BiNet USA is an American national nonprofit bisexual community organization whose mission is to "facilitate the development of a cohesive network of bisexual communities, promote bisexual visibility, and collect and distribute educational information regarding bisexuality. To accomplish these goals, BiNet USA will provide a national network for bisexual organizations and individuals across the United States, and encourage participation and organizing on local and national levels." It is the oldest national bisexuality organization in the United States.
Bi Community News is the United Kingdom's only magazine serving the bisexual population. It is published bimonthly and includes many articles reflecting bisexual life and media representation as well as news from the bisexual community.
The UK BiCon, is the largest and most consistent annual gathering of the United Kingdom's bisexual community.
A BiCon is a bisexual community gathering, it stands for either 'Bisexual Convention' or 'Bisexual Conference' or 'Bisexual Convention/Conference'.
Loraine Hutchins is an American bisexual and feminist author, activist, and sex educator. Hutchins rose to prominence as co-editor of Bi Any Other Name, an anthology that is one of the seminal books in the bisexual rights movement. Hutchins contributed the pieces "Letting Go: An Interview with John Horne" and "Love That Kink" to that anthology.
New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) is a central communications network for bisexual & bi-friendly groups and resources in the five boroughs of New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area. The mission of the New York Area Bisexual Network is to facilitate the development of a cohesive bisexual community in the New York Area. The network promotes bisexual visibility, works to protect the bisexual community from discrimination and biphobia and assists and empowers the individual community members, their families and friends to live full, rich, safe and happy lives.
The bisexual community includes members of the LGBT community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, or sexually fluid.
Wendy Curry is an American bisexual rights activist and animal rescue advocate.
Robyn Ochs is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity and coalition building. She is the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide, Bi Women Quarterly, and the anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. Ochs, along with Professor Herukhuti, co-edited the anthology Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23. This day is a call to recognize and celebrate bisexual history, bisexual community and culture, and all the bisexual people in their lives.
Bialogue, a portmanteau of the words bisexual and dialogue, is an American activist group that started in New York City, working on issues of local, national, and international interest to the bisexual, fluid, pansexual, queer-identified communities and their allies. Bialogue's mission is to dispel myths and stereotypes about bisexuality, address biphobia and bisexual erasure, educate the public on the facts and realities of bisexuality and advocate for the bisexual community. Its slogan is "Taking Action not just Offense".
A BiFest is a one-day festival celebrating bisexuality, usually with workshops and discussions during the day and social events in the evening, complementing the larger convention BiCon. Currently there have been at least sixteen BiFests around the UK since 1999, with the busiest attracting around 130 people.
The Transcending Boundaries Conference (TBC) is a Northeast American convention for bisexual + other middle sexualitites; genderqueer; transgender; intersex; polyamorous and other people who do fall outside strict binaries as well as their family, friends, and straight allies.
The National Union of Students LGBT+ Campaign is an LGBT advocacy group that is an autonomous part of the National Union of Students (NUS).
This article addresses the history of bisexuality in the United States. It covers this history from 1892, when the first English-language use of the word "bisexual", in the sense of being sexually attracted to both women and men, occurred, to the present.
The history of bisexuality is divided into two parts, pre-modern history and contemporary history. The ancient and medieval history of bisexuality consists of anecdotes of sexual behaviors and relationships between people of the same sex and of the different sex. The modern definition of bisexuality started to take form in the middle of 19th century within three interconnected categories: biological, psychical, and sexual categories. In modern Western culture, the term bisexual is defined as a person with the capacity for romantic or sexual attraction to both males and females. The use of the word bisexual can be traced back to 19th century when German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing used the word bisexual to refer to the gender of individuals who adopted both feminine and masculine behaviors. Beginning from the 1970s, bisexuality as a distinct sexuality gained visibility in Western literature, academia, and activism. Although there is a surge of research and activism in bisexuality, many scholars and activists state that bisexuals have often been marginalized in literature, films, and research works.
Meg-John Barker is an author, speaker, consultant, and activist-academic. They have written a number of anti self-help books on the topics of relationships, sex, and gender, as well as the popular graphic non-fiction book, Queer: A Graphic History, and the book The Psychology of Sex. They are the writer of the relationships book and blog Rewriting the Rules, and they have a podcast with sex educator Justin Hancock.
BECAUSE is an annual, national conference for the bisexual community and other bi+ people that takes place in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It was founded in 1992. It has been organized by the Bisexual Organizing Project since 1999. The conference is "dedicated to building an empowered bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community."
