Another destination we could often find bisexuality is in fantasy/science fiction/utopian novels. Here, bisexuality is normal, confirmed, perhaps not stigmatized. A great deal more leeway is allowed by setting a story outside of the current reality. A couple of examples are Starhawk’s The Sacred that is 5th Thing Samuel Delaney’s Dhalgren, Marge Piercy’s lady from the side of Time, James Varley’s Titan, Wizard and Demon show, and Melissa Scott’s Burning vibrant and Shadow guy.
Historic novels are another accepted destination to find the evasive bisexual. right Here, properly far through the current time, males (and almost all of the historic bisexuals I’ve been able to located are male) are bisexual no big deal though they’re not called bisexual or homosexual. Examples: all of the historic novels by Mary Renault (about ancient Greece), and Lucia St. Clair Robson’s Tokaido path (set in 17thcentury Japan).
Then there’s just just just what we call “1970s bisexuality” where bisexuality equals free love. These novels usually are compiled by guys and, in comparison to novels that are historical the bisexuals characters are nearly always ladies who share their voluptuous systems with both ladies and (mainly) with guys. Writers Robert Heinlein, Tom Robbins, and John Irving would all be included under this heading.
Then there’s adolescent bisexuality, often written down as youthful teenage experimentation: Hanif Kureishi’s, The Buddha of Suburbia, Felice Picano’s Ambidextrous, and Judy Blume’s summertime Sisters.
There’s the hedonistic bisexual who’s usually self destructive and may also keep a path of broken life (including his / her very very very own), as an example, Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers, Rupert Everett’s hi, Darling, have you been Working? and Carole Maso’s The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. [Read more...]