[20] Bisexual, Fluid & Pansexual Icons

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BiNet USA is looking for ALL bi/pan/fluid groups in the US so that everyone will have a convenient place to find community.

( If you know of such a group, could you please take a minute to check your state's listing and make sure it has been included? )

yes, please DO X-Post this

( Much has been written about the spirituality of lesbian- and gay-identified persons but not as much about people drawn to more than one gender. In a special issue the 'Journal of Bisexuality' seek to further the discourse on the relationship between sexuality and spirituality. )

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( Female Gamers 5 Times More Likely to be Bisexual sez Buzz NewsRoom )

Yes, please Do feel free to X-post this

X-Posted from the Dallas Voice a community newspaper for LGBT Dallas. This article by News Editor John Wright originally appeared in the print edition of September 5, 2008.

http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_9717.php

Matt Goodman says he’s known he was bisexual since he was 5. “I didn’t know what to call it, but I knew I liked boys and girls,” Goodman said.

( click here to read this story about resurgence of bisexual/pansexual organizing in Texas )



( click here for list of Bisexual/Pansexual Groups for people in Texas )

This GREAT Letter To The Editor was just published in the Washinton Blade with the title "‘Gay’ is not an inclusive term and alienates some readers":

( click here to read more and feel hopeful )

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!

Wondering how to respond to your LGBT colleagues who say that Bisexual/Pansexual people, while reaping many of the benefits of the movement for Queer equality are (in Robyn Ochs' great description of what so many of our allies mistakenly think), trying to "muscle and whine our way into their movement, riding on the coattails of their hard-fought battles"? ( These are two articles you can give them to read )

Some say findings inflated, others claim ‘bi-phobia is alive and well’

by staff reporter Joshua Lynsen originally published in the Washington Blade on Friday, December 21, 2007

www.washingtonblade.com/2007/12-21/news/national/11768.cfm

A national poll showing that bisexuals account for half the number of people who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual is drawing mixed reactions.

(  read the full text of the Washington Blade article on the prevalence of bisexuality in the USA )

. . . . could a "Gay" Spanish pinup boy actually be (gasp, shudder) Bisexual??

"it's another sad example of why overly compartmentalizing and stereotyping sexuality, on a *social* level, doesn't usually pay good dividends for queer communities"

( read more about this current tempest in a tea-room )

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( Update: and as usual the truth proves to be even more interesting )

List compiled by Sheela Lambert * * * * Over 200 listings

1. Christina Aguilera – singer (out, quoted Advocate March 16, 2004 p.10)
2. Alvin Ailey – choreographer/dancer (autobio Revelations
3. Pharaoh Akhenaten – married to Queen Nefertiti (disputed,W)
4. Alexander The Great*
5. Michael Alig – party promoter/club kid/murderer (subject of movie Party Monster)
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