![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book helped spark at least ten other books (many by its own contributors), was named one of Lambda Book Report's Top 100 Queer Books of the 20th century, has been reprinted 3 times since 1991, has over 40,000 copies in circulation, and was translated and published in Taiwan in June 2007. This created a new genre for books on bisexuality. Rather than arguing statistics or debating the sexuality of long dead celebrities, Hutchins and Ka'ahumanu gave a space to normal bisexuals who told their lives. This groundbreaking book gave voice to a generation of previously unseen bisexuals. To quote Wendy Curry, longtime bisexual rights activist and former president of the American national bisexual civil rights group BiNet USA, ![]() The book comprises fiction and nonfiction pieces, poetry and art created by a diverse group of over seventy bisexual people speaking about their lives. It holds a place that is in many ways comparable to that held by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in the feminist movement. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, published by Riverdale Avenue Books, is an anthology edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaʻahumanu, and is one of the seminal books in the history of the modern bisexual rights movement. ![]()
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