Category: News Briefs
News Briefs: Teachers and Mentors
Compiled by Dylan Fee In September, Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia and the third Asian country to legalize same-sex unions after their king signed a marriage equality law. The other two countries in Asia...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Child Free
Compiled by Dylan Fee “Nearly one-in-five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one-in-ten in the 1970s. While childlessness has risen for all racial and ethnic groups, and most...
Read MoreNews Briefs: More than One Letter
Compiled by Dylan Fee According to new polling from Gallup, the percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled since 2012. In 2012, 3.5% of adults aligned themselves with the community compared to 7.6% in...
Read MoreNEWS BRIEF: 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winners
On June 9, at an event in New York City, Lambda Literary announced its award winners. Of the 25 award categories, three are bisexual-focused. Here are this year’s winners: Bisexual Fiction: Reluctant Immortals, by Gwendolyn...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Traditions
Catching up on a couple of 2020 election results, two openly bisexual women were elected mayors of their respective cities in California. Sasha Renée Pérez (see photo at right, top) was elected in Alhambra, California as the...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Bisexual Enough?
By Robyn Ochs Because we’ve been making so much progress so quickly, here is a summary of the past few months’ victories: In the UK, the Queen has given her Royal Assent to same-sex marriage in England and Wales....
Read MoreNews Briefs: What Happens Next? Pt. 1
By Robyn Ochs and Katrina Chaves In the last issue of Bi Women, we reported on a record number of out bisexual elected officials, as well as the first out pansexual representative. Turns out, there is one more: Representative...
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News Briefs: Mixed Marriages
By Robyn Ochs and Katrina Chaves Political Firsts: Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, has...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Mental Health
By Robyn Ochs DESIREE AKHAVAN, a 29-year-old bisexual filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY, premiered her film Appropriate Behavior at the Sundance Film Festival in January. From the Sundance website: “For Shirin, being part of a...
Read MoreNews Briefs: The Bi *Trans* Connection
By Robyn Ochs IT ISN’T JUST A GOOD IDEA, IT’S THE LAW! There is much U.S. news of relevance to bi and LGT folks: In 2013 alone, California, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Delaware achieved marriage...
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News Briefs: Pick a Side
By Robyn Ochs The Third Annual Bisexual Book Awards were held on Saturday, May 30 in New York...
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News Briefs: Toy Stories
By Robyn Ochs The finalists for this year’s Bisexual Book Awards and Lambda Literary Awards were...
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