“Half-straights aren’t even people”: an analysis of biphobia in homosexual cibersociability spaces

Authors

  • Inácio dos Santos Saldanha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i14.35729

Abstract

Abstract: This article aims at analyzing, inspired by the Virtual Ethnography ‘biphobic’ declarations, that is, the negative
ones to bisexuality and bisexual individuals, in two cibersocial spaces: Forum Pan and a publication of the Facebook page
Resistência Gay, both mostly accessed by cisgender gay men. The homosexual men’s discussions show the denial of the
existence of bisexuality, the linking of bisexuals to HIV contamination, a roll of immoral behaviors and a tendency to
heterosexual privileges. The results are near to the listing of “strategies of bisexual erasure” proposed by Kenji Yoshino
(2000).
Keywords: Bisexuality. Biphobia. Internet. Virtual ethnography.

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Author Biography

Inácio dos Santos Saldanha

Licenciado em História pela Universidade do Estado do Pará.

Published

2021-04-10

How to Cite

Saldanha, I. dos S. (2021). “Half-straights aren’t even people”: an analysis of biphobia in homosexual cibersociability spaces. Revista Periódicus, 2(14), 181–205. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i14.35729