Biseksualność w aktywizmie chrześcijan i chrześcijanek LGBT w Polsce
Bisexuality and the Activism of LGBT Christians in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses bisexuality as a category that is omitted from the activism of LGBT Christians in Poland. This activism is identity-based for two reasons. First, it draws on patterns of political struggle for recognition conducted by LGBT organizations. Second, LGBT Christians consider the identity model to be necessary for activism within the Roman Catholic Church. To this time the Church has not recognized non-normative sexual identities – a stance that is perceived by those defining themselves as gays and lesbians as belittling their subjectivity. Identity LGBT activism within Christianity is not able to represent people describing themselves as bisexual primarily because such activism reproduces the homo-hetero dichotomy. Thus the paper highlights the specific situation of bisexual Christians and the mechanisms of their exclusion from the activities of Faith and Rainbow, the only nationwide Polish group describing itself as ‘LGBT Christians’. Findings from the author’s sociological research conducted in 2011–2014 are presented.

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