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BiFocus.com has moved into a new home. It's bigger and better, making it
possible to bring new exciting features (For the techies: All the fun toys of
.NET Framework 3.5).
On the content side, the resources and the book list have grown 10-fold. There are
now 32 books listed and a little more than a dozen popular or significant
bisexual sites are listed either on the popular or on the traditional listing.
That's in addition to the 27 bisexual groups and clubs with web sites being
tracked by BiCafe.com.
Only a dozen bisexual sites! How come?
Because people and interests come and go on the Internet with more abandoned and
nearly dead web sites than live ones! There are dozens, possibly over a hundred
bisexual web sites still listed on Google and showing a page or more, but most
have been out of date for a year or more.
A dozen bisexual sites today is in fact more live ones that we have seen in the past
and that's great news.
Popular
and traditional lists. Why?
They serve
different audiences and purposes. The popular list has the sites that are
popular with the wider bisexual audience, the bisexuals who mainly seek social
opportunities to meet other bisexuals.
While the traditional list has the sites popular with bisexual activists. Great
resources to learn about the history and tradition of the bisexual movement, not
so much to share a beer with your "everyday" bisexual.
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How many bisexual books are
there?
It depends what you are looking for! While there are hundreds of books listed on Amazon under the
keyword "bisexual", many are quite remote or incidental to bisexuality while
others have been out of print for a very long time.
What we did find is that past the popular ones, most of the books listed were written with
a specific audience in mind: There are books for and about bisexual women, or
bisexual men. There are well researched books about history. Serious and not so
serious books in the broad scope of erotica.
We left out books where bisexuality is either incidental or not central to their subject.
That's mainly the hundreds of books covering the wide range of homosexuality and
LGBT.
Where are
all the bisexual conferences & conventions of the past?
They were very popular back in the nineties at a time when activism
helped bring bisexuality to par with gay and lesbian visibility.
It is the success of this early generation of bisexual activists that has lessen the
interest of the current bisexual generation for large national or regional
occasional gatherings. Today's bisexuals seek local and immediate social
networking opportunities. Local groups who offer frequent get-together in public
venues like bars, restaurants and clubs have the largest active following.
The bisexuals in the UK continue to attract interest with national and regional meets,
known as BiCon and BiFest, offering a broad range of activities and social
opportunities.
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