1971 book called Common Sense, the text on the side says
"The long range goal of Gay Liberation is to liberate the gayness in everybody and this wipe out the separation and distinction between gay and straight people. You were born ambisexual, multisexual, polyamorous, perverse, pansexual, call it what you will. Gender behavior is then trained into you by the variety of interactions with the world around you as you grow up. Some of us have managed to retain our ability to enjoy interacting in a variety of ways, including sexually, with people that -" page as been cut off.
Obviously you don't have to agree with the message, different lgbt+ activists have had different goals for years and our goals change over time.
But to claim that pansexuality it biphobic or that bisexuality is panphobic is ahistoric. Bisexuality used to be both an umbrella term and a singular identity, uniting everyone who wasn't monosexual. We are not enemies.
"Do not expect a clear-cut definition of bisexuality to jump from the pages. We bisexuals tend to define bisexuality in ways that are unique to our own individuality. There are as many definitions of bisexuality as there are bisexuals. Many of us choose not to label ourselves as anything at all, and find the word "bisexual" to be inadequate and too limiting"
- The Bisexual Manifesto, 1990
We always had multiple different words to describe very similar experiences. And the bisexual manifesto includes the importance of people who may identify as something else if they feel they don't fit the bisexual label as well as the importance of knowing that there are many different ways to define each label. And that is okay. It's great, actually.
We exist under the same umbrella! That's great!
My screen reader won't work with this one because of the font so if anyone has the spoons / energy to type a full image description this that would be great (I may come back and do it myself though). The book "Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around The World" by Robyn Ochs released in 2005 mentions this:
People are becoming not only increasingly willing to embrace identities that crosses lines, but also immensely creative and playful with their use of terms and labels. Some identify as queer, pansexual, and omnisexual.
^^ this was a section about identities under the non-monosexual (not the term used back then but using it now so it's more easily understandable) umbrella
If you didn't know, that is perfectly fine and okay! Queer history is hard to find. But now you do know. So if you see this history from 1971, 1990, and 2005 and still think pansexuals are our enemies and not the t/rfs who tried their best to erase this and hide this from us... idk what to tell you.
*Do Not Tag As Q Slur: if someone has trauma around the word then they should block the word "queer" which means they won't see this post as the word is already mentioned in here. In the very least, tag as Q word. *
- sincerely, a bi trans man
