The American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB) is a
charity
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Giving
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founded on July 23, 1998, by
sex researcher,
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...
and
bisexual
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...
rights
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activist
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Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein (24 November 1888 – 13 December 1945) was an Austrian Nazi doctor and war criminal, hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Early life and edu ...
to promote research and education about
bisexuality
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whic ...
.
AIB produces the ''
Journal of Bisexuality
The ''Journal of Bisexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the Taylor & Francis Group under the Routledge imprint. It is the official journal of the American Institute of Bisexuality. It covers a wide range of topics ...
'', a quarterly academic journal focusing on issues relating to bisexuality. In addition, it runs bi.org, an education and outreach site for the general public, which provides accessible, science-based information on (bi)sexuality and helps create bi visibility by highlighting the lives of both famous and everyday bi people.
AIB maintains a division known as the Bi Foundation that conducts outreach, community building, and education across the globe. The Institute is a
Delaware
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non-profit corporation qualified for tax purposes as a private foundation under
Section 501(c)(3)
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 5 ...
of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
AIB offers grants toward research and programming related to bisexuality.
BiReConUSA
In June 2013, the American Institute of Bisexuality and the Bisexual Organizing Project funded the first BiReConUSA, modeled on
BiReCon (UK). It was co-chaired by Dr. Lauren Beach and Alex Iantaffi.
See also
*
Bisexual community
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Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) developed by Fritz Klein attempts to measure sexual orientation by expanding upon the earlier Kinsey scale. Fritz Klein founded the American Institute of Bisexuality in 1998 which is continuing his work b ...
References
External links
American Institute of Bisexuality— official website
Bi.org— the public outreach site of the AIB
The Journal of Bisexuality— the academic journal of the AIB
Bisexual culture in the United States
Bisexual organizations
LGBT organizations in the United States
Health charities in the United States
1998 establishments in the United States
Charities based in Delaware
Medical and health organizations based in Delaware
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