The performativity of gender and coping strategies with discrimination in bisexual activists

The discrimmination, activism, which is determined as the main theme in the research, what the distinctive attitudes, manners, situations and practices that arise in the areas where the data obtained from the opening preocess are and the issue how these practices should be carried out to manage the discrimination processes in a healthy way, are tired to be discussed through the axis of activist struggle and visibility. The research is based on the interview process with eight different people, seven of whom are female an done male, who bisexual oriented. The discussion and open-ended aspect of the visibility issue, taking into consideration its interaction with feminist perspective, through opening the opportunities and boundedness of bisexual activism, it is resorted to explain by refering to the hints about the coexistence of socially gendered areas such as education, workplace experinces, interaction process in the political field. Here it is seen that homophobia creates areas that feed mostly from the heterosexist plane and biphobia creates areas that are interwined in both patriarchal and heterosexist planes in terms of class and gender. Based on the evaluations for these areas, it was observed that the strong effect of the patriarchal element that reinforces the invisibility sheath in the sense of bisexuals, that keeps it away from being the "subject" of the field and the compulsiveness of the interaction process that shape the hegemonic masculinity are also remarkable. In the research, it was tried to shed light on the discussions that management strategies put forward in order to deal with discrimination and possible hate-based process should be handled in a more comprehensive and democratic level. Key Words: Discrimination, Bisexual, Visbility, Heterosexism, LGBTİQ, Patriarchy, Managing