If you are a bi author, only you or your publisher can nominate your book so hurry to the Lammy website and apply. Nominations are already open and the deadline is December 1st. Self-published authors do qualify.
Bialogue and the Bi Writers Association organized the successful campaign that had the support and involvement of the whole bi community and would like to thank everyone who contributed.
- Location:New York NY
- Mood:
ecstatic
To Charles Flowers
We are writing to protest the fact that you have not added any bisexual categories for the Lambda Literary Awards this year despite a request from the entire bi community that you promised to thoughtfully consider.
Many months ago we requested that you add bisexual categories for fiction, nonfiction and anthology. Or at the minimum, a category for a bisexual book of any type, as you have for Transgender. We also asked that you add more bisexual judges so that the process would be more fair.
We thought that the lack of bisexual categories might have been an oversight. You had ample time in which to consider our proposal before announcing your award categories for 2006. The fact that you still have no bi book categories despite our bringing this omission to your attention appears to be blatant discrimination against the bi community.
We ask that you immediately add bisexual categories for 2006. We do not accept that it is already too late just because the categories have already been announced. You can send out another press release to announce the additions. We (in conjunction with other bi organizations) will do everything we can to get the word out and we will make sure there are plenty of nominations for any bisexual categories by December 1st.
Sheela Lambert
Bialogue
- Location:New York NY
- Mood:
determined
See http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/gui
A coalition of bi organizations contacted them many months ago and they promised to consider our proposal to add bisexual categories in 2006 for fiction, nonfiction and anthology or at least have one category for best bisexual book of any type as they do for Transgender.
Please write or call Lambda (contact info below) to complain about this blatant discrimination and demand they add a bisexual category right now for 2006. They should not be allowed to use the excuse that it is already too late for this year. They can just send out an additional press release, there is still plenty of time...the nomination deadline is not until December 1st.
Lambda Contact Info: 212-239-6575 or asklambda@earthlink.net
Please also post a copy of your letter as a "comment" on this blog so we can keep track of all the letters.
- Location:New York City
- Mood:
infuriated
We are seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but we’d like to see more than that.
We’d like to see stories about relationships with parents, relatives or children…Passover Seder anyone? We’d like a bi military story, a bi same-sex marriage story, a job discrimination or acceptance story, a story about a bisexual pet…from the pet’s point of view. We want to see bi athletes, bi cowboys at Gay Rodeo, bi action-heros, spys, super-heros and vampires. Bi friends go to a movie, bump into their exes who dumped them, and hold hands; pretending to be on a date. A bi artist struggles to finish a painting. A bi senior citizen in a nursing home looks out the window as the Pride March is passing by and reflects on all the protest marches she went to when she was young. A bi person having a spiritual vision, a bi transsexual teacher who leaves for summer vacation as Don and comes back on the first day of school as Donna.( Read more... )
- Location:Washington Heights NYC
- Mood:
creative
to dispel myths and stereotypes about bisexuality in both the gay and mainstream press and to help the “gay press” truly become the LGBT press.
This association includes writers in all genres from fiction to journalism to plays to poetry to TV and movie scripts to erotica to non-fiction, etc.
Check out our website at www.biwriters.org for information on how to join.
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