#anything that moves

[starnosedmoles]

“When she (lesbian) and (gay) I had our first (heterosexual) kiss In the doorway of her midtown apartment, we were cautioned by a cop (straight?) I wonder if she found it as funny as I did; is Manhattan so uptight that a (straight) kiss is frowned upon?” - Laurence W. Thomas

(published in “Anything That Moves”, 1991)

#anything that moves #lesbian #gay #bisexual #homoflexible #bi4bi #gaybian #nblnb #mor #nonbinary #gnc #gay history #queer #queer history #gay community #queer community #bisexual history #bisexuality #inclus #inclusionist #genderfluid #gender #90s #1990s #Laurence W. Thomas #poetry #words #queer poetry

[pamsinclair]

From the Spring 1997 issue of bisexual magazine "Anything That Moves" (plain text under the cut)

Not A Traitor, Not Weird, Just Happy

Greetings! Just when I was afraid that there was no intelligent life out there, I find Anything That Moves. What luck!

I adored "Bi Femme" by Leah Lilith Albrecht-Samarasinha; I think she and I are sisters under the skin! I am currently embroiled in a passionate relationship with a glorious drag queen, and I was really starting to feel as if I were the only bi-babe who got all sweaty over a guy in a frock.

I, too, have been called a traitor by my gay friends, and just plain weird by my straight friends, but how can you label "happy"? I steal his clothes, he steals mine... and we wear the same size skirt. What more is there?

Thanks again. I shall return regularly.

Ging (from the 'net)

#bisexuality #bisexual history #bi history #bi visibility month #bi love #anything that moves #thank you ging from the net i love you ging from the net

[will80sbyers]

Extracts from “ Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl... A Bi Chronology” by M. S. Montgomery in the Issue n° 16 of ATM (1998)

#bi history #bisexual men #bi men history #bi men #atm #anything that moves #1998 #bisexuality #bisexual #bi tag #lgbtq history

[robynochs]

Very cool. All 22 issues of Anything That Moves--a bi magazine from the 1990s--have been archived by a group of young bisexual people & allies who are making them available online. Here's an article about how that happened & why ATM is still so relevant.

#Anything That Moves #bisexual #bisexuality #bi #bi+ #zine #bisexual zine #bi zine #bi history #bi+ history

[librarycards]

Found an amazing article in the archives of bisexual news/culture magazine Anything That Moves about environmental illness, ableism, and critiques of biomedical approaches to disability, where the author discusses ostracization for public masking back in 1994!!!

"I'm now one of those people I used to see in the health food store wearing a cotton mask. I wear my mask whenever I go outside, as well as indoors if someone in the room is wearing cologne or clothes that were washed in commercial laundry products or dried with a fabric softener. The mask creates a barrier that makes me feel isolated from my friends, and makes strangers stare at me with horror or curiosity, or try to avoid eye contact altogether. Most of the people I know who have EI [Environmental Illness] don't wear their masks in public because they don't like being treated like a pariah. I decided it's better to both protect my health and educate people by wearing my mask. [...]

Sometimes I rail against the universe about my restricted lifestyle. But then I remember the unexpected gifts that my illness brought me: inner strength, more contact with the natural world, and closer relationships with my lover and my parents. The three of them responded to my illness with an outpouring of love. They schlepped me to and from the desert, visited me regularly there, and showed me how much they love me in every way they knew."

Tori Woodard, "Talking Cure or Walking Cure?," in Anything that Moves, issue #7, 1994.

#tori woodard #readings #ableism #mine #anything that moves #lgbtq history #words #disability

[transmasculine-history]

BiTrans Blues by M. S. Montgomery

from Anything That Moves issue 10, 1996

#queer history #trans history #lgbt history #multigender #genderqueer #anything that moves #1990s #bi history #song

[charliejaneanders]

Last night I randomly saw a post that said the word “queer” was biphobic for some reason. Which... ????

As one of the former editors of Anything That Moves, the bisexual magazine, I’m here to tell ya that whatever terms y’all want to use to describe yourselves are fine as long as you’re not *explicitly* putting anyone else down. And yeah, sometimes other people are going to feel seen by terms that you hate being called, and that sucks, and only thing you can do is move on.

I personally find “queer” a handy umbrella term that captures what so many of us have in common: we don’t conform to cishet patriarchy’s gender and sexuality norms. I also like LGBTQIA+ but strongly prefer including *all* of the letters because we’re all in this together.

#queer #lgbtqia #trans #bisexual #biphobia #anything that moves

[transratsactivist]

"the bisexual manifesto was written in 1990 to define bisexuality"

noooo, no no no.

first of all, the text wasn't written as a manifesto. this matters because most manifestos are written as manifestos, this text just came to be known as the bisexual manifesto, but it actually was first published as the introduction to the bisexual magazine anything that moves (the exact version that is commonly being quoted first appears in issue #3).

secondly, here's a direct quote from the introduction in 1991 issue #1:

"do not expect a clear-cut definition of bisexuality to jump out from the pages. we bisexuals tend to define bisexuality in ways unique to our own individuality. there are as many definitions of bisexuality as there are bisexuals."

does that sound like the intention was to clearly define bisexuality?

the magazine's purpose as expressed by the byline "beyond the myths of bisexuality" was to clear up misconceptions and to give bisexual people a space to express themselves, to showcase a plurality of bisexual voices. nothing so restrictive as defining bisexuality in one singular way.

read anything that moves here:

#bisexual #bisexuality #bisexual manifesto #the bisexual manifesto #anything that moves #lgbtq history #m

[portraitoflestatonfire]

Newsweek Bisexuality Issue, 1995 // Anything That Moves Issue #10, 1996

#just wanted this on my blog #anything that moves #newsweek #bisexuality

[flimsy-roost]

THIS POEM CAN BE PUT OFF NO LONGER (Susan Carlton, 1991, Anything That Moves Issue #1)

#bi #lgbtq #anything that moves #susan carlton #this poem can be put off no longer #nd

[starnosedmoles]

policing lesbianism

“Biotypes” by C. Smelser and B. Weise. Published in “Anything That Moves”, 1991

#anything that moves #bisexual #bisexual history #lesbian #lesbian history #gay #queer #lgbtqia #pride #bisexuality #bisexual pride #bi history #queer history #gay history #queer community #bi lesbian #mspec lesbian #homoflexible #inclusionist #queer politics #lesbian separatism #political lesbianism #90s #comic

[bisexual-aura]

idk I just feel like if someone made up false information that impacted a community for 20 years to promote their own label then I should be able to question the necessity and validity of that label :/

#yes this is about pansexual #bisexual #lgbt #anything that moves #bi pride #lgbtq #bi vs pan #pansexual #bi community

[will80sbyers]

from ATM issue n° 16 (1998)

#bisexual men #bi men #bisexuality #bi tag #bi history #lgbtq history #atm #anything that moves #1998 #internalized homophobia #internalized biphobia #bisexual

[briar-rolfes-research-oubliette]

fantastic evening in the oubliette

of course everybody who follows this blog knows my real passion is... that's right, we were all going to say "graphic design."

I have been reading a fantastic zine, What is Queer Typography? by Paul Soulellis. There's also a great interview about the project here.

It's very good!!

I've also discovered that every issue of the bisexuality magazine Anything That Moves (1990–2001) has been scanned and archived here.

This is all because I've been asked to freelance design a ~16 page document for the local bi network and I've realised I don't know a goddamn thing about the aesthetics of bisexuality—like aside from being on Tumblr between the years of 2012–2017 and getting to see a lot of galaxies, gradients, various Disney characters labelled with 'why not both', etc. I think it's very indicative of SOMETHING!! that if you try to look up historical bi anything you end up getting gay and lesbian history, even though we know that bisexuals were also at the rallies, printing the shirts, etc (similarly to how if you try to look up historical trans anything you find trans men getting reclaimed as girl boss lesbian icons for hashtag wombyn).

What I'm saying is that in my personal experience, bisexuality DOES on the whole have more style than... this.

There's a someone-else's-thesis in this but I feel like there's a reason bisexuality is in the present day associated with things like: lighting, sitting funny, 'why not both', being shy and crying. Something something being nonthreatening to assimilate into heterosexual-appearing relationships, something something bi erasure something something. ANYWAY I have a lot of thoughts that are still on the boiler and I'm relieved to as always get back to my heritage: zines, and being a gender neutral wanker about graphic design.

#anything that moves #queer typography #gender neutral wanker graphic design edition #why am I making a Pauline Hanson reference... like nobody will get it and even fewer people will enjoy it if they do. It's just for me

[posi-pan]

I'm the *Anything that Moves* anon, and thanks for the long post. It actually helped quite a bit. Tbh the reason I posted that ask was because I found out that Kr*vitz M was taking it upon themselves to "archive" AtM, and their efforts are being promoted and proliferated by other panphobes on Tumblr, and I'm just worried that someone will come across AtM because of them. It's all just a mess.

yeah that person put together a carrd that has google doc scans of each issue of the magazine, and several other people who worked on putting it together are panphobes, too. i used to link it in resource posts because it's good to have, but i hated doing it because they're panphobes.

but i noticed recently the scans are also uploaded to the internet archive, and it's probably the same people who uploaded them there as the info says the scans were sourced from the carrd, but i'd still rather link to the internet archive than their personal carrd with their names and info and stuff lmao. plus, on the internet archive, you can text search the issues, which is very helpful to me.

but i don't think someone learning about atm from them is necessarily a bad thing. maybe if they try to use the magazine as another tool of panphobia, sure that'd be bad. but anyone who actually reads it will see the many, many examples within it that show support for and are inclusive of pan. i get being worried though. whenever i see panphobes spreading any kind of bi history/content, i'm like "what's your underlining panphobic intention with this" because sadly, more often than not, it's there.

#asks #anonymous #pan antagonism #anything that moves #long post

[serostuffsmh]

On the bright side you have someone to kill bugs for you!

He does like bugs. He tries to one shot mosquitoes by biting them. Also, he discovered ants exist and I need to pry his face away from ant hills cause if I don’t he’ll snort that entire ant colony.

#listen #anything that moves #it’s free game to him. #admin jen asks #cherrysnaps #mutuals