playgirl magazine archives 1983 table of contents

And I’m counting myself as the other one.” Ochs recalls a childhood spent leafleting at subway stations for the McGovern and McCarthy campaigns, and stuffing envelopes for various causes. Two of us are activists: my cousin Meegan works as a major events fund-raiser for the American Civil Liberties Union. “In my generation there are four children. “We grew up going to protest marches and listening to folk and protest music,” Ochs says. Ochs was raised with a strong tradition of activism in her family.

In addition, Ochs co-hosted PRIDETIME a weekly cable television show for the lesbian, gay and bisexual community in Boston. She has also acted as a spokesperson for the bi movement in publications such as Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, Elle and Playgirl, and on television shows such as Donohue and Maury Povich. She helped to found the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network and the East Coast Bisexual Network, has authored numerous essays and articles, and has taught courses on bisexuality at MIT and Tufts University. In addition, this activist, educator and wordsmith has posted quite a few useful signs along the way while creating shelter, community and camaraderie for fellow travelers. She is most noted for editing the Bisexual Resource Guide, 1 an indispensable “road guide” for bisexuals as they follow the path of their sexuality. Robyn Ochs has helped to blaze that trail as she has moved through and delighted in her own journey as a bisexual woman. Bisexual folks can spend a long time in the woods figuring out which trail allows them to “take both.” A popular bisexual button reads: Two paths diverged in a yellow wood, and I took both.

The established signposts you encounter along the way-lesbian, gay, straight-never quite show you where you need to go. Loving both women and men can be a difficult path. Bi Signs and Wonders AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBYN OCHSįrom the Journal of Bisexuality, Vol.

Playgirl magazine archives 1983 table of contents