Celebrate Bisexuality Day

Infobox Holiday
holiday_name=Celebrate Bisexuality Day


nickname=Bisexual Pride Day
observedby=Bisexual community and their families, friends and supporters
date=September 23
observances=Teach-ins, Poetry reading, Concerts, Festivals, Parties, Picnics
type=
significance=
relatedto= LGBT Pride

Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and their supporters. [Yes, 23 is everywhere. [http://www.thestar.com/News/article/181696 "The Planet Star"] ] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDE74689F182A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Weekend Festivities Celebrate Bisexuality] ] ["Celebrate Bisexuality Day". [http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/4429 University of Calgary Undergraduate Student Newsweekly] .]

This day is a call for bisexual people and their families, friends and supporters to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, bisexual history, bisexual community and culture, and the bisexual people in their lives. [BiSexuality Day. [http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?1999/09/23/2 Celebrate Bisexuality Day] .] [" [http://www.egale.ca/index.asp?lang=E&menu=42&item=1078 Celebrate Bisexuality Day] " press release.] [Toronto Bisexual Network: [http://www.torontobinet.org/culture.htm Celebrate Bisexuality Day] ]

First observed in 1999 [ [http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-24-99/news/news2.html Day celebrates bisexuality, dispels myths] . "The Michigan Daily".] [Bi Community Celebrates. Bay Windows; 9/25/2003, Vol. 21 Issue 41, p3-3, 1/4p] , Celebrate Bisexuality Day is the brainchild of three United States bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas. [Scene Around Town. Bay Windows; 9/28/2000, pN.PAG, 00p] Wilbur said,

This celebration of bisexuality in particular, as opposed to general LGBT events, was conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons by some in both the straight and greater LGBT communities.

In its first year, an observance was held during the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which occurred during the week of the 23rd. While at first it only took hold in areas with an extremely strong bisexual presence, it now features event such as discussions, dinner parties and dances in Toronto and a large masquerade ball in Queensland, Australia. At Texas A&M University, the week featured discussion panels and question-and-answer sessions. [ [http://studentlife.tamu.edu/giec/programs.htm Gender Issues Education Center Programs and Events] . Texas A&M University] Princeton University celebrates this day each year by throwing a party at its LGBT Center. It has also been celebrated in Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. [ [http://planetout.com/news/article.html?1999/09/23/2 Bisexuality Day] ] [ [http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/guide/country_by_country/sweden/bikonferens_bisexual_conference_in_sweden_during_celebrate_bisexuality_day Bikonferens - Bisexual Conference in Sweden during Celebrate Bisexuality Day!] ] [ [http://september23.bi.org/ UK Events to mark International Celebrate Bisexuality Day] ]

ee also

* Bisexual community
* Bisexual pride flag

References

External links

* [http://www.biresource.org/category/celebrate-bisexuality-day/ International Celebrate Bisexuality Day]
* [http://www.geocities.com/bihouseusa/index.html A Celebrate Bisexuality Day Announcement]
* [http://www.biresource.org/bbwn/Dec99.html#Celebrating Celebrating Bisexuality] by Wendy Curry in BiWomen Vol. 17 No. 6 Dec 1999/Jan 2000
* [http://www.binetusa.org/curriedspam.html#cbd What's in a Name?] by Wendy Curry in Curried Spam September 2007