In the first episode in a multi-part miniseries for LGBT History Month, The Provocateur talks to author and critic Michael Amherst about his forthcoming and as-yet-untitled book on bisexuality and the problems of representing bisexuality in society. We discuss issues such as bisexual erasure in contemporary culture, bisexuality as a continual process of ‘not knowing’ one’s sexuality and the complexities of categorising sexuality: should it be based on sex object choice or the sex act itself? Is sexuality political to the extent that those outside the norm of heterosexuality must describe themselves in the language of politics?
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Note: This programme contains strong language.
Further Reading:
Baldwin, J. (2014) The Last Interview and Other Conversations. New York: Melville House.
Goodman, P. (1972) Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry. London: Random House.
____ (1994) Crazy Hope & Finite Experience: Final Essays of Paul Goodman, ed. T. Stoehr. Gestalt Press.
Halperin, D. (1990) One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. London: Routledge.
Munoz, J. E. (1994) Disidentifications: Queens of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Phillips, A. (2012) Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Ward, J. (2015) Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men. New York: New York University Press.
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