X-Posted with permission from BiNet USA News and Opinions: News, Essays and Editorials by & for America's Bisexual Community (on LJ as binetusa) from a post by Estraven a Mod from the Westchester Bisexual Group

( First incident: A 'Gay Unity' website says 'Bi Rhymes With Lie and Die' among other repulsive things )

( Second incident: The Tyra Banks Show is running a Poll asking 'Bisexuality Real or Bogus?' )

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and appears to have just grouped together (among others) bisexual people, androgynous people, devil worshippers and people who like cats . . . characterizing all as "folk defined by 'odd' sexual practices"

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AND THEN E! Online's popular gossip columnist Ted Casablanca goes on to call GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) "McCarthy-like"!!!!!

AND THEN he proceeds to further pout, whine and stamps his feet (metaphorically speaking) about how mean and unfair it is that people somehow OBJECTED to being made the (*ahem*) But, of his sophomoric, biphobic jokes.

I KID YOU NOT! Read here: Morninig Piss: Angelina, What Hath You Wrought?

[Not quite sure what is going on? Read the back-story about the bisexual community's adventures with Entertainment Television's Ted Casablanca here: Hey People Did You Know E! Has Decided Your Very Existence Is Subject To An On-line Poll?]

Doesn't he think just a simple "oops, my bad - guess in retrospect that joke did come out sounding QUITE the way I meant" would have sufficed???

Wow! Just Wow! I know actual Big Homies (translation: Street Gang Leaders) who have more class, are more secure in themselves and have better manners than him. It takes a real small-minded person to insist on his right to make fun of a misunderstood minority group.

and PS I don't know WHERE all those "many readers" who wrote in saying "they loved the highly ironic poll" are, but the awful truth is that as of now in the 160+ and climbing "Comments" left on his original "Bi Now, Gay Later? Do you think true bisexuality actually exists?" Poll, NOT EVEN ONE of them is supportive or thinks he was anything but Wrong and Offensive.

But in all seriousness people, this is just ridiculous. Mr. Bruce Bibby an out Gay Man who reports under the 'pen name' of "Ted Casablanca" is a wildly popular celebrity and infotainment journalist for E! Online which according to those in the know averages 5 million hits a day. And his TV show is most popular on their cable channel and is shown in dozens of countries.

He has an opportunity to provide a little harmless fun to many people at a time when the news coming off of CNN and other "hard news" outlets can be unrelentingly grim, while at the same time using his position to gently spread a little truth and awareness amid his lighter pieces.

As any writer or comedian can tell you, sometimes a joke falls flat. And sometimes what was meant as an ironic or harmless off-the-cuff remark can come across as something totally different and even hurtful.

When that happens in our own private live or on the world stage, a classy guy steps up and says "You know? I screwed up. That didn't come out right at all and I'm sorry if it caused hurt to some people.". And then we all move on from there.

Too bad Mr. Bibby couldn't see his way clear to do the same. Instead he had to make disparaging remarks about GLAAD one of the most important, hard working and respected institutions in the LGBT and Progressive Communities.

As what one wit kindly but truthfully called "the poor bastard child of the gay rights community", Bisexual and Pansexual people are used to being disrespected by the ignorant and uniformed in both the straight and queer worlds. But for a powerful person like Mr. Bibby to go after GLAAD because they stuck up for us? That not truthful, it's just awful.







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Yes once again some more people have decided it would be just SO totally FUNNY to take a vote to figure out if Bisexual people actually exist!

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this is X-Posted from the California East Bay PFLAG Chapter! Please forward

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Hallmark Cards that epitome of middle-American 'normalcy' is now offering Same Sex Marriage Cards, and the right wing is pissed!

( they are rallying their bigots and haters to try and make Hallmark regret and reverse this decision, so please help us turn the tables on them )

So like all good little Queer Activists I was quickly skimming thru GLAAD's "Stories to Watch" section when I cam upon these two items:

1.) Out-of-State Gay and Lesbian Couples Can Marry in Massachusetts
2.) New Studies on Marriage for Gay and Lesbian Couples

( GLAAD the term is 'Same Sex Marriage and you of all organizations know this! So why are you disrespecting and distracting a large portion of the LGBT Community by using this non-inclusive language especially in this important election year? )

as reported in Bay Windows by Ethan Jacobs staff reporter
Wednesday July 2nd 2008 and UPDATED July 3 2008


When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BisexualDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have.

"They say, tell us about yourself in your own words. And I stated, ’I’m a 25-year old trans guy living in Boston.’ . . . I didn’t want to mislead anyone looking at my profile, so that’s why I put that," said Teich. Within a day he had received three "smiles," which members send to express their interest in getting to know each other.

Teich thought little of his decision until he wrote to the site’s customer service staff about a problem he was having using the site. He exchanged e-mails with a customer service representative named Kiar Dupuis, and after reading his profile Dupuis informed him that the site does not allow transgender users.

"I am sorry, as a transgender, our site would not meet your needs. I am afraid we have to remove your profile," wrote Dupuis, according to an e-mail provided to Bay Windows by Teich. His profile was deleted shortly after he received the e-mail.

( Click here to read more and to find out how to protest this - and PS TangoWire is a Gay owned and operated company!!!!! )

we are x-posting this, we originally found this info on ftmichael's post on ourqueerfamily and neverbeuseless's post on gsa_lj but it's quickly spreading across the internet, it's now on "Pams House Blend" too. That'll get some action for sure!

Note that among the collection of right-wingnuts, religious loonies, garden variety bigots, and cynical political opportunists who signed on to the lawsuit brought by Arizona's scary-fundy "Christian" (Dominionist?) Alliance Defense Fund to block Governor Patterson's directive recognizing same-sex marriage are five (5) Republican legislators. Might they be from YOUR district?

Maybe they should hear about how their Constituents don't want their tax-dollars spent on their elected representitive's personal religious escapades. Also remind them that you will remember this little mis-adventure of theirs come re-election time.

o State Senator Martin J. Golden (R) Brooklyn
o State Senator Serphin R. Maltese (R) Queens
o State Assemblyman James N. Tedisco (R) Schenectady-Saratoga
o State Assemblyman Daniel J. Burling (R) Warsaw
o State Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb (R) Canandaigua
o Michael R. Long, Chairman. Conservative Party of New York State
o Shaun Marie Levine, Executive Director. Conservative Party of New York State
o Duane Motley, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Jason Mcguire, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Stephen P. Hayford, Esq., Coalition to Save Marriage in New York
o William C. Banuchi, Sr. Marriage & Family Savers Ministries
o Angel D. Rodriguez, (affiliation unknown)
o Piyali Dutta, (affiliation unknown)
o William Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Nicole Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Frances Vella-Marrone, Brooklyn Conservative Party

To quote directly from gay blogger jesus_h_biscuit, because we couldn't say it any better:

( This is what they say when they think we're not listening )

In her advice column of Friday December 28th 2007 entitled "Oh, the Things You Find Out Online", Margo Howard (daughter of the late Ann Landers) advised a married man who found himself blurting out "I love you" to a male friend that, "You are gay" and some how unaccountably left out the "B" word.

( click here to read the letter & Margo's answer and then PLEASE HELP by sending a note to Margo yourselves reminding her that the man could just as well be Bisexual as Gay )

 

Action Alert:

The new version of ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) is bad and does not protect you.  See Lambda Legal analysis below. We must contact our Reps. in Congress in the next 7 days to say "We want an inclusive ENDA."

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