So… all those books and this year the bisexual category has been reduced from two to one called now Bisexual Literature. I would think this is a joke but they wouldn’t care enough to make one so in the net post I will talk about the Bisexual Awards, which I am excited about.

The 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards seeks to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. More than 90 literary professionals, including booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, and previous Lammy winners and finalists volunteered countless hours of reading, critical thinking, and invigorating discussion to select the finalists in 22 categories. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on Monday evening, June 3, 2013.

Bisexual Literature

Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List	Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals	History of a Pleasure Seeker	In One Person	My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B
by Scotty-Miguel Sandoe, CreateSpace	by Janet W. Hardy, Beyond Binary Books	by Richard Mason, Random House / Alfred A. Knopf	by John Irving, Simon & Schuster	by Cheryl Burke, Topside Signature

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Ever since the whole Veronica Mars successful kickstarter which in turn brought out a rash and I mean rash like infection of people who don’t necessarily need our money (meaning like they have other avenues to get funding, ie. networking, contacts, neoptism) but deciding to go the route of digital begging instead (check out this latest shit). Which in turn is ruining the point of kickstarter. However, there was a funding a while ago that had a good purpose and by the time I found out it had already reached its goal and more. Which mean there is a whole segment of people who wants stuff written about and for them. What is it?

It is a graphic anthology about the “B” (and what is under its umbrella) in the LGBT community called Anything that Loves as oppose to the trope and assumed play on words for bisexuals, “anything that moves”. It sounds like a great idea and I wish I knew about it earlier. I probably donated for the hardcover as I prefer physical books but I will hopefully get the chance to buy it later on with a digital copy and then give book to the local library. They have a lonely sad shelf of anything Bisexual and Contemporary.

The book clocks in at 210 pages of comics from 30 creators. With the introduction, info about the authors, and title pages, we’re looking at a 224-page book! It will be paperback, and have a nice soft-touch finish. I will add info as soon as I get it here: Retail for $???. This item will be available in July???.

[Overview] Anything That Loves is a new anthology from Northwest Press. The book aims to focus on the stories that LGBT anthologies often avoid: abandoning one sexual identity and trying on another, finding the love of your life isn’t the sex you thought (s)he would be, navigating sexuality as a transgender person (or dating someone transgender), dealing with a gay community that often feels “betrayed” by bisexuals… Anything That Loves asks you to put aside the labels, categories, and boxes and explore human sexuality with no roadmap.

Why is it when I want to read any articles on bisexuality it turns into a fucking hot mess? This time it’s both the article and the comments on both sites that has me shaking my head.

Two things: Why is a bisexual article more than likely posted on Huff Post Gay Voices and not in the Bisexual Section? And who the hell is posting on HuffPost Gay Voices with the story (which for good or bad should be in the Bi section) to put such a ridiculous picture to accompany a story that doesn’t even originate on their site? At least we know how that person feels on the subject.

One more: Why did the original story go straight to the married man with unknowing wife? Seriously, that’s all they can write. Someone needs to be read.

Bisexual Acceptance: Attraction Across Gender Lines on Huff Post: Read for the comments!
Bisexuality is the new gay. By this I mean that since homosexuality is becoming increasingly acceptable in the United States, the proverbial torch has been passed to bisexuals and their allies. Now their cause needs championing because bisexuality remains stigmatized, stereotyped and discriminated against. Soon the term “biphobia” will become as commonly known as…

Poly And Race: Poly and Black on Your Tango (original “expert” post): Read for article and the comments!
The importance of bisexual destigmatization in the United States.
Bisexuality is the new gay. By this I mean that since homosexuality is becoming increasingly acceptable in the United States, the proverbial torch has been passed to bisexuals and their allies. Now their cause needs championing because bisexuality remains stigmatized, stereotyped and discriminated against. Soon the term “biphobia” will become as commonly known as “homophobia.”

Generation Um (2013)
F/M/F

Synopsis:
[Generation Um Site] After partying in New York City last night, John (Keanu Reeves) and his beautiful girlfriends Mia (Adelaide Clemens) and Violet (Bojana Novakovic) form an intimate bond as their deepest secrets from their past are revealed. Friendships are tested and compromises are made as these three friends prepare to do it all again tonight. Generation Um is written and directed by Mark Mann. The film has already been released on DVD in Europe, but arrives on VOD in the US on April 26th and hits limited theaters this summer on May 3rd.

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Synopsis:
[mixed bag] After years of dating women, Simone meets Pedro. He’s charming, intelligent and attractive, and he’s appeared at a time when Simone’s relationship with her live-in girlfriend is falling apart. Tormented by uncertainties and doubts that test everything Simone thinks she knows about herself, she must make a decision. But in the end is it really a question of gender? The film deals with the theme of sexual freedom through the experiences of its protagonist. SIMONE is a gripping story, surrounded by inner questions and uncertainties, which put to the test the convictions of character. Based on true events, the film combines elements of fiction and documentary, playing with scenic creation and assembly, creating a unique world, private and intimate.

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If you are watching “Whitney”, the NBC show then you might of seen tonight episode where Neal (Maulik Pancholy), recently broken off his engagement with Lily (Zoe Lister Jones) is having an intimate dinner with a man.

They are not saying if he is gay or bisexual but it seems that Neal is dealing with feelings he couldn’t before, but now free of restrictions is possibly trying to find out if this is his true self.

Titled “The G-Word” (the “G” stands for gay), the episode airs Wednesday night (March 14) at 8/7c on NBC.

Synopsis:
Antonia (Margherita Buy) and her husband Massimo (Andrea Renzi) have been living a happily married existence for the better part of 10 years (Me: I thought this was 15 years) when a sudden and tragic accident kills Massimo. Barely able to survive her grief Antonia discovers that her beloved Massimo has been carrying a secret life for a good many years. Shocked out of her grief, Antonia begins to search for details and any information leading to Massimo’s mistress, only to discover that his secret lover is a man, the very handsome, young Michele (Stefano Accorsi). When she slowly begins to meet the rather large extended “family” of friends who spent so much time with Michele and Massimo over the years, Antonia finds herself drawn to her husband’s hidden life.

Review:
This is about a husband (Massimo) who dies early in the movie and the rest of the movie is about the wife (Antonia) finding out that the love of her life was cheating on her with another man.

After his death she finds a painting with a secret love massage on the back in her husband’s effects and realizes that he had a “mistress” for seven years. She decides to find out about the other woman and gets an address hoping to either understand or have a confrontation with the person who had no right to be in her marriage.

Now she finds the place and the “mistress’s” friends realize who she is but protect their friend however that doesn’t work in the end because the he gives himself up and proceeds to tell her off.

They both relate to each as the other person in Massimo lives and find a strange friendship forming between themselves and the rest of Michele’s “family”. Through out Antonia is dealing with grief and justifiable anger and eventually letting go to become an independent woman at the end.

There are parts of the film that breaks this movie me, a major one that befuddles the fuck out of me. Antonia and Massimo’s lover(Michele) talk about Massimo and what he means to them which brings about jealousy and resentment on both their parts which is understandable but I am sorry Michele still comes off as a bigger dick. There is a dinner scene where it starts off with the transgender woman is talking about going home to her brother’s wedding and they don’t know she had transition but they ask Antonia if she should hide her true self or go as a man and Antonia believes that telling the truth is the better option which is subtly telling the group that lying to her was wrong which everybody gets as you can’t hear anybody responding back but then Michele laying into a bitchy way telling her she didn’t know Massimo at all and you don’t know where is was when he was lying to you… It makes her leave the room.

That the befuddling part because at this point Antonia has been quite accommodating to the lover and after that scene she should never went back and said fuck you. After this point I was no longer sympathetic to Michele’s side.

There is more and overall I enjoyed it but like I said Michele wasn’t any longer what I cared about besides after the husband’s death, this is really the wife’s journey anyway.

There is a supporting cast of people I have already forgotten with the exception of the Antonia’s mother who wanted her daughter to look at it from the lover’s POV because she was the lover at point too. Antonia in that instance gave her the right response. I rolled my eyes at he mother for saying what she did, it was like I need to justified his affair by justifying yours. The AIDS patient Ernesto? all his scenes and role were unnecessary so I assume they serve a purpose outside of this film, (I do remember that at the end there is a gay pride parade. Perhaps the director wanted to make a statement.) and lastly Emir, who comes in the last reel and taking a liking to Antonia and she to him but in the end he helps her finish the story.

Now your thinking I don’t like the film, I actually do. Maybe not as much as another reviewer would (to me it’s feels like a Lifetime movie) but the ending was the only sensible one it could have and after sitting with it, I said from the beginning this was never about Michele or Massimo, they simply served a purpose for Antonia to leave and find find something better.

PS. (Quick Actor Review): I hope Stefano Accorsi who plays Michele in this movie is a better actor from this movie because bloody hell that man couldn’t give any expression such as grief or devastation on face, he always look constipated.

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