Anything That Moves
Encyclopedia
Anything That Moves was a literary, journalistic, and topical magazine published in the United States
from 1990 to 2002. It was created as an expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN)
newsletter by BABN
member, Karla Rossi, in collaboration with bisexual and bi-friendly editors, writers, and artists to become a full 64-page magazine with an international subscriber base. The complete title of the magazine, Anything That Moves: Beyond the Myths of Bisexuality, was purposely chosen for its controversial nature, while its tag line indicated a clear intent to challenge stereotypes of bisexual identities and behaviors. The magazine took its name from the stereotype
depicting bisexuals as willing to have sex with "anything that moves".
The magazine's mission was to confront and redefine concepts of sexuality
and gender
, to defy stereotypes and cookie-cutter definitions of bisexuals and to combat biphobia
.
Most of the issues were theme-based, designed to cohesively present the vast array of diverse bisexual voices and experiences across the lines of gender, class, race, ethnicity, spirituality, lifestyle, age, politics, culture, and sexual/celibate behaviors, desires, and preferences. Special care was taken to include a spectrum of perspectives from straight-identified to queer-identified bisexuals, while inclusion did not require the declaration of an identity or label to indicate where one fell along the spectrum of ways to be bisexual.
With changes in Managing Editors at the helm, came changes in the magazine’s tag line to reflect the evolving, exploratory, and creative nature of its subject matter and content.
United States
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from 1990 to 2002. It was created as an expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN)
Bay Area Bisexual Network
Bay Area Bisexual Network is social and networking group in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the oldest and largest bisexual group in the San Francisco Bay Area...
newsletter by BABN
Bay Area Bisexual Network
Bay Area Bisexual Network is social and networking group in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the oldest and largest bisexual group in the San Francisco Bay Area...
member, Karla Rossi, in collaboration with bisexual and bi-friendly editors, writers, and artists to become a full 64-page magazine with an international subscriber base. The complete title of the magazine, Anything That Moves: Beyond the Myths of Bisexuality, was purposely chosen for its controversial nature, while its tag line indicated a clear intent to challenge stereotypes of bisexual identities and behaviors. The magazine took its name from the stereotype
Stereotype
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings...
depicting bisexuals as willing to have sex with "anything that moves".
The magazine's mission was to confront and redefine concepts of sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
and gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, to defy stereotypes and cookie-cutter definitions of bisexuals and to combat biphobia
Biphobia
Biphobia is a term used to describe aversion felt toward bisexuality and bisexuals as a social group or as individuals. People of any sexual orientation can experience such feelings of aversion...
.
Most of the issues were theme-based, designed to cohesively present the vast array of diverse bisexual voices and experiences across the lines of gender, class, race, ethnicity, spirituality, lifestyle, age, politics, culture, and sexual/celibate behaviors, desires, and preferences. Special care was taken to include a spectrum of perspectives from straight-identified to queer-identified bisexuals, while inclusion did not require the declaration of an identity or label to indicate where one fell along the spectrum of ways to be bisexual.
With changes in Managing Editors at the helm, came changes in the magazine’s tag line to reflect the evolving, exploratory, and creative nature of its subject matter and content.