Wayne Bryant (Author)

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Wayne M. Bryant is an American writer and bi-movement pioneer and activist.

life and work

Bryant came out before 1975 and became politically active in the orbit of Robyn Ochs , the Boston Bisexual Women Network , co-founder of Biversity Boston , an organization now with 700 members, co-founder of the Bi Camp and was president of the Bisexual Resource Center in Boston , which was formerly known as the East Coast Bisexual Network , is home to several groups from all over the area and is considered the national clearinghouse for material related to bisexuality. In addition to his activism within the community, he publishes articles on the topics of bisexuality, film and stereotypes. His anthology Bisexual Characters in Film , published in 1997, is a standard work on the subject.

In 1996 he gave a lecture at the International Bisexual Symposium in Berlin. At the Bi Conference in Houston in 1999, he was one of the keynote speakers alongside Fritz Klein . In 2001, he led a workshop at the first North American Conference on Bisexuality, Gender and Sexual Diversity (NACB 2001) in Vancouver, dealing with the expansion of members in organizations of bisexual organizations. In 2006 he led a workshop on Our Movement History: The BiTransAction together with Lani Ka'ahumanu in the Transcending Boundaries section of the PFLAG Northeast Conference .

He lives in Plainville, Massachusetts .

Works as an author

  • Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anaeis to Zee. Haworth Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7890-0142-X
  • Love, Friendship, and Sex . In:
    Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu (Eds.): Bi any other Name - Bisexual People Speak Out , Alyson Publications , 1991 ISBN 1-55583-174-5
  • Bi film guide . In: The Bisexual Resource Guide . 4th edition, several editions. Bisexual Resource Center, 2001, ISBN 0-9653881-3-1
  • Essay in: Ron Jackson Suresha, Pete Chvany (Eds.): Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way . Haworth Press, 2006, ISBN 1-56023-615-9
  • Contribution in: Laurence Brewer, Trish Oak, Kevin Lano (Eds.): Unlimited Desires: An International Anthology of Bisexual Erotica . BiPress, London 2000, ISBN 0-9538816-0-1

Journal of Bisexuality ISSN  1529-9716 :

  • Stereotyping Bisexual Men in Film , Vol. 1 No. 2-3, 2001, pp. 213-219
  • Bi Film-Video World: Blame Canada , Vol. 1 No. 4, 2001, pp. 137-141
  • Bi Film-Video World: Bisexuals in Shorts , Vol. 2 No. 1, 2002, pp. 113–117
  • Bi Film-Video World: Frida and Oscar , Vol. 4 No. 1–2, July 1, 2004, pp. 258–262 (5)
  • Bi Film-Video World: Bi Poly Cinema. , Vol. 4, No. 3–4, November 17, 2004, pp. 221–226 (6)
  • The Bisexual Biopic , Vol. 5 No. 1, April 19, 2005, pp. 114-118 (5)
  • Is That Me Up There? , Vol. 5 No. 2-3, October 17, 2005, pp. 305-312 (8)
  • Bi Film-Video World: Let's Talk About Sex , Vol. 6 No. 1–2, July 31, 2006, pp. 193–198 (6)

Filmography

  • 2007 - Bi Camp (director, 3 'short film)
  • 2007 - Checkout (director, 3 'short film)
  • 2003 - Interview in Bi Politic: The Boston Bisexual Resource Center (Director: Bill Burleson, BiCities !, Transcript ( Memento of July 28, 2005 on the Internet Archive ))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brett Genny Beemyn: Bisexual Movements . ( Memento from March 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) glbtq.com, 2004, as of September 7, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Bryant, Wayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bryant, Wayne M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century