''Anything That Moves'' was a literary, journalistic, and topical magazine published in the United States from 1990 to 2001. The magazine's mission was to confront and redefine concepts of

sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...

and gender, to defy stereotypes and broad definitions of bisexuals, and to combat biphobia.

Title

The complete title of the magazine, ''Anything That Moves: Beyond the Myths of Bisexuality'', was purposely chosen for its controversial nature. The title refers to the

stereotype In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example ...

depicting bisexuals as willing to have sex with " anything that moves" and was suggested by Tom Geller, author of the book ''Bisexuality: A Reader & Sourcebook''. In its opening statement, the magazine stated its intent to reclaim the negative stereotype about bisexual people in order to highlight the need "to create movement" related to bisexual issues.

History

''Anything That Moves'' was published by the

Bay Area Bisexual Network Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network (BABPN), previously known as Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN), is a social and networking group in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the oldest and largest bisexual group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1987 BABN ha ...

(BABN) for the entirety of its run. It was founded by Karla Rossi as an expansion of the 12 page ''Bay Area Bisexual Network Newsletter''. The first issue of the magazine was published in 1991. In her first

editorial An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK) is an article written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or any other written document, often unsigned. Australian and major United States newspapers, suc ...

, Rossi stated that she was motivated to start ''Anything That Moves'' in order to combat misconceptions about bisexuals and address issues related to

bisexual erasure Bisexual erasure or bisexual invisibility is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources. In its most extreme form, bisexual erasure can includ ...

and oppression in heterosexual, gay, and

lesbian A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...

communities. She specifically highlighted the impact of the AIDS crisis on bisexuals. Rossi was managing editor of ''Anything That Moves'' until 1993. The managing editor position was briefly held by Gerard Palmeri and by Tori Woodard for a special issue on

Spirituality The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...

and Healing until it was passed to Mark Silver in 1994. Silver held the position of managing editor until issue #16 of the magazine. In 1998, Linda Howard took over editing under the title "editrix" and held this position for the rest of the magazine's run. The final issue of ''Anything That Moves'' was released in 2001. Overall, BABN published 22 issues of the magazine, along with one special Pride edition published in 1999. In 2020, a team of archivists scanned every issue of ''Anything that Moves'' and uploaded them online.

References

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