Category: 2009 Fall – Visibility
From the Editor: Visibility
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Editor's Note
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “VisiBIlity.” Related to this theme, we offer essays by...
Read More“Good”
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By V. F. A couple of years ago, I broke up with my girlfriend and prepared to be devastated for at least the next year. I knew I had made the right decision, but I had a hard time believing I could feel such passion for another...
Read MoreBi Visibility at the LGBT Human Rights Conference in Copenhagen
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Di Ponti I really wanted to go to the LGBT Conference on Human Rights that happened in my city,...
Read MoreSemantic Wars
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Kim Westrick and Amy Andre Bisexual friends Kim Westrick and Amy Andre got together to have a...
Read MoreBis Around the World: Hilde Vossen, The Hague, Netherlands
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Around the World, Articles
Interview by Robyn Ochs It is an honor to feature Hilde Vossen, a long-time activist who has had a...
Read MoreVisibility
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Lindsay Pratt Monday, two weeks ago, my lunch date with a beautiful young woman ended with her wanting to leave early for time to “process” before a meeting and my feeling like I must be denser than prison cell walls for not...
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: Love You Two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia, 2008)
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles, Reviews
Reviewed by Lara Zielinsky Love You Two is the story of teenage Pina’s discovery that her parents’...
Read MoreHidden in Plain Slight
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Tracy SCENE 1: INTRODUCTION The curtain is drawn. Maggie enters stage right, looking distressed. Maggie: (sighs) I don’t know what to do. I’ve told my friends many times that I’m bisexual, but they just don’t get it. It’s not...
Read MoreBi of the Month: Elissa Ortiz
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles, Bi Woman of the Month
Interview by Dina Perrone Dina: Elissa, I have known you for about six years now. But, we really...
Read MoreEncouraging the Conversation: Thoughts on the Bi Media Summit
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Amanda Morgan The Bi Writers Association, with support from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &...
Read MoreWhere’s the ‘B’ in LGBT?
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles
By Neelima Prabhala “Straight and experimenting.” “Gay and in denial.” “Flat-out confused.” These are all responses I’ve heard to my bisexual identity. I never really know how to go about explaining my sexual orientation to...
Read MoreLesson #1
Oct 1, 2009 | 2009 Fall - Visibility, Articles, Poetry
By Lindsay Pratt A white mothflew in through my bathroom window,the draw of lightlike the moon,the...
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