Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it
. In tough times, when queer people were fighting for their lives and for basic legal protections, some gay rights groups strategically rejected bisexual people. For example, in the 1970s there were instances where the Gay Liberation Front, a queer-rights group, treated bisexual people as effectively straight, and thus associated them with regressive politics and edged them out of the organization.
But historians have never let a lack of self-labeling prevent them from trying to find queer people in history. People also shied away from terms like gay or lesbian, and yet we can find many books on their history. Still, it was only when I went back to university for a master’s in queer history that I realized that the absence of bisexuality in most versions of LGBTQ+ history wasn’t because there were no bi people in the past.
One of the earliest researchers to legitimize the study of bisexual people was Havelock Ellis . Ellis was based in the U.K., and in the 1927 edition of his bookhe describes many case studies of bisexual people. He includes some negative stereotypes, but also some decidedly positive ones. For example, he wrote that bi women made “great religious and moral leaders.
American sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey works with his staff while preparing the final manuscript of his book 'Sexual Behavior In The Human Female,' 1953.Following in Kinsey’s footsteps, Fritz Klein was a sex researcher and psychiatrist who published the book,in 1978.
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