Please join BABN as we celebrate 25 years of bringing bisexuals together by coming to our 25th Anniversary Kick Off with two amazing Bifabulous Authors, Jan Steckel and Betty Blue (a.k.a. Jane kindred) as they read from their collected works and honor us with their presence and words. Please watch for more 25th Anniversary social events before the end of the year, hopefully a movie night, and a winter holiday party. Stay tuned! 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. Friday, November 16, 2012 7:00pm until 9:00pm The GLBT History Museum 4127 18th St., San Francisco, California 94114 View Map · Get Directions
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Let's all raise out glasses to being visible on this Bisexual Visibility Day. Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and our supporters. In another step forward for LGBT advocacy, the city of Berkeley, California announced it would recognize “Bisexual and Bi Visibility Day” on September 23. City Council Member Kriss Worthington wrote to his peers in support of the effort, saying it would encourage citizens to “recognize and celebrate bisexuality history, bisexual community and culture, and the bisexual people in their lives.” The measure passed with unanimous support. Read about the measure here and see some of out local BABN leaders quoted in several articles: Berkeley Lawmakers Recognize Bisexual Pride Day KOLO-Sep 21, 2012 Bisexuals may get their day in Berkeley San Francisco Chronicle-Sep 17, 2012 Berkeley Becomes the First City to Proclaim 'Bisexual Pride' Day TheBlaze.com-Sep 20, 2012 Berkeley becomes first US city to declare Bisexual Pride Day ...Washington Post-Sep 18, 2012 Berkeley Lawmakers Recognize Bisexual Pride Day ABC News-Sep 19, 2012 Berkeley lawmakers recognize Bisexual Pride Day Huffington Post-Sep 18, 2012 Berkeley lawmakers recognize Bisexual Pride Day The Associated Press-Sep 18, 2012Berkeley lawmakers recognize Bisexual Pride Day Seattle Post Intelligencer-Sep 18, 2012Berkeley to consider declaring Bisexual Pride Day Ventura County Star-Sep 18, 2012Berkeley ready to proclaim Bisexual Pride Day Sacramento Bee-Sep 18, 2012 Berkeley founds first official Bisexual Pride Day Salon-Sep 19, 2012 What a great crowd of people at brunch today, I am really glad to know you all. I hope you all have a great day for tomorrows festivities, whether you have plans for Folsom, or celebrating Bisexuality Visibility Day. Have a wonderful time! We meet for brunch on the 4th Saturday at 12:30pm-3ish at Crepevine (Church and Market), hope to see more of you at the next brunch and get to know more of this fabulous community. B'vracha and Thanks! Martin Rawlings-Fein www.feinmentsch.com BABN Moderator [San Fransisco CA]: Please join us at our Bisexual and Trans* Brunch as we gather to celebrate Bisexual Pride Day/Bi Visibility Day (2012) on Saturday September 22nd from 12:30-3ish at the Crepevine on Church St at Market.
Pay for your food at the counter. While no purchase is required, a small something or another will keep Crepevine happy with us. Vegan and vegetarian options available. Wheelchair accessible. Kid friendly menu/high chairs available. Look for the Bi/Trans Brunch sign. Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and our supporters. In another step forward for LGBT advocacy, the city of Berkeley, California announced it would recognize “Bisexual and Bi Visibility Day” on September 23. City Council Member Kriss Worthington wrote to his peers in support of the effort, saying it would encourage citizens to “recognize and celebrate bisexuality history, bisexual community and culture, and the bisexual people in their lives.” The measure passed with unanimous support. The Crepevine is conveniently located on MUNI surface Lines F, 37, J, 22 and not far from the N Judah at Church and Duboce. Right around the corner from the Church Street station (K, L, M) . The 16th St BART station is also not far (about a 15-20 minute walk or a short bus ride on the 22). Pay for your food at the counter. While no purchase is required, a small something or another will keep Crepevine happy with us. Vegan and vegetarian options available. Wheelchair accessible. Kid friendly menu/high chairs available. All Bisexual/non-monosexual people, Trans* people/Gender non-conforming people along with All our Friends, Family and Allies are welcome and encouraged to attend this event. For more details of to RSVP, please email martin@feinmentsch.com Greetings everyone,
I am pleased to announce the time and location for the Bisexual Contingent to gather for the 2012 Pride Parade! Our assembly point is on Spear Street between Mission & Howard. We should be in place and ready to start marching by 10:00am latest, which means assembling and decorating the car at 9:00am. My cell phone (and I text) is 510-213-1222. I have unlimited calls and texts so reach out to me if you need info! It is possible, as often happens, that there will be delays and we don't start exactly on time. But don't count on that! Come early and hang out with the cool bisexuals! Make new friends! Remember to bring water in a plastic bottle (no glass), sunscreen, hat, snack food, decorations, and wear comfortable shoes or bring a pair to change into. If you haven't attended a contingent monitor training session and are intending to march with us, please, please consider attending - it's just 1 hour of your time and will allow us to have our car! We need at least 2 MORE PEOPLE to attend training or we won't be allowed to take the car in the Parade! If you do attend, mark 'BABN' on the card at the end of the class, and please email me at friendlyjens@gmail.com to confirm. Last 3 training sessions (attend only the 1st hour, no RSVPs required, just show up on time): Tuesday, June 19, 2012Contingent Monitor & Safety Training 7:00pm-9:00pm Training Capacity: 175 The San Francisco LGBT Community Center Rainbow Room 1800 Market St, SF Wednesday, June 20, 2012Contingent Monitor & Safety Training 7:00pm-9:00pm Training Capacity: 175 The San Francisco LGBT Community Center Rainbow Room 1800 Market St, SF Friday, June 22, 2012Contingent Monitor & Safety Training 7:00pm-9:00pm Training Capacity: 500 Larkin Hall, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 99 Grove St, SF This is going to be a great year! Happy Pride!!! Warm regards, Jennifer Davidson LEED® AP j.davidsondesign San Francisco, CA http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdavidsondesign Presents Héctor Carrillo and Amanda Hoffman "Straight with a Pinch of Bi": Men's Sexual Flexibilities and their Implications for HIV Prevention
Friday, June 15th, 2012 12:00 - 1:00 PM 50 Beale/13th floor/McKusick Conf. Rm.
BABN Pride Events
Trans March, Bi-Dykes, and Parades Oh My! 5th Annual Bi-BQ When: Wed, June 20, 5:00pm – 11:30pm Where: Dolores Park (map) Description: 5-7 BBQ and potluck in Dolores park, 7-8:45 Bi Talent and Mixer at Dolores Park Cafe, 8:45-9:15 Bi promenade through the mission, 9:30 Bi-Candy: Frameline Bi Shorts at the Victoria. https://www.facebook.com/events/293820014038371/ Trans March When: Fri, June 22, 3:30pm – 6:30pm Where: Dolores Park (map) Description: "Trans Generations: Define Your Moment" See & Be Seen @ Dolores Park with Jennifer and Martin (look for the Trans and Bi Pride flags) 3.30 - 6.30 March to UN Plaza @ 6.30 Performers and Speakers TBA After party: Bustin' Out 7!! The OFFICIAL Trans March AfterParty!! https://www.facebook.com/events/350283011691662/ Brunch for the Bi and Trans Communities @ Crepevine When: Sat, June 23, 12:30pm – 1:30pm Where: Crepevine, 216 Church St, San Francisco, CA 94114-1311 (map) Description: Let's make this Pride a special one and come on out to the monthly Brunch for the Bi and Trans Communities at the Crepevine. Find out when and where to meet out bi community for the Dyke March & Pride Sunday and recount what we were all doing the evening before at the Trans March. Your hosts the Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN), TransGender San Francisco (TGSF), Congregation Sha'ar Zahav (CSZ), and the Trans March really want to bring the communities together in an intentioned way and build a stronger community. https://www.facebook.com/events/398339726873790/ San Francisco Dyke March When: Sat, June 23, 3pm – 6pm Where: Dolores Park (map) Description: Dolores Park Stage: 3-7 pm Join Shelli at the Dyke March for a Bi-Dyke group and dance all the way to the Castro at 7pm with your bi sisters. https://www.facebook.com/events/293934070701735/ SF Pride Visi-BI-lity Bi Contingent When: Sun, June 24, 10am – 2pm Where: TBD Off Market Street Downtown (map) Description: 2012 Bay Area Bisexual Network Pride Contingent Information Theme: Visi-Bi-lity, be as visible as possible and show your bi pride colours! Most of the time bisexuals are hidden, basically defined by the gender of their partner. Pride is one day of the year when we can be seen clearly for who we are, Visi-Bi-lity, whether we are in a same gendered relationship, an opposite gendered relationship, a poly relationship or no relationship at all, whether we are cisgendered, transgendered, genderqueer or just queer, we are all bisexuals and we deserve to be seen for that - the hot, fun people we all are. So use this page to invite all your friends and we will have the best turnout ever. https://www.facebook.com/events/383867871675806/ Help Us Underwrite Our Events in the Coming MonthIf 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 our new WePay page. The Bisexual Resource Center, our fiscal sponsor, has graciously allowed us to create a direct fundraising page that will allow us speedier transfer of funds. Bay Area Bisexual Network Donation Page 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, Maggie, Ann, Jack, Joe and all the people who held the banner through all the storms that have ravaged our community. Watch here for more announcements about a 25th Anniversary Event, yes, it has been 25 years, and we will be creating a great event to celebrate the future of the bi community! Martin Rawlings-Fein Bay Area Bisexual Network An update on our Bisexual Contingent progress for Pride 2012: Jan Steckel has volunteered the use of her car for the Parade. She can fit 2-3 other folks inside if anyone needs a ride instead of marching. Keep in mind there are no ins-and-outs: if you are in the car you must remain in the car for the whole time and if you are marching you cannot stop the parade to get in the car. We could use a driver if anyone wants to contribute that way. We will decorate the car on the day so bring crepe paper in bisexual colors (purple, blue, pink), painter's tape (it's blue!), and any signs/posters/banners you may have. I am still working on getting the official banners and flags back. We need 4 people to attend contingent monitor training and sign as being specifically for the BABN car. If we don't get that, we can't have the car. We need at least 2 people to be contingent monitors in addition to the 4 for the car. Contingent monitor training sessions schedule here: https://register.sfpride.org/event/html/safety-training-2012.pdf (You only need to attend the first hour of any of these and you don't have to register in advance, just turn up on time. I'm going Saturday June 2 from 1-2pm at the Center in SF.) One theme suggested for this year is "Bisexual Invasion". The Boston Bisexual contingent is using this one so we would be in solidarity with them if we choose this theme. Think ray-guns and outer space gear. Any other ideas? We have just enough funds to cover both the contingent & the car ($311), but if anyone feels moved to donate a few dollars for decorations, please contact Lani on aloha2@mindspring.com . That's it for now! This celebration depends on YOU so let me hear your thoughts!! Cheers, Jen First question is: how many people intend to march with us? That will determine how many contingent monitors we need. Can someone put out a poll on the Facebook page to ask that group and report back here? I'm not on Facebook so I can't do it myself. 2-25 persons marching = 2 Contingent Monitors 26 to 50 persons marching = 4 Contingent Monitors 51 to 75 persons marching = 6 Contingent Monitors Second question is, how many people would be unable to march if we did not have a car? This will determine if we get one or not, and how many additional contingent monitors we need for the wheels (1 per wheel is my recollection). Third question is, how many people are willing to attend contingent monitor training, besides myself? If we don't have enough to get a car, that will end the discussion quickly. Fourth question is, if I can't get the banner and flags back from last years coordinator, how will we identify ourselves? Lastly, who has an idea for a simple theme? In recent past we've done: switch-hitters, fence-sitters, bisexuals in paradise, invisiBIlity. Suggestions that didn't get selected were Famous Bisexuals in History, marriage-related stuff (having couples of various gender orientations dressed in wedding garb paired, maybe even square dancing so they trade off), and Green Bisexuals (as in, sustainability). My new suggestion for this year is to take a cue from a Star Trek episode, which featured a race war between people who had one side black and one side white, and the "opposite race" had the opposite sides black and white, like this: Perhaps we can come up with something like this using the Bisexual Colors? Thanks for any suggestions or help, Jen |
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