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> [ “\[Bisexuality\] is seen as threatening the homosexual/heterosexual and male/female dichotomies, or binarisms, which underpin our gender and sexual identities to such a large extent. In the case of the first three stereotypes, there is a refusal even to acknowledge the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/bisexuality-is-seen-as-threatening-the-homosexual-heterosexual-and/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

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> [“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such a way as to challenge the sexual regulation and repression of heterosexual desire, above all female…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/perhaps-the-most-radical-aspect-of-queer-politics-was-its-claim-not/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

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## More by Richard Dunphy

> [ “\[Bisexuality\] is seen as threatening the homosexual/heterosexual and male/female dichotomies, or binarisms, which underpin our gender and sexual identities to such a large extent.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/bisexuality-is-seen-as-threatening-the-homosexual-heterosexual-and/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [ “\[W\]hether it is debates over men sharing housework and child-rearing, the ‘crisis’ of marriage and behind that the broader crisis of male-female relationships in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/w-hether-it-is-debates-over-men-sharing-housework-and-child-rearing/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/some-writers-have-even-argued-that-it-may-be-possible-to-wean-sex/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [“The different strategies and visions of ‘reformists’ and ‘radicals’ are not the only subject of major debate within lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer politics.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/the-different-strategies-and-visions-of-reformists-and-radicals-are/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/perhaps-the-most-radical-aspect-of-queer-politics-was-its-claim-not/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [ “\[A\]t least since the late nineteenth century when the primary role in categorising sexual behaviour and naming what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘perverse’… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/a-t-least-since-the-late-nineteenth-century-when-the-primary-role-in/)

[Richard Dunphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dunphy/)

> [“Knowing what causes differentiation in human skin pigmentation, fascinating though that is, does not furnish a satisfactory explanation for the phenomenon of racism. Similarly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dunphy/knowing-what-causes-differentiation-in-human-skin-pigmentation/)

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