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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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According to zoologist
The psychologist Jim McKnight was one of the first to write that the idea of bisexuality is a form of sexual orientation, as suggested implicit in the Kinsey scale, which he cites often in his work. However, despite McKnight and Kinsey's work on human sexuality, this conception of bisexuality has been severely challenged since the work ''Homosexualities ''(c. 1978) was published by Weinberg and his psychologist colleague Alan P. Bell.
[[File:Biangles.svg|alt=Two interlocking triangles in the colours of the bi flag|thumb|The biangles]]
▲== Flag ==
[[File:Bi Crescents.svg|thumb|The bisexual crescents]]
The bisexual pride
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Page took the colors of the bisexual pride flag from an existing bisexual symbol, the biangles'''.'''
''<nowiki/>'In designing the Bi Pride Flag, I selected the colors and overlap patterns of the 'bi angles' symbol.'''
''<nowiki/>''The biangles''', '''or bisexuality triangles, are another symbol for the bisexual community. The symbol has unclear origins, although it is most likely based off of the pink triangle''', '''another symbol for the gay community in specifics.<br />▼
▲The biangles''', '''or bisexuality triangles, are another symbol for the bisexual community. The symbol has unclear origins, although it is most likely based off of the pink triangle''', '''another symbol for the gay community in specifics.
▲=== Color meanings ===
Page describes the meaning of the pink, lavender and blue stripes as this:
''"The pink color represents attraction to the same sex only (gay and [[lesbian]]). The blue represents attraction to the opposite sex only (straight),
Page also describes the flag's meaning in deeper terms, stating:
[[File:Bisexual.svg|alt=Interlocking infinity gender symbols, used as a bisexual symbol|thumb|The bisexual symbol]]
''"The key to understanding the symbolism of the Bisexual Pride flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the real world, where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities."''
This design for the bisexual pride flag has been used all the way until the present day, where bisexuals frequently use this design on their online accounts and message boards to notify people of their identity.
Other symbols used by the bisexual community involve the bisexual crescents (a pair of back-to-back crescents) and the bisexual symbol, an infinity symbol featuring the venus and mars symbols as well as a blank circle for the genders and attractions between.
== History of bisexuality ==▼
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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.
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]]'''. '''▼
▲=== 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. 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 ===
The first openly bisexual people in history were rare in early American life. Some examples of this include poet Walt Whitman, who has been described as both bisexual and homosexual in his feelings and attractions. In the early 20th century, during the Harlem Renaissance, blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith made no secret about their relationships with men and women. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was also openly bisexual.
In 1948, Alfred C. Kinsey, an American biologist who was also bisexual, published two books on the topic of human sexuality, named ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ''and ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. ''He formulated a scale, which went from 0-6 respectively (0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual)
▲=== Kinsey scale ===
▲In 1948, Alfred C. Kinsey, an American biologist who was also bisexual, published two books on the topic of human sexuality, named ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ''and ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. ''He formulated a scale, which went from 0-6 respectively (0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual)''' '''to demonstrate varying bisexual responses for people who aligned themselves on the scale. Kinsey also said that anyone who was between 1-5 on the scale to be considered bisexual or ambisexual specifically.
▲=== 1950's to present day ===
With the rise of LGBT activism in these decades, such as political debates, the Stonewall Riots''', '''and Gay Pride Parades, bisexuals were included in the fight for LGBT rights. In the first public protest for gay and lesbian rights staged in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, D.C, two of the protesters identified themselves as bisexual.
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.
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The Greek prefix bi- means 'two', referring to the initial usage of the term to mean "both" hetero- and homosexual.
#[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.2.1.0022?seq=1 ''The Future of Bisexual Activism,'' Camille Holthaus]
▲== Resources ==
#[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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