Loraine Hutchins is an American

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and

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author, activist, and

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. Hutchins rose to prominence as co-editor (with

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) of ''

Bi Any Other Name ''Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out'', published by Riverdale Avenue Books, is an anthology edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaʻahumanu, and is one of the seminal books in the history of the modern bisexual rights movement. It holds ...

'', an anthology that is one of the seminal books in the bisexual rights movement. Hutchins contributed the pieces "Letting Go: An Interview with John Horne" and "Love That Kink" to that anthology. After the anthology was forced to compete in the

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under the category Lesbian Anthology, and ''Directed by Desire: Collected Poems'', a posthumous collection of the bisexual poet

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’s work, had to compete (and won) in the category "Lesbian Poetry",

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led the bisexual community in a multi-year campaign eventually resulting in the addition of a Bisexual category, starting with the 2006 Awards. She is a graduate of The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality's Sexological Bodyworkers Certification Training program. She currently teaches Intro to Women's Studies, Intro to

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Studies, Women's Health, and Health Issues in Sexuality at two different campuses in the Washington, DC area. In June 2006 Hutchins delivered the keynote address at the Ninth International Conference On Bisexuality, Gender And Sexual Diversity (9ICB). In October 2009, Hutchins was honored as a "Community Pioneer" by the Rainbow History Project in Washington DC for her activist work.

Selected bibliography

Books

* '' Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out'' co-edited with

(1991) * ''Sexuality Religion and the Sacred: Bisexual Pansexual and Polysexual'' co-edited with H. Sharif Williams (2012) * ''Some Women'', edited by

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(Hutchins did not edit this book, but contributed “Letter to David”) (1995)

References

External links

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Loraine Hutchins Rainbow History Project Community Pioneers Bio

"A Slippery Slice of The Rainbow," Xtra
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