It’s Bisexual Awareness Week, Tumblr!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Says the journalist pictured,
“LOOKING FOR WOMEN 18-35 TO TELL ME ABOUT THE MOMENT THEY KNEW THEY WERE BISEXUAL: How old were you? Why in that moment did you realize? What events lead to this realization? How did you feel afterward? DM me!
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https://twitter.com/tANDREWS05/status/1131190989509599235
Not on twitter? Email her here: Taylor.Andrews@hearst.com
Remember to participate:
- you must contact the journalist via DM or email, she will not see an answer here
- it is time dependent so respond ASAP
I think the shittiest thing about being bi/pan/ace or any other invisible queer identity is putting in so much effort to defend the queer community all the time, and at the end of the day there’s still someone in that SAME community telling you you aren’t valid.
and like, god forbid you date a straight person.
(via bigmammallama5)
17 thank-you notes to the creators of the bisexual flag
This year is the 20th Anniversary of the Bisexual Flag. The flag was first unveiled by activist Michael Page on December 5, 1998. While Page led the effort, it was actually a Bi+ Community-wide Project which involved many people including a group of activists from BiNet USA, as well as from other places who were involved for its creation.
To mark this important day, the UK’s Gay Star News collected Seventeen Thank-you Notes to the creators of the Bisexual+ Pride Flag.
(Source: gaystarnews.com)
The USA-based Human Rights Campaign is proud to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Bisexual Pride Flag with the Bisexual+ Community around the world.
What Do the Colours mean?
❤️ = from the colour of the infamous “Pink Triangles” represents same/similar sex attractions
💜 = where Pink & Blue overlap is a color gradient of different shades of Lavender/Purple representing the possibility of attraction anywhere along the entire gender spectrum
💙 = represents different sex attractions
Video Clip courtesy
© Human Rights Campaign
(Source: hrc.org)
People don’t think bisexuality is real enough to be discriminated against, so they don’t think about it. They don’t think they’re actually hurting anyone. But they are.
Ruby Mountford in “Bisexual Women and Mental Health: You must be this queer to enter“ from Archer Magazine pub 19 June 2018
Today is IDAHOT: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Let’s keep up the good fight!
Hope everyone’s having an amazing Bi Visibility Day!
Bisexual+ Pride Month is Coming
Since 1990 Bisexual+ People and their friends and families have celebrated September 23rd as Bisexual+ Pride and Visibility Day. This year Bi+ Visibility Day will fall on Saturday, September 23rd 2017; Bisexual+ Week will be from Sunday, September 17th 2017 thru Saturday, September 23rd 2017; and as usual the entire month of September will be Bi+ Pride Month.
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‘[Monica] Helms came up with the trans flag in 1999, after she met Michael Page, the creator of the bisexual flag and he told her “the trans community needs a flag too”. The idea for the design came to her quickly, hoping that the colours would mean something to people, with the white stripe in the centre representing the non-binary community.’ (source)
The fact that the trans flag was inspired by the creator of the bi flag and explicitly includes nonbinary people means so much to be as a nonbinary bisexual.
I swear to god writing a children’s nonfiction book on the history behind each pride flag would be like printing money….
- Sarah
(via bisexual-books)
“Why do you need to use terms like monosexism? Stop being so divisive!”
Translation: Bi people using their own terms to describe their own experiences is divisive and bad. Anything that suggests that bi people’s experiences are different from gay people’s are terrible. Don’t you know that unity involves completely ignoring your own issues if they don’t include us?
