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{{Sexuality Info|image1 = Biflag.png|gender(s): = Any|gender(s)_attracted_to: = Any
Bisexuality is also understood to be the root of [[Pansexual|pansexuality]] and other multi-gender-attracted identities. The difference between these identities usually comes down to individual preference, particularly where people may feel that different terms communicate their personal experience of attraction with more accuracy.
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=== Ancient history ===
Ancient Greek religious texts, which reflected cultural practices, had bisexual themes throughout. Ancient Greece
In Ancient China and Japan, homosexuality and bisexuality was also documented, both men who had sex with men, and women who had sex with women. There were even ancient Japanese art prints, called ''shunga, ''which depicted homosexual relationships in full detail.
=== Origin of the term ===
The first English-language use of the word bisexual referring to sexual orientation was by the American neurologist Charles Gilbert Chaddock in his 1892 translation of ''Psychopathia Sexualis, ''a seminal work created by Krafft-Ebing. ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' concerned itself with the pathologisation of sexuality and considered homosexuality a mental illness; 'bisexual' therefore referred to people who were both heterosexual ''and'' homosexual (hence 'bi'). Prior to this, the word "bisexual" was used in reference to plants, suggesting that species were hermaphroditic or [[intersex]]'''. '''
=== Openly bisexual people in early history ===
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Bisexuals also became more prominent in the media in the 1970's, and in the 1980's, with AIDS starting to affect the LGBT community, many bisexual activists presented safe sex education in bathhouses and BDSM clubs in San Francisco. They also fought for the rights of lesbians and bisexual women in the AIDS epidemic.
In the 1990's, bisexual characters and literature started to appear
Biphobia and bi erasure (the practice of obscuring or denying a bisexual person's orientation in favour of portraying them as either gay/lesbian or straight) remain common, and despite efforts from bisexual activists the cisheteronormative perception of the gender binary continues to affect how bisexuals are percieved, in particular attempting to enforce the gender binary on the sexuality despite its defiance of the concept. Bisexual visibility and awareness have, however, been increasing in recent years.
== Etymology ==
The Greek prefix bi- means 'two', referring to the initial usage of the term to mean "both" hetero- and homosexual.
== Resources ==
# [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.2.1.0022?seq=1 ''The Future of Bisexual Activism,'' Camille Holthaus]
# [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Bisexual_Politics.html?id=z57pAN78CHsC&redir_esc=y ''Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions'', Naomi S Tucker]
# ''[http://binetusa.blogspot.com/2014/01/1990-bi-manifesto.html Anything That Moves: The Bisexual Manifesto (1990)]''
# [http://biwomenboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fall-2019.pdf ''Bi Women Quarterly'', vol. 37]
# [https://www.twobiguys.com/episodes/where-are-all-the-bi-guys ''Where Are All The Bi Guys?'', Rob Cohen & Alex Boyd]
# [https://glaad.org/files/WWAT/WWAT_GLAAD_2017-2018.pdf ''Where We Are On TV (2017-2018)'', GLAAD]
# [https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/publications/kinsey-scale.php Kinsey Scale]
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