ACTION ALERT!! Take part in this survey

projectqueer:

I just received this from a Project Queer follower:

Hello! I am in the process of completing my honors undergraduate thesis [Ed Note: at East Tennessee State University a Conservative primarily Fundamentalist Christian area of the USA] and my focus is the intragroup attitudes of the LGBT community (how the community views itself). If you have approximately 30 minutes, I invite you to participate in my research study.

It is open to anyone [Ed Note: directed at people who reside in the USA] who identifies as LGBT and is at least 18 years of age. The link ~~is below~~, and all responses are anonymous and confidential.

I would greatly appreciate participation from the bisexual community, as well as any help people can give to spread the word about my study. Thank you! (@David Hutsell)

Bisexual Firebrand and Filmmaker Schickner talks about being the “B” in an LGBT World

bisexual-community:

Starting out in high school where he impetuously came out by giving an interview on local TV news, moving on to college where he discovered the ‘B’ in LGBT frequently stands for ‘biphobia’ and now with the start of the 2nd Season of his popular web-series “Rose By Any Other name …” made by his provocatively named film studio FenceSitter Films, Kyle Schickner practices ‘in your face’ activism on behalf of his frequently beleaguered bisexual community.

interesting article

I feel like the T and the B, which is my household, don’t get nearly as much focus as the L and the G and I hope that starts to change.” ~ Chaz Bono

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/05/19/chaz’s-changes/

the B in LGBT is actually part of the Queer Community too

When i was 16, i had a fake i.d. and decided to go to a gay bar by myself because some friends bailed on me. while there, an older gentleman bought me a drink. he wasn’t a creeper, and he definitely wasn’t unattractive. i accepted the drink and began talking to him. no big deal. as the hour progressed, i felt myself feeling strange. i mentioned that i felt like i had a headache, and this guy helped guide me out of the bar. as we were walking down the street, the thought of, “oh god, he’s drugged me. i’m going to die” came to my head. i tried to get away, but i was so drugged up that i could barely walk, let alone speak. it also didn’t help that i had really large “goth” platform shoes because i was going through a phase. anyway, so this guy brought me to his suv and began undressing me. as a final act of defiance, i hit him over the head with my platform shoe. he then punched me, and i remember thinking, “why don’t they ever give workshops to gay and bi, and queer, etc. GUYS about being victims of rape too?” while i was as careful as possible, i never saw the guy slip something in the drink. i even watched the bar tender make the drink. anyway, i lied there completely paralyzed while this pervert was lubing up. i locked eyes with his for a moment, and that’s when it happened. a very large and angry drag queen opened the door of the vehicle and beat the shit out of my attempted rapist. she and her other drag friends helped dress and care for me while the police arrived. i was saved by a group guardian drag queens. they were basically the modern day “angels from heaven.”

god bless drag queens (via goddesshumper)

Change.org discusses the (in)visibility of Bisexuals

finebime:

Change.org’s writer Daniel Vivacqua makes a call for action: “ The LG and T community need to make more of an effort to support the B’s among us. Being bisexual doesn’t mean being selfish or sitting on the fence, it means being brave enough to live in the gray space.”

Bisexuals work for recognition in LGBT rainbow

For the last 13 years, Lindsay Ulrich has been in a committed relationship with the same woman … But if acquaintances were to assume Ulrich and her wife, Emily Drennen, are lesbians, they would be wrong. They identify as bisexuals and are proud of it … .

… . “It’s a unique identity as opposed to half one and half the other,” said Ulrich, a 41-year-old writer and musician who recently authored a report on “bisexual invisibility” for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

The commission unanimously adopted the report, and that could prove a significant step, said Denise Penn, director of the American Institute of Bisexuality …

… In promoting their not-insignificant ranks, activists point out that a UCLA demographer estimated last month that slightly more Americans self-identify as bisexual than as gay or lesbian. But the activist argue their task is complicated by stereotypes of bisexuals as fickle sex fiends, the difficulty in pinning down who counts as bisexual and discrimination from both the straight and gay communities.

“Even people who would not feel comfortable saying bad things about gay or lesbian people still feel comfortable trashing bi people,” said Robyn Ochs, a veteran bisexual activist in Boston …

(Source: mercurynews.com)

If we want equality, we need to take action!

robynochs:

New data: “96.5% of LGBT adults in the US do NOT donate to LGBT organizations.” Ending homo/bi/transphobia is expensive. This makes me very sad. Advocate for equality. GIVE $ NOW! Google “equality + your state” or give to one of the national orgs or to your community center. If you only have a few dollars to give, then give a few dollars. Please! If we want equality, we need to take action.

or give to groups that directly support the “B” in LGBT like BiNet USA