Robyn Ochs

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Robyn Ochs is a long-time American bisexual rights activist, and the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide and the new anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. She a resident of Massachusetts is a noted professional speaker and workshop leader . Her primary fields of interest are identity and coalition building.

Ms. Ochs' has appeared as an expert on bisexuality on a number of television talk shows, including Donahue, Rolanda, Maury Povich, Women Aloud, Real Personal, Hour Magazine and the Shirley Show (Canada), and in Seventeen and Newsweek.

She has taught courses on topics including LGBT history & politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white and/or male/female. Her writings have been published in numerous bisexual, women's studies, multicultural and LGBT anthologies.

On 17 May 2004, the first day it was legal for same sex couples to marry anywhere in the United States, Ms. Ochs and her long-time partner Ms. Peg Preble were among the first same-sex couples to get legally married (A Carefully Considered Rush to the Altar). Ironically, in an example of exactly the type of bisexual erasure she has spent her life fighting against, Ms. Ochs was publicly misidentified in the press as a lesbian.

Ms. Ochs is the niece of late folksinger Phil Ochs.