The gay agenda: a modern queer history & handbook

That was an acceptable definition in the past, but it has generally been agreed that bisexuality is defined as attraction to people of your own gender and others. Filled with engaging descriptions, interesting facts, helpful features—such as historical queer icons and events and LGBTQ+ acronym definitions—this fabulous compendium illuminates the transformation of the community, highlighting its struggles, achievements, landmarks, and contributions.

Ashley Molesso 7 books 15 followers. Especially for a book that was written just last year. Audible Audio First published April 28, About the author. Inside the GAY AGENDA, you'll find trivia, tributes, history, and advice about: coming out, Marsha P. Johnson, pride flags, the Queer Liberation March, the AIDS crisis, safe sex, police raids, Radclyffe Hall, dating, queer terminology, religion (being gay), gender identity, James Baldwin, and the Stonewall Riots.".

I was enjoying the book for the most part, but the whole time in the back of my mind I was wondering where the mentions of bisexual people were. Limiting it to the binary of men and women erases trans and nonbinary people. Then bisexuality doesn't really show up again until the section defining sexualities and gender identities.

Not only do they say this, which is really, really aggressively aphobic and definitely could have been worded differently or just been cut out entirely, they also explain asexuality wrong TWICE and even though they mention aromantic as in asexuals are not aromantic , it's never explained or even mentioned again, not even when they are explaining the Acronym.

The binary definition in this book just reinforces the idea that bisexual people are transphobic or cannot be attracted to trans or nonbinary people. Want to Read. I experience enough bi-erasure in my life that it was kind of annoying to find that, yet again, we were practically invisible in this book.

Lesbians and bisexuals are always degraded to side-notes or added on, trans men are barely mentioned at all, non-binary, agender and every other gender identity out there are mentioned even less or not all. Rate this book. A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring full-color illustrations.

Write a Review. They also went into great detail about the AIDS crisis and how it decimated a generation of queer people while the government stood by and did nothing. Jump to ratings and reviews. But now we get to the bad parts. Search review text. I want to start this review off by saying that I think this book is a great starting resource for queer history in the US, defining terms for people who may not be familiar with them, and providing guidance for queer people who may be looking for information.

The authors do a good job of including queer BIPOC history-makers and acknowledge the fact that much of queer history as we know it is whitewashed because that is the only history that was deemed worthy of saving. Biphobia and bi-erasure happen enough outside the LGBTQIA community that it was a little disheartening to see in a book that is otherwise one of the most inclusive and encompassing books I've read about queer history and culture.

Community Reviews. Also considering how wrong they explained asexuality oh, and don't you hope for a mention of an asexual person or how asexuals were part of the bisexual community for a long ass time before claiming their own space and again, they neither explain nor mention aromantic aside from making sure you know asexuals can still love, not like those weird "oh we better don't talk about those" aromantics , I'm not sure how much I can trust them on getting the rest right.

Filled with engaging descriptions, interesting facts, helpful features--such as historical queer icons and events and LGBTQ+ acronym definitions--this fabulous compendium illuminates the transformation of the community, highlighting its struggles, achievements, landmarks, and contributions.

And this is the part that really bothered me. The authors of this book define bisexuality as attraction to men and women. I'm sorry but you need to do better than that. That in itself was a little disappointing because that organization caused some hoopla by trying to copyright the bisexual flag, which was not cool the idea of pride flags is that they belong to the communities they represent, not to individuals or companies.

Yes, that definition overlaps quite a bit with pansexuality, but having more labels means more options to choose from. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Displaying 1 - 30 of reviews. Just "men and women. Also, the art is fantastic--it's colorful and is a great style, and I really think it adds a lot to the book.