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land, South Africa and Finland at-
tended. The conference, organized
primarily by Boston's Bisexual
Resource.Center and the Harvard
Lesbian,‘Bisexual and Gay Gradu-
ate Students (LBGGS) with sup-
port fromj_both the Multicultural
AIDS coalition and BiNet USA,
brought extensive media cover-
age. What I.wanted to say when I
got back was, SEE! Yes, Virginia,
there IS a Bi Community@!@!

For not more than a week
before, I had been talking with an
acquaintance who was lamenting
to me that it was sad how ”when
bisexuals come out, there's no
community for them.” I returned
from the conference invigorated,
ready to push forward again in the
coming year with busting that
myth, providing contact to the ru-
ral area in which I live so that oth-
ers will know that we are out there
and we do form a coherent com-
munity.

I also returned with a sense
of support from the national gay
and lesbian community, because
Kerry Lobel, Executive Director of
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Had come to make the open-
ing Plenary speech, and give
workshops on organizing. The

‘height of-the conference for me

was sitting in the closing plenary,

  

 
 
 

_ my bag full of numbers from new

and renewed friends, listening to
Elias Ferajaj I Iones speak. This
”Spanish—speakin'g afrikan native-
American anarchist guerrilla theo-
logian/AIDS‘ terrorist / writer /
cultural critic / ritual technician” is
a Two-spirited / queer-identified
bisexual man who rocks the house
and brings people closer and fur-
ther in their search for unity
through diversity than any single
activist I have ever known or

heard of.

The next International Con-
ference on Bisexuality will be Held
in Rotterdam in the Netherlands
in 2000. Sydney Australia has been
chosen for the subsequent interna-
tional conference in 2002 and to ac-
commodate the dramatically in-

creased interest in hosting large- ~

scale bisexual conferences, it was
decided that regional conferences
will be planned for the intermedi-
ate years. (For more information,
write to BiNet YT at PO Box 8124,
Burlington, Vermont 05403.) or e-
mail Biwarriors@hotmail.com

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