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Management Teamwork Esperanza Montero & Manuel Sebastia
Activists & collaborators Josito Cabrera, Mike Oboza, Pozy Calvillo, Victoria Rosa Sturley, CJ Lobo Leyder, La Mosca Cojonera, Julita García, Juan Macías, María Lluc Alberti
Design & Editing Manuel Sebastia
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Note How to Come Out as Bisexual Being Trans in a binary society What is not named that not exist La Mosca Cojonera (the pain in the ass) Sexual Attitudes and Erotism GenderQueer and Bisexual Bisexuality: The rebel daughter and it’s heritage On the basis of much bisexuality is the non monogamy The Bisexual Monk Rants BI fun & images Lists
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NOTE TO THE ISSUE Well, first of all, sorry for the delay, the magazine was supposed to came out on October 20th and has been delayed a bit, we had a problem on one computer and lost all information including all the magazine and we had to do it again (being bisexual does not mean being perfect, didn’t do back up, Manuel’s fault). Despite that, hello everyone, here we are again, I hope you enjoy the magazine, it is been done with hard work and great enthusiasm. BI 2.0 will open new offices in Valencia in December, we'll catch up on the opening and party. We hope as well to have our website up and running for December. We would like to thank Nadia Babella (Human Rights Committee of San Francisco), the committee that published the 2011 report "Bisexual Invisibility, Impacts and Recommendations", Nadia gave us a surprise visit, that interview for the next issue. We greatly appreciate the work of everyone who have collaborated in this magazine, without these people it wouldn’t been possible. The magazine is licensed under Creative Commons, this means you can share, publish and print, also, you can not modify articles or images and can not be used for commercial purposes. Any person, group or website that want to upload it to their page or group, or wish to receive the magazine by post, you can get it by sending a blank email to bisexual.magazine@gmail.com, stating in the subject the language you wish to receive the magazine (English/Spanish). You can see or download the magazine at ISSUU bi2.0 and in many pages and groups about bisexuality and activism. Our Facebook Group is bimagazine2.0 applying for membership, our Facebook Page is bimagazine2.0, if you like the magazine, please press “like”. We will be soon also in Wordpress revistabimagazine, Twitter revistaBImag and Blogguer BI 2.0. If your association or group is not in the groups list and want to be there (only groups that are considered under the bisexuality umbrella, no LGBT+, not personal blogs), send us an email and we will add it. The same applies if you know about a publication that is not on the list. Our next issue, will come out by the end of December, we are hopping that we will have more sections, articles and other things. If you have an idea about the magazine (format, sections, etc) or you wish to participate on it, please contact us. The magazine is not responsible for comments or articles from other persons that appear in it.
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How to Come Out as Bisexual Us bisexuals are used to reading articles, listening to talks, etc. on coming out. We listen closely thinking that maybe this time we might hear something new and that we can apply to our own lives. Most often, though, we hear advice geared towards gays or lesbians. And when we talk to them about how it doesn’t really help us we seldom get the reply we want. That’s why I decided to put together my own guide to coming out, aimed specifically at bisexuals. But before I go into that I want to look into what advice does not work for us and why.
Bad coming out advice if you are bi Mention your same-sex partner Why it doesn’t work: For most people in society there are just two possible ways of being – gay or straight. If you have a same-sex partner then you must be gay. Rarely will somebody ask whether you are gay or bi. So by just bringing up a same-sex partner you will be entering a new closet, which can be confusing and frustrating.
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Also, many people don’t realise that most bi people have opposite sex relationships, so this isn’t even a possibility for them. Talking about your exes of several genders will also not produce the desired effect, as binary frameworks will still be at work and their interpretation is likely to be that you were gay and now you are straight or – worse, that you are confused and can’t make your mind up. This advice also negates the existence of non-binary gendered people. Have rainbow flags and other LGBT symbols on display As mentioned above, bis are largely invisibilised, so if you use LGBT symbols people are likely to assume you are either gay or an ally. The second can be frustratingly common if they know of the existence of a partner they interpret as opposite-sex.
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Use bi symbols, such as the bi flag You might say “Well, I will just use bi symbols then. I´ll put a bi flag on my desk at work and will wear a bi wristband.” The trouble with this is that hardly is familiar with these. Most LGBT people, and even the majority of bi people are not even aware that there is such a thing as a bi flag or bi colours.
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As we have seen, the main obstacle to coming out is the constant invisibilisation of bisexuality. Most often, while people understand what being bisexual is, they don’t expect to meet a bisexual person or they don’t think of it as a real, valid identity, as it doesn’t fit the binary. So, what can we do?
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Advice that does work Say you are bisexual There is nothing you can say that will make a non-activist think you are bi, so the best thing to do is to spell it out. Even saying things such as “I like girls, but I also like boys” can be interpreted in different ways – that you are really gay and not willing to ‘fess up to it, that you are in transition, that you are hypersexual and willing to go to bed with anyone, etc. However, saying you are bi is still not enough. You will still need to…
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Stand your ground and repeat you are bisexual Bisexuality does not fit people’s ideas of the world and whatever doesn’t fit into our structure of meaning is hard to remember. This is a well-known psychological trait in all of us, so it’s not the other person’s fault. What tends to happen is that they put you into the same rough category as gay or lesbian, even if they heard you alright the first time, as that’s the only category that has any meaning for them. Later on, when they access that knowledge they will find it in the category they placed it in – gay or lesbian – rather than in the one you provided. Also, since they don’t have a way of assigning meaning to it or behavior codes for this situation, they find the situation highly uncomfortable. That is why, aside from repeating it until they understand you don’t fit into the ‘gay’ category it´s good to…
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Tell the other person what that means for them Though it might be hard to understand, a lot of people feel criticised by anyone who falls outside the norm. Mostly they are afraid of doing something wrong now or in the future. So it´s best to make it easy for them and let them know:
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a) Why you are telling them you are bi: I mean your personal reasons for this. Do you want their support? Do you want to be able to be yourself? What does support or being yourself translate as for you? Explain it and use examples if you can. Most people don’t see that there is discrimination against LGBT people, never mind bisexuals. So explaining what it is and what it looks like in a way that does not accuse them or imply they might do it can go a long way to enlisting their support. What you are expecting from them now that they know. People often wonder if you are accusing them of homophobia, if you are coming onto them, etc. Most feel it’s not relevant to them as they don’t want to discriminate against you or they feel that your sexual life is your business, so they don’t understand what you want them to do with that information that seems so important to you. It’s best to have a couple of sentences saying what you want them to do or to avoid at the ready.
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It’s also important that you are able to do the above without becoming defensive. Whenever there is a discrepancy between body language and the words coming out of your mouth, people overwhelmingly favour body language. If you’re defensive they will most likely feel you are attacking or accusing them, which is never good policy when trying to gain allies.
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Here is an example of how you might use this in a work setting: Hi, Maria. I wanted to let you know I’m bisexual. I’d been thinking of telling you for a while because I’d been feeling like I was hiding something and I wasn’t comfortable not being able to be myself openly. Sometimes when I’ve told people they’ve not reacted that well. They either thought I was going to sleep with someone at the office or they didn’t understand why I “couldn’t make up my mind”. But, really, I’m not more promiscuous just because I’m bi, and you know how decisive I am, like when I stood my ground at the meeting last week… So I wanted to tell you because I don’t want to keep it a secret and I wanted to know if I can count on you if you hear any comments. You know how gossip can be damaging for morale and someone’s orientation really has no impact on how they work. So, what do you say? Can I count on you to stand up for me if you hear comments? You don’t need to tell anyone off, just remind them that it’s against our diversity policy to bad mouth someone for their sexual orientation. I know that this sounds hard to do. It requires you make yourself vulnerable. Coming out brings up many feelings, most of them uncomfortable. The most important thing is for you to be patient with yourself and listen to and own your feelings without letting yourself get carried away by them or blaming them on the other person. Once the conversation is over you can process them and get angry, cry or jump with joy, but try to stay calm during the conversation. Remember that full acceptance is very rare. But just because they aren’t rejoicing doesn’t mean they haven’t heard you. Remember why you are doing it. If it was to be able to be yourself more fully you can now do just that. Coming out is a process, which means that this is likely to be the first of many conversations, especially if the person is close to you. The good news is that it does get easier, it does get better.
Victoria Rosa www.umbrellacoaching.com
Victoria Rosa is a coach dedicated to help LGBT people to design and achieve fulfilling lives. Her mission is to not only better our collective lives, but lives prosperous and full of joy, as a way to achieve greater social justice. Because that's the point, right? It also works with people who are starting their journey to the polyamory and open relationships. Originally from Madrid, began bisexual and LGBT activism in Spain for almost a decade and it continues today in London, where she is established.
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BEING TRANS IN A BINARY SOCIETY In my 24 years a February 4, I came out of the closet as a trans guy, after "a career as a dyke" about 4 years (outside the closet). My great fear to come out was if people around me still be my friends or my family, or disown my ... Fear is nothing that futurization of events that have not yet occurred. When I finally had the courage and confidence to face it, and I came out. With a 100% acceptance among my friends, while in the family, not. When I came out as trans, I had to rebuild and realize what my orientation, straight, gay, bisexual‌? Now, months later and about to enter the 25, with testosterone treatment in place, I still can not explain what is my orientation, I like men and women, but what is a man and what is a woman? A socio-cultural concept? About genitals? Because in this case I would be woman, therefore being male or female is beyond your genitals. So what is it? When I ask myself these questions I realize that if I saw that society was binary regarding men and women are concerned, our LGBT community is too. Gays are MEN who like MEN, lesbians are WOMEN who like WOMEN ... and so goes on. Even BISEXUAL people identify as men or women who like men or women. So what am I? Or even, what is the person with whom I maintain a relationship. I've found several times the situation of being in bed with someone and they ask me, but then ... what am I? I always answer the same way, for me, a PERSON. After several years in LGBT groups, I realize that basically the labels are pure politics to get super fundamental rights in our society. Tags that at first, they help us understand what is happening inside us, help us to put a name to something that is hard to understand, but in time, you realize that they really are is PEOPLE with certain preferences in a relationship with another person. Just that ... PEOPLE. By CJ Lobo Leyder.
Born in Madrid on November 11, 1988, I was in Madrid until 24 when I decide to go to Palma de Mallorca to follow the adventure of my life and build a future for myself. I have been coordinator of the Trans Area in Cogam, I participated in FLGTB and ArcĂłpoli events. One of my greatest desires is to write a book about my vision of transsexuality in society and in myself.
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THE MAJORITY MINORITY, "WHAT IS NOT NAMED DOES NOT EXIST" THE POLITICALLY CORRECT. "F*ck, you are very susceptible." or the new way of exercising a privilege and thus exculpate well. Lately every time I use inclusive language I hear this phrase, and good to me just makes me realize how difficult it is to empathize with many people, in fact the vast majority, even more majority minority, which are the more should understand. For years, homosexual struggle is known worldwide, all of us know what is a homosexual, although, they remain a minority and their sexual orientation remains a death penalty in many countries, are putting them in jail or mocked, but unfortunately, it looks as if they had forgotten, because they truly act using a privilege, the privilege of being a majority minority. A privilege is to simply use a quality that is given to you, to oppress (directly or indirectly) to who does not have it. Today heterosexual people still use the heterosexual privilege on homosexual people, for example: 1.- Presuming your heterosexuality to any person you speak. 2.- Do not have to come out as straight, because this orientation is the "majoritary" 3.- Not have to prove their orientation, if they say they are heterosexuals, they are believed. Well for now I want you to change heterosexuals, in this list above, for homosexuals and think that who they are oppressing is bisexual people. 1.- Homosexuals, when they are in a safe space, directly assume that there are only gay. 2.- Homosexuals do not have to come out because it is the majority orientation while bisexual being read as homosexual or heterosexual, we must come out with LGH people. 3.- Homosexuals do not have to prove their orientation, they are believed, however, bisexuals have to show that we are bisexual. ** ** On point 3 I have also a reflection for my dear monosexual comrades (gays, lesbians and hetero-friendlys): if I roll it up with a man I will read as heterosexual, if I mess with a woman will be read as a lesbian, and if I do it with one man and one woman at a time, will be read as promiscuous. Can you tell me a formula to "prove" that my bisexuality does not meet point by point the myths of bisexuality? There is no way to prove bisexuality, as in reality, there is no way to prove any orientation, then again, we use another privilege, that we are the people that practice sex with other people, consequently exerting enormous oppression on asexual people. LGBT people have always been together in the fight, ALWAYS, and now that the G and L finally seems to have a number of rights, why do not you want to know about inclusive language or terminology? Why use privileges over other comrades? cisexuales people constantly use their privilege on transsexuals and monosexual people use this privilege to oppress bisexuals. Mind it, it's probably a matter of make them see it, I am convinced that they do it without realizing it. I recently gave a workshop on cisexuales privileges and went with the idea in the minds of people when you use inclusive language and explain why they think that "we are very susceptible" and above inclusive language does not justify saying "this word use is meant to include all "
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Many years ago the LGBT movement, and not exclusively, had a maxima: "WHAT IS NOT NAMED DOES NOT EXIST " Why has accepted this maxima for women and lesbians and now seem to have gotten some rights and don’t want to use them for the rest? Was used to support them, and I found something cool in the movement, a lot of solidarity, but why do we have to be susceptible bisexuals always saying "and bisexual" when they should be our fellow thatbnever forget? Or do not exist for them, since we are not appointed?? Can you be something and politically the opposite? Or simply another privilege that can allow a majority minority? I think and I do not equivocate too much if I say that the monosexist see us skeptical and with fear. (In no case I will generalize, as there are many comrades on our back) on the one hand they do not "believe" us, like if there was something to believe of a sexual orientation, and on the other hand think that if they give us voice, and considering how inclusive that us in our definition, we're going to remove their activists?. Lately the debate of "being politically something" it has open and I still do not know what this means, and less on the "direction" in which it is produced, how can it be that people who call themselves bisexual are politically monosexual do you understand if there is a more discriminated against and then we were all politically something. For example I usually empathize with the collective Trans much because I really think that is one of the most overlooked, then I would define "politically trans" even being cis (sexual) but you imagine being a politically cis trans? imagine a gay or being politically straight?. I mean, being "politically something" was "invented" to help visualize people with fewer privileges, such as bisexuals now become "politically lesbians or politically gays" and moreover, that this cross borders? Another day a boy of permanent FALGTB (Argentina federation) let me know, he told me that if that happened here that bisexuals themselves are called "politically LG". Yes, dear friend, is going. I will never understand this, and good, as always respect everything, I will respect that bisexuals are politically homosexuals, but must know they are hurting their OWN group, the bisexual one, because I think without any doubt, there is less bisexual visibility than gay or lesbian. I think must be identity areas at the moment, because there is still much to do and have different claims, this does not mean that people have the right to defend and support what they consider, if it is true, I wish I wouldn’te need areas and all we relied among all .. But for me, for now, I see this as a utopia. With this article I just want to encourage everyone to use inclusive language, then choose our highest very well "what is not named does not exist" and should remain so, and if it is you, comrades of struggle, the ones that not use it, does more damage, because as I read what you are, comrades. By Julita Garcia Julita Garcia is a Bisexual GenderQueer, ActiBist since 2008 in FELGTB, doing activism from an early age, is determined to use inclusive language. Has been a member of Segoentiende (Segovia), Bolo-Bolo (Toledo) and COGAM (Madrid), now coordinates the Bisexuality space of FELGTB and is a member of STOP BIPHOBIA (online platform for bisexual activists).
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For several decades now, almost a century, whenever there has been any question about a baby's genitals it has been solved by way of scalpel. Medicine wouldn't understand any way of doing things other than getting rid of anything outside the heteronorm of masculine or feminine genitals, with their corresponding masculine or feminine sexual expression and a sexual orientation towards the opposite sex. It's the (unfortunate) legacy we have received from the 18th and 19th centuries: chastity belts (and the myth they date from the Middle Ages). The fight against masturbation, even through ablation and immobilisation. We owe to Charles K. Mills, at the end of the 19th century, the proposal of the anglosaxon practice of removing the foreskin off of newborns so that they wouldn't give in to onanism. From that same time we also have teratology - literally, the study of monsters – the systematic study of any living being to show a characteristic that separated it from the norm.. Anyway, the attempt to ignore, delete, redirect or reclassify the intermediate, the uncertain, is already a part of our genetic code. We have been raised in a culture that has been classifying reality into two separate boxes, two unique categories, for thousands of years. Although he was not the first, Aristotle formulated this in his Logic, as did Pythagoras, Plato, etc, but if we want to find its origin we must go back to our Indoeuropean roots, to Zoroastrianism back in 2000 bC (Ahura Mazda versus Ahriman) or even before that: in Ancient Egipt, circa 3000 bC, dualisms such as that of the gods Osiris (order, life) and his evil brother Set (disorder, death) had a central part in the explanation of Egyptian myths. Dichotomies (either...or, black or white) have had more success than 'modal or multivalent logic systems (...) that accept a third value as “indeterminate” or “possible”' - a logic not quite as well known as Aristotle's. Instead, it is much easier for us, it doesn't require thought, to divide everything into two opposed sides. It is an reflex tendency, one of many cognitive distorsions, that of 'polarised or dichotomic (all or nothing) thought', consisting of 'reading people and events in absolute terms, without considering any intermediate degrees, as shown by the use of words such as “always”, “never”, “all”, when it is not justified by the events themselves'. We are a product of that dualist culture; a culture that we have absorbed, a culture that has shaped our way of thinking and that surrounds us constantly, often dividing reality into dichotomies, into false dilemmas in which 'two points of view are presented as the only possible options, when in reality one or more alternative options exist but have not been considered'. Day and night, white and black skin, man and woman, masculine and feminine, good and evil, full and empty... the list is infinite.
What's striking about this is that all those labels have, at the very least, a gradation from one end to the other... something that is usually ignored. Day and night don't work as a switch; they gradually go from light to dark. Skin has many different shades. Between full and empty, order and disorder, there's an infinite number of intermediate states. Like it or not, sex, gender, gender expression and sexual orientation also have infinite degrees, even if we wanted to look at it from a binary point of view, like a spectrum between two extremes instead of different identities without ranking.
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Even so, there appears to be a tendency to ignore, remove, excise, oust the intermediate, the diffuse. In the sexual terrain, that phobia is obvious in the shape of genital mutilation of intersex newborns. But it extends to millions of people, to many more instances.
This is the case of transgender people whose genitals differ from what could be expected due to their appearance, and who do not want to get surgery, or not right now. When they go to the gym, to the pool, which changing room should they choose? In all probability they will be thrown out of either one. In fact, they are thrown out. That intermediate state, that indeterminate appearance cannot find a home. This also happens to crossdressers, specially if they are straight men or if they mostly prefer to be in relationships with women. It continues to be a violation of gender norms; as J. Butler said 'gender manifests through ritual acts (performativity), but in male crossdressing it becomes a performative “break” with the masculine and a “subversive repetition” of the feminine'. According to Wikipedia, “due to the most frequent of gender dynamics, men find more intolerance when deviating from male gender norms, specially those violating heteronormativity. The fact that a man dresses as a woman is often considered to be a drop within the social hierarchy of gender, while a woman wearing traditionally masculine clothes (...) has less of an impact because women have traditionally been subjected by men, unable to cause any important changes through clothing. Thus when a male crossdresser wears those clothes, he becomes half a woman and consequently, an intolerable incarnation of the conflicting gender dynamic. Adding heterosexuality to that causes total uncertainty. Postures are exacerbated regarding queerness, whose nature is within those intermediate states, questioning supposedly untouchable categories. It has launched the most fundamentalist reaccions from within the Catholic hierarchy against what they call 'gender ideology'. The proponents of such an ideology want to affirm that differences between man and woman, besides the obvious anatomical differences, do not correspond to a fixed nature that makes some human beings male and others female. Rather, they think that the contrast in ways of thinking, acting and self-value is the product of a country's culture and of a specific time that assign each group of people a series of characteristics that can be explained by the convenience of that community's social structures. They want to rebel against these and give everyone the choice of 'gender' they want to adscribe to, all of them equally valid. This means that straight men and women, gays, lesbians and bisexuals are simply sexual behaviors, product ofeach person's choice, a freedom that everyone else must respect. Not much thought is needed to realise how revolutionary this position is, and the consequences of denying that a specific nature is given to each of us by our genetic capital. The difference between sexes is dilluted, as something conventionally attributed by society, and everyone can 'invent' themselves. Morality is left to the subject's decision, and the difference between the permitted and the taboo in this topic dissipate. These gentlemen miss dealing with this issue under the rules of 'nature', understanding 'nature' as those two bloody boxes, men and women, returning to that vision of medicine from the early 20th century where anything 'unnatural', a 'deformity' fo the species, must be eliminated or mutilated. There is an eternal (and false) dilemma in the BDSM community within that persecution against the intermediate: indentifying as a switch, someone who sometimes prefers to be dominate and others to be the one in controol. Does this seem unnatural? Does it not make sense? Does it
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have to be constantly put into question? Denying its legitimacy makes as much sense as trying to separate men into 'tops' and 'bottoms', into men who will always be penetrated against men who will always do the penetrating. Do unfluctuating sexual roles make sense within non conventional sexual practices? Reality is not quite as simple as this. Bisexual people are another good example: we are either straight or gay, but if we find ourselves somewhere in the middle, we are constantly criticised or ignored. Apart from not being monosexual, the position of the bisexual also has the feature of invisibility: no one ever says 'look at that attractive bisexual couple': they are either a gay couple or a straight couple, but we rarely speak of bisexual couples... An intermediate situation, bisexuality is still forced to exist in an environment similar to that of homosexuals who people attempt to persuade into 'getting cured'. From the homosexual camp there is insistence on sexual orientation as something natural instead of a choice, something we later contrast with our surroundings and find out whether it is the dominant option, if it is not, whether it is accepted or not... Not a day goes by in our lives when we choose to be gay, straight, transgender... and the same goes for bisexuality; it is not a voluntary decision nor does it need of a subsequent choice. One is bisexual, that is the final destination, there is no wait for some outcome. However it seems that most people find this intermediate position uncomfortable. Oddly enough, there is something that does seem socially accepted in all surroundings which would be unthinkable about other sexual orientations: constantly questioning the sexual orientation of bisexual people. Paraphrasing the well-known slogan: 'Some people are bisexual. Get over it'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing http://www.aciprensa.com/controversias/genero.htm http://www.fertilab.net/ver_impresion.aspx?id_articulo=310 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualismo http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falso_dilema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicotom%C3%ADa http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_del_tercero_excluido http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distorsi%C3%B3n_cognitiva http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing#Analyses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_intersex_surgery http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratolog%C3%ADa
La Mosca Cojonera is a blogger, co-creator of Golfxs Con Principios (a group that promotes nonconventional sex and affection through publishing, activities and services), designer, translator and activist. He translated The Ethical Slut (titled Ética Promiscua in Spanish) in 2013, a practical guide to polyamory, open relationships and other adventures, a work of reference on the subject since 1997.
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SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND EROTISM
By Cristóbal “Pozy” Calvillo. Behavioral psychology declares that for each stimule there is a specific response, this fact can be apply to the erotic world of human sexuality, in the way that every each of us react in a specific way to the different sexual stimules causing inhibition or increment of our sexual desire. To this type of response is what theorists calls “learned attitudes to sexual stimules”, this term refers to the the disposition to respond to erotic and sexual signs or stimules, from wich we evaluate them from a positive (pleasurable) to negative (aversive) dimension, in other words, is the way of how we react to different sexual stimules from wich can be pleasurable or not for our erotica. When the sexual attitude is negative it is called erotophobia, and when is positive is called erotophilia. This means that erotophobia is the reject to erotic-sexual stimules, while erotophilia is the approach to this stimules. Every each of us have a certain “level” of sexual attitudes, and in each “level” exist a continum. It seems that this mechanism is built throught positives and negatives experiences related to the sexuality in the different moments of our lives, and the combination of this sexual, emotional, erotic and physic experiencies make us to react to erotic stimules in certain ways. Several researches also have found that a persons´ sexual attitudes are associated with perceptions and behavior. So, individuals that are erotophobics have conservatives thoughts related with sexuality, and avoid sexual stimules and behavior. On the other hand, erotophilic individuals are more sexually liberals and more willing to experience sexual stimules and behavior. Each person stablishes their own erotophilic and erotophobic balance, in other words, each individual stablishes the point where
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their erotism reaches and where it doesn´t, this balance can variate from person to person.
The important thing is to be happy and be in harmony with our way to experiment with the erotica and living our sexuality without any problem. We must remember that all of us are sexual beings and we all have the decision on how to live, and if we want or not to enforce, our sexuality. So it is recomended to respect the differents ways to experience the erotica. In conclusion, it is transcendental to know what we are attracted to, sexually speaking, so we can learn how our erotica works, because with the minimal impulse can awake our sexual desire and be sexually arouse, also, it is important to know what do not turn us on, and in that form we could potentialize our erotica and enjoying having good sex. Besides, it´s good to remember that sometimes what it turns us on, could not turn other people on and that is respectable, and also, what for other find erotic maybe for us it is not. And here is where an honest and clear sexual comunication always helps. Thanks for your time dear readers, I send to all of you a sexologic hug and wish you a happy orgasms. Pozy.
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“Genderqueer” and bisexual By José S. Cabrera Pérez
How are you going to be genderqueer and bisexual, isn’t it that contradictory? Bisexual is who likes both sexes and genderqueer means a person. We still confusing the sex/gender identity with the sexual/romantic orientation. 1) Clarifying the definition of genderqueer Genderqueer is an umbrella term that encompasses different identities as intergender, agender, bigender, pangender, fluid gender, and other identities, are generally for people who have gender identities that leaves the binary system "man or woman". People who identify like genderqueer, may see themselves as male and female (bigender) as neither male nor female and any other category of third sex / gender (agender and / or neutral), or an intermediate exchange between the two male and female categories (intergender), or as a third separate category that includes several of these categories (pangender). Some people have physical characteristics associated only to one sex, others have classified as intersex bodies and others have bodies being amended. That is, a genderqueer person is when a person has one or more of more of these five: 1. 2. 3. 4.
People who are male and female (bigender), or between man and woman (intergender). Don’t feel like man or woman ( agender, neutral). Your gender identity moves between two or more genders (genderfluid) Third gender or other gender (includes those who prefer to use the term "genderqueer" or "non-binary" to describe their gender without using another label) 5. "People that gender identity and sexual orientation are interconnected" (girlfags "girls fags" and guydykes "guys dykes")
Genderqueer is sometimes defined as a category distinct from other non-binary and not an umbrella term, as sometimes happens with the term bisexual. For me, it is my identity space open for all those who do not enter and / or are unwilling to enter the male or female category as a whole (although these categories of male or female having other masculinities, femininities or androginias) regardless if we express it through the roles and independently whether or not to modify our bodies.
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Gender identity does not have to interfere with sexual orientation, a genderqueer person does not have to identify as pansexual, or as a agender/neutral person because they identify as asexual, ... anyone can have any sexual orientation and identity gender. 2) Clarifying the definition of bisexual 1. A person who feels romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction by people of both sexes (assuming the cisexuality of both sexes). Cisexist binary definition. 2. A person who feels romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction by people of both genders (regardless of whether or not cisexuals, transgender and intersex). Binary definition. 3. A person who feels romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction by persons regardless of sex/gender. Non binary definition. 4. A person who feels romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction to people with equal and alike sex/gender and people of different sex/gender. Non binary definition. 5. A person who feels romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction by persons of more than one gender or sex, not necessarily at the same time, in the same way or at the same level. Binary/non binary definition, umbrella term for all non monosexual persons not wanting to be under it.
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3) Can you be genderqueer and bisexual? The answer is yes, because they are two different things. Even if your bisexuality is binary can have a non-binary gender identity. Before assuming that both have to be binary, or otherwise, both must be non-binary, ask the person first which means genderqueer and / or bisexual for them.
Resources:
Genderqueer Identities http://genderqueerid.com/what-is-gq Non binary. ImĂĄgen de identidades no binarias. http://nonbinary.tumblr.com/ Grupo Facebook: Genderqueer (Spanish) https://www.facebook.com/groups/intergenero/ Paraguas Bisexual de Lille Skvat http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/primerpar aguasbililleskvat/ Paraguas bisexual de Shiri Eisner (translated by Mosca Cojonera) http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/paraguas-bisexual-the-bisexual-umbrella/ Reflexiones en torno a la pansexualidad I http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/reflexiones-en-torno-a-la-pansexualidad/ Reflexiones en torno a la pansexualidad II http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/primerparaguasbililleskvat/
I was born in Tenerife on December 21, 1986. I am a Social Integration Technician (TIS) and Bisexual activist. I've been part of several associations and groups LGBTIAQ as Transgender Association of Tenerife (Founding), the Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex of Canary Islands (AlgarabĂa) and therefore also of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (FELGTB), I'm in the STOP Biphobia and Genderqueer group on facebook. My interest issues related to non-binary: non-monosexual orientation: bisexuality* (bisexuality, polysexuality, pansexuality, omnisexuality, ...) and genderqueer identities.
Occasionally I write in my blog:La Radical Bi* http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com
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Bisexuality: The rebel daughter and it’s heritage. Bisexuality has been for long a theoretical concept and as a social reality, however continues to be challenged, occupies a "background" and their credibility is still in question. Our sexual references start from the heterosexual norm, while there was not even need to name it, just talking about sexuality. When building culturally the concept of sexual orientation is recognized that there are variations, a standard and a deviation from the norm, heterosexuality versus homosexuality. Inherited polar structure, typical of Judeo-Christian culture (good / bad, soul / body, love / sex, male / female, male / female ...) this dichotomy is based on opposition and incompatibility. Needless to say, this structure is limiting, ideologically biased and interested. The origin of the Judeo-Christian dichotomy is in the "good" versus "bad", and heirs of this opposition is built around a tree of concepts, which have in common that one defines the norm, the desirable, proper, good. Love is good, sex bad, the male is valuable, not the female, the soul is good the body is corrupt, etc.. is important to recognize that the heterosexual / homosexual mirror is the result of this chain of concepts. Heterosexuality is the good, the healthy, the desirable, proper, right ... homosexuality is the other part. Clearly, these arguments are not very "reasonable" from the current cultural view, however you need to remember the source of our understanding of things and name them. Bisexuality is the third wheel in the heterosexual/homosexual game, brings the freshness of youth and dares to question the basic rule, the dual structure. Sexual orientation is no longer polar, man or woman are no longer required and incompatible options. In fact quite the sense deflates the very concept of sexual orientation. If bisexuality is recognize, two incompatible and binding pole structure is breached, and it has serious cultural consequences. If there are certain things the poles and are "neither black nor white," our own moral structure is threatened, things are good versus bad, right versus wrong, appropriate or inappropriate ... A deep acceptance of bisexuality involves reviewing all our moral and cultural structure. The birth, the defense and the pogresive consolidation of bisexuality, falls squarely in the postmodern revision of man and specifically our affective-sexual side. This concept reflects the fundamentals of postmodern visibly look: -It is antidualist: The dualistic structure of Western culture limits the thought (good / bad, male / female, love / sex), postmodernism argues that prospects of thinking outside a polar or dichotomous approach. Also values and promotes pluralism and diversity. -It is disrespectful: Historical texts and traces of the past, according to postmodernism, there isn’t a heritage descriptive of reality, or a "test", but a product developed and biased by the groups in power. Encouraged to question, what we were taught not to question. - It gives importance of words: The language and reality interact, our thinking and our language creates words that affects how we relate to reality. Pay attention on how language affects our thinking and emotions. - And promotes relativism: Postmodernism argues that there are no absolute truths, we
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access to reality with limitations and the that truth is relative. These assumptions give rise to the need to create room for a new word and a new reality. Bisexuality, apparently the "little brother" of sexual orientations, it is to be a revolutionary and transgressive term, impact so deep that it is necessary to question it and reduce it to the anecdotal. Bisexuality has been tamed the hard way. The inclusion of bisexuality as a reality and as a valid concept involves the treatment of other questions of a basic polarities that structure the vision of our sexuality. The most important, is so internalized that it costs us see it despite its blatant role. In the polarity body / soul, sex / love, we talk about sex, sexual orientation, and conceptualize and name the reality. A person who feels attracted to, falls, links, pairs, so build a family and shares a vital project with someone of their own sex we call them homosexual, if is the opposite sex is heterosexual. Well, fall in love, the aesthetic and romatic admiration, the affections, the links, the couple and family ... are not relevant. What is important, what these words want to separate in opposite corners, is a valid sexual behavior: the other to heterosexuality. There is not talk about homoafectivity or heteroafectivity, our emotional-sexual aspect are just sexual. The love / sex is a polarity without integrating, don’t get together. Bisexuality is also heir to this limitation, but being the little sister plays less inheritance, "I fall in love and feel attracted to a person so that makes me feel, not being male or female" Frequently such statements in bisexual reality, almost without realizing they are breaking in one blow another big chains of our education, love and sex are not polar opposites, they touch, interact and can be integrated. Of the sexual orientation bisexuality is the less "sexual", playing with words is a "sexualaffective" orientation Bisexual love and sex, are a reality and an opportunity to develop, in the affections and erotica. In the way of relating, of loving and linking, but also in the way you play the morbid desire and sexual pleasure. The classic heterosexual models remain small, but also the homosexual reality is foreign. Again, the sum of the parts gives a different result to each of the parties, together bisexuality is not heterosexuality and homosexuality. Neither in their sexuality or their affections. The bisexual person, like it or not, violates previous structures and is part of a cultural exchange. Our culture "controls" our intimacy and union sets a benchmark of emotional, sexual and parenting: Marriage. In its origin is a legal contract, typical of a high social class, "an institution that caters to the perpetuation and maintenance of a property within a family group and differs from other unions governed by love or by sexual encounters (Luis Carbajal 2012). It is a heritage-type contract. Only from the XII century it began taking shape the idea that "love and marriage" could go together, and in the eighteenth century began to think that falling in love could be a reason for marriage (Coontz 2006). In the nineteenth century love consolidates as the most valuable reason to motivate this union. And it is only in the twentieth century when it includes the expectation of sexual satisfaction. Marriage is a commercial contract, to which has been added loving and sexual facet. Marriage is also a sacrament, but in the beginning the Church was opposed to any form of marriage and sexuality, gradually relented under pressure from powerful economic class, seeking both legal recognition as the approval of the Church. Sexuality regulated Catholicism promoting celibacy as main virtue. "Constituted the privileged lifestyle for both
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women and men, as he aspired individually and in communities, with open disdain respect traditional family" (Boswell 1996), the partner and family were not at all valued in the bosom of the Church. Several Councils stop infighting footprint in supporting the establishment and subsequent marriage as a sacrament. (Theology and life Marriage, A. Millares). We must not forget also that the Church initially rejected for being heterosexual marriage based on property interests validated unions between persons of the same sex (very common among religious) with no effect on equity and motivated by feelings. (Luis Carbajal 2012). Not exclusive heterosexuality or as contract or as a sacrament. Marriage used to regulate sexuality only for reproductive sense to ensure legitimate heirs. Its origin speaks of affectional or sexual fidelity, but heirs exclusivity (actually it was common to have companions / sexual and emotional as outside the marriage and begetting children / as "illegitimate"). When the Church accepts the marriage, celibacy and encourages sex that only supports reproductive purposes. The sheer weight of exclusivity and sexual fidelity in our culture are rooted in a contract regulating inheritance. Also creates a reproductive sexual reference, (the pleasure was penalized) and a value system which gives procreation greater status to a couple, is positioned as the natural end of marriage. Marriage means the union for life, because you bind two families not two people. And the rights of the parties have not always been valued. The voluntary and free choice, loving motivation, the adulthood of the parties and equal rights are extremely recent items in the history of marriage. The marriage was a lifelong union and it’s breaking involved serious consequences, sometimes was not even possible to run a "redistribution" of power and wealth. Thus there is a strong censorship to rupture, unresponsive to emotional reasons or linkage models, but their economic consequences. But we find here the origin of our assessment of the "steady partner" as an ideal model of linkage and the feeling of "failure and guilt" when a relationship ends. Marriage is our main reference in the social and intimate building of couple and family. But perpetuating implies a set of values and norms arising in equity interests, (and later reformulated from religious morality) that have little or nothing to do with the needs of an emotional bond between people. Without going into polemics, there noted that the doublecouple model suffers from strong limitations. The married couple is designed for two people, preferably of the opposite sex with reproductive intent, sexual fidelity, cohabitation, mutual support and common projectfusion also intended to be a lifelong union. Obviously this linkage model is not valid for all. There are many ways to partner, not always are two, not always of the opposite sex are not always stable, not always reproductive intention, not always maintain sexual fidelity is not always coexist or merge, etc. We face a beautiful adventure to live a different privacy regulations. It is an opportunity and a responsibility to explore new lands where the maps we are worth. I encourage you to respect those who came before and were part of the path that has allowed us to be where we are, along with the courage and responsibility to choose how to walk your own path. The couple is not a task, no targets or models to comply. It is a unique way to build.  There are no ideal models for the couple to be happy, there is only freedom to invent yourself. (Joan Garriga 2013).
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Juan MacĂas www.psicologojuanmacias.es Juan Macias. Psychologist - Sex and Marital Therapist. Master in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Masters in Sexual and Couple Therapy, Master / Specialist in Human Sexuality Gestalt Therapy Training (EMTG). Specialized in LGBT population since 1998, 17 years of experience in private practice and LGBT associations and organizations. I started my career as a psychologist in the counseling of COGAM, which I coordinated for 5 years, later worked with the group Les-Hom, the first cabinet in Madrid specialized in LGBT and accompany them for 7 years, then participated as responsible for market studies for public gay that have been made at national level, with Rainbow Consultants, also known study Sexual Behavior in gay, for the State Federation. I was the first psychologist in the Program of Information and Care for Gay, Bisexual and Transgender CAM for 4 years, since I left a few years ago to continue my work on my other passion, couples therapy and children, with more than 10 years of experience in Social Services in the Area of Family and Children, also in the City (family violence, gender violence intervention and people who exercise abuse), I coordinated one PEF (Family Meeting Point) and several prevention programs for children ... Since a couple of years I work exclusively to psychotherapy in my own office in the center of Madrid.
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On the basis of much bisexuality is the non monogamy Another precepts of much of modern bi politic is to insist that being a bisexual person and not a monogamous person have nothing to do. That is, there are monogamous and non-monogamous bisexual people, there are people like monogamous and non-monogamous heterosexual, or people with any other identity. Apparently bisexual behavior has nothing to do with the non-monogamy. And bisexual identity even less. Grossly oversimplified, monogamy is how many people you sleep with, bisexuality is what kind of people you sleep. Or how versus what kind of people you get up, eat, dream or whatever.
This idea that identity politics have that there is an evolution from a dark past to a future perfect is the less comical if we look at the historical development of the own distinct identity politics. Among those who were selfidentified as bisexual politics in the 70s, 80s and early 90s was quite common the idea that many bisexual people were precisely what their need not to be monogamous couples have different "sex " so more or less simultaneously. For example, one need only read the stories of a book like " Bi Any Other Name ", written, edited and designed entirely by bisexual activists of that period. That idea is now taboo. In this supposed evolution to something better than political correctness bisexual activism has set for itself in the last decade and a half, the reality of a huge part of people in their daily life are understood as bisexual, but not as activists and less yet as part of the bisexual movement is not only stigmatized but criticized as false, nonexistent , unreal. I can not even count how many people I've met outside the LGBTQ environment (the people who live in the cisheterosexual world or other subcultures) over the years that I have shown that precisely the reason to be called bisexual were his desire to have sex with people with what they saw as different bodies at the same time in the same season or alternately. Or living as his romantic passion for what they perceived as different qualities gender/ sexes. Come on, people who not only do not claim to be neither gay nor straight, but bisexual say precisely BECAUSE understand need/want/feel love and or sex of
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various kinds, with various types of bodies that read like different and often simultaneously or very close in time.
Many modern movement bisexual activists constantly complain about how difficult it is to attract others activists who are openly declare bisexual and make bisexual politics. How difficult it is to get out people from the monosexual closet. No doubt there are many factors that influence this, from the internalized biphobia to the lack of a separately bisexual activist movement. But for me there is another factor that I think is not mentioned: the bisexual activist movement alienates itself (dare I say most base without my own experience and my reading) to the most of the people who are identified under this label to reject their lifestyle, the reasons for their identification with the label, the feelings associated with that bisexuality that self-define, desires that hide behaviors they see as bisexual for fear of being ridiculed and so on. With so many slogans as " do not confuse bisexual " , "bisexual monogame " , "bisexual not promiscue " ... to who is surprised that all those couples who write to me on dating sites and wish to have sex with people of various genders/sexes not want to do activism that does not represent them ? Who is surprised that the person who is understood as a woman with a boyfriend and falls for her friend and feel confused with this but nevertheless having it just as secret lover do not feel like anti-confusion pro-monogamy activism ? Who is expected that the typical heterosexual male with a family at home, that is looking for cocks hairy asses, to be drilled in the parks do not think the bisexual community interests are not yours when
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you come across a brochure on " bisexual identities "? Not to be surprise , it won’t surprise me that they not do not want to use that label publicly bisexual if all that dogmatism associated with identity that do not believe that is part of their lives. But then the question is: why the politics of the most bisexual activists will denie will the existence of this factor for many people self-identity as bisexual is completely defining the label and is choosing it over other labels? I'm going back to something that I think I have said elsewhere on my blog and I think I will repeat many times. The reason I see is essentially one: LGBT identity politics, although in this case is only the B, is a policy of tolerance, of normality, "accept me because I'm normal, like you�, with conservative middle class values, of fear to sexuality and sex-negative attitude. And above all, to create normativities. In this case, binormativity, saying how real bisexuals have to behave, understand, define, express, identify, and others to be part of the group. By Lille Skvat Translated by Manuel Article extracted from http://niqueernilgbt.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/en-la-base-de-muchabisexualidad-esta-la-no-monogamia.html http://lilleskvat.blogspot.com/ http://niqueernilgbt.blogspot.com/ http://perkerendk.blogspot.com/
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The Bisexual Monk Rants By Br. Michael C. Oboza (ret) Years ago, I studied a lot about Alexander the Great and his innate abilities to have Bisexual adult consensual relations. I found myself there. I researched more. Even though, I was told by my closeted lesbian Special education High School teacher that “it was inappropriate to talk about “that stuff.” Never the less, as I was “warehoused” in Special education, I read by myself about Eleanor Roosevelt, Alan Rockway, Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Stephen Donaldson, Brenda “Mother of Pride” Howard and so on. In those numerous histories, as well, as others, I often found subtle Gaslighting, a psychological trauma from Bisexual Erasure, a manifestation of biphobia.Yet, for me, the most interesting recent Bi history that I am grateful for is San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s Report, Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations 2011 and the UK Bisexuality Report 2012 out of the UK. Both reports show regardless what side, straight or gay, the fence belongs to us as bisexuals. It is Our Fence! Because bisexuals exist with apology. I am more alive being all of me, because I exist with or without a Bisexual flag. And both reports also remind me of a poem whither I live in the USA or not with meaning. Do not stand at my grave and weep By Mary Elizabeth Frye, 1932 Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.
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Br. Michael C. Oboza is a Bisexual radical and Retired Orthodox Catholic Eastern Rite monastic. He has received accolades from the Center on Halsted, Legacy Project Chicago, and The Marin Foundation for his dedication to confronting Biphobia. He was the first Bisexual liaison while organizing Bisexual Programming at the Center on Halsted (COH), worked to organize and host "Celebrate Bisexuality Day" at the COH in 2010, 2011, 2013. A dedicated advocate and supporter of numerous LGBT causes both locally and nationally, Br. Oboza secured the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations Advisory Council on LGBT Issue’s endorsement of San Francisco’s "Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations" report, receiving 2011 Michael Page Award from the Marin Foundation for his efforts. He founded Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago (BQAC) in 2010. One of his greatest activism moments is being the first open Bisexual Selection and Host Committee member for Legacy Project Chicago and Legacy Walk, a world’s first outdoor Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender history museum. As of 2013, while being a Marriage Equality advocate in churches, he's the first Bisexual historian and pioneer from Chicago to speak at the LGBT Center of St. Louis on the radical importance of Bisexual inclusion and lead a workshop on Bisexual Inclusion and Suicide Prevention at the Midwest’s American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's LGBT Symposium. While being the first Bisexual liaison for Stonewall AGAIN, on October 22, 2013, he was Bisexual speaker who represented Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago, Bisexual visibility and inclusion at March on Springfield, Marriage Equality 2013.
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USA: American Institute of Bisexuality www.bisexual.org Because www.becauseconference.org BiNet USA www.binetusa.org Bisexual Resource Center (MA) www.biresource.net Bi Writers Association www.biwriters.org New York Area Bisexual Network (NY) www.nyabn.org/ Bay Area Bisexual Network (CA) www.bayareabisexualnetwork.org/bifriendly.html Bi Women Boston (MA) http://biwomenboston.org/ SBWN (WA) http://www.sbwn.net/Welcome.html US BiGirls http://usbigirls.com/
Bi Mental Health Professionals Association http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiMHP/ Bi Teachers Association http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biteachers/ Bi Veterans Association http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiVeterans/ Los Angeles Bi Task Force (CA) www.labtf.org/ amBI Los Angeles (CA) www.meetup.com/AMBILA/ Bi Social Network www.bisocialnetwork.com/ BOP blogginbop.wordpress.com BiNet Seattle (WA) http://www.binetseattle.org/ Biversity Boston (MA) http://biversity.org/Biversity_Boston/Biversity.html BiUnity (PA) http://biunity.org/
EUROPE: The bisexual Index (UK) www.bisexualindex.org.uk biUK (UK) www.biuk.org/ bisexualresearch.wordpress.com Bi Con (UK) www.bicon.org.uk/ BiCon2014 (UK) www.bicon2014.org.uk/ Bi Media (UK) www.bimedia.org/ Bi Festival (UK) www.bifest.org/ BiPhoria (UK) www.biphoria.org.uk/ Bisexual Underground (UK) www.bisexualunderground.org/ Bi Coffee London (UK) http://bi.org/bicoffeelondon/ BI Scotland (UK) http://www.biscotland.org
Bigruppen (DK) www.facebook.com/Bigruppen LANDELIJK NETWERK BISEKSUALITEIT (NL) www.lnbi.nl/joomla/ Bijou (NL) http://www.bijou-vrouwengroep.nl/ Dubbelzinnig (B) http://www.dubbel-zinnig.be/ Uferlos e V. (D) http://www.uferlos-online.de/ Portuguese Bi Comunity (P) http://www.communitywalk.com/location/ portuguese_bi_community/info/1613789 Bi2Bi (E) http://www.bi2bi.net/ Stopbifobia (E) https://www.facebook.com/groups/stop.bifobia/ Bisexualidad.net (E) http://bisexualidad.net/ Eurobinet (EU) https://www.facebook.com/groups/eurobinet/ La Radical BI (E) http://laradicalbi.wordpress.com/
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ESPAÑA:
Be-Sexual : Grupo bisexual de Xega (Asturias) http://xega.org/xega/areas/be_sexual Área bisexual de FELGTB (Madrid) http://felgtb.org/temas/bisexualidad Grupo Bi COGAM: Grupo bisexual de COGAM (Madrid) http://www.cogam.es/secciones/bisexuales Grupo bisexual de Arcópoli (Madrid) http://arcopoli.org/index.php/presentacion-vocalia-bisexual Área bisexual de Algarabía (Tenerife) http://www.algarabiatfe.org/www/bisexualidad/ Grupo bisexual y pansexual de Lambda (Valencia) http://www.lambdavalencia.org/es/grupos-y-espacios/bisexualidad-pansensualidad/ Área bisexualidad de Altihay (Fuerteventura) http://www.altihay.org/ Grupo Bisexualidad de Diversitat (Alicante) http://www.somdiversitat.com/areas/bisexualidad/
GLOBAL:
BI.ORG http://bi.org/ Global Bisexual Network https://www.facebook.com/groups/12391992191/ Bi Men Network http://www.bimen.org/
CANADA:
Toronto Bisexual Network http://www.torontobinet.org/ http://biwot.org/ http://www.bimot.ca/ The Bisexual Network of British Columbia http://binetbc.bi.org/
AUSTRALIA:
Sydney BI Network http://www.bi-nsw.org.au/
HISPANOAMERICA:
Opción Bi (MEXICO) www.opcionbi.org/ Manodiversa (COLOMBIA-BOLIVIA) http://www.manodiversa.supersitio.net/ Dimensión BI (COLOMBIA) http://dimensionbi.wix.com/inicio Lxsbisex Deiquique (CHILE) https://www.facebook.com/iqqbisex
If you know of a group or web that have an area for bisexuality and is not listed, please let us know at bisexual.magazine@gmail.com
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Journal of bisexuality
www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjbi20/current#.Ud5KXNKPFqw
The fence Magazine www.thefence.ca/
Bi Magazine
www.bimagazine.org
Bi Women Boston
www.biwomenboston.org/
Bi Community News
www.bicommunitynews.co.uk
Bi Nieuws Magazine (Netherland)
lnbi-berichten.livejournal.com/tag/nieuws
2012 Bisexuality report
www.open.ac.uk/ccig/public-engagement/the-bisexuality-report
2011 Bisexual invisibility
www.sf-hrc.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=989
Bisexual people at the workplace (Stonewall) www.stonewall.org.uk/other/startdownload.asp?openType=forced&documentID=2976
Lesbian and bisexual women’s health check 2008
www.stonewall.org.uk/documents/prescription_for_change.pdf
Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health Survey
www.stonewall.org.uk/documents/stonewall_gay_mens_health_final_1.pdf
Bi Health
www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/bisexual_health
If you know of a publication or magazine that is not listed, please let us know at bisexual.magazine@gmail.com
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