I am liking GLAAD more and more. Soon, it will be a life-long love affair. Not that I didn't like them or anything before--just not really hooked on their work until they really started including bisexuals in their content, not just their mission statement. Funny how that works isn't it? When you really feel included in a group or organization, you start to care a hell of a lot more and devote more energy to it. What a difference fluid sexuality inclusion makes.
So, how pleased was I when I found their blog had posted a diverse series of bisexuals sharing their views on Celebrate Bisexuality Day? Like a kid in a candy shop? Like I had been welcomed home? You betcha.
Velvet Park: Dyke Culture in Bloom had this really sweet post on a lesbian woman's bi mom. Makes my heart melty-melty.
And then AfterElton.com posted "Our eight favorite bisexuals ever." Some on the list, like Jai Rodriguez from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," fall more to the homoflexible end of the Kinsey Scale, but so what? Come one, come all to fluid sexuality party!
My blessings on commenter Crawfish Po Boy, for introducing Cassidy Haley as his favorite Bisexual Celebrity (For Today). Hello, gorgeous!
This revelation definitely requires some more follow-up. According to Crawfish Po Boy:
"Model, Singer, Songwriter, Performance Artist and part-owner of Skin Graft Designs . His company designed a lot of Adam Lambert's jackets for American Idol and his definitive AI Live tour jacket.
"He's the bisexual son of a lesbian moms and a gay father (his father was a sperm donor whom he met when he was 15 and is now close to)
"He's done some great Q&A sessions on his Youtube Channel about being the queer child of queer parents. He's fabulously talented, articulate and a smartypants and very sexy."
I'm loving Haley's video, "Little Boys and Dinosaurs" a million different ways--not the least of them being the way it refers to our country's nasty history of committing LGBTQ people to insane asylums and electroshock treatment to "cure" them of queerness. The kind of stuff the ex-gay movement and NARTH would like us to return to. Haley turns the asylum into a teaming pansexual dance club. Now, that's revolution. Enjoy!
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@Max: Barrios seems to be pretty good. GLAAD, for a while anyways, seemed to be falling in to the "I Slept in the Lincoln Bedroom Syndrome", but are now seeming to be getting more action oriented. I'm GLAAD they are fully inclusive too (sorry for the "joke"). Now we just need them to fix their freakin name!
Now they need to step up and be the new unified voice of the LGBTQ Community and say "good job" or call "bullshit" for all of us. Gawd knows HRC has dropped that ball.
@SafeBet - had the volume up nice and loud - thanks for the heads up!
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