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Writer's pictureZoe Mei

Bisexual & Pansexual Identities: Invisibility & Invalidation/ Nikki Hayfield / Notes

Alorie & Gaudet 2013/ Academic activist page 42

Page 74- Authentic gay rejection from venues

Hermaphoroditism-Page 32 "Bisexuality was understood as a psychological failure to "orientate"

Page 26-Gender inverts

Page 25-First wave sexology

Page 27-Krafft-Ebings- The founder of modern sexual pathology

Page 33-"Bisexual individuals were commonly understood to be cowardly homosexuals"

Page 30-Krafft-Ebings suggested that in early embryonic development all humans have characteristics of both sexes

Page 68- Rejecting the gaze of gender

Page 47-"The performance of bisexuality has been critiqued by scholors as an exploitation of women's sexuality in the interests of the male gaze and men's sexual fantasies"

Page 10-Bisexuality invalidation-bisexuality invisibility erasure

Page 48-Stigma/Misconception - Bisexual people are confused/cowardly & unable to commit to monogamy/ you cannot trust a bisexual person/ rejection from the LGBTQ community

Page 84-Gay vs Bi- bullying sexual harassment/ Gay Vs Bi lower self esteem- less belonging- not fitting into to heteronormative/spiritual culture/ nor liberal LGBT groups

Page 75-Class & lesbians

Page 37-Ignoring & minimising bisexuality: Laboratory research & sex surveys

Page 47-Faux Bisexuality

Page 46-Bisexuality has sometimes been understood as purely a performance by sexually adventurous women to seek attention of straight men

Page 49-Bisexual people are seen as hiding behind heterosexual privilege

Page 49-"These ideas underpin beliefs that bisexual people are sex obsessed, hyper sexual, promiscuous, incapable of committing to monogamy

Page 53-Perception of bisexual men vs women

Page 56- Objectification due to bisexuality

Page 51-When bisexuality becomes visible it is seemingly either dismissed or discredited and hence becomes erases and invisible and invalidated. These discreditations and dismissals are based on a range of intellelated negative attributions (e.g immature, confused, undecided, cowardly, deluded, emotionally or mentally unstable)

Page 93- Asexual characters Bojack/shadow hunters/loveless book

Page 91-Those dissatisfied with work place less likely to come out

Page 89-6% lesbian, 8% gay, 55% bisexuals not out in workplace

Page 106-Challenges of being out with intersections of multiple detensifies


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