From: alan@osf.org (Alan Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Any (other) UU Bis out there ?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:14:24 GMT

From the _Bisexual Resource List_ (posted the first day of each month):
| Unitarian-Universalist Bisexual Network (UUBN) newsletter, published
| occasionally by UUBN.  Send US$10 to UUBN, P.O. Box 10818, Portland,
| Maine 04104, USA, for a membership packet including the newsletter, a
| copy of the _International Directory of Bisexual Groups_ and lots
| more.

UUBN was founded by Alan Hamilton (me, current President of the East
Coast Bisexual Network[ECBN]) and Bobbi Keppel (who is also on the
Board of Directors of ECBN.)

We put out three issues of the newsletter in 1992, mostly talking
about bi issues and our bi activist work in the Unitarian Universalist
Association (UUA.)  When you subscribe, you get a big package which
includes all past newsletters, All of ECBN's pamphlets, and some other
interesting stuff.

To date, Bobbi and I have written almost everything in it, so feel
free to include with your US$10 a note about what it is like for you
being bi, bi issues in the UUA, and being bi in the UUA and UUA
organizations -- such as Young Religious Unitarian Universalists
(YRUU) and Unitarian Universalists for Lesbian and Gay Concerns
(UULGC), telling Bobbi whether or not to include your name if we
publish it.

Highlights of what we have done this year include:
  o Bobbi has developed a presentation of a modification of the Klein
Sexual Orientation Grid which we call the Klein Scale.  It has proved
to be extremely useful in helping people to think more flexibly about
sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and sexual identity, including
loosening up people (lesbian, gay, and straight) who have taken an
anti-bi stance.
  o Bobbi and I wrote a pamphlet (published by ECBN) on _Using the
Klein Scale to Teach about Sexual Orientation_.  If you join UUBN now,
you will get a copy of this and many other pamphlets, which you can
make available in your UU society (either known or anonymously.)
  o Bobbi volunteered as a district trainer for The Welcoming
Congregation (TWC program that the OLGC has developed to help
congregations become more welcoming to lesbian, gay, and bisexual
people.  She did lots of bi consciousness raising at the training
workshop for the district trainers, including her presentation of the
Klein Scale.  Many people remarked that in the future, that should
come first, so that people share a common terminology and framework
for thinking about sexual orientation for the rest of the training.
Get a copy, and consider ensuring that someone does this presentation
near the beginning of any group that will be discussing sexual
orientation.
  o We got _Using the Klein Scale..._ distributed to all TWC district
trainers.
  o Bobbi attended the continental conference of the Liberal Religious
Education Directors Association (LREDA) and did a presentation to the
entire conference
  o Alan is writing another pamphlet, _LesBiGay and Transgender
Glossary_ for distribution to all TWC district trainers, to help
people (especially in UU societies where there are no openly LesBiGay
folks) to learn enough of the vocabulary used in these communities to
be able to talk with people without using totally offensive language
from the oppressive culture.  If you join now, you will get a copy of
this as soon as it is available, which you can make available in your
UU society (either known or anonymously.)
  o Someone has just volunteered to work on a pamphlet on bisexuality
for youth, and I would very much like some YRUU volunteers to work
with this person to ensure that it addresses the important issues.

To volunteer to do some work (writing an article for the UUBN
newsletter; putting out literature at the UULGC conference in Columbus
OH in February; distributing literature in your UU society or district
or your YRUU group or conference, working on a pamphlet on bisexuality
for youth; writing letters to UULGC, OLGC, the UUA President and Board
of Trustees; etc.) or just to connect with me, you can reach me at
alan@osf.org.

 -Alan Hamilton