#anything that moves

[starnosedmoles]

“When she (lesbian) and (gay) I had our first (heterosexual) kiss In the doorway of her midtown apartment, we were cautioned by a cop (straight?) I wonder if she found it as funny as I did; is Manhattan so uptight that a (straight) kiss is frowned upon?” - Laurence W. Thomas

(published in “Anything That Moves”, 1991)

[will80sbyers]

Extracts from “ Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl... A Bi Chronology” by M. S. Montgomery in the Issue n° 16 of ATM (1998)

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

as a queer person #FellowTravelers already means a lot, but THIS episode8-finale ep-ending scene? this scene means absolutely the world, it's everything, for all of us.🌈

can't watch it without sobbing.

(please do check the WHOLE post, and watch How to Survive a Plague 2012, it's a MUST watch (+everything you spot in this post)

+important reading about AIDS/HIV: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv

+ a special episode where we hear(literally) from listeners of the show who were lovers, nurses, relatives, students, and friends of people who died from AIDS. (have tissues nearby):https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rTjExVqMVoEtCVPISSW5t?si=Dx09EVStQAiNHoTYvwZvFw & https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-a-bit-fruity-with-matt-ber-117844074/episode/stories-from-the-aids-crisis-191687576/ +ofc THIS ep w Peter Staley :https://open.spotify.com/episode/1bpmgbS56oqjpLdhFqPhFQ?si=PKVw0V_MRx-ajGmVF-GM4Q (this ep of the podcast vid on ytube link below in the post(also ep on iheart link below as well!)

(+IMPORTANT) (Nov,2023)-A Bit Fruity Podcast (created by Matt Bernstein (gay American Jewish man) Ep with Moe Dabbagh, a gay Palestinian American with family currently in Gaza. ‘Queers for Palestine & The Power of Pinkwashing’. Palestine has been occupied for more than 76 years now, since 1948 year. This ep gives you a LOT of information, especially if you are one of the people who can’t see right through the propaganda; or the ones who go ‘well if you’re gay then go to Gaza and see how that goes for you’. Queer Liberation is a liberation of Palestinian people. We can’t have one without the other. Free Palestine. Free all the people that are not yet free. This is where we start!! Ep on youtube :https://youtu.be/Xsgdk-DDSXc on spotify :https://open.spotify.com/episode/62WOjKJYih6lhuisP8tmZH?si=soRArGs1QeWqEzEaiSVlUg on iheartcom:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-a-bit-fruity-with-matt-ber-117844074/episode/queer-palestinians-the-power-of-129612460/(keep learning & keep showing up!)

!!.http://alqaws.org/siteEn/index & https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/ + https://www.instagram.com/queersinpalestine/

-sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down....THIS POST:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/764660637347561472/katherinebarlow-phantom-tail-mortuarybees?source=share

+ also queer history/facts from RWRB(Alex engaging with queer history)(thank you SO. MUCH. CASEY MCQUISTON!!)-GREAT POST here on tumblr!!-many links here, lots of information! (Waterloo Vase, Stonewall, SCOTUS decision 2015, Walt Whitman, Laws of Illinois 1961, The White Nights Riots, Paris Is Burning, THAT David Wojnarowicz photo 'If I Die Of AIDS-Forget Burial-Just Drop My Body On The Steps Of The F.D.A' https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305651356729344?source=share (I encourage you to research more about David!!) , Thisbe & Pyramus, The V & A, James I & George Villiers and MORE!!) https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757308307835895808?source=share (Learning about things referenced in Red, White & Royal Blue, thank you @ elipheleh)

+ https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/743725164968214528?source=share

+ https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/746941244472786944/so-alright-here-are-the-moviesmedia-that-make

BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM:https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from &https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well &https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q--nIkJu0OS0BgiyZmdKVwOVg1G90SFzWijNDWFTt58/edit#heading=h.wqkaxpi7o5je

.https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/ &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#scans &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#about

+ https://www.queeringthemap.com/

+ https://www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt

+ https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/752340111366160384/this?source=share

+Thank You Howard Ashman, I love you forever, so many of us are here and sane because of Your legacy and impact.(DISNEY-QUEER SONGS-MUSIC-POST):https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/753605532240216064/howard-ashman-i-love-you-forever-so-many-of-us?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/754612616112046080?source=share

about Howard, about AIDS, listen to the song 'Sheridan Square' if you haven't yet, Howard wrote it with Alan Menken. And yes, it makes me sob every single time i hear it: .https://open.spotify.com/track/5p61V1pNfa4qoZIxm6apex?si=a32ca6011ab44782 &https://youtu.be/-4fr8JGkeO4 &https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-NzeIkkJI&list=OLAK5uy_l7U2qdUmOPfgWwmsCA0cc_-KDxwjMj5zM +Learn more :https://stanforddaily.com/2019/06/05/sheridan-square/ & please research more about Howard, there's a lot of Him in THIS IMPORTANT post because we, queer people, owe him so so much.

♥.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19uKl8PZixNjsMBBqSP1bf?si=e6186d9a0a824679 &https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0X8DlZ8X0q9Pzvqq857XlV?si=fa85b32666b94e74 &https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vdBgNpWvIwjCLD2JrJwxj?si=3274258c86f842

.https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768931499443699712/historium-second-national-march-on-washington?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768929949815128064?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768929469101686784?source=share

+ :

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+ https://twitter.com/beames_josh/status/1500938296209199108 + https://twitter.com/beames_josh/status/1500935379154657281

+once you're here check out this important posts:

bi ig highlight : https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18280848235083086/

also i recommend this podcast ‘A Little Queer Podcast’ by two incredible bisexual people Capri Campeau and Ashley Whitfield. episode linked here, ‘Debunking Bisexual Myths and Stereotypes’ :https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wcP8HBIY0IyVxROjpZPNg?si=TIHDv-eFQi-mdsCS6zKzNA (all covered here for real!) +also check ‘A Bit Fruity Podcast’ by Matt Bernstein (very educating one!!)

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

"We are tired of being analyzed, defined and represented by people other than ourselves, or worse yet, not considered at all. We are frustrated by the imposed isolation and invisibility that comes from being told or expected to choose either a homosexual or heterosexual identity. Monosexuality is a heterosexist dictate used to oppress homosexuals and to negate the validity of bisexuality. Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity.

Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have "two" sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings.

In fact, don't assume that there are only two genders.

Do not mistake our fluidity for confusion, irresponsibility, or an inability to commit. Do not equate promiscuity, infidelity, or unsafe sexual behavior with bisexuality. Those are human traits that cross all sexual orientations. Nothing should be assumed about anyone's sexuality, including your own."

Anything That Moves, inaugural edition, Winter 1991

[charliejaneanders]

Last night I randomly saw a post that said the word “queer” was biphobic for some reason. Which... ????

As one of the former editors of Anything That Moves, the bisexual magazine, I’m here to tell ya that whatever terms y’all want to use to describe yourselves are fine as long as you’re not *explicitly* putting anyone else down. And yeah, sometimes other people are going to feel seen by terms that you hate being called, and that sucks, and only thing you can do is move on.

I personally find “queer” a handy umbrella term that captures what so many of us have in common: we don’t conform to cishet patriarchy’s gender and sexuality norms. I also like LGBTQIA+ but strongly prefer including *all* of the letters because we’re all in this together.

[portraitoflestatonfire]

Newsweek Bisexuality Issue, 1995 // Anything That Moves Issue #10, 1996

[flimsy-roost]

THIS POEM CAN BE PUT OFF NO LONGER (Susan Carlton, 1991, Anything That Moves Issue #1)

[tristanaef]

Towards a Queer History

Anything That Moves and the fragility of the queer past

I first became aware of queer history as a real, tangible thing when I held a copy of the magazine Anything That Moves in my hands. I was afraid I would damage the pages, gone brown and fragile with age, while I stared at words written by queer people twenty years earlier. I was at a peer support group meeting for bi and pansexual people. The long-time facilitator mentioned the publication off-hand: we all knew about the magazine printed by the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network, didn’t we? He was pretty sure it was still in print when he started facilitating our group in the early 2000s.

The what?, we exclaimed.

Oh, yeah. I think we might have a copy here, he said. A moment later, he produced not one issue, but three.

Anything That Moves ran from 1991 to 2001. If you hold it, you can feel the heft to its issues. This is not due to generous use of space: articles and poetry are printed in a font size reminiscent of a newspaper. This was no little labor of love: this was a publication produced by a dedicated group. Those articles must have been read by - how can I even guess how many people? The bylines represent a variety of contributors who speak directly to bisexuals and their queer relatives around the country. Yes, around the country: it was clear from the letters to the editor that this was not a Bay Area-only publication.

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[transratsactivist]

Naomi Tucker in Anything That Moves, Issue #4, 1992.

Transcript:

The Natural Next Step: Including Transgender In Our Movement

By Naomi Tucker

It is logical and necessary for the bisexual movement to include gender politics on our agenda – not just because transsexuals, crossdressers, or transgenderists are often assumed to be bisexual, and not just because some of them are, but because we as a bisexual movement are visionary in our need and desire to break down dichotomies, creating a powerful and diverse body of queers to smash the heterosexual monolith.

If bisexuality says that gender is not a determining factor of sexual preference, we can take our knowledge one step further to say that gender should not be a determining factor of oppression. Then what we have is a new language and perspective with which to talk about sexism, gender bias in our institutions, and the gendered structure of our society. After all, if our sexual identity can be fluid, why not our gender identity?

Our sexual lives can have a lot to say about gender. When a woman straps on her dildo and fucks me, is that a traditional gender role in bed? If a butch leather daddy is a bottom in bed, if two women play with gender roles in bed, if I flirt with an androgynous-looking person at a café without knowing whether it’s a woman or a man, then a serious genderfuck is in action.

Because sex exposes our instinctual desires and the inexplicable, illogical drives that motivate us, I believe that bisexuality has a great deal to contribute to the world. Bisexuals who have had sex with people of different genders have a broader base of sensual experience: to love a body that reminds you of your own; to love a body that is nothing like your own; or to love a body that has something you have and something you don’t. Similar things could be said about sex with people of different body shapes and sizes. There is something very powerful about experiencing this kind of diversity in sexuality, which I believe has the potential to carry over into the rest of our lives. These are experiences that teach us about both loving ourselves and understanding differences.

Gender is a slightly different construct to bisexuals than to monosexual people (hetero or homo). We may be freer to experiment with or cross traditional gender lines in fantasy and sex play because we are comfortable with both hetero- and homo-eroticism. We don’t restrict ourselves to the notion that we must choose, “same” or “other,” in sex. So bisexuals are in a unique position to advocate for sexual diversity around gender issue, because we feel gender between our hands and on our skin. We learn genderfuck in the breathless moments under the sheets. We teach genderfuck when we talk about our lives without gendered pronouns, bulldozing the assumptions that people would like to make about sexuality and gender.

Some of us are bisexual because we do not pay much attention to the gender of our attractions; some of us are bisexual because we do see tremendous gender differences and want to experience them all. Either way, the concept of gender is inextricably a part of our bisexuality. The mere potential of sex with more than one gender, whether serially or simultaneously, breaks down the social mores that create gender oppression.

With respect to our integrity as a bisexual community and movement, one that is based on defying dichotomies, it is our responsibility to include transpersons in our language, in our groups, in our lives, and in our politics. After all, it was lesbian feminists who came to the “gay” community and said THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GENDER OF HOMOSEXUALS: INCLUDE US. Now bisexuals are saying to the “gay/lesbian” community, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE QUEER: INCLUDE US. Are we going to sit around and wait for every group to point out their own invisibility to us? Do we have to see each group tag its name on to the great alternative-to-mainstream sexuality community, each of us blindly fighting a single-issue battle, before we will realize that we’re all in this together? Why can’t bisexuals choose to not repeat the mistakes of our forerunners, and take a giant leap forward to embrace others who’ve been left out of the picture too? There is room for all of us here.

As progressives within queer politics, we bi’s should be supporting not only transgender issues but also s/m, non-monogamy, alternative families, anarchy, sex work, radical feminism, HIV activism, disability awareness, sex-positive environments for women – or any other issues that are negatively targeted/ignored within the lesbian/gay “mainstream” and heterosexual communities.

It’s time to get past our discomfort. If we sit around and ignore the groups that are invisible within our movements, waiting for them to speak up before we will acknowledge their value and right to exist proudly, then we are committing the same acts of omission done to us by the “lesbian/gay” community. We can learn from the pain of our own invisibility. There is no excuse for a group that has suffered alienation to use what little power it has to make another group suffer. Unless the bi community embraces the cause of other marginalized groups and fights for their right to live alongside and amongst us, then we have learned nothing from our struggle, or from the past struggles of liberation movements.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

”match my freak” match my melancholy. be nostalgic about a past you weren’t even that happy in. find something to be haunted about throughout every second of your day

[starnosedmoles]

policing lesbianism

“Biotypes” by C. Smelser and B. Weise. Published in “Anything That Moves”, 1991

[will80sbyers]

excerpts in an article from G. L. Morrison in Anything that moves - Issue n° 22 - (2001)

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

LI SHANG from MULAN-(1998/2020)BISEXUAL (long post-important(to me!)!)

-Li Shang having bi feelings for Ping for over 6 and a half minutes straight 🩷💜💙 :https://youtu.be/SIKkdN23CKA

https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/746941244472786944/so-alright-here-are-the-moviesmedia-that-make

insider article LINK:

https://www.insider.com/disney-lgbtq-representation-mulan-remake-li-shang-2020-9

https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1654519300399456256?s=20

https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1770083032667472285

bi ig highlight : https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18280848235083086/

also i recommend this podcast ‘A Little Queer Podcast’ by two incredible bisexual people Capri Campeau and Ashley Whitfield. episode linked here, ‘Debunking Bisexual Myths and Stereotypes’ :https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wcP8HBIY0IyVxROjpZPNg?si=TIHDv-eFQi-mdsCS6zKzNA (all covered here for real!) +also check ‘A Bit Fruity Podcast’ by Matt Bernstein (very educating one!!)

https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/754829814197796864?source=share

https://twitter.com/GeauxSeeTheLady/status/1769793417268093173

https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1654436342502244353?s=20

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edit that i REALLY love Mulan-Ping&Shang-What Kind Of Man

https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1654507839849652225?s=20

AND ANOTHER EDIT I LOVE Mulan-&Shang-Heart Attack

https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1654508809325359105?s=20

AND ONE MORE EDIT:

ALSO THE BANGER scene: I’ll make a man out of you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcLIfSC4OE

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vdBgNpWvIwjCLD2JrJwxj?si=20352d89048241b3

we need more bisexuality done right in media!!

https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/746941244472786944/so-alright-here-are-the-moviesmedia-that-make

BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM: https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from &https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well

THIS song (bi bi bi THIS IS OUR SONG!!) by Sub-Radio (the lead vocalist Adam Bradley is bisexual♥) :https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/765512527066087424?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/765512891127480320?source=share + THIS BAND SINGING THE BLACK PARADE but make it ever more queer pride parade♥ :https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/765565710891155456?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/765565917201612800?source=share (you’re scaring Ron you’re scaring Rooonn) + an awakening with HSM(?) :https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/765565797378719744/mndvx-subradioband-happy-pride-yal-anyone?source=share

.https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/ &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#scans &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#about

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[maeamian]

If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

[sparrowlucero]

heron puppet wip 3

[nova-rpv]

wip 👍

dont forget ur daily clicks!!