X-Posted with permission from BiNet USA News and Opinions: News, Essays and Editorials by & for America's Bisexual Community (on LJ as binetusa)

I have been having this conversation with some folk about polyamory and bisexuality. ( Click Here to read an Op-ed piece by 'Groove Thang' )

IMHO "bisexual organizing" has become the "new" feminism.

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According to some recent articles includig this in the Orlando Sentinel: "For a number of gay bars, it's last call" and another one in the business mag Entrepreneur: "10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years" what was once one of the mainstays of LGBT community is going the way of the dinosaur.

The culprit is said to be the growing casual acceptance of LGBT people in American culture by those of bar-hopping age combined with the "graying" of LGBT population who came of age when a stop by the local Lesbian Bar, the Gay Dance Club, etc. was the only social outlet where people could feel safe.

I knew that the inclusion of LGBT materials in the big chain book-stores (both on and off-line) had caused the demise of many small LGBT book-stores, but it did not occur to me that it would also hit the bars. I had somehow assumed that the Cubby Hole, et. al. were forever.

But on the other hand this certainly fits in with what Peter Tatchell has been saying for ages, especially in many of this Queer Theory columns.

I'm marching because I'm scared.
I'm scared because people still feel that serial monogamy is better than polyamory.

I am scared because there are so many people in the LGBT community that are at each others throats.

I'm scared because I was only 4 blocks away when Kevin Aviance was attacked and if I have went west instead of east I might have saved him.

I'm scared because the general populace believes that bisexuality is a phase, be they straight or gay.

I'm scared because there are some gay people no . . . a lot of gay people that are either ashamed or disgusted by effeminate men.
( Read the full essay by The Dandy Man )
This wonderful LGBT Pride essay is X-Posted with permission from The Dandy Man, NYC's own bi stand-up comedian & MC extraordinaire. Those of you who attended last year's NYC's Poly Pride Picnic may remember him as your talented MC.