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Article: Predictors of movement toward homosexuality: a longitudinal study of bisexual men.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Despite recent books (Firestein, 1996; Garber, 1995), articles (Fox, 1995; Leland, 1995), and increased exposure on television talk shows, bisexuality as an enduring sexual orientation is not generally well accepted. In a recent survey of mostly gay-identified male readers of The Advocate, about one third of the respondents did not "believe in bisexuality" (Lever, 1994). About 40% of the respondents to this survey said they had identified as bisexual en route to seeing themselves as gay. Several theorists (Cass, 1979; Coleman, 1987; Gagnon, 1977; Klein, 1978; Troiden, 1989) have speculated that at least some self-identified bisexual men will eventually see themselves as ...