lani kaahumanu born october 5 1943 is a bisexual and feminist writer and activist she is openly bisexual and writes and speaks on sexuality issues frequently she serves on the editorial board of the journal of bisexuality she is also working on the books my grassroots are showing stories speeches and special affections and passing for other primal creams and forbidden dreams poetry prose and performance piecesin 1974 she divorced her husband and moved to san francisco where she came out as a lesbian she helped found the san francisco state women studies department and in 1979 she became the first person in her family to graduate from college kaahumanu realized she was bisexual and came out as bisexual in 1980in 1983 in san francisco kaahumanu autumn courtney arlene krantz david lourea bill mack alan rockway and maggi rubenstein founded bipol the first and oldest bisexual political organizationin 1987 kaahumanu ann justi and maggi rubenstein founded the bay area bisexual networkthe article the bisexual movement are we visible yet by kaahumanu appeared in the official civil disobedience handbook for the 1987 march on washington for gay and lesbian rights the march included the first nationwide bisexual gathering her article was the first article about bisexuals and the emerging bisexual movement to be published in a national lesbian or gay publicationkaahumanu is the coeditor with loraine hutchins of the anthology bi any other name bisexual people speak out alyson publications 1991 it is considered one of the seminal books in the history of the modern bisexual rights movement kaahumanu contributed the piece hapa haole wahine to the anthology after the anthology was forced to compete in the lambda literary awards under the category lesbian anthology binet usa led the bisexual community in a multiyear campaign eventually resulting in the addition of a bisexual category starting with the 2006 awardsfrom 1992 until 1994 kaahumanu served as project coordinator for an american foundation for aids research grant awarded to lyonmartin womens health services this was the first grant in us history to target young high risk lesbian and bi women for hivaids preventioneducation research kaahumanu also created peer safer sex slut team with cianna stewart her work with the safer sex sluts was recognized by ms magazine in 1994 in their 50 ways to be a feminist issuein 1993 kaahumanu spoke at the rally of the march on washington for lesbian gay and bi equal rights and liberation she had conceived and led a successful national campaign to have bisexual people included in the title she was the only out bisexual out of 18 speakersalso in 1993 for her 50th birthday kaahumanu wrote and modeled for women en large images of fat nudes books in focus 1994in 1994 kaahumanu elias farajajejones laura perez and victor raymond all from the indigenous queersbisexual caucus presented preaching to the perverted or fluid desire at the national hiv preventioneducation summit held by the association of physicians for human rights now the gay and lesbian medical associationsince the mid1990s she has facilitated sex and body positive workshops around the united statesin 1996 whats bisexuality got to do with it training was held in conjunction with californias lesbian gay and aids life lobby and institute it was coordinated by kaahumanu stephanie berger elias farajajejones felicia parkrogers brandon taylor roland sintos coloma and cianna stewart sheela lambert produced a bisexual health care report for the nyc dept of health examining barriers to service for bisexual people accessing health and mental health services two focus groups were conducted separately with bisexual men and bisexual women in nyc to identify issuesin 1998 binet usa hosted a national institute on bisexuality hivaids summit with the national gay lesbian health association conference along with kaahumanu lynda doll of the center for disease control and elias farajajejones luigi ferrer ron fox dr fritz klein marshall miller cianna stewart and joe wrightin 1999 the center for disease controlucla school of nursing hosted a bisexual people of color hiv prevention and education summit that was conceived by bill wedin and cocoordinated by kaahumanu with elias farajajejones ron fox karl hamner dominique rosanegra leslie and cianna stewartkaahumanu was the first out bisexual to be invited and to serve on a national gay and lesbian board and as such completed her term with the national gay and lesbian task force board of directors in 2000in 2004 kaahumanu bobbi keppel and the safer sex sluts presented the first safer sex workshop given at a joint national conference with the american society on aging and the national association on aging