Table of Contents
Introduction: I Want More ix
1 The Bi Option 1
Inventing Bisexuaiity 2
Blunt Questions 6
The Klein Grid 11
Middle Ground 16
2 Our History 20
We're Here, We're Queer! 23
The Obscene Book 27
Sexual Inverts 32
Decapitated Angel 35
The Unwelcomed Visitor 39
3 Nothing But Mammals 44
Born This Way? 45
Gay Giraffes 49
Darwinian Paradox 52
Ramifications 55
Bent Bars 58
Come Play with Me 64
4 The Bisexual Closet 67
Coming Out Into 68
Family Secrets 72
Work It 75
Troubled 81
Biversity 84
Why Us? 89
Freedom 93
5 Invisi-Bi-Lity 96
Do I Look Bi? 98
Our Own Space 104
Sex Perversion 107
Parasocial 110
Sexy but Deadly 116
6 It's Political 120
Where Love Is Illegal 121
Sexuality On Trial 126
Can't Change Me 132
Loophole 136
No Promo Homo 142
Political Powerhouses 150
7 Free Love 155
Cherry Chapstick 157
Everybody Loves Threesomes 160
Compulsory Monogamy 165
Chain Reaction 169
Intimacy Transformation 172
Conclusion: Bidentity 175
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 183
Index 215