From: alan@ninja.osf.org ("Alan Hamilton")
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
Subject: Monthly posting: Bi Activists Resource List
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:10:40 GMT
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Originator: alan@pluto.osf.org


		Bi Activists Resource List

| This is a compilation of resources useful to Bi activists.  It will be
posted from time to time to the bi-activists mailing list, as new
information is added.

This list may be requested by anyone, from alan@osf.org.

Please send additions and corrections to alan@osf.org, including
requests to be listed in the BISEXUAL ACTIVISTS EMAIL ADDRESSES
section.

Changes since the last-published version are marked with a bar (|)
in the left column.

If this list becomes unwieldy, it will be split.

Would someone please research and send me a definitive listing for
North Bi Northwest?  Thanks!

Please help eradicate US-centrism in this resource list.  Please point
out listings which leave out the country, or otherwise assume that the
world revolves around the US.  :-)


UK Terminology
--------------
The largest island off the North-West coast of Europe is called
Britain, or Great Britain.  (Lesser Britain is an archaic name for
Brittany, a province of France.)  The island of Britain contains three
countries: England, Wales, and Scotland.  Referring to the whole
kaboodle as "England" is inaccurate, upsets some people, and is not
recommended.  These three countries and the province of Northern
Ireland form the (Dis?) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, or the UK for short.  In practice, the name "Britain" (or
Great Britain, GB for short) is often used to mean the whole nation,
and not just the geographical entity.  People don't seem to mind this
(it may even be accepted as "correct" usage - but UK passports use the
longer version).

In price listings, "waged" means that you have a job; "unwaged" or
"concessions" means that you're unemployed, at school or university,
retired, etc.  It's fairly common in the UK for alternative magazines
to offer concessionary rates to unwaged people.  Cinemas, concert
halls etc.  often have stand-by tickets at concessionary rates as
well.


US Terminology
--------------
In price listings, concessionary rates are often listed for people
classed as "student," "senior citizen," or "limited income."



RESOURCE LISTS

Annotated list of Bisexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Other
Fiction.  Send email request to db@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry).

| _International Directory of Bisexual Groups_, April 1992 edition
published by the East Coast Bisexual Network.  Send US$5 to ECBN, 338
Newbury Street #202C, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

List of organizations who either have a "sexual preference " clause
as part of policy or are subject to laws relating to "sexual preference".
Requests, corrections and contributions to larry@bradley.bradley.edu.



| CORRECTIONS TO _International Directory of Bisexual Groups_, April 1992

United States / California / Bay Area:
Bisexual Politics (BiPOL) 415-252-9818, 584 Castro Street #422, 
San Francisco, California 94114, USA.  email: wet!bipol@cca.ucsf.edu.

Washington, D.C.:
| BiCentrist Alliance, 202-828-3065, PO Box 2254, Washington, District
| of Columbia 20013-2254, USA.  Newsletter US$7/year

| Moving Violations, 202-452-7668, c/o Elias Farajaje'-Jones, 1223
| Girard St, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.  Support group
| for bisexual men of color and contact for anthology of essays by
| bisexual men of color.  Especially interesting in including essays by
| bisexual men of color with disabilities.

Regional U.S. / BISEXUAL:
ECBN Bisexual Resource Office, 617-BIS-MOVE, 338 Newbury Street #202C,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.



COMPUTER CONNECTIONS

| BiAct-L (bisexual activists) mailing list.  Send mail to Elaine
| Brennan <EL406010@brownvm.brown.edu> to be added to (or removed from)
| the mailing list.  Directions for posting to the list will be
| sent to you when you are added to the list.

BiFem-L mailing list for Bi women and Bi-friendly women.  To
subscribe, send a message to listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with no
subject line and the following message body:
|  SUBSCRIBE BIFEM-L *your full name*
You will receive an acknowledgement of your message, and will later
receive a message welcoming you to the list and explaining how to
post messages.  The list volume is 45-50 messages per day.

Bisexu-L mailing list.  To subscribe, send a message to
listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with no subject line and the 
following message body:
  SUBSCRIBE BISEXU-L *your full name*
You will receive an acknowledgement of your message, and will later
receive a message welcoming you to the list and explaining how to
post messages.  The list volume is 45-50 messages per day.
A digest form (2-3 mail messages per day, each a packet of messages
received that day) is available to reduce the number of mail messages.
To subscribe, send a message to listserv@brownvm.brown.edu. with 
no subject line and the following message body:
  SUBSCRIBE BISEXU-D *your full name*

biversity@gnu.ai.mit.edu - local Boston announcement list (not a
discussion-type list).  Subscriptions to liz@ai.mit.edu .

eagle@pompei.usc.edu mailing list for discussion of gays in the
Boy Scouts of America.  Send subscription requests to
eagle-request@pompei.usc.edu.

March On Washington '93 Planning (US).  Send subscription requests to
mow93-request@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU.  After subscribing, send email
messages to mow93@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU.
NOTE: Someone please me the send full name. -alan@osf.org

Usenet newsgroups:
| soc.motss: Usenet social newsgroup for gays and lesbians, it also 
| includes many bisexual people and supportive straight people.
|            200+ messages per day.
| soc.bi: Usenet social newsgroup for Bi and Bi-friendly people.
|         20-50 messages per day.
Subscription is based on your newsreader software, so check out the
manual or ask someone else who uses the same newsreader.  The traffic
is about 25 messages per day.

There is a bisexual sub-forum on Compuserve - it is called Biways, and
is a sub-forum of the HSX200 forum.



NEWSLETTERS

| "Bi Centrist" newsletter, c/o BiCentrist Alliance, 202-828-3065, PO
| Box 2254, Washington, District of Columbia 20013-2254, USA.
| US$7/year.

"Bifocal" newsletter, PO Box 13158, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA.

"BiFocus, A Newsletter for the Philadelphia Bisexual Community", PO
| Box 30372, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA.  US$12.00 regular,
| US$4.00 low income and US$20.00 institution/supporting.

Bifrost: 6.50 pounds (waged) or 3 pounds (unwaged) for 12 issues,
Bifrost, PO Box 117, Norwich, NR1 2SU, England.  Cheques should be payable to
Bifrost.  Send an SSAE for a sample issue.  (Non-UK subs may be
higher.)  Essential reading for news of the UK bisexual movement.

"BiMonthly" newsletter, published monthly by the Boston Bisexual Men's
Network, 617-247-6684, 338 Newbury Street #202C, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA.

"Bi Women" newsletter, published bimonthly by the Boston Bisexual
Women's Network, 617-247-6684, 338 Newbury Street #202C, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115, USA.

| "North Bi NorthWest" newsletter, Seattle Bisexual Women's Network,
206-783-7987, P.O. Box 30645 Greenwood Station, Seattle WA 98103-0645.

"Side Bi Side", quarterly newsletter of the Bi Network of the
Washington, D.C. Area, P.O. Box 2646, Langley Park, MD 20787.
US$15/year, checks payable to BNDC or Bi Network.

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.


| OTHER LITERATURE

_50 Steps To Bisexual Visibility_ pamphlet, _Safer Sex_ pamphlet,
_Bisexuality_ pamphlet, all developed by BiCEP and published by ECBN,
617-247-6683, 338 Newbury Street #202C, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.  
These pamphlets are also available on 3.5" IBM-compatible floppy disk.
Call ECBN to order, or to volunteer to record them on audio cassette.

Annotated list of Bisexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Other Fiction.
Send email request to db@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry).

_Anything That Moves_ magazine, c/o BABN, 2404 California Street #24,
San Francisco, California 94115, USA.  1 year: US$25, 2 years: US$45,
Foreign/Group/Institutions: 1 year, US$30, Limited Income: 1 year, US$16.
Make checks payable to BABN.  "Mailings are discreet & sent bulk
mail."

_Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out_.  Ed. by Loraine
Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu.  Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991.  ISBN
0-55583-174-5 (paperback).  US$11.95

_Bi Us_ magazine.  5 pounds for 4 issues, Bi-Us, PO Box 1912, London
N16 5AU, England.  Please make cheques payable to Melting Pot Publishing.
(Non-UK subs may be higher.)

_Bisexual Lives_.  Published in London by Off Pink Publishing, 1988.
ISBN 0-9513103-0-5 (paperback).  Sequel (_More Bisexual Lives_) in
preparation.

_The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One-Hundred Percent
Intimacy_, Klein, Fred.  New York: Arbor House, 1978.  ISBN 0-87795-179-9.

_Bisexuality, A reader and sourcebook_, Thomas Geller, ed.
1989 Times Change Press, Ojai, California, USA.

_Bisexuality & HIV/AIDS: A Global Perspective_.  Ed. Rob Tielman,
Manuel Carballo, & Aart Hendriks.  Buffalo, NY, Prometheus Press,
1991.  ISBN 0-87975-666-7.  [US$42.50 cloth; paperback not yet available
2/92.]

Dream Magazine, Klinger Publications, Klinger Building, 2801 Fourth
Ave.,  San Diego, California 92103 USA.  US$70 for 12 issues

_The Final Closet:  The Gay Parents' Guide for Coming Out to Their Children_.
rev. ed. Rip Corley. Ed. by Jean Chang. LC 89-82740. 192p. 1990. pap. 8.95 
(ISBN 0-945586-08-6). Editech Pr.

_The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing for Writers, Editors and Speakers_,
Casey Miller and Kate Swift, Harper and Row, ISBN 0-06-463542-2.

International Gay/Les/Bi Student Group Directory.  128KB.  Send mail
to <bmcconne@vtssi.vt.edu> to request a copy or provide updates.

_Two Lives to Live: Bisexuality in Men and Women_.  Ed. by Fritz Klein
& Timothy J. Wolf.  New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985.  ISBN
0-918393-22-1 (pap.).  Also published by Haworth Press, 1985, with the
title _Bisexualities: Theory and Research_; originally appeared as
_Journal of Homosexuality_, vol. 11, nos. 1/2 (Spring 1985).

_Open Hands_ is published by the lesgay group of United Methodists.
Open Hands, 202-863-1586 FAX 202-488-1423, P. O. Box 23636, Washington, 
District of Columbia 20026, USA.

_The Other Side of the Closet:  The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses_.
Amity P. Buxton. 350p. (Orig.).	1991. pap. 14.95 (ISBN 1-877880-07-8). 
IBS Press.

_Talk Back! The Gay Person's Guide to Media Action_, "Lesbian and
Gay Media Advocates", US$3.95 Alyson Publications, Boston, 1982.
ISBN 0-932870-10-4



| FOR THE BLIND

| _50 Steps To Bisexual Visibility_ pamphlet, _Safer Sex_ pamphlet,
| _Bisexuality_ pamphlet, all developed by BiCEP and published by ECBN,
| 617-247-6683, 338 Newbury Street #202C, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.  
| These pamphlets are also available on 3.5" IBM-compatible floppy disk.
| Also included is this file, the "Bi Activists Resource List."
| Call ECBN to order, or to volunteer to record them on audio cassette.



HIV/AIDS EDUCATION

_Safer Sex_ pamphlet, developed by BiCEP and published by ECBN,
617-247-6683, 338 Newbury Street #202C, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.

The following people have volunteered to be contacts for AIDS issues:
  Liz Highleyman	<liz@ai.mit.edu>
  Michael Beer		<MNORTH@guvax.georgetown.edu>



CALENDAR

  1992 May 1		Multicultural conference in D.C.
| 1992 May 3		"Politically Bi 2" activists workshop, London.
| 			  Contact "Dave Berry" <db@dcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
| 1992 May 16-17	National Union of Students Annual Lesbian, Gay and
| 			  Bisexual Conference in UK.  First time bis are 
|                         welcome.  Would be good to have lots of us.
| 			  Contact "Dave Berry" <db@dcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
| 1992 Jun 20		Bisexual Women's Dayschool.
| 			  Contact Sheffield Bisexual Women's Group, 
| 			  PO Box 721, Sheffield, S10 1FZ, UK.
| 1992 Jul 24-25	BiNet Annual Meeting in Minnesota.
  ??			Britain's first women's conference?
| 1992 Aug 28-30	Britain's 10th annual conference.  Contact Bisexual
|                        Conference, c/o Bifrost, PO Box 117, Norwich, NR1 2SU.
| 1992 Oct 24-25	2nd international conference, UK.  New people welcome.
|                         Contact International Conference Collective, BM BI,
|                         London WC1N 3XX.
  1992 Aug?Sep?		Dallas regional conference.
  1992 Dec		Time to renew subscriptions to newsletters!
| 1993 Apr 25		Washington, D.C. national conference.
  1993 summer		Britain's 11th annual conference.
  1994 Jun		International Bisexual Conference in New York
			(to coincide with the Gay Games).



PET PROJECTS (things we'd like to see happen in Bi communities)

Audio tape/braille/large print/email/floppy disk bi literature for
people with visual impairments.

Eliminating oppression of people in the Bisexual Communities on the
excuse of race, age, or disability.



BI ACTIVISTS EMAIL ADDRESSES (Internet format)

Send mail to alan@osf.org to be added to this list.  Keep in mind:
This list may be requested by anyone, from alan@osf.org.

"Aimee L. Tweedie"	<tweeda@rpi.edu>
"Alan Hamilton"		<alan@osf.org>
"Dave Berry"		<db@dcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
"Drew Lewis"		<alewis@lynx.northeastern.edu>
"Ilene Dyller"		<ilene@hafoc.Princeton.EDU>
"Jill Nagle"		<nagle@ben.dev.upenn.edu>
"Julie Firman"	<firman@RCF.rsmas.miami.edu>
"Kelly Cookson"	<KC55@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
"Ken Jones"		<kenj@sgi.com>
"Louie Crew"		<lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
"Mike Montgomery" 	<michael@pucc.princeton.edu>
"Ray Schnitzler"	<schnitz@unipress.com>
"Robyn Ochs"		<ochsr@harvarda.harvard.edu>
"Ronald Ferguson"	<RONIE@cup.portal.com>
"Tane' Tachyon" 	<tachyon@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
"Ted Hardie"		<hardie@leland.stanford.edu>
"Tigger"		<NNEWMAN@us.oracle.com>
"Tom Limoncelli"	<tal@warren.mentorg.com>
"Wayne Bryant"		<bryant@teradyne.com>
"Kay Dekker"		<idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
"Autumn Courtney"	<wet!bipol@cca.ucsf.edu>