Bi vs Pan

Bi Never Binary

Bi, never binary.

Bisexuality has been known as a fluid, inclusive label since the 1980s. Due to bisexual erasure, the meaning of bisexuality has been forgotten and misconstrued.

The idea of this carrd is to compile sources, both historical and modern, to support the idea that bisexuality is:
Fluid
Inclusive
Not enforcing the gender binary
Not transphobic
Attraction to all
Not reliant on preference

For the purpose of quoting, I would consider modern sources to be anything published during or after 1995. The medium - book, magazine or article - has no impact on this. If the source is hosted on a website, links have been provided.

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1970s

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.’

“The Bisexual Movement’s Beginnings in the 70s“, Bisexual Politics, referring to 1974.
Please note that the use of 'age' in this context means finding a lifelong partner at an older age.

Margaret Mead in her Redbook magazine column wrote an article titled ‘Bisexuality: What’s It All About?’ in which she cited examples of bisexuality from the distant past as well as recent times, commenting that writers, artists, and musicians especially ‘cultivated bisexuality out of a delight with personality, regardless of race or class or sex.

Being bisexual does not mean they have sexual relations with both sexes but that they are capable of meaningful and intimate involvement with a person regardless of gender.

“From Myth to Maturation” and "The Pressure Cooker", View From Another Closet: Exploring Bisexuality in Women, Janet Bode, 1976

[John] reacted emotionally to both sexes with equal intensity. ‘I love people, regardless of their gender,’ he told me.

“Early Influences,” Bisexuality, a Study, Charlotte Wolff, 1979

There were a lot of transvestites and transsexuals who came to [the San Francisco Bisexual Centre in the 1970s] , because they were not going to be turned away because of the way they dressed.

Dave Lourea in "Bi history in San Francisco in the 1970s and early 1980s", Dworkin, 2000, Journal of Bisexuality

1980s

On Saturday, February 9, San Francisco's Bisexual Center will conduct a Gender/Sexuality Workshop. "We will explore the interrelationships of gender feelings and sexual preference. We will look at the male and female sides of our personality and how we feel about those aspects of ourselves that differ from the stereotype. We will do some processes to determine the m/f aspects of ourselves and will explore about how we feel about them. We will discuss sexuality and whether we choose to play out the gender role assigned to us by society or whether we can shift to attitudes supposedly held by the opposite gender, if those feel good to us. We will deal with the issue of the TV/ TS in transition and how sexuality evolves as gender role changes. We will attempt to present a summary of the fragmented and confusing information on gender and sexuality."