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Berkeley lawmakers recognize Bisexual Pride Day
Associated Press ^ | Sep 18, 2012, 11:15 PM EDT | unattributed

Posted on 09/18/2012 8:52:07 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Berkeley on Tuesday became what is thought to be the nation's first city to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals, a sexual minority that often complains of being derided as sexually confused fence-sitters.

The City Council unanimously and without discussion declared Sept. 23 as Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day. Since 1999, bisexual activists have claimed the date to celebrate their community, and bisexual pride events routinely are held in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago and other cities...

Berkeley, however, is believed to be the first U.S. city where a government body has taken the extra step of to formally acknowledge the day...

Councilman Kriss Worthington introduced the resolution, telling his colleagues ahead of Tuesday night's meeting that it was important for the city to support an occasion "conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons by some in both the straight and greater LGBT communities."

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The Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, devoted to the study of sexual orientation and the law, estimates that more than 4 million Americans identify as bisexual...

Some bisexuals nevertheless say they feel overlooked or misunderstood, frequently finding themselves portrayed in popular culture as the punch lines of jokes or pathological. And while bisexuals are part of the acronym that makes up the LGBT rainbow, some activists protest that gays are some of their harshest critics.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: berkeley; bisexuals; california; homosexualagenda
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So not even the "LGBT communities" are tolerant enough to keep up.
1 posted on 09/18/2012 8:52:16 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

I am getting an error message when I click on either link you provided. Based on the headline, I want to vomit.
Do you have an additional one?


2 posted on 09/18/2012 8:56:06 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Hunton Peck

Fence-sitters could become the next little-understood and derided subcategory of the sexually oppressed worthy of their own day.


3 posted on 09/18/2012 8:58:34 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SERKIT

What is a sexually confused fence?


4 posted on 09/18/2012 9:00:08 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: svcw

Try this:

http://www.adn.com/2012/09/18/2630256/berkeley-lawmakers-recognize-bisexual.html

(The link I posted with the excerpt is still working for me. Dunno what the problem is, but this is the second time that’s happened with a hosted.ap link.)


5 posted on 09/18/2012 9:01:35 PM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Blasphemy" is to Islam as "swiftboating" is to Democrats: The speaking of truth to liars.)
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After the bisexuals, there are the trisexuals.

as in ‘Try anything sexual!”


6 posted on 09/18/2012 9:06:04 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: Hunton Peck

BOYCOTT BERKELEY


7 posted on 09/18/2012 9:06:20 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SERKIT

Bi-curious pride day?

“Say it loud: ‘Indecisive and proud!’”


8 posted on 09/18/2012 9:11:31 PM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Blasphemy" is to Islam as "swiftboating" is to Democrats: The speaking of truth to liars.)
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To: donmeaker
After the bisexuals, there are the trisexuals. as in ‘Try anything sexual!”

P1: So, I hear you'll try anything sexual.
P2: That's right! Why, do you got something new?
P1: Sure do.
*P1 hands P2 a pill*
P2: What's this?
P1: Cyanide.
P2: But that's not...
P1: Necrophilia!
*P1 grins*

Ok, so I'm a horrible person for thinking that's amusing...

9 posted on 09/18/2012 9:17:06 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Hunton Peck

How long until there is an “Asexual Pride Day”.


10 posted on 09/18/2012 9:17:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Hunton Peck

So....This is what’s going to happen? We’re really going to end up with a special day of honor for every single different way people use their sex organs?

Really?


11 posted on 09/18/2012 9:19:06 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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a sexual minority that often complains of being derided as sexually confused fence-sitters.

I guess Berkley has a lot of biphobes living there.

12 posted on 09/18/2012 9:19:14 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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What? No Celibates Day?

Too much tension between voluntary celibates and involuntary celibates?

13 posted on 09/18/2012 9:19:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: dfwgator

So far, they don’t seem to be all that keen on abstinence, but ya never know...


14 posted on 09/18/2012 9:21:14 PM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Blasphemy" is to Islam as "swiftboating" is to Democrats: The speaking of truth to liars.)
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If someone claims to be an active bisexual, doesn’t that logically mean the person is not monogamous? And I thought that the whole gay marriage push was not in any way going to lead to group marriage or anything like that? You know, aren’t they stressing the monogamy of same sex marriage?


15 posted on 09/18/2012 9:23:32 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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How about a special day for non-heterosexual degenerates?

Check out the two little kids along the fence seeing this sick bastard ride by in some LGBT parade.

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16 posted on 09/18/2012 9:27:41 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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If someone claims to be an active bisexual, doesn’t that logically mean the person is not monogamous?

Not if they're married to a half man, half woman transgendered.

17 posted on 09/18/2012 9:31:28 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Hunton Peck

So when’s the “Goat and Sheep Pride Day”?


18 posted on 09/18/2012 9:34:39 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: ETL

I can’t keep up with the modern world. Can I be reborn in a different century?


19 posted on 09/18/2012 9:35:18 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Hunton Peck

One reason they are perceived as confused is the term “bisexual” itself. Maybe if we called them “pansexual,” which might also be more accurate, people would get the point.


20 posted on 09/18/2012 9:38:10 PM PDT by Tublecane
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