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Anne Frank was bisexual and wrote extensively about her attraction to both men and women. The common version of her diaries are censored for this content.

Learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer

Alma via JTA — Like many American children, I first read Anne Frank’s diary in school. And like many American children, I was unaware that I read the first, censored edition of the famous work.

There is actually a complete and unabridged second edition. That edition has been out for 20 years, but English-speaking readers do not often encounter it. All of this is to say, upon finally reading the uncensored version, I really wasn’t prepared to discover Anne Frank wrote quite clearly about her attraction to boys — and girls.

My first response to this discovery was anger. Anne Frank was bisexual? There was a bisexual person in a work I unwittingly read as a child? When I was just discovering I liked both girls and boys, there was an act… Continue Reading


Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/learning-anne-frank-was-bisexual-is-a-game-changer/