Introduction

3The senior editor of this volume discusses how he came to the subject of male bisexuality through journalistic inquiries into Bear subculture, which attracts many older, previously married, mature gay and bisexual men. He describes his collaboration with bisexual activist Pete Chvany on this book in response to the lack of available narratives by bi men. Despite solid evidence pointing to the commonality of male bisexuality, heterosexuals and homosexuals are complicit in erasure of bisexual men in literature, media, and culture; several notable examples of bi male invisibility from August 2004 are cited. The four-part structure of this book and arrangement of stories stems from a distillation of the coming-out process itself from self-discovery, to spouse and family, and from community and world, to spirit and back to self.