Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
10.1080/15299716.2017.1384423.
Abstract
As the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexual people, and transgender people (“LGBT rights”) have received increasing protections across the globe in recent years, so-called gay marriage and other gay issues, and, more recently, transgender issues, have been prominent in recent legal discourse. In contrast, bisexuality has too often been omitted from legal rights discourse, with bisexual people who are barely acknowledged in LGBT-rights litigation and discourse beyond the minimal inclusion of the letter B in the acronym LGBT. This article examines the problem of bisexual invisibility and erasure within LGBT-rights litigation and legal discourse around the world. Although exposing the problem of bisexual erasure in the legal world, the article also addresses the question this issue always seems to beg when it is raised: why bisexual erasure even matters. The harms of bisexual erasure, including those that can take tragic root in court decisions grounded in misunderstandings about bisexuality, are manifold and are addressed herein along with some potential solutions and next steps toward improving bisexual inclusion in litigation and jurisprudence.
Recommended Citation
Nancy C. Marcus,
The Global Problem of Bisexual Erasure in Litigation and Jurisprudence,
18
J. of Bisexuality
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/fs/471