Primary Source Set: BISEXUAL ACTIVISM

 

This primary source set focuses on bisexual activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes materials relating to the growth of a bisexual community through bi events and organizations such as the San Francisco Bi-Center, the Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN), and the National Bisexual Conference. It also includes materials that address the issues of biphobia and bisexual invisibility within the LGBTQ community. This set only represents a sampling of the history of San Francisco bisexual activism and is not meant to be understood as exhaustive.

The cover of the Spring 1998 issue of Anything That Moves. From the GLBT Historical Society periodicals collection (GLBT-PER)

Selected Source Set

 

Additional Resources

Bisexual People Research Guide

Efrain John Gonzalez Digital Collection. Efrain John Gonzalez is a bisexual photographer. This digital collection consists of selected photographs by Gonzalez of the first National Bisexual Conference, held in San Francisco in 1990.

Bionic Flashpoints: Four decades of Bay Area bisexual politics exhibit.

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These primary source sets are just a small sampling of our digitized materials. Additional resources are available in our digital collections. Our extensive archival holdings are searchable through our catalog.