Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

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Summary: A necessary read for anyone contemplating sexuality
Review: This book is a necessary read for anyone who has ever questioned, contemplated, or experimented with his or her own sexuality. It dispels many of the myths surrounding bisexuality, and affirms the myriad facets bisexuality contains. The voices in this book are at times angry, touching, warm, joyful, you name it! This book prooves there is no pigeon hole to file sexual behavior away in. However, it also demonstrates the need for a bisexual community that bisexuals can identify with and draw strength from. With the variety of stories told in this book, Bi Any Other Name, affirms that this community does in fact exist. Read it!

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Summary: A gay book in bi clothing
Review: This book was disappointing in that many of the stories were about people who had essentially chosen a gay lifestyle, but merely stopped in the bi community along the way. I was quite disappointed.

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Summary: a great introduction to the bisexual community
Review: This is a wonderful book. After reading a plethora of gay and lesbian coming-out anthologies, I was so happy to come upon a book that talked about *my* community.
This book also serves as a great introduction to the various schools of thought on this subject. A-plus.

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Summary: Find yourself in these pages
Review: This is one of those books were you will read the stories of individuals and say, "wow, that's just how I feel". Bi's from all walks of life are represented on these pages, some married, monogamous, polyamorous, single and more, beautifully showing that there is no such thing as a "typical" bi person. The only thing all bi's (including those in this wonderful book) have in common is that we all love people, not genders.

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Summary: Find yourself in these pages
Review: This is one of those books were you will read the stories of individuals and say, "wow, that's just how I feel". Bi's from all walks of life are represented on these pages, some married, monogamous, polyamorous, single and more, beautifully showing that there is no such thing as a "typical" bi person. The only thing all bi's (including those in this wonderful book) have in common is that we all love people, not genders.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: What I liked most about this was that it presented the personal stories of such an extraordinarily diverse group of people, showing that really there is no "typical" bisexual, and also showing how bisexuality has factored into the lives of different kinds of individuals. One really good point that this book stresses is the duality of our monosexual culture-- the belief that everyone is either gay or straight. Our society leaves no room for the enormous spectrum between the two, since very few people are 100% homo- or heterosexual, and I think the book did a good job of emphasizing this point, and the way bisexuals feel out of place or "invisible" in both the straight and gay communities. The only thing I would have liked would have been more stories about bisexuals who are not part of the "gay community". Many of the stories concerned people who came out as gay or lesbian, and then realized they were bi. While I definetly agree that bisexuals are a largely invisible group in the gay community, or, as the book puts it, "queer among queers," I would have liked to see more stories of those who felt equally invisible among heterosexual company. Still, overall, this is an excellent book, and definetly a must-read for anyone fed up with the assumption that all are either gay or straight. Bi, gay, lesbian, straight, undefined, or simply curious, I highly recommend this book for everyone.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: What I liked most about this was that it presented the personal stories of such an extraordinarily diverse group of people, showing that really there is no "typical" bisexual, and also showing how bisexuality has factored into the lives of different kinds of individuals. One really good point that this book stresses is the duality of our monosexual culture-- the belief that everyone is either gay or straight. Our society leaves no room for the enormous spectrum between the two, since very few people are 100% homo- or heterosexual, and I think the book did a good job of emphasizing this point, and the way bisexuals feel out of place or "invisible" in both the straight and gay communities. The only thing I would have liked would have been more stories about bisexuals who are not part of the "gay community". Many of the stories concerned people who came out as gay or lesbian, and then realized they were bi. While I definetly agree that bisexuals are a largely invisible group in the gay community, or, as the book puts it, "queer among queers," I would have liked to see more stories of those who felt equally invisible among heterosexual company. Still, overall, this is an excellent book, and definetly a must-read for anyone fed up with the assumption that all are either gay or straight. Bi, gay, lesbian, straight, undefined, or simply curious, I highly recommend this book for everyone.

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Summary: best book on bisexual issue- great for anyone!!!
Review: Wow-
I loved this book-
Finally a book -that bridges the grey-..
I read a whole bunch of bisexual books and by far this was the best written- I highly suggest this be the book you read on this subject- before any of the others....