compiled all of the volumes and articles of Journal of Bisexuality and you can access it for free! Don't worry about paywalls anymore. I will keep updating the drive.

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BIPOL is planning a rally at the Moscone Center on July 15, during the Democratic Convention, to call for Inclusion of a Bisexual rights clause in the party's platform, and to demonstrate unity with the gay and lesbian organizations. According to [Dr. David] Lourea [director of the Bisexual Center], 'One of the biggest ironies is that Bisexuality was ignored for years until the AIDS issue.... I'm enraged that it takes something like a disease to acknowledge that we exist.'

BIPOL newsletter 1984

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Bisexual Magazines!!

Hello bisexuals, I have made a carrd archiving a few bisexual magazine series published in the 1990s. If you are interested in bisexual history and want to know more about it then I suggest you check it out 🩷💜💙 (It looks better on PC/desktop site view)