Thursday, November 29, 2007

This week's Bay Area Reporter is on newstands!

This week in the
Bay Area Reporter I reported on the Department of Homeland Securities proposed travel rules for HIV-positive travelers: “New rules for HIV+ travelers raise questions”; I reported on Latino families and LGBTQ Latino youth advocates response to Mental Health America’s study: “Changing Latino families wade into gay issues” (companion article to last week’s “Latino survey draws support and criticism”); and I announced Bay Area events for World AIDS Day 2007: “Bay Area events mark World AIDS Day.”

For more news and entertainment visit the
Bay Area Reporter online or pick up an issue at your local independent or queer bookstore.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

This week's Bay Area Reporter is on newstands!

This week in the Bay Area Reporter I reported on Vallejo’s mayor’s pre-election partying: “Cloutier in booze bust”; I reported on the leather communities charity: “Leather events spread the wealth”; I reported on Latino parents’ attitutes about bullying, prejudice, and sexual orientation: “Latino survey draws support and criticism”; and I reported on gays rallying to save rent control: “Gays rally against anti-rent control initiative.”

For more news and entertainment visit the
Bay Area Reporter online or pick up an issue at your local independent or queer bookstore.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Check out my article about the Miller Brewing Company’s and Coors Brewing Company’s announced merger in ON Magazine on page 23.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Are we through with being exploited? I say yes!

Why is it that whenever there is a show about bisexual women it has to be sensationalized or worse really cheesy? Tonight I’m pointing my bi finger at Bisexual Girls, on Logo. The show fell on the lower end of “exposing” bisexual women.

The “documentary” that is part of Logo’s Real Momentum documentary series Bisexual Girls follows four British bi-curious girls: Debbie, Linzi, Beth, and Ellie around the old English country and London as they sort out their girl-on-girl attractions. The exception was Ellie who already had her bisexuality figured out.

My big questions are, what is it with cutting to skin footage (not necessarily the naughty kind) and images of a cherry being dipped into a woman’s mouth or women wearing bright red glossy lipstick kissing each other between stories or while the women were talking about their sexual desires? What is it with interviewing a woman, Debbie, in bed with her boyfriend, Orville, or even lower interviewing two women, Angela and Ellie, in a bubble bath? Logo described the couple on its Web site as two lesbians, but in the show one of them, Ellie, turned out to be bi. Oh and let’s not forget, Linzi, the bi-curious stripper by night and horse farm owner by day. I loved when Linzi was giving Debbie a lap dance while two obviously staged women snuggled up voyeuristically martinis in hand watched obscured by other patrons from across the dance stage.

Thank God they had one “normal” bisexual woman, Ellie, happily in a relationship with Angela. Ellie and Angela, who lived in London, helped out Debbie who was struggling with her bi-curiosity, by taking her around to the all girl hot spots. This was all against her fiancé’s wishes, but Debbie was determined. I emphasized with the guy being a monogamous person myself, but I lost respect for him when he called her during her first outing in London.

All in all, you think that the LGBT community would do us bisexuals better than the straight community when presenting “this is what a bisexual looks like” to the rest of the world. Then I forget, not so long ago we were shunned by our own queer community. The show was just in bad taste from beginning to end.

Bisexual Girls reminds me of last year’s
Women Seeking Women: A Bicurious Journey, which was also a sensationalistic “documentary” about women who are attracted to other women, but hadn’t had the Sapphic experience. The cure to their curiosity was a Wild Women Vacation to Jamaica at Club Hedonism. Wild Women Vacation is a bi and bi-curious women’s and their partners’, men, vacation package.

I’m really starting to feel co-opted with these exploitative one-hour cinema vérité-style documentaries. These shows are just ridiculous. No wonder why a majority of people don’t understand bisexuals and have all of these bi myths and phobias.
In light of these “documentaries” reality show
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila is starting to look more like a “real” honest perspective of a real bisexual woman than sensationalism. Almost.

We can do better. Just look at Nicole Kristal and Mike Szymanski co-authors of
The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe: Quips, Tips, and Lists for Those Who Go Both Ways and Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. While these are successful recent books representing bisexuality in a realistic and positive way I’m sure the efforts that bisexuals are making on film, like the ones shown at this year’s Bi Request series at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, can make it to a wider audience at some point.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

This week's Bay Area Reporter is on newstands!

This week in the Bay Area Reporter I profiled a new executive director for Lavender Seniors: “Lavender Seniors hires new director”; I followed up on the TRANS Project re-opening: “Transgender drop-in center is reborn”; and I announce Medicare’s open enrollment period: “Medicare enrollment period opens today.”

For more news and entertainment visit the
Bay Area Reporter online or pick up an issue at your local independent or queer bookstore.

Friday, November 09, 2007

This week's Bay Area Reporter is on newstands!
This week in the Bay Area Reporter I reported on a popular women’s bar’s attempts to maintain saftey after apparent gang-related shootings outside: “Crime spree worries bar owner”; I followed up on Miller and Folsom Street Fair’s brouhaha: “Miller, Folsom fair apologize for poster”; and I reported on the Bay Area’s longest running bi organization’s platinum anniversary: “Bay Area Bi Network turns 20”; and I followed up on MCC-SF’s pastor elections: “News in Brief: MCC-SF elects pastor.”

For more news and entertainment visit the
Bay Area Reporter online or pick up an issue at your local independent or queer bookstore.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Bi Girl Friday makes it onto the Christian network



Happy Sunday! Yours truly is being passed around by the right-wing…I feel so clean and holy or is that dirty and devilish now?

Needless to say, through a posting that was sent to me with the link below and an e-mail I received directly from the Family Policy Network it seems like the right-wing and I are having a little fun at the moment. They think I’m spreading their good word to the “homosexual” community so we can be “cured” into a straight or celibate life rather than exposing their hate mongering delusional twisted ways.

The benefits of this cross-over is, I hope somehow some questioning Catholic or Christian queer person will find some enlightenment by being linked to our friendly and smart LGBT paper in the Gay Mecca.

Thank you Family Policy Network for getting my article out to your constituents!


SAN FRANCISCO’S PRO-HOMOSEXUAL WEEKLY: FPN’s Hope Banner Flies Over Sinful Celebration


The following are excerpts from an October 4, 2007 article appearing in the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s weekly, pro-homosexual newspaper. http://familypolicy.net/nation/?p=682

Bay Area Bisexual Network 20th Anniversary Brunch


Please join BABN as we celebrate 20 years of bringing bisexuals together! Founded in 1987, BABN's mission is to develop a healthy, vibrant, multicultural bisexual community in the Bay Area and to promote a better understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community and the public.


Sunday, November 11, 2007
11:30 am – 2:00 pm



At the:


Lake Merritt Hotel
Barbary Lane Senior Communities
1800 Madison Street, Oakland
Off Lakeside Drive at 17th Street
Ample street parking
Near 19th Street and Lake Merritt BART stations and buses.


Tickets/Sponsorships

Purchase tickets to the 20th anniversary brunch:

Individual ticket(s) at $50 each
Low-income ticket(s) at $35 each

Sponsor BABN's 20th anniversary celebration:

Binary Buster ($1,000 sponsor) Fence Sitter ($250 sponsor)
Switch Hitter ($500 sponsor) Kinsey Slider ($150 sponsor)


Meal options available: Vegetarian, Vegan, or Omnivore


To purchase tickets or get more information about the brunch or program ads, contact Lani Ka'ahumanu at aloha2@mindspring.com or (415) 821-3534 or purchase tickets at www.babn.org by Wednesday, November 7.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

This week's Bay Area Reporter is on newstands!

This week in the Bay Area Reporter I reported on a new study about LGBT families in the Bay Area: “Study: Gay families more likely to earn less”; I profiled It’s Elementary’s Brandon Rice: “It's still elementary for Brandon Rice”; and I reported on school safety: “Civil rights groups call for end to school harassment”; I reported on a community vote for a new exterior color for the LGBT Community Center: “Vote for Fallon Building's new colors”; and I profiled SF DA’s director of the child assult unit: “Gay man heads DA's child assault unit”; and I follow up on the government’s attempt to clamp down on sexual images on the web: “Court strikes down adult social network restrictions

For more news and entertainment visit the
Bay Area Reporter online or pick up an issue at your local independent or queer bookstore.