- Bisexual erasure
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Bisexual erasure is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or reexplain evidence of
bisexuality in the historical record, academic materials, thenews media , and otherprimary sources . When bisexual erasure is found in intellectually dishonest or erroneous works, it is a manifestation ofbiphobia .Fact|date=February 2008 In its most extreme form, bisexual erasure can include denying that bisexual people actually exist.cite journal |last=Hutchins |first=Loraine |authorlink=Loraine Hutchins |title=Sexual Prejudice: The erasure of bisexuals in academia and the media |journal=American Sexuality magazine |volume=3 |issue=4 |publisher=National Sexuality Resource Center |date=2005 |url=http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/MagArticle.cfm?Article=475&PageID=0 ]In the gay community
Bisexual erasure may stem from a belief that bisexual people do not deserve equal status or inclusion within
gay andlesbian communities.cite journal |last=Weiss |first=Jillian Todd |authorlink=Jillian Todd Weiss |title=GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia Within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community |journal=Journal of Bisexuality |volume=3 |issue=3/4 |pages=25–55 |publisher=Haworth Press |date=2004 |url=http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~jweiss/glvsbt.htm ]This can take the form of omitting the word "bisexual" in the name of an
organization or event that serves the wholeLGBT community .Homosexual people who engage in bisexual erasure may claim that bisexuals are actually closeted gay people who wish to appearheterosexual .cite journal |last=Yoshino |first=Kenji |authorlink=Kenji Yoshino |title=The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure |journal=Stanford Law Review |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=353–461 |publisher=Stanford Law School |date=January 2000 |url=http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/epistemiccontract.pdf |doi=10.2307/1229482 ]See also
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Biphobia
*Heteronormativity
*Monosexism
*Robyn Ochs References
Further reading
* Fraser, M., "Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality", Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1999. p.124-140.
External links
* [http://gibbin.org/curmudgeon.html Dear Fellow Non-existent Beings: countering current attempts to erase bisexuality]
* [http://bialogue.livejournal.com/ Bialogue]
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/bisex_lit.html Bisexual Erasure in literature] atglbtq.com .
* [http://marksimpson.com/pages/journalism/curiouser.html Curiouser and curiouser] by Mark Simpson
* [http://www.bialogue.org/Pages/InfoPackets/MentalHealth.html Bialogue/GLAAD Bisexuality Packet for Mental Health Professionals]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited] New York Times, July 5, 2005.
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