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has Published the updated Bi Book List that contains 39 books now.  Until they publish it on the website and we can put a link to it; we have it here for you to use and to have for your reference.

Yahoo! Mail - fcclark35@yahoo.com

The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe: Quips, Tips, and Lists for Those Who Go Both Ways

Fun book by Mike Szymanki and Nicole Kristal.
Allow me to entice you with tidbits from this charming book

* You're probably bisexual if...
* How to fulfill a stereotype
* Advantages of being a bi man or bi woman
* telltale signs your "straight" female/male friend is bi
* if you're bi, you're expected to have seen... (movies, not sexual acts)
* tips for str8 gals seducing a bi woman
* recipe for an orgy
* successful and dubious moments in bi history

 Amazon.com has it & Locally Talking Leaves on Main St. carries the book also.

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Adding a Bi Award to the Lammies

On Sunday I received the e-mail below from Wendy, VP at BiNet USA asking for donations to add a Bi Award to the Lammies.  Please read carefully and if you can help Contact Wendy Directly.  This import project will help with Bi Visibility within the queer community and her supporters.  Please let Wendy know you get this info from Chris Clark at Bi-Ways of Western New York
Chris

It's been suggested that the best way to get a bisexual award added to the Lammies (Lambda Literary Foundation annual GLBT literary awards) is to provide the money to make this happen - approx $1000 per year.

BiNet, like most bi organizations, has no spare money for anything.. let alone an award.  But, realizing the importance of said award, I'd be willing to fund raise for it - and negotiate with Lambda over the details / process.  I've even offered to start the fund drive with $200 of my personal funds.

If I can get PLEDGES (don't worry about sending checks yet.. but don't pledge if you don't plan to deliver.  I am a horrible nag and never forget) to cover the rest, I'll start working with Lambda.

So, what about it?  Put your money where your mouth is!  That's; only $10 from 80 people, $1 from 800 people, $100 from 8 people or $200 from 4 people.

Don't forget - BiNet USA is a 501c3 organization.  Donations are tax deductible!

Interested? Send me a pledge ASAP!  I hear time is limited if we wish to accomplish something this year.

Wendy
Wendy Curry
VP, BiNet USA
wendy@BINETUSA.ORG

This year’s winners were:

 The Lambda Literary Foundation held its 17th annual Literary Awards on June 2 at the CUNY Graduate Center , as part of the BookExpo Convention.

The winners were:

Debut Gay Men’s Fiction (including a $1,000 prize)—Blair Mastbaum for “Clay’s Way” (Alyson).

Debut Lesbian Fiction (including a $1,000 prize)—Judith Frank for “Crybaby Butch” (Firebrand).

Gay Men’s Fiction—Colm Tóibín for “The Master” (Scribner’s).

Lesbian Fiction—Stacey D’Erasmo for “A Seahorse Year” (Houghton Mifflin).

Lesbian Poetry—Beverly Burch for “Sweet to Burn” (Gival Press).

Gay Men’s Poetry—Luis Cernuda for “Written in Water” (City Lights Publishers).

Lesbian Mystery—Katherine V. Forrest for “ Hancock Park ” (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group USA ).

Gay Men’s Mystery—Anthony Bidulka for “Flight of Aquavit” (Insomniac Press).

Fiction Anthology—Donald Weise, editor, for “Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction,” selected by Edmund White (Carroll & Graff).

Nonfiction Anthology—Greg Wharton and Ian Philips. editors, for “I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage” (Suspect Thoughts Press).

Memoir—Alison Smith for “Name All the Animals” (Scribner’s).

Biography—Alexis De Veaux for “Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde” (W.W. Norton).

Children’s/Young Adult—Alex Sanchez for “So Hard to Say” (Simon & Schuster).

Humor—David Sedaris for “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denin” (Little, Brown).

Erotica—Richard Labonte, editor, for “Best Gay Erotica 2005” (Cleis Press).

Romance—Steven Kluger for “Almost Like Being in Love” (HarperCollins).

Scifi/Fantasy/Horror—Jim Grimsley for “The Ordinary” (Tor Books).

Spirituality—Will Roscoe for “Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love” (Suspect Thoughts Press).

Drama / Theater—Doug Wright for “I am My Own Wife” (Straus & Giroux).

Visual Arts/Photography—Evan Bachner for “At Ease: Navy Men of World War II” (Harry Abrams).

LGBT Studies—Elisabeth Kirtsoglou for “For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town ”(Routledge).

Transgender—Mariette Pathy Allen for “The Gender Frontier”(Kehrer Verlag).

Films

buffalogaybars.com

Buffalo Gay Bars is a great site to find out where every gay bar is from Syracuse to Buffalo and from Niagara Falls to Erie, PA is.  When and where there are shows and special feature nites and so on.  This site really has it all folks!  Other areas of interest you can click on while you are there are:

This group is based in San Francisco and works on Human Rights issues related to the GLBT community both nationally and internationally.  A great resource to queers and supports of the community for several reasons.  If you are looking for a special cause that needs your time, talent or money - this may be a place to consider.  If you like to be well versed on up on the latest justice issues - here you go.  If you are like a number of people I know of who have loved ones or partners overseas - it may be of use and importance for you.

The above is a link to this organization and you will always have the link at your disposal in two place on the links page of the the www.bwwny.org website.

The document below is their ADP program for Asylum to wet your whistle.  Remember the old saying "Think globally, Act locally." of this wonderful organization.  Until we are all free, no one is free.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/

Introduction to the Asylum Documentation Program

Introduction

Since 1990, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has been documenting worldwide human rights abuses based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV status. Up to date, IGLHRC’s Asylum Documentation Program (ADP), based in San Francisco, has assisted over 6,600 people worldwide.

About IGLHRC's Asylum Documentation Program

The Asylum Documentation Program (ADP) provides support to worldwide claims for political asylum made by those who fear persecution based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV/AIDS status. This is achieved through providing documentation (country packets) on human rights abuses perpetrated against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and those living with HIV/AIDS to their lawyers/advocates, and occasionally to other interested parties. On a limited basis, the Asylum Documentation Program may also provide contact information for immigration advocates who have handled sexual orientation cases.

As part of IGLHRC's ongoing commitment to disseminate information pertaining to the human rights status of LGBT people worldwide, IGLHRC and asylumlaw.org have teamed up to create an online library of the ASYLUM DOCUMENTATION PROGRAM (ADP) of IGLHRC. This library, comprised of country packets, is available to all interested individuals and institutions free of charge. All you have to do is register with Asylumlaw.org, a free website, to gain access to the information. (see instructions below on how to access a country packet online).

Definition of Country Packet

A country packet may contain some or most of the following types of documentation:

• Written decisions from successful court cases (U.S. and foreign tribunals)
• Authoritative declarations on the human rights status of sexual minorities in a particular country
• Advisory opinions from representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Affidavits and/or declarations from country condition experts
• Affidavits or declarations from granted asylum seekers
• Newspaper and/or magazine articles
• Articles published on the Internet by reputable sources
• Reports or books by organizations or researchers on related topics

In order to make our country packets most useful to the public, we regularly update the documentation in the country packets. Also as we continue digitalizing our archives, more information and country packets will be added to this virtual library.

The Purpose of Country Packets

IGLHRC's country packets are an invaluable tool for those seeking asylum based on sexual orientation or HIV status or other type of immigration remedies. Our country packets enable asylum seekers or their legal advocates to provide the immigration authorities with proof of human rights abuses in their country of origin. Our information is also critical to researchers, members of academia, and journalist investigating world-wide persecution of LGBT people and those living with HIV/AIDS. IGLHRC’s country conditions library that begun in 1990 is the world's most complete LGBT documentation library of its kind in the world.

Note: Most of the existing country packets are currently in the form of one single PDF file. In the future, we plan to add updated documentation for each country as individual files. This will give our user the ability to download the document(s) most relevant to their case. Eventually all country packets in our online library will be comprised of individual documents.

Limits

The list of the countries for which we have country packets DOES NOT represent all the countries in the world where there is persecution based on sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV/AIDS status. This list, for the most part, represents countries for which the Asylum Documentation Program of IGLHRC has received requests for documentation since 1990.

Every day in countries throughout the world, the fundamental rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people living with HIV/AIDS are violated. These abuses include: murder, incarceration, forced psychiatric "treatment," torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, denial of the freedoms of association, self-expression, press and movement, denial of the right to seek refuge/asylum, immigration restrictions, forced marriage, the revocation of parental rights and numerous other forms of discrimination. Due to our limited resources, IGLHRC is not in a position to track all instances of human rights abuse in all countries.

Disclaimer

IGLHRC makes every effort to ascertain the accuracy of the items contained in this site which are products of its own research. Nevertheless, some information contained on this site is based on research by third parties unconnected with IGLHRC. Accordingly, IGLHRC or AsylumLaw.org cannot assume any responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this site obtained by third parties.

How to Access A Country Packet online

The country packet is downloadable for free, courtesy of Asylumlaw.org. You can find the full list of countries for which we have digital documentation available on asylumlaw.org.

To access country packets, go to www.asylumlaw.org. On the homepage of that website, you will find a navigation bar at the top of the page. Click on “Legal Tools.” Then, from the “Country or Theme” scroll down menu select the last option, “Sexual minorities & HIV status.” Once you are on the “Sexual Minorities & HIV status” page, you will be on the section of the asylumlaw.org website that is maintained by IGLHRC. You may click on any of the options, including “Organizations” and “Other Relevant Documents/Reports. “ To access country/theme packets, click on “Packets by Theme” or “Packets, by Country of Origin,” located at the bottom of the page.

Please note that IGLHRC’s Asylum documents are accessible without registering with Asylumlaw.org, however if you are an immigration attorney, we encourage you to register with the website to gain access to other sections. The registration is free and it may take a short time before Asylumlaw.org approves your membership. Once you are approved as a member, you can use your log-in name and password to access our country packets as well as other parts of Asylumlaw.org.

If you do not see the country for which you are seeking information on this list, please contact the Asylum Documentation Program at asylum@iglhrc.org, or call 415-398-2759. We may have more country packets that have not yet been posted. Please note that our Asylum Documentation Program library is constantly being updated. Please visit us again in the future as we will continue to update other country packets and post new ones on the website.

Other Informational document packets available Online

In addition to the country packets, we also offer three thematic packets that may compliment a particular case on different topics. You can find the following informational packets online at:

http://www.asylumlaw.org/legal_tools/index.cfm?category=282&countryID=233

Our Thematic Packets include:

1. Islamic World Country Packet: This packet illustrates the difficult juncture between Islam and homosexuality and the impact it may have on LGBT people and those living with HIV/AIDS in different countries.

2. Lesbian Issues Packet: This packet was created to further support the asylum claims of lesbians, who because they are women, may face other types of issues not shared with homosexual men.

3. Transgender Issues Packet: This packet has been put together to assist immigration attorneys and asylum-seekers in front of an immigration judge or immigration authority who may be unfamiliar with transgender issues.

Support our Work!

IGLHRC and the Asylum Documentation Program have made every effort to keep this library free of charge to potential asylum seekers, immigration attorneys, paralegals, law students, researchers and others. Your donation will enable us to expand our resources and help other people who need our support. You can make a donation online at this address:

http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/content.php?type=10&id=1

Submitting New Information about LGBT Human Rights Violations

We always welcome new information that points to any government’s human rights violations or persecution toward LGBT people and those with HIV/AIDS.

If you have information you would like to share about worldwide human rights violations against LGBT people or those living with HIV/AIDS, please send it, preferably as a PDF file, to asylum@iglhrc.org. You can also submit a URL link to the webpage where we can find the information, or if you prefer, simply snail mail us the article.

The ADP will review your submissions and if we find the information relevant and reliable, we will add it to our online library. Your contribution to the library will be greatly appreciated by other visitors to our site.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - Human Rights For Everyone. Everywhere.

Below is a great site for queer spiritual men.  If there is one for womyn I have not found it and would be happy to hear that there is one to add to our Links page.

It covers and gives suggestions on how to heal and to have a spirituality either tied to a major world religion or belief system, or to create your own drawing from different traditions.  If your spiritual or want to be again this is the place to start regardless of your faith background.  Peace!

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