The American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB) is a
charity
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founded on July 23, 1998, by
sex researcher,
psychiatrist
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and
bisexual
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...
rights
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activist
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Fritz Klein
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Early life, ...
to promote research and education about
bisexuality
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, ...
.
AIB produces the ''
Journal of Bisexuality
The ''Journal of Bisexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the Taylor & Francis Group under the Routledge imprint. It is the official journal of the American Institute of Bisexuality. It covers a wide range of topics ...
'', a quarterly academic journal focusing on issues relating to bisexuality. In addition, it runs bi.org, an education and outreach site for the general public, which provides accessible, science-based information on (bi)sexuality and helps create bi visibility by highlighting the lives of both famous and everyday bi people.
AIB also produces "Queer Majority" a conservative gay website which publishes anti trans articles, amoung other content.
AIB maintains a division known as the Bi Foundation that conducts outreach, community building, and education across the globe. The Institute is a
Delaware
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non-profit corporation qualified for tax purposes as a private foundation under
Section 501(c)(3)
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of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
AIB offers grants toward research and programming related to bisexuality.
BiReConUSA
In June 2013, the American Institute of Bisexuality and the Bisexual Organizing Project funded the first BiReConUSA, modeled on
BiReCon (UK). It was co-chaired by Dr. Lauren Beach and Alex Iantaffi.
See also
*
Bisexual community
The bisexual community, also known as the bi+, b+, m-spec, bisexual/pansexual, bi/pan/fluid community, or bisexual umbrella, includes members of the LGBTQ community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, polysexual and sexually flui ...
*
Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
References
External links
American Institute of Bisexuality— official website
Bi.org— the public outreach site of the AIB
The Journal of Bisexuality— the academic journal of the AIB
Bisexual culture in the United States
Bisexual organizations
LGBTQ organizations based in the United States
Health charities in the United States
1998 establishments in the United States
Charities based in Delaware
Medical and health organizations based in Delaware
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