Celebrate Bisexuality Day
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|holiday_name=Celebrate Bisexuality Day
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|nickname=Bisexual Pride Day
|observedby=Bisexual community and their families, friends and allies
|date=[[September 23]]
|observances=[[Teach-in|Teach-ins]], [[Poetry reading]], [[Concerts]], [[Festivals]], [[Parties]], [[Picnics]]
|type=
|significance=
|relatedto= [[Gay Pride|LGBT Pride]]}}
'''Celebrate Bisexuality Day''' is observed on [[September 23]] by members of the [[Bisexual community]] and their allies.<ref>Yes, 23 is everywhere. ''The Planet Star''. http://www.thestar.com/News/article/181696</ref><ref>Weekend Festivities Celebrate Bisexuality. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDE74689F182A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM</ref><ref>''Celebrate Bisexuality Day''. University of Calgary Undergraduate Student Newsweekly. http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/4429</ref>
This day is a call for bisexual people and their families, friends and allies to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, [[bisexual history]], [[Bisexual community]] and culture, and the bisexual people in their lives.<ref>BiSexuality Day. Celebrate Bisexuality Day. http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?1999/09/23/2</ref><ref>Celebrate Bisexuality day" press release. http://www.egale.ca/index.asp?lang=E&menu=42&item=1078</ref><ref>Toronto Bisexual Network: Celebrate Bisexuality Day http://www.torontobinet.org/culture.htm</ref>
First observed in 1999<ref>Day celebrates bisexuality, dispels myths. ''The Michigan Daily''. http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-24-99/news/news2.html</ref><ref>Bi Community Celebrates. Bay Windows; 9/25/2003, Vol. 21 Issue 41, p3-3, 1/4p</ref>, Celebrate Bisexuality Day is the brainchild of three [[United States]] bisexual [[civil rights|rights]] [[activism|activists]] — [[Wendy Curry]] of [[Maine]], [[Michael Page (Activist)|Michael Page]] of [[Florida]], and [[Gigi Raven Wilbur]] of [[Texas]].<ref>Scene Around Town. Bay Windows; 9/28/2000, pN.PAG, 00p</ref>Wilbur said,
{{cquote|Ever since the [[Stonewall riots|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 [[biphobia|prejudice]] and [[Bisexual erasure|marginalization]] of the [[bisexual|bisexual persons]] by some in both the [[heterosexual|straight]] and greater [[LGBT]] communities.
In its first year, an observance was held during the [[International Lesbian and Gay Association]], which occurred during the week of the 23rd. While at first it only took hold in areas with an extremely strong bisexual presence, it now features event such as discussions, dinner parties and dances in [[Toronto]] and a large masquerade ball in [[Queensland, Australia]]. At [[Texas A&M University]], the week featured discussion panels and question-and-answer sessions.<ref>Texas A&M University Gender Issues Education Center Programs and Events http://studentlife.tamu.edu/giec/programs.htm</ref> It has also been celebrated in [[Germany]], [[Japan]], [[New Zealand]], [[Sweden]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>Bisexuality Day. http://planetout.com/news/article.html?1999/09/23/2</ref><ref>Bikonferens - Bisexual Conference in Sweden during Celebrate Bisexuality Day! http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/guide/country_by_country/sweden/bikonferens_bisexual_conference_in_sweden_during_celebrate_bisexuality_day</ref><ref>UK Events to mark International Celebrate Bisexuality Day http://september23.bi.org/</ref>
==See also==
* [[Bisexual community]]
* [[Bisexual Pride Flag]]
* [[Wendy Curry]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.biresource.org/category/celebrate-bisexuality-day/ International Celebrate Bisexuality Day]
*[http://www.geocities.com/bihouseusa/index.html A Celebrate Bisexuality Day Announcement]
*[http://www.biresource.org/bbwn/Dec99.html#Celebrating Celebrating Bisexuality] by [[Wendy Curry]] in [[BiWomen]] Vol. 17 No. 6 Dec 1999/Jan 2000
*[http://www.binetusa.org/curriedspam.html#cbd What's in a Name?] by [[Wendy Curry]] in Curried Spam September 2007
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