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'''Bisexual erasure''' is a manifestation of [[biphobia]] characterized by dismissing, ignoring, removing or misstating/misidentifying references to [[bisexuals|bisexual people]] in the [[History|historical record]], [[Academic|academic materials]], the [[news media]], and other [[primary sources]]. When done by [[homosexuals]], it often takes the form of claiming these people as [[Closeted|closeted homosexuals]] whose [[heterosexual]] relationships were merely for conformity and when done by [[heterosexuals]], it is done for that very conformity.
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'''Bisexual erasure''' is a manifestation of [[biphobia]] characterized by dismissing, ignoring, removing or misstating/misidentifying references to [[bisexuality|bisexual people]] in the [[History|historical record]], [[Academic|academic materials]], the [[news media]], and other [[primary sources]]. When done by [[homosexuals]], it often takes the form of claiming these people as [[Closeted|closeted homosexuals]] whose [[heterosexual]] relationships were merely for conformity and when done by [[heterosexuals]], it is done for that very conformity.
  
 
Additionally, it can take the form of omitting the word [[bisexual]] or appropriate variants in the name of an [[organization]] or [[gathering|event]] that serves the whole [[LGBT community]]; or believing that [[bisexual|bisexual people]] do not deserve equal status or inclusion within the [[gay]], [[lesbian]], or [[heterosexual|straight]] communities.   
 
Additionally, it can take the form of omitting the word [[bisexual]] or appropriate variants in the name of an [[organization]] or [[gathering|event]] that serves the whole [[LGBT community]]; or believing that [[bisexual|bisexual people]] do not deserve equal status or inclusion within the [[gay]], [[lesbian]], or [[heterosexual|straight]] communities.   

Latest revision as of 21:16, 28 March 2008

Bisexual erasure is a manifestation of biphobia characterized by dismissing, ignoring, removing or misstating/misidentifying references to bisexual people in the historical record, academic materials, the news media, and other primary sources. When done by homosexuals, it often takes the form of claiming these people as closeted homosexuals whose heterosexual relationships were merely for conformity and when done by heterosexuals, it is done for that very conformity.

Additionally, it can take the form of omitting the word bisexual or appropriate variants in the name of an organization or event that serves the whole LGBT community; or believing that bisexual people do not deserve equal status or inclusion within the gay, lesbian, or straight communities.

In its most extreme form, it can include denying that bisexual people actually exist.

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Outside Reading[edit]

  • Fraser, M., Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1999. p.124-140.
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