San Francisco Chronicle Articles on Bisexuality
Outside the BOX
Bisexuals confuse a society obsessed with categorizing people
When he says he’s bisexual, what does he really mean?
… these provoked mixed emotions, at best. It is nice to see coverage of ourselves in the media, and actual quotes from interviews with real live bisexuals; but something essential is missing from the article… it took me a while to figure it out, but after about half-an-hour of doing other things, I nailed it: the fact of a bisexual community, that there exists an active, organized group of people who self-identify as bisexual, that we are not just random individuals immersed in a sea of non-bi people, is missing. Nothing about the Bi-Friendlys throughout the Bay Area, nothing about the larger network of activist groups and organizations on-line and in various areas of the country, no mention of the authors who’ve written groundbreaking works of non-fiction. They quote Melissa White once, without any context as to why bisexual got added to the name of various GLBT organizations, or what kind of struggle there was before that happened, etc. And, finally, the article seems to protray us as strangers, aliens in our own land.
And the sidebar column, all I have to say about that is, “give me a break… sheesh.”
I guess it is ungrateful to be disappointed, when this is the first article all year in the Chron about bisexuals, just about, but I expect a lot more. GRR.
