Celebrate Bisexuality Day
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Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and their allies.
This day is a call for bisexuals, their families, friends and allies to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, bisexual history, bisexual culture, bisexual community and the bisexual people in their lives.
First celebrated in 1999, Celebrate Bisexuality Day is the brainchild of three U.S. bisexual rights activists, Wendy Curry, a bisexual activist from Maine, Michael Page, a bisexual activist from Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur, a bisexual activist from Texas. Wilbur said,
| “ | Ever since the Stonewall rebellion, the gay and lesbian community has grown in strength and visibility. The bisexual community also has grown in strength but in many ways we are still invisible. I too have been conditioned by society to automatically label a couple walking hand in hand as either straight or gay, depending upon the perceived gender of each person. | ” |
This celebration of bisexuality in particular, as opposed to general LGBT events, was conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons by some in both the straight and greater LGBT communities.
The day has grown in popularity and now a wide variety of annual celebrations take place throughout Canada the United States, Europe and Australia.
See also
- Bisexual community
- Biphobia
- Bisexual erasure
- Wendy Curry
External links
- International Celebrate Bisexuality Day
- A Celebrate Bisexuality Day Announcement
- Celebrating Bisexuality by Wendy Curry in BiWomen Vol. 17 No. 6 Dec 1999/Jan 2000
- What's in a Name? by Wendy Curry in Curried Spam September 2007
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