***Please Forward Widely! Buy Your Tickets in Advance!***
The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival presents:
Testimonies, Chisme, Spilling the Tea: An Evening of Poetry
Monday, June 8, 2009
Doors Open at 7pm; Show at 7:30pm
SOMArts
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA
Tickets: $12 - $20
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66077
A literary event sure to sparkle, rectify and incite, as established & emerging poets scratch the page with […]

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My friend Joanne Herman directed my attention to this new website/ grassroots LGBT movement call to action, The Dallas Principles, which she was involved in creating!
Although I am disappointed that none of the 24 authors of the Principles are out bisexuals (at least, according to their bios on the site) — especially considering that in […]

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Wow! As of today, I have a master’s degree in business administration. I’m an MBA. Actually, combined with my MA in sexuality studies, I’m now: Amy Andre, MA, MBA. Which I guess could be pronounced, “Amy Andre, mamba”.
Big hugs to my friends family for cheering me on through the past two years of study, […]

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CALL FOR ACTORS!
“Translations” Queer People of Color Production
Debuts at National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco in June!
AUDITIONS: Friday 5/1/ 2009, 6PM – 9PM
To schedule, for address/directions to the audition, or for more information, contact Nico Dacumos at nicodacumos@gmail.com.
THE STORY:
Friends are re-united through their family histories, discovering decades-long love affairs born during student protests in […]

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First of all, speaking at Stanford University Medical School this week was so much fun! I gave a talk entitled “Why Bisexuals Have Worse Health than Gays & Lesbians — And What We Can Do about All Health Disparities,” based on the book I co-authored, Bisexual Health (2007: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force). Those […]

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I’m excited about two upcoming speaking engagements, and, as always, I’m up for even more! So, if your school or organization is interested in learning about anything from creative queer safer sex to bisexual health, or from BDSM to trans identity in media representation, or from women’s orgasms to queer women of color community, email […]

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I’m excited and delighted to announce a new book publication, just out this month. I have an essay in Visible: A Femmethology, an anthology of writing about, you guessed it, femmes! My friend Sand Chang and I teamed up to co-author the piece, titled “There and Back Again”. It was a “sequel” of sorts to […]

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Like queer/ trans porn? Who doesn’t! Come to the Roxie Theater on 3/19/09 for a very special kind of “movie night.” Sex toy retailer Blowfish.com presents Queer Porn-ucopia, a red-hot evening of the sexiest scenes of lesbian/ bi/ trans lust ever caught on film. This event is open to adults of all genders. Bring a […]

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I’m so excited — I’m going to be one of the presenters at the LGBT Health Forum at UCSF Medical School! I’m giving two workshops, back to back, on bisexual health.
FYI, readers, I am available to speak at your school (current or alma mater). I’m about to speak at UCSF, and next I’m giving a […]

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I’ll be curating Bi Request at Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival again this year, for the third year in a row! What’s Bi Request? Please visit this blog entry for all the details.
Here’s the important part for now: if you are a filmmaker or you know a filmmaker who (a.) identifies as […]

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