Love this. The first link is dead though, can anyone help with that? I think it’s maybe from Out of the Past Teachers Guide by GLSEN, Sep 1, 1998. The fourth quote doesn’t appear to have a clear date attached, as the PDF itself cites more recent dates than 2003. The fifth quote doesn’t have a date attached, but I can trace it with the wayback machine to 2016. I can trace the next 2003 one back as early as 2008, though it’s probably older.
It’s sad we have to do this kind of work.
Since OP mentioned my post, I think they won’t mind me adding it here:
Kate Millett concluded her December, 1974 talk by lauding ‘the very wealth and humanity of bisexuality itself: for to exclude from one’s love any entire group of human beings because of class, age, or race or religion, or sex, is surely to be poorer - deeply and systematically poorer.’
quote from “The Bisexual Movement’s Beginnings in the 70s“, Bisexual Politics, referring to 1974
J: Are we ever going to be able to define what bisexuality is?
S: Never completely. That’s just it – the variety of lifestyles that we see between us defies definition.
Boston Bisexual Women’s Network Newsletter, January 1984
I believe most of us will end up acknowledging that we love certain people or, perhaps, certain kinds of people, and that gender need not be a significant category, though for some of us it may be.
From an issue of Bi Women: the Newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network, 1986
[B]isexual usually also implies that relations with gender minorities are possible.
Bisexuality: a Reader and Sourcebook, Thomas Geller, 1990
Bisexuals fall in love with a person, not a gender
A bisexual’s survey response in Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism, Weise, 1992
With respect to our integrity as bisexuals, it is our responsibility to include transgendered people in our language, in our communities, in our politics, and in our lives.
“The Next Natural Step” by Naomi Tucker, Anything that Moves, No. 4,1992
The bisexual community should be a place where lines are erased. Bisexuality dismisses, disproves, and defies dichotomies. It connotes a loss of rigidity and absolutes. It is an inclusive term.
Martin-Damon, K., “Essay for the Inclusion of Transsexuals”. Bisexual Politics. New York: Harrington Park Press. 1995
[B]isexual consciousness, because of its amorphous quality and inclusionary nature, posed a fundamental threat to the dualistic and exclusionary thought patterns which were - and still are - tenaciously held by both the gay liberation leadership and its enemies.
“The Bisexual Movement’s Beginnings in the 70s”, Bisexual Politics, edited by Naomi Tucker, 1995
The probability is that your relationship is based on, or has nestled itself into something based more on the relationship between two identities than on the relationship between two people. That’s what we’re taught: man/man, woman/woman, woman/man, top/bottom, butch/femme, man/woman/man, etc. We’re never taught person/person. That’s what the bisexual movement has been trying to teach us.
My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein, 1998
