Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2254282
Kaity Prieto
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2248136
M. Gimenez-Zapiola, Bailey Pascuzzi, Shivani Bathla, Tarryn Pollard, G. T. Schanding, S. Bistricky
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2248126
Angelos Bollas
Recent scholarly work has focused on the erasure and mistreat-ment of bisexuality in histories of sexuality. Such erasure is not only observed in academic work but also in the lived experiences of people who identify as plurisexuals. The present paper brings together studies on bisexuality, hegemony, and sexual politics to explain the discursively produced demarcation between sexualities and forms of sexual expression, and it supports a focus on monosexuality as a theoretical construct that productively addresses issues of discrimination and marginalization that people identifying as plurisexuals endure. What is put forward and challenged through this paper is the functional potential of monosexuality to maintain a sociodicy whereby the nuclear family and its contingent material implications remain not only unchallenged and normative but also inevitable.
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Abstract In the Indonesian context, as a religious-heteronormative nation, bisexual identity is generally interpreted as a negative identity in theological discourse. This article offers an alternative theological discourse regarding the meaning of bisexual identity by five Christian bisexual seminary students as a form of self-empowerment within a religious-heteronormative context. This article describes the experiences and theological struggles of five bisexual seminary students in embracing their sexual identities, which are collected through in-depth interviews. This article explores how Indonesian Christian seminary bisexuals synchronize their Christian faith alongside their bisexual identity. The interview data were analyzed using a feminist phenomenological approach. The results showed that Indonesian Christian bisexual seminary students experienced at least three existential struggles due to the incompatibility of their faith and sexual identity: personal, theological, and socio-religious. Theological reinterpretations of non-heteronormative sexual identities, such as bisexuality, became a negotiation strategy to set aside Christian faith and bisexual identity for them. Through hermeneutic and progressive theological discourse exposure in the seminary’s formal education and media, they are queering the theology to reach an existential awareness of bisexuality as a compatible identity besides their Christian faith. This article provides an alternative (queer) discourse based on empirical research that empowers Christian bisexual individuals to uphold their faith without denying their bisexual identity. In addition, this article also exposes the voices and experiences of religious bisexual individuals with low visibility on the LGBTIQ + spectrum, especially in the Southeast Asian context. This article proposes that LGBTIQ + support groups, especially in religious-heteronormative nations like Indonesia, equip religious LGBTIQ + individuals with progressive theological discourse and hermeneutical methods in interpreting sacred texts and beliefs since the progressive theological discourses and hermeneutics are essential to religious LGBTIQ + individuals in upholding their faith and non-heteronormative sexual identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2241865
PhD J. Edgar Bauer
Abstract In 1903, young Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger (1880–1903) published Geschlecht und Charakter. Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung (literally: Sex and Character. A Principled Investigation), in which he maintained that the conception of “permanent bisexuality” he advanced was completely new. His claims were challenged in 1906 by physician Wilhelm Fließ (1858–1928), who referred to his elaborations on the issue in a treatise published in 1897. The accusation of plagiarism against the by then deceased Weininger were aggravated as Fließ blamed Sigmund Freud for having orchestrated an intrigue aiming at informing Weininger about the ideas on permanent bisexuality the physician had articulated. Despite the heated debate surrounding the primacy claims, none of those involved was prepared to admit that sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) had been the first to conceptualize permanent bisexuality in connection with his 1896 discussion of the sexual intermediariness of all human beings. Hirschfeld’s Sappho und Sokrates—his first sexological treatise—aimed in the last resort at debunking closed distributional schemes of sexuality for the sake of a template of universal bisexuality modulated by the individual’s unique sexual intermediariness. On these assumptions, it is not surprising that Hirschfeld’s counterintuitive and profoundly deranging postulation of potentially infinite bisexual forms encompassing all existing sexed individuals was ignored by those partaking in the primacy debate. Irrespective of the disagreements the litigants may have had among themselves with respect to chronological or theoretical issues, they all sought to restore the full rights of the endangered phallicism subtending Western culture that Hirschfeld had set out to confute.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2232629
Michelle E. Bloom
Michelle E. Bloom is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses on French and world cinemas; comparative literature, comics and graphic novels, food studies, existentialism, the Holocaust, and France and Asia and serves as an ally to LGBTQ + students. Her academic work on bisexuality includes presentations on bisexuality in series television at the 2nd Annual Bisexuality Research Conference (September 2022, virtual) and at PAMLA (San Diego, 2019) as well as the essay, “Near Kisses: ‘L’Amour entre filles’ in Taiwanese Cinema since 2000,” published in the volume, Appel Asie Expo, 15th Lyon Asian Film Festival, Asian Connection, edited by Jean-Pierre Gimenez and Corrado Neri (2009). She is working on a piece on bisexuality in series television beyond Orange is the New Black. She has published books on Sino-French Cinemas (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2016) and on wax figures in literature and cinema (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003). Her pronouns are she/her, she identifies as bisexual and has long been active as an Event Organizer in amBi, a thriving community and bisexual social group which started in Los Angeles and now has chapters throughout the world.
米歇尔·e·布鲁姆(Michelle E. Bloom)是加州大学河滨分校(University of California, Riverside)的法国和比较文学教授，她在那里教授法国和世界电影课程;比较文学、漫画和图画小说、食物研究、存在主义、大屠杀、法国和亚洲，同时也是LGBTQ +学生的盟友。她在双性恋方面的学术工作包括在第二届年度双性恋研究会议(2022年9月，虚拟)和PAMLA(圣地亚哥，2019年)上发表的双性恋系列电视演讲，以及由Jean-Pierre Gimenez和Corrado Neri编辑的文章，“近吻:2000年以来台湾电影中的' L ' amour entre filles '”，发表于《Appel asia Expo》，第15届里昂亚洲电影节，亚洲连接》(2009年)。除了《女子监狱》，她还在写一部关于双性恋的电视剧。她出版了关于中法电影(夏威夷大学出版社，2016年)和文学和电影中的蜡像(明尼苏达大学出版社，2003年)的书籍。她的代词是她/她，她认为自己是双性恋，长期以来一直活跃于amBi的活动组织者，amBi是一个蓬勃发展的社区和双性恋社会团体，始于洛杉矶，现在在世界各地都有分会。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2240330
J. A. Roche Cárcel, José Javier Moreno Sánchez
Abstract Starting from the intertwining of the ideas exposed by J. Butler -in Gender Trouble on the performance of the transvestite and, those of M. Foucault, who defends that the space of the transvestite performance is heterotopic, generating a place-other the party room, the theater, the cabaret and the dressing room, this article aims to emphasize the centrality of the dressing room mirror in the creation of such heterotopic spaces. To achieve this objective, we will use, first of all, a Visual Sociology "with" photographs taken by the photographer Jorge Linares of the most important transformers of the province of Alicante (Spain) at the moment they are in front of the mirrors of the heterotopic space of the dressing rooms. And, secondly, we will apply a social hermeneutic through the analysis of the content of the images that interprets their meaning. All this allows us to conclude that the mirror is not only like the inert witness of the transformation of the trans person, but the very key that makes the creation of her character possible; it is not only an object that returns an image, but a door to a space-other in which Alicia enters and in which, possibly, she also dilutes herself.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2214134
A. Toft
Abstract This article explores the negotiation of autism and bisexuality in the lives of young people (16–25). Identity negotiation in this regard refers to the exploration of how the participants experienced the intersection of bisexuality and autism from a personal and a social perspective. To do this the article uses data collected from interviews and diaries to examine how the participants understood the intersection, how others perceived their identities and how the participants challenged constructions of sexuality. As a result, the article works to move beyond deficit focused research which aims to understand what is missing from an autistic persons’ make-up which results in LGBT + identities. In doing so, it is suggested that a more worthwhile focus is upon socially constructed categories such as sexuality which are more open to be challenged. Bisexuality is uniquely positioned as it challenges a number of preconceptions about sexuality and gender. When combined with being autistic, the lived experiences of young people demonstrate a challenge to sexuality based upon rejecting constructions which are seen as being fragile. Such imperfect labels, such as bisexuality, may be important in furthering our understanding of the intersection.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2023.2191590
M. Pitoňák, J. Kožený, M. Čihák
Abstract Sexuality and gender identity measures are rarely included in population-level health studies, even though research shows that sexual minorities are among the groups most vulnerable to psychological distress. In this study, we strive to make the first step towards overcoming this gap in data availability in Czechia. We used data from a recent Czech General population sample (N = 1,841) aged from 15 to 92 with mean = 46,53 and SD = 17,68 years and a Czech sexual minority community sample (N = 1,788) aged from 15 to 71 with mean = 24.2 and SD = 10.1 years that included 642 gay or lesbian men (either cis or trans), 427 gay or lesbian women (either cis or trans), and 450 bisexual individuals (94 men and 356 women, both either cis or trans). We found that all LGB+ subgroups had significantly higher levels of psychological distress compared to general population as measured by Brief Symptom Inventory. This effect was more pronounced in bisexual participants than in gay and lesbian participants. This is the first Czech study focused on comparison of the differences in psychological distress between the general population and sexual minorities. Our study shows that overcoming the lack of inclusion of sexuality and gender identity measures in relevant population health surveys needs to be addressed soon.
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