Mainstreaming Bisexuals

Brother Michael is StonewallAGAIN's bisexual liaison.  Wonderful person who is continuously educating me on the world of the bisexual.

I can never fully understand what it would feel like to be attracted to both sexes.  While I was married to a woman for 13 years and had two children with this woman, I never was really sexually attracted to her.  It was more of a forced situation that came with the whole package of being married.

Brother Michael talks about biphobia and bisexual erasure frequently in blogs.  I understand a little more each time.

Apparently, someone else has been looking to break through the bisexual barrier and put the B back in the LGBT.  They are doing it in a "Will & Grace" show style.  It is very subtle in it's approach.

It is the Syfy show "Lost Girl".  It is interesting show about a succubus.  She is attracted to both male character Dyson who is a wolf man type and contrasted against the beautiful doctor, Lauren.  As she tries to establish a long term relationship, the plot line twists and turns.  It identifies some of the stresses that a bisexual person would run into during relationships.

Another show less obvious on the bisexual television entry is "Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23".  Party girl Chloe, well she is a slut.  I say that because she is frequently referred to as a slut.  This character easily moves from men to women to another woman to men, sometimes many times in one episode.  Pitted against a pure-hearted roommate, June, it is comedy "Three's Company" style.  This is more tongue in cheek comedy and less obvious than "Lost Girl" on the bisexual story line, but you can see that she is comfortable with both sexes in bed.

Hopefully, we see more of these shows introduced.  It gets people to realize that the B is real.  That the B are loving people like all the rest of us.  We need to accept people for who we are regardless of who they love.

Br. Michael's Book Club

The 1995 book written by Peter M Newton entitled, Freud From Youthful Dreams To Mid-Life Crisis is busy in an interesting way. Along with many observations of Freud's life, the book has delightful historic letters from Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. Wilhelm Fliess.

The letters expose that Fliess was the first who discovered Universal bisexuality through scientific research as a biological given. Later on, through several exchanges, Freud steals Fliess's work to make it his own and calls someone else the "robber." Ironically, Freud shares a candid admission and apologies to Fliess in a last letter. Freud writes, "I evidently reproached myself dimly, as I do today in complete clarity, for my generosity or carelessness with your property." 

My Book review being this book is with hopes that readers no longer hold to any biphobia regarding Freud appearing untrustworthy, because we assume he'd sleep with anything that moves. I hope we see him for the apologetic thief he was regarding Fliess, a true patriarch.