Tag Archives: bisexuality

Bisexual…

Unlike with the words gay, lesbian, and transgender, Google’s search engine provides no predictive drop-down menu for the word “bisexual.” Sarah Prager, author of a Change.org petition against Google, said the move is another example of “biphobia” and “bi-erasure.” It had about 1,600 signatures on Friday morning. “Finding communities and forums and realizing there are other people like you going …

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Lou Reed Posthumously Forgives Mother For His “Ex-Gay” Electroshock Torture

In an interview published in the 1996 book Please Kill Me: An Oral History Of Punk, the late Lou Reed described the electro-convulsive therapy his parents ordered because they wanted to cure him of his bisexuality.  “They put the thing down your throat so you don’t swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That’s what was recommended …

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Quote Of The Day – Lady Gaga

“I like girls. I’ve said that (before). I know people think I just say things to be shocking, but I actually do like pussy. It just depends on whose pussy it is. It’s similar to how I feel about guys. I like them because I find lesbians to be way more daring than straight men, when it comes to coming …

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Today’s Gay Etiquette Question

From Steven Petrow’s Civil Behavior column in the New York Times comes this question: Q. Dear Civil Behavior: I’m bisexual (female), and I want to be out at work. I just don’t quite know how to slip it into conversation. It never seems appropriate to say the word “sexual” in a work environment, and it’s simply awkward. If I come …

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Clive Davis Comes Out As Bisexual

Music industry legend Clive Davis, the man credited with Whitney Houston’s career (and the careers of many others), has come out as bisexual in a new memoir titled The Soundtrack Of My Life. Davis, who is twice divorced, remains close to his family, which includes three sons, a daughter and six grandchildren, and to friends, with whom he vacations regularly. …

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Kesha: I’m Bisexual

“I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with. I’m all about standing up to gay/lesbian/transgender bullying, but it’s also about my little brother. He’s 13 and he gets made fun of because he has a stutter. I just have zero tolerance for …

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Berkeley Recognizes Bisexual Pride Day

Yesterday the city council of Berkeley designated September 23rd as Bisexual Pride Day, becoming the first city to make such a proclamation. Councilman Kriss Worthington introduced the resolution, telling his colleagues ahead of Tuesday night’s meeting that it was important for the city to support an occasion “conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons …

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ARIZONA: Bisexual Wins House Primary

Yesterday Kyrsten Sinema won the Democratic primary for the U.S. House, advancing her bid to become the first-ever openly bisexual member of Congress. Julie Bolcer reports at The Advocate: The Arizona Republic called the race for Sinema around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. She defeated former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Andrei Cherny and state Senate minority leader David Schapira, taking 42.5% of …

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Pupil Dilation Reveals Sexual Orientation

Finally comes the scientific study confirming a long-popular belief. Via Science Daily: For the first time, researchers at Cornell University used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual …

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Gay Secret Behind Adele’s Heartache?

Adele’s sophomore release 21 has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide and is frequently cited as one of the most blistering “breakup albums” of all time. And according to an unauthorized biography, there’s a gay angle to all that heartache. The heartbreak that inspired Adele to pen her Grammy-award-winning music was inspired by an ex-boyfriend who left her for …

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Cynthia Nixon Clarifies

“My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay. I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can’t and shouldn’t be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in …

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Linda Harvey On Bisexuality

“The practice of bisexuality provides more evidence that choice and flexibility are quite well known and accepted even among advocates of homosexuality. And within the homosexual community are many testimonies of change: sometimes called ‘fluidity’ and sometimes bisexuality or ‘queer’ orientations. It doesn’t take long to find self-contradictions within the ‘gay’ community that confirm the known reality of change and …

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On Cynthia Nixon’s “Choice”

Actress Cynthia Nixon has endured a barrage of criticism this week after declaring that she had “chosen” to be gay. Longtime activist Scott Long takes an interesting position: What, moreover, if sexual orientation itself is not “a deep trait felt to be at the core of one’s being,” one that people miraculously started feeling in 1889 when the word “homosexual” …

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Headline Of The Day

Somebody needs to flog interest in her book.

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Quote Of The Day – Bryan Fischer

“A self-identified lesbian by the name of Keori confessed to [Pam’s House Blend] readers on Friday that she is now in love with a male Marine. This relationship came right on the heels of a three-year love affair with another woman. She sheepishly admits that ‘I didn’t intend to love this Marine,’ and then ruefully acknowledges that ‘bisexuality happens, ok?’ …

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Ted Haggard’s Awkward Family Photo

This awkward photo is from the current issue of GQ Magazine, where Haggard declared himself to be bisexual and confessed to snorting all that crystal meth he’d previously claimed to have purchased to throw away.

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Ted Haggard: I’m Bisexual And I Totally Used That Crystal Meth I Bought

In a profile published by GQ Magazine, disgraced televangelist Ted Haggard announces that he’s bisexual. And that he and escort Mike Jones didn’t have sex, Jones just jerked him off. Which somehow isn’t sex in Haggard’s world. But about that crystal meth that Haggard famously claimed he bought to “throw away”? Yeah, he totally snorted it. “I think that probably, …

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The Bizarre World Of The Bisexual

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Piano Player

Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, 9pm Stoner Dude: Fuck that, she’s not bi. No such thing. She’s just softening you up for the big lesbo announcement. Rock Chick: No such thing? Just because you can’t imagine it personally doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as bisexuals. That’s like saying because YOU don’t know how to play the piano, there’s no such …

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All In The Family On Craigslist

This week’s Dear Prudence advice column in Slate deals with a bisexual married man who says his own (also opposite-married) father-in-law tried to hook-up with him on Craigslist. His letter reads, in part: The issue is, I am bi-sexual and have known so for quite some time. My quandary is, about a month ago I responded to a posting on …

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