Hi,

I am an attractive 49yo lady and in a long time relationship with a
gorgeous masculine man of 59. He is a gentleman but sexy and I am
definitely bi and he is straight. We would like ot meet a lovely lady
between 45 - 55 to spoil and spice up our sex life with. We both have
strong sex drives.

We are both educated and travelled, non smokers and are social drinkers.
We are clean and do not do any drugs AT ALL. Would you like to be
pampered?

Hope you email me soon,

cmkerrie  oo0





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OMG I'm so sorry. I missed this message. I'd love to hear more about you.

Are you in a couple or single?

What are you into?

Janey


--- In toowoombabiwomen@..., "saltnpepper27" <saltnpepper27@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In toowoombabiwomen@..., "Jane (well Duh!)"
> <brisjane89@> wrote:
> > Hey jane I'm available if you're still looking for some fun in
> Toowoomba. I'm 18, petite, red hair and looking for a wild time. If
> you're interested you can email me at saltnpepper277@...
>
> > New here, not very experienced. I visit friends in Toowoomba and
> would like some fun times
> > when I'm there. I'm 18, slim-medium build, gray eyes, blond hair.
> >
> > I really don;t know what to put here. I'm bi, I like girls, I like
> guys, I like dogs, I like hot dogs,
> > I like icecream.
> >
> > I found some groups that might interest some of the members here
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TWBAAdultFun/
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SEQBiGirls/
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QldGirlsGuide/
> >
>

--- In toowoombabiwomen@..., "Jane (well Duh!)"
<brisjane89@...> wrote:
> Hey jane I'm available if you're still looking for some fun in
Toowoomba. I'm 18, petite, red hair and looking for a wild time. If
you're interested you can email me at saltnpepper277@...

> New here, not very experienced. I visit friends in Toowoomba and
would like some fun times
> when I'm there. I'm 18, slim-medium build, gray eyes, blond hair.
>
> I really don;t know what to put here. I'm bi, I like girls, I like
guys, I like dogs, I like hot dogs,
> I like icecream.
>
> I found some groups that might interest some of the members here
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TWBAAdultFun/
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SEQBiGirls/
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QldGirlsGuide/
>

Lez (Aus)tralia

Lesbian (& Bi) girls in Australia

LADIES ONLY

http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/leztralia/

New here, not very experienced. I visit friends in Toowoomba and would like some
fun times
when I'm there. I'm 18, slim-medium build, gray eyes, blond hair.

I really don;t know what to put here. I'm bi, I like girls, I like guys, I like
dogs, I like hot dogs,
I like icecream.

I found some groups that might interest some of the members here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TWBAAdultFun/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SEQBiGirls/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QldGirlsGuide/

----- Original Message -----
From: info
To: info@...
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:52 PM
Subject: International Women's Day 2008




Queensland Women: Shaping the Future



International Women’s Day is held each year on 8 March.  It is a time for
women to unite and fight for equal opportunity, fair and safe working conditions
and a peaceful society.



This year the Queensland Government encourages all women to challenge the
media’s and society’s fixation on the ideal body.



The theme ‘Queensland Women: Shaping the Future’ aims to inspire women and
girls to look beyond appearance.  To look into themselves rather than at
themselves. By remembering their actions mean more than their looks, Queensland
women will truly embrace the spirit of International Women’s Day 2008.



The Office for Women encourages all Queensland women to celebrate International
Women’s Day. Free publications and resources for community celebrations will
be available for distribution throughout Queensland soon. From mid-January, you
will be able to order International Women’s Day 2008 posters, postcards,
bookmarks, balloons and stickers.



For more information about International Women’s Day, please visit
www.women.qld.gov.au, call Women’s Infolink on 1800 188 577, or email
info@....




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QuAC Media Release Template







       MEDIA RELEASE



       Date  21 / 11 / 2007




       MAJOR PARTIES RESPOND TO PRE-ELECTION POLL ON GAY AND LESBIAN HEALTH



       As this weekend's Federal election looms, Labor, the Greens and the
Democrats have all committed to improving the health and wellbeing of
Australia's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community.



       The commitments from the three parties are contained in their responses to
a questionnaire from the National GLBT Health Alliance, a coalition of
organisations from across Australia that provide programs, services and research
in the areas of

       GLBT health and HIV/AIDS.



       The questionnaire was sent to the major parties after the election was
called five weeks ago.



       The parties were asked to provide commitments on a range of issues
important to GLBT health and wellbeing  including ageing, HIV and sexual health,
alcohol and drug use, mental health, violence and homophobia, Indigenous health,
rural issues, relationship recognition and other forms of legislative
discrimination.



       Responses were received from Labor, the Greens and the Democrats. No
responses were received from the Coalition or Family First.



       Alliance spokesperson David Scamell says the ALP committed to a range of
measures to improve GLBT health while the Greens and Democrats provided general
support across the board.



       "It's unfortunate that the Coalition and Family First have chosen not to
respond as this makes it difficult to provide a full comparative analysis," he
says. "However, we'll be using the results of this questionnaire to put pressure
on Labor, the Greens and the Democrats to honour their commitments should any of
those parties hold power in either House after the election."



       Among Labor's responses, the party has committed to a review of the aged
care industry to ensure it meets the needs of GLBT people and to extending the
$290 million Commonwealth Dental Health Program to low-income people living with
HIV/AIDS. Labor has also committed to implementing the HREOC recommendations on
same-sex entitlements as well as funding an education program about the new
laws.



       The Democrats also committed to implementing the HREOC reforms and to
establishing a special Commonwealth advisory panel on GLBT health. The Democrats
also committed to reviewing mental health services for GLBT people and supported
better funding for each of the National HIV/AIDS, STI and Hep C Research
Centres.



       The Greens went one step further than the HREOC recommendations and
committed to removing all discrimination against same-sex couples and their
families. The party also committed to increased funding for a range of measures
to tackle rising HIV infection rates, including support for health-oriented
school education programs.



       The parties' full responses to the questionnaire are available on the
Alliance website: www.glbthealth.org.au



       Paul R Martin
       General Manager


       Queensland Association for Healthy Communities Inc.
       PO Box 1372, Eagle Farm BC, QLD 4009
       30 Helen Street, Newstead Q. 4006
       Ph. (07) 3017 1791
       Fax (07) 3852 5200

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He is 19yo, 6"3' tall, with dirty blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and a
sexy bum. She is 19yo, 172cm tall, with red hair, brown eyes and a
cheeky smile. You are 18-27yo, smart, funny, and looking for a
fuckbuddy (or two).

Send your picture to dave.kitty@... or dave.kitty@...

We'll make all your fantasies come true ;-)

Hi Jude
        add me to your messenger and we can chat
Cheers

--- In toowoombabiwomen@..., jude_waite <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In toowoombabiwomen@..., "Ralph"
> <haveachat2001@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there
> >          we are a couple looking for bi ladies so if you like to
> drop
> > us a line we will get back to you
> > bye for now
> > haveachat and o4
> well i am interested but a bit shy at replying  to this letter as i
> have only had one experience with a female and 1 experience with a
> couple so far i am not a bad looker but the body work needs a bit
> of panel work but the engine still works and has a high sex drive
> under the bonnet well leave it for your response i will be in
> toowoomba this coming weekend staying with a girlfriend if your
> interested in hooking up jude
> >
>

--- In toowoombabiwomen@..., "Ralph"
<haveachat2001@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi there
>          we are a couple looking for bi ladies so if you like to
drop
> us a line we will get back to you
> bye for now
> haveachat and o4
well i am interested but a bit shy at replying  to this letter as i
have only had one experience with a female and 1 experience with a
couple so far i am not a bad looker but the body work needs a bit
of panel work but the engine still works and has a high sex drive
under the bonnet well leave it for your response i will be in
toowoomba this coming weekend staying with a girlfriend if your
interested in hooking up jude
>

Hi there
          we are a couple looking for bi ladies so if you like to drop
us a line we will get back to you
bye for now
haveachat and o4

This looks like it will be a fun evening and night at a truly great location and
for a really worthwhile cause. Check out the details on the website - link at
bottom of page. Perhaps we could get a group of Bi people going, book rooms as
same motel/hotel, car pool, etc. Let me know if you are interested in going. I
am.
Wayne (Bi Network tel. 07-38572500)

----- Original Message -----
From: eventoura
To: ausbinet@...
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:53 PM
Subject: Charity Gala Night The Abused Child Trust- Priscilla in the Vineyard


As the event organiser of ‘Priscilla in the Vineyard’ on Saturday, 6th May 2006,
I have had great interest from, business firms and social clubs here in
Brisbane, Toowoomba, and Stanthorpe.


This has bought me to the decision, to personally invite certain social clubs
and their friends, to come and join us in what’s sure to be a wonderful evening
of great wine, food and entertainment set in the beautiful setting amongst the
vineyards at the "Ballandean Estate Winery, Ballandean located 10 minutes from
Stanthorpe.


With special guest star, compere Bob Downe who is sure to have you laughing
hysterically and will entertain throughout the night.


Dance to the sounds of "Tambu" a quality 7-piece band with 3 vocalists who
played at the Brisbane Lord Mayors New Years Eve Ball, and the exciting sounds
of calypso band "Pantastic" with their colourful dancers, the "Priscilla
production" featuring feathers, sequins and glitter and light show, which is
sure to dazzle and delight every guest supported by a performance from "Cabaret"
by the "Twang Gang".


A percentage of the ticket sales will be donated to ‘The Abused Child Trust’.


For further information you can have a look at the web site

www.priscillainthevineyard.com.au or contact myself Mandi Berther at
mandi@... or on 0438 012 663.

Look forward to your feedback

Kindest regards

Mandi Berther


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hi i love it
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

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Important message for those living in or visiting Queensland.

----- Original Message -----
From: info@...
To: info@...
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 12:25 AM
Subject: Walksafe New Website and online reporting



       WALKSAFE

       has a

       NEW WEBSITE & ONLINE REPORTING

       www.walksafe.org

       "everyone has the
       right to feel safe"

       Walksafe provides the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
(LGBTI) communities in Queensland with information about how to report any level
of violence, harassment, threats and verbal abuse towards someone?s sexuality or
gender identity.


       BE CONFIDENT, STAY ALERT & TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS

                  Be Aware
             Self Awareness
             How to Make a Police Report
             2004 Walksafe Research Report
             LGBTI Police Liaison Officers Contact List

       Safety Training Program offered by Queensland Police


       All online reports will be sent to the nearest LGBTI officer and discussed
at the six weekly Walksafe meetings with the Queensland Police. The question
still remains if violence or verbal abuse is experienced by LGBTI communities in
Queensland. The police crime reports do not show these figures!

       "The 2004 Walksafe research data suggests that 12% had experienced
physical attacks and that 80% had experienced verbal abuse within the inner city
areas in a three month period"

       This is one of the main reasons for the development of this new website.
No personal details will be given in the data collection.

       The website also gives information about how to reduce risk of attacks,
how to make a correct police crime report and the stages of the process of a
crime report.  This website has been sponsored in the creation and supported by
Counselling & Community Solutions; the web space was donated by Queer Web Space.

       Counselling & Community Solutions new workshop

       "Break Ups - Building Future Realities in Healing a Broken Heart"

       www.whatworks.net.au

             Kind Regards

             Darryl Scott

             Walksafe Co-ordinator


       04 February 2006


Please share this information with others via the internet, apologies for any
double ups on email address



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Anyone in toowoomba wanna hookup!

Some of the Bi folk around Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast & Toowoomba
might like to get together and attend this. It is great to see Options open
again.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: info
To: Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: FW: It's SHOWTIME.. The Twang Gang's Back.. "Disco Fever" 3rd December
2005i




For everyone's Information



From: the twang gang [mailto:the_twang_gang@...]
Sent: 29 November 2005 01:48
To: the_twang_gang@...
Subject: It's SHOWTIME.. The Twang Gang's Back.. "Disco Fever" 3rd December
2005i





       vent: "Disco Fever" - Dance Party

       Date: Saturday 3rd December 2005

       Time: 9pm - 3am

       Venue: Options Nite Club

       Address: 18 Little Edward Street, Spring Hill

       Cost: $10/15

       FREE Entry: SAGITTARIAN's - Happy Birthday! [just show your ID to Mr.Fyre
at the door]

       Dress Code: RETRO!!!

       Showtime: 10pm .. 11pm .. Midnight [showcase] .. 1am [finale]

       Bonus: Games .. Prizes .. "Pot 'o' Gold" [midnight]

       Seated Reservations Available: please call mobile .. 0413 117 819

       Starring: The Twang Gang & Guests .. Sofia & Divo [10pm] +  Alexei Page
[11pm]

       DJ's: ManiQueen + Denny D + Mischka.



       Invite your friends along to experience .. The Twang Gang's magik &
another Great Night Out?!?



       If you want to SIT and Enjoy the Show .. Seated Reservations are Available
& Essential

       OR Standing Tickets available at the door.





       more details & reservations
       M: 0413 117 819
       E: the_twang_gang@...
       www.twanggang.org.au



       ps. Thanx to everyone for creating another fantastic atmosphere at our
last show ..

       Such a Great Night Out!!!








       * * * * * * * * * * * * *


       COMING UP




       * NEW YEARS EVE *
       Saturday 31st December 2005
       "Dangerous Liaisons" - NYE MasKerade Glow Ball
       [capricorn's free entry]






Please.. Invite Your Friends Along to Experience The Twang Gang's Magic and A
Great Night Out?

[seated reservations essential .. standing tickets available at the door]



See You There...

The Twang Gang

x x x x x x x x x x x



www.twanggang.org.au



The Twang Gang's available for your next..

Commitment...Soiree...Everything!

"If it ain't got a Twang.. It don't mean a Thang!"



TTG's upgrading our email database.. Apologies for any cross-postings.. or
unwanted contact..



If you don't want to receive Twang Gang News..?

Please reply "no more it hurts"



Hope your Daze Great?!




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Brisbane's Bi Coffee & Chat is on at the PL8 Restaurant (previously named
the ScooZi Cafe), Eildon Road, Windsor, Brisbane (just off Lutwyche Road
before Windsor Station). We will be at one of the outside tables from 7:30pm
to around 9:30pm. Call the Bi Network on (07)38572500 or text 0416068532 for
further information. Coffee nites are held 2nd Friday and 4th Thursday each
month. Come along, meet others, chat about issues or just generally, have a
meal, drinks from bar or coffee/tea and snack.

We may go from there for drinks, dancing to a bar or club afterwards from
about 9.30pm.

Wayne.

Just a last minute reminder that the Brisbane Pride Rally, March and Fair
Day is on tomorrow (Saturday) from 11am in King George Square the City then
march to Musgrave Park, South Brisbane for the Fair.

Wayne

For Queensland people - please consider taking part in this online survey. Make
sure our bisexual voices are heard.

----- Original Message -----
From: Hilary Knack [mailto:hknack@...]
Sent: 31 March 2005 10:20
Subject: Private Lives Survey


PLEASE FORWARD THROUGHOUT YOUR NETWORKS

The Private Lives Survey closes at the end of April.  GLHV has offered to write
a specific report in relation to the data collected from the QLD responses.  To
make this beneficial to the QLD community we need as many people within QLD to
participate.  Thanks for your assistance.

Kind Regards

Hilary Knack

Senior Project Officer - LGBT Health Systems





www.privatelivessurvey.com.au

  Private Lives is the biggest and most ambitious research survey of the health
and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people ever conducted in
Australia. It is being carried out through Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
(www.glhv.com.au)  in partnership with the Australian Research Centre in Sex,
Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University

   The survey covers areas of general health, psychological wellbeing, health
service utilisation, relationships, sexual and reproductive health, sexual
activity, pregnancy and parenting, internet use and experiences of
discrimination.

  The survey  takes about 20 - 25 minutes to complete and is completely
confidential. Participants must be over 16 and should identify as gay, lesbian,
bisexual or transgender. No identifying information will be collected and the
survey is set up at a secure URL provided by our net space provider. No staff at
either the provider site or at ARCSHS will have access to participants' IP
addresses, nor will email addresses be required.

The research that will be generated by the Private Lives survey will benefit the
GLBT community as a whole by capturing a clearer understanding of the way public
health strategies affect individuals in our community. It will also help to
guide the implementation of services that are more relevant and appropriate to
individuals within it. Your input thereby has the potential to influence the
scope of what the public health sector has to offer the queer community and to
modify the way health professionals interact with individuals within that
community. The data will be analysed and results published in a widely
distributed report which will also be online at the survey site.

We would therefore really appreciate any support you can give us to make the
survey as successful as possible, in particular participating in the survey if
you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender and/or telling as many GLBTI
people you know who live anywhere in Australia about the survey. Their
participation and forwarding of this e-mail to others who might be interested in
participating would be great.

Please feel free to promote the survey on your website with the attached links.
Small business cards to promote the survey are also available in bulk for
distribution. If you would like any information or business cards please contact
info@....  Or 03 9285 5382 .

Regards and many thanks,

The GLHV Team.

  --Hilary Knack--

Senior Project Officer - LGBT Health Systems

Queensland AIDS Council

PO Box 3142

SOUTH BRISBANE 4101

Phone  07 3017 1793

Fax      07 3844 4206

Email   hknack@...

Web     www.quac.org.au



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The information in these documents is confidential and is intended for the
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distribution, or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly
prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please contact us
immediately by telephone so that we can arrange for its return.






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Hi all,

Brisbane's Bi Coffee & Chat is on at the new PL8 Restaurant (previously
ScooZi Cafe), Eildon Road, Windsor, Brisbane (just off Lutwyche Road before
Windsor Station). We will be at one of the outside tables from 7:30pm to
around 9:30pm. Call the Bi Network on (07)38572500 or text 0416068532 for
further information. Coffee nite is held 2nd and 4th Thursdays each month.
Come along, meet others, chat about issues or just generally, have a meal,
drinks from bar or coffee/tea and snack.

We may also go for drinks at Wickham Hotel, Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley
afterwards from about 9.30pm.

Wayne

Highly recommended, don't miss out. Head to Sydney for this Biversity Party and
take in other Mardi Gras Festival activities while in town.

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham McKay
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [AusBiNet] How hot can Biversity get?


The Bi community in Sydney is starting to get hot and sweaty - and not just
because of the weather. The word is out about the next Biversity dance party. To
be one of those in the know read the details from Mr Biversity below, then grab
your 2005 diary and make sure you'll be available for OUR part of the Mardi Gras
festival.

Regards,
Graham

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


The Biversity Team and the good folks of Bi-NSW Inc would like to send you the
warmest wishes for the New Year.

Those of you who can’t think of the right gift for the person who already has
everything but can’t do without the prezzie thing around this time of the year,
prick your ears for we might just give you the idea that your inspiration has
been wanting. I am sure not EVERYBODY already has a harness, a collar and leash
or a straight jacket, but if they do, just buy them a ticket for…

BIVERSITY UNLEASHED

An event of the 2005 Mardi Gras Festival Calendar! So be on your best behaviour
and make sure we leave an impression on the flock of local and visiting queers
and their friends in Sydney.

Saturday, 26 February 2005
Lava Bar & Bat Bar
Burdekin Hotel
2 Oxford Street
Darlinghurst

Unleash your desires, let loose your instincts, unbridle your impulse and set
your spirit free – or as it were – keep them bridled, restrained, tethered or
strapped. If not your own, then maybe those of your pet, whose good conduct
might induce you to let it play unleashed, alongside some of its kind, equally
untethered.

Some of the DJs and performers have already been confirmed and - without telling
you too much (or anything at all, really) - I can assure you that you'll like
what we're working on.

Tickets will go on sale in the New Year. They will be $30 for all SBN Members
(so sign up pets!) and presales at the usual outlets; they will be $35 on door.
We’ll let you know when and where you can get them. But if you want to be among
the first to find out, you just need to register with Biversity Info Group; just
visit www.bi.org.au/biversity and scroll down to the bottom of the page where
you can drop in your email address to receive updates on this and future parties
well ahead of the world outside.

Until then peace and love and much respect!

p.


«After all, why is it more disturbing to see two men dance than fight?»
Anon


Peter Schneider
(Bi-NSW Inc.)
Biversity Event Promotions

biversity@...

tel: +61 (0)401 039 022








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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bundy_bi_girls

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Downs_Bi_Adults

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oz_grrls

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toowoomba

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brisbane_GLBT_Witches

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SEQAdultFun

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coffee_and_s_e_x

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pleasure_activism_au/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LifestylePoliticalActivism/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WFQ

We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

Bi Coffee & Chat - Brisbane, Queensland

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004
Time: 7:30PM - 9:30PM EST (GMT+10:00)

The Bi Coffee & Chat is on again at ScooZi Cafe, Eildon Road (enter from
Lutwyche Road), Windsor, Brisbane (next to Windsor Railway Station). Call
the Bi Network on (07)38572500 or text 0416068532. Look for us outside main
entrance on right or ask at counter for the ABN group.

Wayne

Go Bi at Pride.

Yes Brisbane's and Queensland's 15th Pride Festival is here.

Show your support of the bisexual community and rock along to King George
Square in Brisbane City for 10:00am on Saturday 12th June. Following a
Rally, we will MARCH with lots of other groups and individuals to Musgrave
Park, South Brisbane at 11:00am for the annual Fair Day. The Fair Day runs
from 11:30am to 7:00pm and is followed by the After Party from 7:00pm to
2:00am, Downstairs at South Leagues Club, (Davies Park), Joan Street, West
End. Entry is $9 at the door but to avoid missing out, get your tickets at
the PRIDE tent at the Fair. If you ain't been to anything else this year ya
gotta get along to the Rally, March, Fair and Party this Saturday. Show you
are Bi and buy a Pride Spot to stick on your chest or wherever. This is
really a great fun day for you and all the family.

The party continues on Sunday 13th June with the Queen's Ball at Casino
Nightclub 1936, from 8:00pm to late. Dress is Masquerade. Entry is $15
presale or $20 at the door.

So cum join us at the Rally and march in Bi style. For Bi queeries call
Wayne on 38572500 or 0416068532.

Don't see many ppl comin here any more what all u ppl doin? the net
seams pretty quiet now days , wounder if msn chat will be back to
normal again one day , yahoo seams to still be slow
im still here

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 00:02:37 +1000
    From: "Glenn Vassallo" <glenn@...>
Subject: Updated bi.org.au free personals

The bi.org.au personals have been updated! They now include a number of
features to assist you in connecting with others.

All old ads have been removed to make way for these improvements, so please
add your profile again.

Search Profiles - http://bi.org.au/personals/  (Not many yet, just getting
started)
Add New Profile - http://bi.org.au/personals/add.htm

Bi.org.au personals are set up to service a number of relationship types
including Casual Sex, Monogamous Relationships, Polyamorous Relationships,
Bi Swingers, Mixed Swingers, Straight Swingers, BDSM/DS/Fetish and
Friendship.

The improvements have also made the site more accessible to all genders and
sexualities.

We hope you enjoy the update bi.org.au free personals.

Glenn Vassallo
bi.org.au Editor
http://bi.org.au

Bi.org.au is a community project of Bi Pride Australia.

Please contribute if you can.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robyn Ochs" <ochs@...>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:34 PM
Subject: URGENT: Call for SHORT writing on bisexuality
>
> Following is the call for writing for the book I am working on.  Please
> pass it along to anyone who might be interested.
>
> The book is an international anthology, and I currently have writings from
> 21 countries.  Though this is much better than most "international
> anthologies" I've come across, I'm still trying to improve on this.
>
> Currently, there is only one submission from each of the following
> countries: Australia, India, Philippines, Brazil, South Africa, and
> Japan, and no others from Asia or the Pacific.  Make sure that your
> country is better represented in this new book!
>
> Robyn Ochs
>
>
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===================
>
> My name is Robyn Ochs, and I am the editor of a new book, which
> will be called _Getting Bi: Essential Resources for Bisexuals
> and Other Folks Along the Sexuality Spectrum_.
>
> Part of the book is an anthology of short writings (between a paragraph
> and a page) on bisexuality. Possible topics include: what is bisexuality?;
> living my bisexual life; my bisexual politics; bis in relationships;
> crossing lines (intersections of identities); coming out as bisexual;
> bisexual community.  Basically, tell your personal story!
>
> If you identify as bi... or knows someone else who does, PLEASE sit down
> and write!
>
> I am not looking for professional, polished writing. What we want you to
> do is sit down and write ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE.  My idea is to have the
> writers span the spectrum from professional writers to people who have
> never before published even a letter to the editor. Each essay should be
> accompanied by a 1 or 2 sentence bio and (ideally) a photo or sketch of
> the author).
>
> Essays must be received by March 10th, 2004.
> Thanks,
> Robyn Ochs
> robyn@...
>
>

MessageThe biggest bisexual party in Australia - don't miss out on being there -
Sydney 28 February 2004.

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BIVERSITY 2004
BISEXUAL CHEMISTRY · EXPERIMENT WITH US

DJs
Gemma & Seymore Butz
Sveta
Flair

visuals
Eskatonia

performances
FireArtFanatics

roaming random performers

Saturday 28 February 20004
Lava Bar
Level 3
Burdekin Hotel
2 Oxford Street

tickets $20
from Toolshed Stores
Oxford Street Darlinghurst
King Street Newtown
or
$25 on the door.

afterparty @ Gilligans with half-price cocktails* for those with Biversity
afterparty flyers.
*conditions apply

more information call 0401 039 022
or visit
www.bi.org.au/biversity

Yahoo! Groups Links

   a.. To visit your group on the web, go to:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biversity-info/



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Hi,

Here are the details for our next coffee & chat evening at Windsor in
Brisbane. You are welcome if you can make it along, if not it is on
fortnightly.
Wayne (ABN)

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From: <AusBiNet@yahoogroups.com>
To: <AusBiNet@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: [AusBiNet] Reminder - Bi Coffee & Chat - Brisbane


>
> We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.
>
> Bi Coffee & Chat - Brisbane
>
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2004
> Time: 7:30PM - 9:30PM EST (GMT+11:00)
>
> Quiet, discrete coffee and chat evening for Bi people, partners
> & friends welcome. We meet fortnightly at ScooZi Cafe, Eildon
> Road (enter from Lutwyche Road), Windsor, Brisbane (next to
> Windsor Railway Station). We sit out side to right side of
> entrance. Call the Bi Network on (07)38572500 or text
> 0416068532.
>

Hi all, you might find this article from the Washington Post of interest and
worth printing for anyone building up a resource collection of bisexual and
related articles. The link to the article is:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53140-2004Jan4.html

The text is below. Happy New Year to all from the Australian Bisexual Network.

Partway Gay?
For Some Teen Girls, Sexual Preference Is A Shifting Concept
By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 4, 2004; Page D01


Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, and make way for the younger girls. Way younger,
actually, and way different from what most people think of as lesbians.

You can see this new trend on Friday nights outside Union Station, sweethearts
from high schools around the Washington area, some locking lips, others hanging
out in their tight blue jeans and puffy winter parkas, talking on their cell
phones.

You can see them in the hallways of high schools like South Lakes in Reston,
Magruder in Rockville or Coolidge in the District. In 2002 at Coolidge, a
teacher got so fed up with girls nuzzling each other in class and other public
places that he threatened to send any he saw to the principal's office. He
admitted to students that he wouldn't report boy-girl kisses, setting off a
furor among a student body that, the year before, had chosen a lesbian pair as
the school's cutest couple.

These girls pack Ani DiFranco concerts and know tATu lyrics by heart. Their
attention is usually directed exclusively at each other but not always: A group
of girls at a private school in Northwest Washington charge boys $10 to watch
the girls make out in front of them. At one school dance earlier last year, a
chaperon had to break up a group of guys circled around two girls kissing,
according to other girls who were there.

Maybe the teenage exhibitionists were just yanking guys' chains, or hoping to
prove how sexy they are, or copying Britney and Madonna. But it's also possible
they were enjoying themselves. There's no way for an outsider to know, for in
the protean world of young female sexuality, where all forms of expression are
modeled, nothing is certain.

Social scientists say that 5 percent to 7 percent of young people are gay or
lesbian, and that teenagers are starting at younger ages to have same-sex sexual
experiences: 13 for boys, 15 for girls.

But those figures don't begin to tell the full story about today's girls because
girls, more often than boys, experiment with their sexuality and resist being
placed in any particular group.

Chanda Harris, a junior at High Road Upper School in Beltsville, is one of these
girls. She's standing outside Union Station on a cold Friday night, waiting for
her girlfriend and holding three giant helium balloons in celebration of her
friend's birthday.

The girls around her from various high schools -- Bladensburg in Maryland,
Anacostia, Ballou, Cardozo and Coolidge in the District -- converge to hear what
she has to say.

She started going out with girls when she was 14, following a breakup with her
boyfriend.

"At first I thought going out with a girl was nasty," she says. "Then I went to
a club and did a big flip-flop. I've been off and on with girls and guys since
then."

Another girl, a junior at Anacostia High, says her first love was a guy now in
the Marines and stationed in North Carolina. She dated Kenny for two years and
his picture adorns her bedroom wall.

But now she's dating a female high school basketball player. "Whoever likes me,
I like them," she says matter-of-factly.

A world away, on the campus of Brown University, Chloe Root, a sophomore with a
penchant for bright-colored, funky skirts from secondhand stores, also prefers
to keep her options open.

She had her first crush on a girl at age 12 but dated guys, including one with
whom she thought she was in love, until her senior year in high school in Ann
Arbor, Mich. Then she fell in love with a girl a year behind her in school and
has been going out with her ever since.
"If something happened to my relationship with Julie, I could see myself with a
boy again," Root says. "There are some days I notice I'm thinking girls are
pretty, and other days I'm thinking there are a lot of good-looking guys at this
school."

So are these girls bisexual? Perhaps. But they prefer descriptions like
"gayish," questioning, even "queer" -- an umbrella description so broad,
according to Root, that it encompasses straights as well as gays.

Try this on, Mr. and Mrs. America: These girls say they don't know what they are
and don't need to know. Adolescence and young adulthood is a time for
exploration and they should feel free to love a same-sex partner without
assuming that is how they'll spend the rest of their lives.

"I like women only right now," says Cary Trainor, also a Brown sophomore and a
self-defined lesbian since high school. "But who knows where I'll be in 25
years?"

Even gay rights veterans such as David Shapiro struggle to explain such
equivocation.

Shapiro is head of the Edmund Burke School, a private, college-preparatory
program in Northwest Washington. In 2002, Burke held a "diversity day" assembly
in which students and teachers stood together in a circle. An adult leader took
the group through various exercises, and in one of those, participants were
asked to move inside the circle if they defined themselves as gay or lesbian.

One female teacher stepped forward, but no students did.

Then the leader called for those who thought of themselves as bisexual -- the
broadest label offered. Out of the approximately 60 pupils in the group, 15
obliged: 11 girls and four boys.

Shapiro says he was "astounded" at the number of kids who stepped into the
bisexual group. As he thought about it, he concluded that "kids today know the
difference between behavior and orientation. They say, 'I may be behaving in
this certain way, but I'll make up my own mind about who I am in my own time.' "

He searches for a comparison. "It's like saying, 'Mom, Dad, I'm going to take
some courses in science but I'm not sure I want to be a doctor."

A Changing Model

Outside of conservative religious circles, the common understanding for years
has been that homosexuality is largely genetic, based on physical attraction,
and unchanging. Though an easy model to understand, if not accept, it has a
major flaw: It is derived almost exclusively from male subjects.

Recent studies of relationships among women suggest that female homosexuality
may be grounded more in social interaction, may present itself as an emotional
attraction in addition to or in place of a physical one, and may change over
time. Young women also appear to be more open to homosexual relationships than
young men are. In one recent national study, more than twice as many girls as
boys reported being attracted to the same sex at least once.

Girls may be reacting, in part, to relationships gone sour with guys.

Root has been surprised by the number of gay women she knows who say this. "They
say that when you're with a guy, there is often a feeling that you're always
going to be in a narrow feminine role," she says. "They say that guys treat them
as less capable, overly emotional, or too hungry to be attached."
The Union Station girls are more blunt about it.

"Girls understand how girls think," Chanda Harris says. "You can tell a girl, 'I
think I'm falling in love with you' and she'll listen. A boy will slough that
off, or run away. Besides, the young boys around me are into making money,
selling weed and stuff. That's not what I'm about."

A Bladensburg High senior, Kateria Rhodes, who says she has dated girls for five
years, overhears Harris. "It's not the sex," she says. "Girls are there for you
emotionally. Sure, they cheat sometimes, but I've found [dating girls] is better
for me mentally. Actually it's better on every level."

She says she has friends who used to date girls and now date guys, and that her
mother keeps telling her she'll change, too.

Harris doesn't feel that parental pressure: "My mother prefers me to be with
girls than guys. She says I'm happier."

Lisa Diamond, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah, is
one of a handful of researchers altering the way some people think about girls
such as Harris and Root.

"Starting in graduate school, every study I found sampled males only," she
recalls. In 1994, Diamond launched a longitudinal study of women ages 16 to 23
who said they were attracted to other women.

In the eight years she has been following these women, almost two-thirds of them
have changed labels. "They've gone from unlabeled to bisexual, lesbian to
bisexual, lesbian to 'heterosexual and getting married but may be attracted to
women in the future,' " she says. Another word she heard was "heteroflexible."

"The reason one person ended up gay might be very different from another
person," she continues. "One might know at 4, another at 30."

Diamond's research, reported in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, among other publications, confirms the experience of Diane Elze, who
has counseled gay and lesbian youth for two decades.

"Women who come out as lesbians but lived most of their lives as heterosexuals
-- does that mean they were always lesbian? I don't think so," says Elze,
assistant professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Probably we're going to find out there are multiple pathways to homosexuality
and that could vary by gender."

Testing the Waters

What Diamond calls "passionate friendships" among adolescent girls, nonsexual
but highly affectionate, are a staple of life in late elementary, middle and
high schools. Hugs, kisses and back rubs are the coin of the realm.

But as it becomes more acceptable to be gay or gayish, will heterosexual girls
in such friendships wonder whether they're gay, feel pressure to act gay or even
shy away from same-sex relationships for fear of being seen as gay?

Ritch Savin-Williams, a Cornell University professor who has written extensively
about gay youth, doesn't think so. "The natural affection that most young girls
see around them probably protects them from assuming that their desires to
touch, hold and kiss mean 'being gay,' " he says.

He doesn't rule out the possibility of some confusion.

"Boys with these feelings say these attractions are homosexual but 'I'm not a
homosexual.' Girls are less likely to say that, less able to separate their
personal identities and sexual selves.

"They may say, 'I'm not totally heterosexual,' and unlike guys, tell someone
almost immediately. It's 'Ring, ring, ring -- hey Sally, I must be bisexual.' "

Bladensburg High's Rhodes says that among the group at Union Station, peer
acceptance does play a role. "Most of these girls aren't gay," she sniffs.
"They're just doing it because their friends are doing it."

Girls aren't as forthright in swank, upper Northwest Washington, where being gay
-- or gayish -- is still a scary proposition.

At Edmund Burke, which has the reputation of being one of the Washington area's
more liberal schools, no student is officially "out," not even those who joined
the bisexual circle on Diversity Day. After that workshop, a couple of girls
approached Gianna D'Emilio, a junior and a member of the Gay-Straight Alliance,
and talked to her about being bisexual. "They felt more comfortable once they
had been in the circle," D'Emilio says.

A group of junior and senior girls at another private school in Northwest
Washington, all of whom say they're straight, say that they'd rather have a gay
guy as a friend than a lesbian. How about a bisexual girlfriend?

"That's too confusing," says one. The girls say they'd be mortified if their
names, or the name of their school, were used.

The Either/Or Conundrum

How easy it would be to chalk gayishness up to the influence of TV and the
movies (although most of Hollywood's gay characters are white males).

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out when girls who are now seniors in high school
were in third grade. Girls have grown up with shows like NBC's "Will & Grace"
and recently saw Karen, the show's bisexual socialite secretary, plant a
14-second kiss on the straight Grace.

"Kissing Jessica Stein," a 2001 romantic comedy about two young women falling in
love, became a cult movie. One evening last month, three shows with lesbian
themes aired on UPN.

More and more schools march in this parade as well, shepherding students into
gymnasiums for assemblies on tolerance, posting rainbow stickers on classroom
doors and allowing teachers to come out to their students.

Many young people, in particular young women, are making their own push for more
sexual latitude and more understanding.

The number of student-organized, gay-straight clubs, formed to promote
understanding of sexual orientation issues, jumped from 1,200 in 2002 to 1,970
in 2003, according to reports filed with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network, a national organization that works with schools on behalf of gay youth.
In poll after poll, proportionately more young people than old people (and more
girls than guys) say they accept homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle,
whenever it occurs.
That understanding often doesn't emerge until the late teens or early 20s,
however. Michelle Lettiero, 23, who now works at the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, remembers a girl at her Catholic high school near New Haven,
Conn., who ran around with about a half-dozen other girls. The little clique
drove the Sisters of the Sacred Heart crazy by dying their hair, piercing their
noses, wearing knee-length boxer shorts under their schoolgirl skirts and
claiming to be lesbians.

The girl went to Providence College with Lettiero. "As soon as she got there,
she started having boyfriends. She dated guys all four years," Lettiero says.

Lettiero says the group's antics seemed weird to her and her friends at the
time. "We were so boy-crazy. But I would hope we're more accepting now."

Romantic changeability between females is hardly a new thing in this country.
Nineteenth-century women workers who lived together in the settlement houses of
New York City wrote as passionately about their friendships with other women as
they did about the poor whose lives they changed -- before they moved out and
got married to men. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a powerful woman in the 20th
century, enjoyed a close, 30-year relationship with Associated Press reporter
Lorena Hickok.

But that was then and this is now, a politically charged, risk-averse time when
Americans crave definition in order to contain what they perceive to be chaos. A
loose definition of female-female love makes people especially uncomfortable.

It upsets parents who like to fit their children into easily recognizable boxes
("Do you like men or women? Pick one"). Older gay rights activists get nervous
about the political consequences, because if young women adopt a homosexual
lifestyle assuming it's temporary, couldn't they also choose to abandon it?

"As gays, we have predicated our acceptance by the culture on something we can't
change," psychology professor Diamond says. "We say, 'Oh look at us! We can't
help it!' That's what the straights want to hear."

Older lesbians who came out in the 1970s can be especially hostile to the idea
of flexible sexuality, she notes, accusing the younger women of being "either
repressed lesbians or curious heterosexuals who are wasting our time."

It is the older lesbians who are wasting their time, according to
Savin-Williams. "Identity labels are over," he says. "This is a cutting-edge
issue for all of us."


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