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- From: alan@osf.org (Alan Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: Any (other) UU Bis out there ?
- In-Reply-To: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:05:23 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:14:24 GMT
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- From the _Bisexual Resource List_ (posted the first day of each month):
- | Unitarian-Universalist Bisexual Network (UUBN) newsletter, published
- | occasionally by UUBN. Send US$10 to UUBN, P.O. Box 10818, Portland,
- | Maine 04104, USA, for a membership packet including the newsletter, a
- | copy of the _International Directory of Bisexual Groups_ and lots
- | more.
-
- UUBN was founded by Alan Hamilton (me, current President of the East
- Coast Bisexual Network[ECBN]) and Bobbi Keppel (who is also on the
- Board of Directors of ECBN.)
-
- We put out three issues of the newsletter in 1992, mostly talking
- about bi issues and our bi activist work in the Unitarian Universalist
- Association (UUA.) When you subscribe, you get a big package which
- includes all past newsletters, All of ECBN's pamphlets, and some other
- interesting stuff.
-
- To date, Bobbi and I have written almost everything in it, so feel
- free to include with your US$10 a note about what it is like for you
- being bi, bi issues in the UUA, and being bi in the UUA and UUA
- organizations -- such as Young Religious Unitarian Universalists
- (YRUU) and Unitarian Universalists for Lesbian and Gay Concerns
- (UULGC), telling Bobbi whether or not to include your name if we
- publish it.
-
- Highlights of what we have done this year include:
- o Bobbi has developed a presentation of a modification of the Klein
- Sexual Orientation Grid which we call the Klein Scale. It has proved
- to be extremely useful in helping people to think more flexibly about
- sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and sexual identity, including
- loosening up people (lesbian, gay, and straight) who have taken an
- anti-bi stance.
- o Bobbi and I wrote a pamphlet (published by ECBN) on _Using the
- Klein Scale to Teach about Sexual Orientation_. If you join UUBN now,
- you will get a copy of this and many other pamphlets, which you can
- make available in your UU society (either known or anonymously.)
- o Bobbi volunteered as a district trainer for The Welcoming
- Congregation (TWC program that the OLGC has developed to help
- congregations become more welcoming to lesbian, gay, and bisexual
- people. She did lots of bi consciousness raising at the training
- workshop for the district trainers, including her presentation of the
- Klein Scale. Many people remarked that in the future, that should
- come first, so that people share a common terminology and framework
- for thinking about sexual orientation for the rest of the training.
- Get a copy, and consider ensuring that someone does this presentation
- near the beginning of any group that will be discussing sexual
- orientation.
- o We got _Using the Klein Scale..._ distributed to all TWC district
- trainers.
- o Bobbi attended the continental conference of the Liberal Religious
- Education Directors Association (LREDA) and did a presentation to the
- entire conference
- o Alan is writing another pamphlet, _LesBiGay and Transgender
- Glossary_ for distribution to all TWC district trainers, to help
- people (especially in UU societies where there are no openly LesBiGay
- folks) to learn enough of the vocabulary used in these communities to
- be able to talk with people without using totally offensive language
- from the oppressive culture. If you join now, you will get a copy of
- this as soon as it is available, which you can make available in your
- UU society (either known or anonymously.)
- o Someone has just volunteered to work on a pamphlet on bisexuality
- for youth, and I would very much like some YRUU volunteers to work
- with this person to ensure that it addresses the important issues.
-
- To volunteer to do some work (writing an article for the UUBN
- newsletter; putting out literature at the UULGC conference in Columbus
- OH in February; distributing literature in your UU society or district
- or your YRUU group or conference, working on a pamphlet on bisexuality
- for youth; writing letters to UULGC, OLGC, the UUA President and Board
- of Trustees; etc.) or just to connect with me, you can reach me at
- alan@osf.org.
-
- -Alan Hamilton
-