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Sex Tech

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Here’s a cool-sounding event coming up in January:
“You’re invited! The Sex::Tech Conference: Focus on Youth will take place January 22-23, 2008 at SFSU’s Institute for Next Generation Internet in San Francisco.
This is the inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference focusing on Youth and Technology! We are bringing together public health professionals, youth activists, educators and tech wizards […]

Politics of Bisexuality

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

From my friend Heather Cassell:
Here is the webcast of “Politics of bisexuality” on KPFA that aired [recently]:
http://www.kpfa.org/highlights/?airdate=2007-06-27
“Looking Both Way: Bisexual Politics”
Jennifer Baumgardner, author
“Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way”
Ron Suresha, co-author (with Pete Chvany) also author of “Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussion”
“I Have Never Forgotten You-The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal” Richard Trank, […]

Alison Bechdel…

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

… is only like my favorite lesbian cartoonist ever. I have every book she’s ever written, and I think she’s awesome! Last week, after 15 years of reading her work, I finally got to meet her in person, and check out this photo my friend took — it looks like I’m praying to the woman! […]

LGBT Latin@ Art Exhibit — Call for Submissions

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Here’s a message from my friend (and cameraperson on my film) Rebeka:
CALL FOR ARTWORK & APPLICATION FORM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2007 QUEER LATINA/O VISUAL ARTS EXHIBIT
PERSONAL SECRETS - PUBLIC SPACE, an exhibition in conjunction with the Queer Arts Festival / SF, CA
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 18, 2007
EXHIBITION DATES: June 3 - 28, 2007 at SomArts […]

Idol

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

From the Supreme Court decision on abortion and women’s rights, to the report that abstinence-only education doesn’t work and has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, to the tragedy at Virginia tech, this has been an extremely intense week in the news. I encourage you to check out the words of this writer, who says it […]

Bisexual Diva Takes Center Stage in Pakistan

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

My mother alerted me to this story last week, which then went on to become a New York Times article.
In other news, I spent the turn of the New Year in the good company of friends and family. And how is your 2007 thus far?

Random Tid-bits

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

1. My fiancĂ©e’s amazing film, FtF: Female to Femme, is going to screen at the Chicago Reeling Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and the fabulous DykeDiva website will be sponsoring the show!
2. Direct your attention to these two websites, for some education and entertainment:
A woman talks about her transgender child and her journey through an […]

Todo Bi

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Check out this message I got about a new radio program, called Todo Bi:
“A bilingual, bicultural, bisexual radio show aired in the San Francisco Bay Area Radio Station 1010 AM: Saturday and Sundays from 3pm to 4pm.
TODO BI is strongly dedicated to the empowerment of the Latino LGBT Community in the Bay Area. Topics of […]

How Cool Is This?

Monday, July 24th, 2006

The weather here in San Francisco is unbearably hot right now, but something really cool happened last month that I didn’t find out about until just the other day: I was in a big article about bisexuality that appeared in a newspaper in San Diego. Here’s an excerpt:
San Francisco-based sex educator, writer and filmmaker Amy […]

Sad Day for Book Lovers in San Francisco

Monday, June 26th, 2006

I was sorry to hear about this announcement from A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, one of my favorite local bookstores:
Dear Esteemed Customers and Friends,
We deeply regret to announce that we will be closing A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books as soon as we can liquidate our inventory.
Beginning Friday, June 16th we will […]

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