Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories

• Introduction
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
  • Dannielle a 27-year-old drugstore clerk who lives in San Francisco. She is a “peer safer sex educator” and has been involved with the queer youth movement. Her mother is Lani Ka’ahumanu whose interview also appears in this book.
  • Anuhea, a 44-year-old who lives in San Francisco. She works in the AIDS field, particularly with women and children who are HIV infected.
  • Margarita a 32-year-old painter and hair-dresser who lives in San Francisco. She is of German descent and has a blue-collar background; both of her parents worked in a factory.
  • Peg, a 40-year old woman who lives in Arizona with her female partner, Brandie. She provides office support services for a therapeutic amssage center.
  • Sonya, a 41-year-old legal worker who lives in San Francisco. She has two children.
  • Rosa, a 30-year-old Latina performance artist who works in a woman-owned retail sex store, and lives in San Francisco.
  • Mary, a 42-year-old, HIV-positive woman who lives in Southern California. She is self-employed. Her husband died of AIDS.
  • Lani, Lani Ka’ahumanu is a bisexual activist who lives in San Francisco. With Loraine Hutchins, she edited the book Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. At the time of this interview, she was 50 years old and working as the coordinator of an HIV-prevention project targeting high risk lesbian and bisexual women; she was also serving on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-gender Advisory Committee to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She is of mixed heritage: Hawaiian, Japanese, Irish, and Polish-Jew.
  • Susan, a 43-year-old mother and social worker who lives in Marin County,California.
  • Vidya, a 45-year-old “out” bisexual woman, living and working in Santa Barbara, California. She is half-Jewish/half-WASP and was raised in working-class poverty by a single mom in Los Angeles.
  • Rachel, a 28-year-old white student from a wealthy background who lives in San Francisco.
  • Judy, a 57-year-old disabled writer who lives in Oakland, California.
  • Carol, a 36-year-old Caucasian woman who lives in Berkeley, California. She is an editorial assistant for a magazine and also works in an art center.
  • Michelle, a 42-year-old nurse-midwife who lives in the Northwest. She is in a polyfidelitous relationship of ten years duration with Casey (whose interview follows this) and Casey’s husband, Doug, and has one child.
  • Casey, a 42-year-old nurse-midwife with two children who lives i the Northwest. She is involved in a triad with her husband, Doug, and with Michelle, whose interview precedes this. Michelle makes some comments during the course of this interview.
  • Pamela, a 33-year-old massage therapist and libertarian activist who lives in San Francisco.
  • Revi a a 21-year-old white student and women’s health worker active in the queer women’s community, who lives in San Francisco Her mother is a lesbian.
  • Diana, a 30-year-old research scientist who lives in San Francisco. Her family background is white Southern working class. She began this interview by talking about her coming-out experience.
• Appendices
  • A. Safer Sex by Rowan Frost
  • B. Resources for Bisexual Women by Robyn Ochs
  • C. Additional Resources

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