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

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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 )

Reprinted from the article "Openly bisexual Jewish-American basketball player tries out for Maccabi Haif" in the English-language edition of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz by Oren Kessler published on August 31st 2008

Maccabi Haifa is reportedly eyeing Jewish-American forward Zach Puchtel, who came out as bisexual while playing for Harvard University last year.

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Hello to all you Westchester County Bisexual, Pansexual, "somewhere in the middle between gay/lesbian and straight" people and your friends, lovers and allies. There is now a place and an online group for you.

( please click here to find out more about the meeting and the new online discussion group )

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 )

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 )

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? )

 Hey, my name is Jessica.  I'm 19 (almost 20) and I live in California.  I just realized/came out in november when I fell in love with a female co-worker.  I pretty much immediatly came out to my parents when I figured it out and they've been great mostly.  My dad is a little creeped out that he catches me checking out pretty girls sometimes and my mom's philosophy is pretty much "I accept you now and one day when you realize you're a lesbian I'll accept you then too."  She doesn't really believe in bisexuality but she is being supportive so I can't complain much.

Technically I've never been with a guy and I've never really been with a chick that wasn't just one of my friends (maybe one day but that's a big pipe dream).  All I know is I can look at a room full of people and be attracted to almost everyone there.  Anyway, yeah, that's my intro :)

hello everyone, my name is amanda, and i am eighteen years old. i joined this community in hopes of getting more comfortable with myself. since i was young i've always been called boy crazy, but in the past few years i've realized i have a growing attraction to some girls. this really surprised me, i've always fully supported gay/lesbien/bi couples and whenever i saw them i had a particularly soft spot in my heart, but i never realized. i haven't told anyone, i'm really scared, i'm not ashamed, just worried. my best friend is amazing, and i told her that i might have a 'girl crush' but we kind of played it off as a joke. i'm worried my boyfriend and friends will think it's just a trend, or a phase, or worse they'll be embarrassed.

a little help please?

- amanda jo.

filling out a sexual autobiograph questionaire for therapy... I got to the last question...  here is my answer.  crossposted in bi_people

what parts of your sexuality do you want to change?  Expand upon?  stop doing?
As I wrote earlier, I've come out to some friends and communities (not all obviously) of my bisexual identity.  I am trying to embrace this sexuality within me and to see it as fluid.  I am not attracted to all women, certainly, and I'm finding it amusing that because I accept the part of me that has sex with men, that I am not attracted to all men.  The ridiculousness of this is hilarious to me.  But, every now and then when the wind is right and magic floats down from silver stars in a velvet sky, I feel myself as a sexual being and I can feel that air move in my lungs and my blood flow in my veins.  I am.  I am… a wonderful, beautiful being (tears in my eyes now as I write that last part) and I look at those around me as beautiful human beings as well and I connect with them, I talk to them, and I touch them.  Sexuality, when I am in this rare state, is not about genitals or penetration or about submissive or dominant or such.  It is about my essential beautiful self meeting your essential beautiful self and that wonderful dance that can happen.  Ever see two Aikido masters on a mat together?  It isn't a competition, it isn't a fight.  They are both extending their circles, both circles contain the circle of the other, and they move with each other in a beautiful dance, a rhythm, a harmony.  Aikdio is 'the way of harmony'.  This connection with others doesn't have to be a genitalized connection.  This is, I believe, a strength of the bisexual community, in that we try to look at the beauty in the person and don't, as a rule, filter out that beauty because of genitals.  This state is, for me, rare.  I have lots of baggage, lots of roles that demand me to be something else, lots of expectations, lots of bullshit.  I want the third way, the better way, the way that isn't either/or but the way that is.

Hello!

I just joined this community.  I'm happy to find you.  I'm cross posting this to another community that I just joined as well...bi_people .  I am 37.  Live in Portland, Oregon.  Bartend, go to college, and a bunch of other stuff.  Nice to meet everyone here. 

In some areas I am out.  I volunteer at the Queer Resource Center on campus.  A couple of my friends know.  I marched in our recent Pride Parade too.  It was a blast.  In other realms I am not out, keeping it a secret like my family back home in the South as well as the military (tell your senator to vote for HR 1246).  My LJ is public and so those things dealing with bisexuality are friends views. 

I look forward to getting to know you all.

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 spereading 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 )

after the death-thru-exhaustion of the old one, a new banner was conceived, created and delivered and is now waiting for people to come and carry it thru the streets of NYC and surrounding areas

trying out an idea put forth by rhonan in this conversation here from a few days ago (please click here to follow the fake lj-cut to see it in all its newly minted glory)

note to mods: if this isn't allowed in your Community we apologies and will rework this entry to your specification

NYABN is passing this request along for the lovely and talented San Francisco author and journalist Heather Cassell who is looking for a few good interns! Could one of them be you?

Have you ever thought about how you are going to use your journalism and creative writing skills or your women's studies, LGBT studies, human sexuality or history degree to earn a living? This summer learn how to flex your skills and degree to see what it takes to hang up your shingle "Writer for hire."

( read more about internships opportunities working with the San Fransisco based writer Heather Cassell )