Bi Any Other Name

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Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, an anthology edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu, is one of the seminal books in the history of the modern bisexual rights movement. It holds a place that is in many ways comparable to that held by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in the feminist movement.
The book comprises fiction and non-fiction pieces, poetry and art created by a diverse group of over seventy bisexual people speaking about their lives.
To quote Wendy Curry, longtime bisexual rights activist and former president of the American national bisexual civil rights group BiNet USA,
This book helped spark at least ten other books, was named one of Lambda Book Report's Top 100 Queer Books of the 20th century, has been reprinted 3 times since 1991, has over 40,000 copies in circulation, and was translated and published in Taiwan in June 2007. It also frequently appears on numerous LGBT reading lists, from assistance in coming out to queer studies curriculum guides.
The book contains a preface, acknowledgements, an introduction, resources, a glossary, a list of contributors, and the following pieces:
Myths/Realities of Bisexuality, by Sharon Forman Sumpter