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English citations of biphobe

Noun: "a person who fears or has a negative perception of bisexuals and/or bisexuality"

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  • 1990Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook (ed. Thomas Geller), Times Change Press (1990), →ISBN, page 63:
    Specifically, those of us who are bisexual do not want to take over lesbian/gay environments or use bisexual concerns to shut down lesbian/gay concerns, regardless of what some biphobes may say.
  • 1991Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out (eds. Loraine Hutchins & Lani Ka'ahumanu), Alyson Publishing (1991), →ISBN, pages 129-130:
    and why haven't we, up until this point, projected a more visible presence, creating a prominent community that even the most virulent biphobes would have to recognize?
  • 1994The Margins of the City: Gay Men's Urban Lives (ed. Stephen Whittle), Arena (1994), page 135:
    Learning to love the fence, perhaps that's the secret of How To Be a Happy Bisexual (with no apologies to that great biphobe Terry Sanderson).
  • 1999 — Atara Stein, "'Without Contraries Is No Progression': S/M, Bi-nary Thinking, and the Lesbian Purity Test", in Lesbian Sex Scandals: Sexual Practices, Identities, and Politics (ed. Dawn Atkins), The Haworth Press (1999), →ISBN, page 57:
    It is, apparently, the embrace of contraries and ambiguity that biphobes, transphobes, and anti-s/m crusaders seem to find threatening.
  • 2010 — Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2010), →ISBN, page 37:
    When I think of my bisexuality, I think of Shakespeare. Now wouldn't my English teacher be happy. Well, actually no, the biphobe!