ABSTRACT

How to define bisexuality? Some people, working within conventional binaries, understand it as a movement between, or a combination of, heterosexuality and homosexuality and the straight and lesbian or gay identities that are usually attached to these desires and practices. Others find their bisexuality works itself out as a desire for both the same sex and the opposite sex in tandem with a social or political identification with either gayness, lesbianism, or straightness. Still others see it as having desires for both the same sex and the opposite sex within bisexual identities that don’t reference straight or lesbian or gay ones, but may reference less binarily defined queer or non-straight identities.