{{Short description|Nonprofit organization}} {{Infobox organization |name = American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB) |image = American Institute of Bisexuality Logo.png |caption = American Institute of Bisexuality logo |formation = 1998 |leader_title = Executive Director |leader_name = |website = {{URL|https://www.bisexuality.org}} }} The '''American Institute of Bisexuality''' ('''AIB''') is a charity founded on July 23, 1998, by sex researcher, psychiatrist and bisexual rights activist Fritz Klein to promote research and education about bisexuality.<ref>{{cite news|last=Buchanan|first=Wyatt|title=Dr. Fritz Klein -- bisexual pioneer who created Klein Grid sex scale|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dr-Fritz-Klein-bisexual-pioneer-who-created-2518089.php|access-date=12 December 2010|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1 June 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology |year=2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4419-1464-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xtq0M1f_aIMC&q=%22American+Institute+of+Bisexuality%22&pg=PA66|author=Joan C. Chrisler|author2=Donald R. McCreary|access-date=12 December 2010|page=66}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Finding out: an introduction to LGBT studies|year=2010|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-4129-3864-8|pages=183|url=https://archive.org/details/findingoutintrod0000gibs |author=Deborah T. Meem|author2=Michelle Gibson|author3=Jonathan F. Alexander|author4=Michelle A. Gibson|access-date=12 December 2010}}</ref>
AIB produces the ''Journal of Bisexuality'', a quarterly academic journal focusing on issues relating to bisexuality. In addition, it runs bi.org, a bisexuality visibility, education and outreach website for the general public, and the magazine Queer Majority.
AIB maintains a division known as the Bi Foundation that conducts outreach, community building, and education across the globe. The Institute is a Delaware non-profit corporation qualified for tax purposes as a private foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
AIB offers grants toward research and programming related to bisexuality.<ref>{{cite web|title=Grants and Fellowships |url=http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/resources/grants.html|publisher=Kinsey Institute|access-date=12 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Jane Fae|title=Large-scale survey to explore bisexuality in the workplace|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/07/02/large-scale-survey-to-explore-bisexuality-in-the-workplace/|access-date=12 December 2010|newspaper=Pink News|date=2 July 2010|author-link=Jane Fae}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Denizet-Lewis|first=Benoit|title=The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/magazine/the-scientific-quest-to-prove-bisexuality-exists.html|access-date=4 October 2014|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine|date=20 March 2014}}</ref>
== BiReConUSA ==
In June 2013, the American Institute of Bisexuality and the Bisexual Organizing Project funded the first BiReConUSA, modeled on BiReCon (UK). It was co-chaired by Dr. Lauren Beach and Alex Iantaffi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetaskforce.org/bisexual-organizing-projects-because-conference-builds-community-inspires-activism-changes-lives/ |first1=Lauren B. |last1=Beach |title=Bisexual Organizing Project's BECAUSE Conference Builds Community, Inspires Activism, Changes Lives |publisher=National LGBTQ Taskforce |date=2013 |access-date=29 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Iantaffi |first1=Alex |title=Introduction to Special Section on BiReConUSA 2013: BECAUSE Research Matters |journal=Journal of Bisexuality |date=10 September 2015 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=367–368 |doi=10.1080/15299716.2015.1069648|s2cid=147281204 }}</ref>
==See also== * Bisexual community * Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
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==External links== * [https://www.bisexuality.org American Institute of Bisexuality] — official website * [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjbi20/current/ The Journal of Bisexuality] — the academic journal of the AIB * [https://www.bi.org/ Bi.org] — the public outreach site of the AIB * [https://www.queermajority.com/ Queer Majority magazine]
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