LOS ANGELES, CA, and ARLINGTON, VA, (September 18, 2012)—The 21st anniversary
celebration of the global holiday now known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day (CBD)
will once again be held Sept. 23. Originally founded in 1991 as Bi VisiBIlity
Day and slated for Valentine's Day, it was relaunched as CBD in line with a
number of concurrent events for Sept. 23, 1999. Since then, it has grown to
become an international holiday celebrated by those who self-identify as bi,
pansexual, fluid, or other, honoring and proudly owning their awareness of
their capacity to love without regard to gender identity and more. Free from monosexual thinking and
inhibitions, bi-identified people -- and those who identify as bi-and-beyond,
pansexual, fluid, polysexual, and so forth -- use CBD (also known as Bi Pride
Day and Bi Visibility Day) as a vehicle to promote awareness of the vast array
of sexual and gender identities that are the true hallmarks of being human.
This year’s celebration is extremely special as BiNet USA
and bisexuals around the globe continue to celebrate winning over Google in the
recent bisexual search term dispute (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/13/google_blacklist_bisexual_banned_from_autocomplete_no_longer_.html). Within a month of such groundbreaking news
comes more excitement as the city of Berkeley, California becomes the first
city in the nation to formally recognize the Bisexual Pride Day holiday (http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Berkeley-lawmakers-recognize-Bisexual-Pride-Day-3874797.php).
Festivities across the nation will continue to mark the
holiday this week and weekend. In
Boston, the Bisexual Resource Center (http://www.biresource.net/)
hosts its annual
celebration with viewings of bisexual themed films and shorts from Tom
Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas) as well as Nicole Kristal, the
Lambda Literary award-winning filmmaker. In Chicago, the Chicago Bisexual Queer
Meetup has partnered with Bi Social Network (www.bisocialnetwork.com) to celebrate
the bisexual community of Chicago with an event benefiting
the LGBT Center on Halstead. In Los
Angeles, the LA Bi Task Force holds its annual Bi Arts Festival
with performances in West Hollywood’s Plummer Park from Julie Cohen, Owen
Edinger and Yazmin Monet Watkins among others.
For more news on Celebrate Bisexuality Day, check out the BiNet USA blog at www.binetusa.blogspot.com.
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for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer-identified and unlabeled people, BiNet
USA facilitates the development of a cohesive network of independent bisexual
and bi-friendly communities; promotes bisexual, pansexual, and bi-inclusive
visibility; and collects and distributes educational information regarding
sexual orientation and gender identity with an emphasis on the bisexual,
pansexual, and allied communities.
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