pointfoundation.org

[email reprinted with permission; via the Livejournal bisexual community]

Hi, everyone,
For all you students and friends of students out there, I wanted to let you know about an incredible scholarship opportunity. The Point Foundation is the national LGBT scholarship organization, and they do amazing work. They give financial and other types of support to LGBT scholars from around the country — in fact, I wouldn’t be in school right now without their help.

If you are currently a grad student or an undergrad, or are planning to enter school next year, (or if you know someone in any of those categories), consider applying for a Point Foundation scholarship. They are especially looking to reach out to bisexual students, and have asked me to help spread the word in the bi community.

There are a number of sexual-orientation-based scholarships out there — but most are only for gays and lesbians. Bisexuals are often excluded from being able to apply. But Point is different. Point is one of the few that actually includes bisexuals, too! That’s really important, especially considering that bisexuals tend to make less money than gays and lesbians — many of us need all the financial help we can get to make it through school.

If you want to apply for a Point Foundation scholarship, visit www.pointfoundation.org. The application form is available starting December 12th. If you have any questions about the application process, feel free to ask me, as a Point Scholar. I’m happy to help out.

Please forward this message to any bisexual students (and gay, lesbian, and/or trans students, too). Thanks!

Cheers,
Amy Andre
Point Foundation Scholar
University of California at Berkeley
amy_andre (@) mba.berkeley.edu

Hello!

My name is Carmen Machado, and I’m a filmmaker in Washington, DC. I am currently producing a short segment of a documentary (working title: “AmBIguous Dating”) on bisexual dating. The segment is being directed by filmmaker Giovanna Chesler (her website can be found here).

As two bisexual women who are also navigating the world of dating, we are looking for stories. Your stories. Stories of bisexuals and their experiences in the dating world, and about problems that are unique to the bisexual dating scene.

Have you gone on a date and not been sure that it was actually a date? Have you ever revealed your bisexuality to your date, only to be met with antagonism? In other words, how does your sexuality make dating more complicated or difficult? Or does it at all?

We want stories of all kinds. Funny stories, tragic stories, heartbreakingly lovely stories. This is open to both bisexual men and bisexual women of all ages. Your story could have been about last week’s date fiasco, or one that occurred twenty years ago.

(Please note: the scope of this piece is limited to bisexual dating, not bisexual relationships.)

If you’re located in DC, and we choose one of your stories, we will possibly be conducting camera interviews (though if you want your story to be anonymous, that’s not a problem in the slightest). If you’re not located in this area – send your stories anyway! If we choose to use your story, we will contact you in order to have you fill out a standard release form (which gives us permission to use your story/interview). Additionally, if your story is chosen, we will send out an email with updates on where the film is being shown.

If you think you have a story for us, send it our way (along with any questions that you might have). Put the story in the body of an email and send it to carmen.machado AT gmail DOT com. Please put “AmBIguous Dating” somewhere in the subject line.

Additionally, if you feel like you know someone who has a story to tell, by all means, forward this information to them. Feel free to repost it in other communities and blogs. Spread the word! I can’t wait to hear what you all have to say.

Thank you so much.

Today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

• Check out the Bisexuality Resource Center, and this year’s events.
• Take a moment to remember Brenda Howard.
• Join the LiveJournal Bisexual community.

How am I celebrating? I’ll be spending it with several of my dearest (bisexual) blogger friends. And reflecting back on the where I was last week, amongst my DO cabinmates.

How you’ve all rocked/changed my world, I can’t even begin to express.

The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #94? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks
Between Baths
“His tongue licks along the edge of my thong and then slips underneath, and then he pulls the material aside so he can get to me.”

Fantasy Vs. Reality: What Is Cheating?
“Paid escort work is fantasy; dating me is reality.”

How To Set Up an MFM Threesome
“You’d be surprised how many guys will say they can’t wait to bed her down, then chicken out or not show up after you’ve shelled out money for a hotel room.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
Neal Mather Fetish Figurenes

Editor’s Choice
Need a hand?

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.

Erotic Writing and Experiences
And the answer is
Christening The Bed
Episode One
Sally & Bill
Stop

Sex Audio & Podcasts
Almost Perfect
Nobilis Erotica 30-Woman of the Mountain

NSFW Pics & Videos
Bree olsen episode 1
Catalina loves Guest HNT Posts!
Georgi (I Shot Myself)
Half-Nekkid at the BBQ
I Feel Myself
Photo of the Moment: Curvy Girls
Sexy DJane Jesse Capelli
Sexy showgirl upskirt pinup photo
Tits for the Troops #5

Sex Work
Breakdown Of A Quickie
Objectify Me

BDSM & Fetish
Calling All film slaves in the New York/New Jersey area!!!
Friday night
Fucked to bits
Happy HNT – A switching in the old abandoned cabin
Let’s give the boy a hand! – Part Two of Text Message Mayhem
An Ode to Bondage
Playing with Morgan
Showerland
Social Kink Interviews The Knotty Boys (Shibari, Bondage)
Sweet Possession
Trembling, redux

Sex News & Reviews
Aneros Progasm Prostate Massager Review

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
Did you have sex?
Half-Nekkid and Openly Bisexual
Keeping Secrets
Love Sick
Mirror, Mirror
More On Cougars – Older Men, Younger Women, Mistresses and Married Men
Playing with my Barbie
Skanky Panties & The Business of Faux Fish Juices

Photo: Vanessa (Errotica Archives)

The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #87? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks
Ménage
“Sometimes, she’s even more the centre of things than he is, since she is a more recent addition to the dynamic, and since we both adore her.”

Money and Sex
“And then in walks sex, #1 potential button pusher of all times.”

Denied – 11
“There’s a click, and a lifting of restriction, and cool, soothing moistness.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
The Skeptical Pornographer: The G-Spot.

Editor’s Choice
A fitting for a marriage

More Sugasm
Join the Sugasm

The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #86? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.

This Week’s Picks
A Little Fun at Home (fexual-strustration.blogspot.com…)
“She surprised herself when her fingers found the actual ice cube melting inside her cunt.”

The Anniversary Present (perverselypoly.blogspot.com…)
“But I knew that nothing would be more appropriate to the new path we’ve chosen than a threesome with another man on the night celebrating our wedding so many years ago.”

Girl’s Night In (thenakedrhetoricaltruth.blogspot.com…)
“Some of us are more conservative than one would have thought, and some of us, it appears from dropped jaws round the table, are less.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
7 Simple Ways to Future-proof Your Blog (sugarbank.com…)

Editor’s Choice
My Exam (wanklog.blogspot.com…)

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday (Fleshbot.com)

Erotic Writing and Experiences
The Dragonfly (in-your-pants.blogspot.com…)
Greedy Eyes (paradisetiedup.blogspot.com…)
I awoke… (fantasy-nuggets.blogspot.com…)
I remember entering the hotel room (orangeuglad.blogspot.com… )
It should have been a dream then! (lastbreath.wordpress.com…)
Music & Cock (confessions112.blogspot.com…)
Party Games Part 2 (drtycplinva.blogspot.com…)
Petals….. (clearslate2007.wordpress.com…)
The Pirate Captain (bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com…)
Razor Stubble (lafillemariee.blogspot.com…)
So good I could almost come (plum001.blogspot.com…)
Through the Crack (slutissimo2.wordpress.com…)
Yesterday (classyelegantlady.blogspot.com…)

Sex & Politics
Gay Marriage Survives (deliciously-naughty.typepad.com…)

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Beautiful Agony Video (eroticandy.blogspot.com…)
Betcee May – Nude in Nature (seccpicsnude.blogspot.com…)
Filthy Food (myhotbox.blogspot.com…)
Sasha Cohen (gotcum.blogspot.com…)
Wild – Pictorial Presentation (eroticjournals.blogspot.com…)

Sex Work
Charlie and the Chocolate Covered Cock (ladyentertainers.com…)
When A Client Dies-Part 1 (www.radicalvixen.com…)

BDSM & Fetish
The Back Room (goldslutstandard.com…)
The Control of a Submissive (vampyrandhisladye.blogspot.com…)
Happy HNT – Summertime spanking (darkside-journey.blogspot.com…)
His kiss (insidedarkpixie.blogspot.com…)
How Was Your Weekend? (www.sub-burbs.com…)
I want to hurt you (everythingoze.blogspot.com…)
Painslut (kinkyfarmwife.blogspot.com…)
“The Real Reason I Have Long Hair,” smut from the archives (lustylady.blogspot.com…)
Scenes From My Bedroom – Part 4: Giving up control (collaredcatalina.wordpress.com…)
Two vingnettes from two scenes (geltsgirl.livejournal.com…)
Yanking My Chain (puppytale.blogspot.com…)

Sex News & Reviews
Coming back with v.2.0 (mypenis.thumblogger.com…)
Featured Fetish Film – Toys For Twats (Nun Fetish, Old, Sacrilege, Yikes) (www.quipsandchains.com…)
Fern wood tonight (hard-and-fast.blogspot.com…)
Half-Nekkid and Playing the Field (www.tarasnaughtyshop.com…)
How To Make 3 Girls Have An Orgasm (www.hypnopimpdaddy.com…)
Introducing the Nude Photography of Eva’s Garden (www.taratainton.com…)
MSNBC and Green Sex Toys (blog.babeland.com…)
Welcome to Teeny Phone Sex! (www.teenyphonesex.com…)

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
Daddy Day (dirtydetails.blogspot.com…)
Lacking Sexuality (thesilentmale.blogspot.com…)
Love and Crush: Confessions (un-cool.blogspot.com…)
Lunch (secretlifeofaman.blogspot.com…)
More keyword analysis (kislee.naughtyblog.net…)
Slutdom Redefined (junohenry.wordpress.com…)
Without your input (gentlygently.blogspot.com…)

Photo: Danae & Dido (Met Art)

The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #85? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.

This Week’s Picks
C’s Little Witch (un-cool.blogspot.com…)
“Tom wrote on his blog I would do anything carnal to please her: oh, yes. Oh, yes.”

How to have a secret affair at work (myhotbox.blogspot.com…)
-Funny video-

Desperate wantonness is not always pretty (smart-girls.blogspot.com…)
“Am I now so desperate for sex that I’m causing random sex toys to spontaneously get off when they’re around me?”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
ActionGirls 2007 (sugarbank.com…)

Editor’s Choice
History of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (www.taratainton.com…)

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday (Fleshbot.com)

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
All Righty Then… (aurorablack.blogspot.com…)
Attention to detail (secretlifeofaman.blogspot.com…)
Hot and Bothered:Feminist Pornography (www.sex-kitten.net…)
In Which I Defend Myself, And Likely You Too (silent-porn-star.blogspot.com…)
On Baritones and the State of My Panties (whatmyfriendsdontknowcanthurt.blogspot.com…)
A Random Post About Why Shay Rarely Reads Erotica (shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com…)
Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another? (aslipofagirl.blogspot.com…)

BDSM & Fetish
Dress Up (katescuriosita.blogspot.com…)
His need (dirtylittlecockslut.blogspot.com…)
Kink In The Mainstream – Exhibit B: Family Guy Bondage (www.quipsandchains.com…)
Making sense of it all (transformher.blogspot.com…)
Marked (lafillemariee.blogspot.com…)
My choice (my choice)
Wicked Saturday – Part 1 (www.sub-burbs.com…)
You gotta be punished! (lastbreath.wordpress.com…)

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Half-Nekkid Nipples (sweatshopsissy.wordpress.com…)
Party Tricks (imelda-imelda.blogspot.com…)
Two For One (eroticjournals.blogspot.com…)

Sex Work
Chastity (www.radicalvixen.com…)

Sex News & Reviews
Celebrate Pride Month with Our GLBT Designs! (www.tarasnaughtyshop.com…)
Ohio: no nudes is good nudes… (hard-and-fast.blogspot.com…)
Pearl Pleasure Comfort Grip Stroker Review (stilettodiaries.blogspot.com…)
Punished Brats review (darkside-journey.blogspot.com…)

Erotic Writing and Experiences
Appel téléphonique (blog.coquetterie.net…)
Dress Code (in-your-pants.blogspot.com…)
First date etiquette revised (junohenry.wordpress.com…)
Frustration (ellabeecoquette.blogspot.com…)
A lovely evening (prettywomanjournal.com…)
My Body is Yours (bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com…)
A Night with the Office Meeting Guy (part 2) (fexual-strustration.blogspot.com…)
Orgasm Addict (rubytellsall.com…)
Party Games – Part 1 (drtycplinva.blogspot.com…)
Tonight You Belong To Me (perverselypoly.blogspot.com…)
Unexpected, Part Four (alittleoutoftune.blogspot.com…)
What Comes After “Hello” (sexyandallthat.blogspot.com…)

Sex Humor
Eating Pussy (memoirsofanasshole.blogspot.com…)
Lawnmower Sex (www.mootsex.com…)
Paris Hilton Forced, By Society, To Acknowledge Worthlessness (funnyextreme.com…)

Photo: Plum (Met Art)

The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #84? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.

This Week’s Picks
Saying No (lafillemariee.blogspot.com…)
“Would saying no really make it all okay?”

Beyond slutdom (junohenry.wordpress.com…)
“My eclectic slutfest continues, and I continue to love it.”

A guide to my erogenous zones (orangeuglad.blogspot.com…)
“Not that you need it, but i thought i’d share it with you.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
Pic(k) of the Day (sugarbank.com…)

Editor’s Choice
Small Town (secretlifeofaman.blogspot.com…)

Erotic Writing and Experiences
Back – Pt 1 (sharedcindy.blogspot.com…)
The Diva and the Demon (in-your-pants.blogspot.com…)
Dream (katescuriosita.blogspot.com…)
Feast or Famine…Mr. Hunky Resurfaces….Grrrrrr (classyelegantlady.blogspot.com…)
The Great Outdoors (www.betweensheets.net…)
Halls & Walls (confessions112.blogspot.com…)
In a Velvet Glove (aagblog.com…)
It’s over, baby! (lastbreath.wordpress.com…)
“Lap Dance Lust” (lustylady.blogspot.com…)
Looking For A Shot (part 2) (dirtydetails.blogspot.com…)
Office Masturbation – part 3 (eroticawriter.blogspot.com…)
The Parent Teacher Conference Concludes …. (afterschoolmonologues.blogspot.com…)
Quickie in the Closet (fexual-strustration.blogspot.com…)
The Return of the Mythical Beast of Yore (or 2 Girls, a Guy, and a Sex Drive) (http://fourstate.blogspot.com)
Search Term Erotica II (shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com…)
Sugar Daddy’s Pop (aslipofagirl.blogspot.com…)
Two Cheers For Democracy (joeheather.blogspot.com…)

Sex News, Reviews & Advice
Hitachi Magic Wand Review (stilettodiaries.blogspot.com…)
Review: A Woman Alone At Night (radicalvixen.com…)
Sex Online: The rise of internet porn (blog.babeland.com…)

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Half-Nekkid and All Alone (sweatshopsissy.wordpress.com…)
Half-Nekkid and Getting to Know Each Other (www.tarasnaughtyshop.com…)
HNT: Boudoir (imelda-imelda.blogspot.com…)
Louise Glover – Erotic Model with Beautiful Face and Rount Breasts (seccpics.blogspot.com…)
Phoenix (I Shot Myself) (viviane212.blogspot.com…)
Sexy Wife On Cam (myhotbox.blogspot.com…)
Sultry Sexiness – Pictorial Presentation (eroticjournals.blogspot.com…)
Take in the Movie Trailer for Action Girls’ Latest! (www.taratainton.com…)
Today just hot (http://mypenis.thumblogger.com)

Sex Humor
Top 10 Ways You Know You’re One of the Spanking Models Running The Race For Life (adelehaze.com…)

BDSM & Fetish
A damsel in desperation (blog.atlantabondage.com…)
Delayed seduction (twentyfoursevends.blogspot.com…)
Happy HNT – Corner time for naughty schoolgirl (darkside-journey.blogspot.com…)
Hot-spot (curvaceousdee.blogspot.com…)
I have the urge (gentlygently.blogspot.com…)
Master, how will i tell you if the pain is too much? (www.katiegirl4u.com…)
The Not So Simple Things (puppytale.blogspot.com…)
Obedience (www.kinkerbelle.com…)
The Other Pathway (kinkyfarmwife.blogspot.com…)
Under The Big Top (lolitawolf.blogspot.com…)
Watch me (insidedarkpixie.blogspot.com…)
Without permission… (everythingoze.blogspot.com…)

Sex Advice & Poetry
Beauty Tip # 166 (www.sex-kitten.net…)
Personal History ~ ~ “sexual Poetry” (sexyandallthat.blogspot.com…)

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
Cybersex, Online Sexuality, and Female Empowerment (deliciously-naughty.typepad.com…)
Falsehoods & Misunderstandings on The Dangerous Road To Truth (part 1) (perverselypoly.blogspot.com…)
Good, bad, naughty, what? (kislee.naughtyblog.net…)
Good Impression (bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com…)
I Love You (thenakedrhetoricaltruth.blogspot.com…)
Polyamory Ain’t for Sissies (practicalpolyamory.blogspot.com…)
“Those ‘other Victorians” (un-cool.blogspot.com…)
The Unwelcome Erection (wanklog.blogspot.com…)

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday (Fleshbot.com)

Photo: Polina (Met Models)

Feministing has a lengthy interview with Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics:

With Look Both Ways, I wanted to talk about bisexuality and younger feminists–and the phenomenon of younger women, ostensibly straight, dating women that I didn’t see so openly replicated among men. More than that, though, I didn’t really feel equipped to deal with male bisexuality. I think the best insights will come from a male bisexual writer, and I felt less interested. Since the book came out, though, I have been surprised, once again, by how many men have bought the book, or shown up at readings. The main generalization I can make there is that there is not as much culture flexibility and acceptance around male bisexuality. Two men in a straight bar kissing is grounds for a gay-bashing; two women kissing in a straight bar is just another Friday night. That’s because men’s sexuality is taken very seriously and seen as not a put-on, whereas women’s sexuality (even with one another) is often written off as being “for men.”

Martin and I go to a party for my bisexual support group. It’s a party in which we all perform: I play guitar and sing, and then read from my Penthouse Forum porn column, and others read poetry, perform music, or read their own work. At the end of the evening they ask me to keep on singing and playing. We sing and play Patty Griffin’s “Making Pies,” James Taylor’s “You Can Close Your Eyes,” The Stones’ “Wild Horses,” and Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” My friend Peter comes up to us. He’s got two of his women friends with him, our friend Adrianna and then a lovely new one: Lynn: gorgeous, with long dark hair, healthy, slim, hourglass body. Everyone wants to play. Peter kisses Martin on the mouth. I watch their tongues entwine. After all, it’s a bisexual party, right?

(more…)

By Jessica Clark

Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
By Jennifer Baumgardner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · $24.00

Cringing is often a sign of unfinished political business,” according to feminist author Jennifer Baumgardner.

She should know. Since 2002, Baumgardner has been spearheading the confessional “I had an abortion” campaign—most recently captured in the documentary film Speak Out: I Had an Abortion (www.speakoutfilms.com)—and in her new book, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, she’s tackling a topic that makes both straights and gays wince: the explosion of young women experimenting with bisexuality.

“The label bi sounds bad,” writes Baumgardner, “because at least in some ways, bisexuals are an unliberated, invisible and disparaged social group.” And yet, she notes, according to Alfred Kinsey’s famous studies (and a more informal survey of Nerve.com personals), more than 30 percent of women have had or seek same-sex encounters. In the past decade, they have become nearly de rigueur on liberal arts campuses, inspiring the disparaging acronym “LUG” (Lesbian Until Graduation). Why? (more…0

Sarah Aswell tracks down the duclod man:

As early as 1992, students at Grinnell College, a small liberal arts school in Iowa, began receiving strange, anonymous letters in the mail. The letters contained homemade greeting cards with crudely drawn pictures—men crawling on the ground, toilets and trash cans, twin closet doors—and jokes that didn’t make any sense. Q: What would a duclod like about the land of the giants? A: Standing in two closets without touching either knob.

In one mysterious letter the sender defined the made-up word duclod as the fusion of two words, dual and closeted, meaning a person who hides his or her sexuality from both gay and straight people. Another letter described the duclod as “bisexual, homophobic, heterophobic, confused.”

The letters were always sent in groups, from four to seven cards reported at a time. They were always postmarked from different, seemingly random parts of the country and always sent during school breaks. Mostly, the letters targeted gay and bisexual seniors. Sometimes they were sent to the student’s school address; sometimes home, possibly in an effort to out the student to his or her parents.

That’s all anyone knew for 14 years. (more…)

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See also the recent Metafilter post (with tons of comments), a previous Mefi post (2001).

Deeply weird. Shit, I’m having a Peter Straub moment.

Deadline extended until May 31st!

Gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men’s gender identities often exist somewhere outside the traditional categories of “masculine” and “feminine.” Sissies, drag queens, and leather daddies alike play with gender in a way that cannot be accounted for in traditional understandings of maleness. This collection — part blog, part anthology, part audiobook — aims to shatter traditional understandings of maleness and point towards a new understanding of how queerness and gender intersect.

BEYOND MASCULINITY is looking for contributions in four key areas. Contributors should not feel bound by these categories – they should rather be seen as potential prompts:

* Identity Intersections: How do race, ability, class, and other kinds of identities and experiences intersect with gender and queerness — and how do these intersections complicate our relationship to traditional understandings of “maleness?”

* Feminism, Gender, and Politics: How can feminism inform our understanding of queer male gender? Can queer men be feminists? How can we use our queerness as a political tool? What does male privilege look like for queer men?

* Bodies, Desire, and Pleasure: What kinds of male bodies are desired? Fetishized? Where does sexual desire intersect with queer gender and how are these politics mapped out on our bodies?

* Queer Male Communities: How are our identities produced through our communities? How do the gender norms and politics of gay/bi/trans/queer male communities both liberate and constrain us?

We’re looking for queer male writers to step up and contribute their thoughts to this online project. This is not your typical bookstore anthology. It will be only available online – and it will be completely free of charge to the public. Wih its unique implementation of media, this anthology aims to change the way queer non-fiction is done.

[via Daily Dose of Queer]

I have been and will be really busy for the next few months, but it’s not the kind of busy I was in the fall, it’s the kind of busy where I leave my house and am social. Here’s what’s shakin’!

Monday, February 19th – 8 to 9.30 pm: $pread Reading
Bowery Poetry Club: 308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB’s; F train to Second Ave, 6 train to Bleecker
Expect performance, literary reading, slideshows and more, as past contributors, artists and featured people take to the stage. Sarah Katherine Lewis, author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It As A Girl for Hire is the featured performer, with appearances by Cristy Road, Diana Cage, Ignacio Rivera, Melissa Ditmore, Molly Crabapple, Nica Jensen, Raven Koch, Sir Loins, Simone Valentino, Virginia West.

Admission: $7 /$5 for sex workers. There will be a discount available at this event for the recent issue of the magazine!

Saturday, March 3rd – 9 pm til the wee hours: The Bi Apple Release Party
Pussycat Lounge – 96 Greenwich St, NYC
Trains: 1, 9, N, R to Rector or 4,5 to Wall Street
Audacia Ray and Bella Vendetta are joining forces to bring you a party for the ages, celebrating the release of Audacia’s porno directorial debut, The Bi Apple, and Bella’s 26th year on this damned planet. We think the best way to commemorate these things is by having a party at a strip club.

The evening’s entertainment includes: A sexy fire performance by Alis On Fire – Burlesque by Cherry Bomb – Lap dances and stripping by BellaVendetta.com models Aubrey and Shy – Suspension performance by Bella Vendetta and Rites of Passage – A cast of pornographic characters await you

PLUS: signing with Audacia Ray and The Bi Apple’s leading lady Simone Valentino, free smut giveaways, filthy raffles, and general debauchery

$10 with RSVP to party@wakingvixen.com
$15 without RSVP

Opening Tuesday, May 1: The Second Annual Sex Worker Visions PLUS One Sex Work Nation Under Dildo
Arena Studios, 407 Broome St, ste 7A (between Centre and Lafayette Streets)
$pread magazine announces its second annual show of sex worker art, in a benefit art exhibition and silent auction, which will include an opening night gala gathering of sex workers and their allies. Sex Worker Visions will feature art work made by sex workers and/or about sex work ­”Sex work” can be interpreted broadly. Erotic images will not take precedence over non-erotic images, in either case, explicitness is welcome.

For the non-artists or otherwise creative types among us, $pread invites sex workers to paint, mutilate, or otherwise decorate sex toys for inclusion in our second annual exhibition of sex worker art. This part of the show, called One Sex Work Nation Under Dildo, will feature pieces from around the country that were painted during salons hosted by local sex positive shops. If you’re interested in organizing an event in your area or submitting work, email me audacia (at) spreadmagazine.org.

Click here for the full call for submissions

Zach Lundin, 16, has brought boyfriends to several dances at his high school in suburban Seattle.

Vance Smith wanted to start a club to support gay students at his rural Colorado school but says administrators balked. At age 15, Vance contacted a New York advocacy group that sent school officials a letter about students’ legal rights. Now 17, Smith has his club.

Gay teenagers are “coming out” earlier than ever, and many feel better about themselves than earlier generations of gays, youth leaders and researchers say. The change is happening in the wake of opinion polls that show growing acceptance of gays, more supportive adults and positive gay role models in popular media.

“In my generation, you definitely didn’t come out in high school. You had to move away from home to be gay,” says Kevin Jennings, 43, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a national group that promotes a positive school climate for gay children. “Now so many are out while they’re still at home. They’re more vocal than we were.”

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