Thursday, September 23, 2010 @ 7:30 PM
Club Café, 209 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02116
Tickets: $18-$25 sliding scale /$15 students & seniors
www.biliciousproductions.com
OVER 21 EVENT

The Bilicious Show is coming to Boston from San Francisco’s National Queer Arts Festival! Celebrate Bisexuality Day and the Bisexual Resource Center's 25th Anniversary with a Bilicious evening of bisexual music, spoken word, poetry and film. Audience participation is encouraged through an interactive Q&A with the performers and bisexual activists after the show. Have dinner before or after the show at Club Café and stay for the Bilicious after-party! Mention you are with Bilicious and get 20% off your dinner/drinks in the restaurant.

The 10th International Conference on Bisexuality is being held in London, England, August 26-30, 2010 in conjunction with the United Kingdom's 28th annual BiCon. There will be educational and intriguing workshops, there will be outrageous entertainment, there will be hundreds of bi-positive people in one place--what more could one want? The BRC will be represented by several board members at the conference. Get all the deets at www.bicon2010.org.uk.

The Bisexual Resource Center and Out & Equal Workplace Advocates are cosponsoring a groundbreaking survey on bisexuals in the workplace. If you identify as bisexual or are attracted to more than one gender, please take the time to complete this online survey. Preliminary findings will be shared at the International Conference on Bisexuality in London in August. Designed by corporate learning and development expert Heidi Bruins Green, the survey seeks to develop a better understanding of the workplace experiences of people who either identify as bisexual or one of the many alternate labels describing sexual and emotional attraction to more than one gender. The survey has 77 questions in five sections, many of them simple check-the-box and others with room to answer as fully as makes sense to you. It takes approximately 35-45 minutes to complete.

Ellyn Ruthstrom, president of the Bisexual Resource Center, and Faith Cheltenham, vice president of BiNet USA,(at left) attended the June 22 LGBT Pride reception at the White House. They also attended a Democratic National Committee meeting that morning to find out about the party's plans for November and how to engage the LGBT community in the election. Check out the photos from their visit on the BRC Facebook page.

CELEBRITY OUTINGS and more

Vanessa Carlton declared that she is a "proud bisexual woman" at Nashville Pride in June. This seems to be the season of female bi celebrities coming out publicly. And, let me tell you, we are NOT complaining. Check out Queerty's piece on Carlton.

When Cynthia Nixon came out several years back as a lesbian, the bi community sort of wondered what was up. After all, she'd previously been in a very public 14-year relationship with a man. Now, in Advocate.com Nixon says a whole lot more about her female partner, her sexuality, and why she identifies as a lesbian. “I identify as gay as a political stance,” she says. “If anybody, prior to my meeting and falling in love with Christine, had asked me about what I think about sexuality, I would have said I think we’re all bisexual." Hmmm, well we don't think everyone is bisexual but at least she used the b-word.

Metro Weekly interviews the Real World's out bi cast member Mike Manning. Even when pushed by the reporter a bit, Manning is perfectly clear on his bi identity and how there is still plenty of biphobia in the gay and lesbian community to contend with. Check out his interview here.

The BRC applauds actress Anna Paquin for coming out proudly as bisexual in a PSA for the We Give a Damn campaign that supports equal rights for LGBT people. The actress received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Piano at the age of eleven. Now she is known to a new generation of TV viewers as Sookie Stackhouse in the vampire series "True Blood." Read the BRC's press release welcoming Paquin to our fabulous community.

Congratulations to the 2010 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) finalists, just announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Included, for the first time, were two separate bisexual categories: Best Bi Fiction and Best Bi Nonfiction. Find out more details about the bi categories in the Bi Examiner. Or for a complete listing of all award categories visit Lambda's website.

When asked what letter in LGBTQ he identifies himself, Michael Urie (Marc St. James on Ugly Betty) says Q, for queer. “I’ve been in a relationship for a while now, and if you just met the two of us together we’d be ‘gay,’ ” he explains. “But that somehow means anything that happened before [we met] didn’t count—and I don’t feel that way. I know that some people feel that way. They were with women, but it always felt wrong. But it didn’t for me. It felt right at the time. It didn’t work out, but it also didn’t work out with other men—many times. That’s why ‘gay’ never seemed right.” Hmmmm, sound like something you can relate to? Read the full interview at Advocate.com.

Visit BiYouth.org for resources for youth -- for EVERYONE -- of every identity, and for anyone who is thinking about what their attractions toward other people mean. If you are a young person who identifies as bisexual, or who uses some other word to describe your non-binary sexual orientation (pansexual, fluid, queer, omnisexual), these pages are for you.

iGive.com Shopping Site Shares Proceeds with BRC
And while you are doing your online holiday shopping, why not help out the BRC at the same time. If you haven't joined iGive.com yet, now is a great time to sign up and start helping the BRC each time you shop at over 700 brand name online stores! Get started today and you'll start helping the BRC today!

Bisexual Resource Center Archives Now Open at Northeastern University
The BRC is proud to announce that the accumulated archives of various bisexual activist groups in the Boston area are now available to researchers at Northeastern University. You can access the online listing of the archives here.

BRC President Shares Tips on Being a Bi Ally
The Bilerico Project republished two pieces from a recent Bi Women issue on Allies: BRC President Ellyn Ruthstrom's "How to be an Ally to a Bisexual Person" and Cathy Renna's, "Why I am a Bi Ally." To find out how to receive the quarterly newsletter from the Boston Bisexual Women's Network, email Robyn at biwomeneditor@gmail.com.

What's Going on in Boston?
Find out about the various Boston bi community groups. And get connected! Check out our social networking groups at BRC on Facebook.

Find Out About the BRC
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