Bisexual Pride Week Info

6/25/2014

BABN Pride Events

BiConic: BABN SF Pride Contingent

Join the Bisexual Community at SF Pride this year!

Bay Area Bisexual Network Pride Contingent Information

Line-Up Number: 162

Assembly Area Location: N2 - Main between Mission & Howard - East Side

Time to Have Vehicle/Representative in Assembly Area: 9:30 AM

Contingent Should Be in Place by: 11:30 AM

The Bay Area Bisexual Network is based in San Francisco with members from all over the Bay Area. Our mission is to develop a healthy, vibrant, multicultural bisexual community in the San Francisco Bay Area and to promote better understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community and the public.

The Bay Area Bisexual Network's parade contingent is displaying our BiConic pride colours of pink, purple, and blue in celebration of four decades of bisexual activism. The contingent’s theme refers to the BiConic exhibit showing at the GLBT History Museum through August 2014, featuring never-before-seen artifacts, videos, and photos provided by bisexual activists and archives. BiConic focuses on the intersectionality of political history and the culture of bisexuality.

Frameline Film: Appropriate Behavior

Appropriate Behavior

DIRECTOR: Desiree Akhavan

Expected to attend: Actor/Director Desiree Akhavan

Outspoken twentysomething Shirin is a bit of a mess—she can’t come out to her family, she’s in the process of breaking up with her girlfriend, and her long-term career prospects are nonexistent, unless you count teaching film to a bunch of five-year-olds who only want to talk about zombies and farts. In spite of being an unapologetic bisexual in her personal life, Shirin is still trying to live up to her Iranian family’s traditions and ideals (ideals that her snotty sibling, a surgeon, has effortlessly achieved) while regularly—and comically—hinting at her sexuality. As she navigates Brooklyn’s dating scene via online hookups, opportunistic threesomes, and desperate attempts to make her ex jealous, Shirin faces an identity crisis: it’s tough going from being one half of a Park Slope “It Couple” (at least in her own mind) to being an aimless cynic in a shabby Bushwick apartment.

Writer, director, and Sundance darling Desiree Akhavan’s semi-autobiographical Shirin both abhors and subscribes to hipster self-importance—at her best and worst, she’s sardonic, childish, amusing, and inappropriate. Peppered with flashbacks of the ups and downs of Shirin’s relationship with her ex-girlfriend, Appropriate Behavior has realistic, multifaceted characters and sharp dialogue, and it takes an honest look at the fluidity of sexuality, the process of coming out on your own terms, and the evolution of losing and finding yourself.

— Angelique Smith

BABN Bi Trans Brunch at the Crepevine on June 28th 2014

Saturday, June 28

at 12:30pm - 3:00pm

Crepevine

216 Church Street, San Francisco, California 94114

Bi Boys' Happy Hour

The next Bi Boys' Happy Hour is on July 7 (Monday). Mark your calendars! http://www.meetup.com/Bi-Boys-Happy-Hour/events/172519302/

meetup.com

Monday, July 7, 2014
6:00 PM

Make Westing
1741 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612

We return to Oakland for B2H2 number eight - a week after Pride to give you time to recover.

Join us at Make Westing in downtown Oakland - easy to get to on BART or bike and with decent parking nearby. Looking forward to seeing you!

Help Us Underwrite Our Events in the Coming Months

If you would like to help underwrite any number of events like the, SF Pride Contingent, ice cream socials, panel discussions, monthly peer-led support groups, bi-weekly social groups and hopefully even a small drop-in community space at the San Francisco LGBT Center, please click the link below for the Bisexual Resource Center Network for Good donation page.

Donate to the Bay Area Bisexual Network Through the BRC's Network for Good Page* *Please place Bay Area Bisexual Network In the Designation (Optional) field to help us underwrite the events that we are involved with in the Bay Area. This way we will receive the funds from the Bisexual Resource Center, our fiscal sponsor.

Bay Area Bisexual Network is based in San Francisco with members from all over the Bay Area. Our mission is to develop a healthy, vibrant, multicultural bisexual community in the San Francisco Bay Area and to promote better understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community and the public.

Thank you all so much for your support in becoming a stronger community organization through direct action and volunteerism. I cannot think of a proper way to thank the giants, whose shoulders we stand upon. Lani, Maggi, Ann, Jack, Joe and all the people who held the banner through all the storms that have ravaged our community.

Celebrating the future of the bi community for 25 years!

Martin Rawlings-Fein
Bay Area Bisexual Network

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