To RSVP to the Facebook online event, click here. The festive celebrations now often take place in Bisexual Awareness Week and Bi Visibility Month.
Bi Visibility Day is also known by other names such as Bi Pride Day, International Celebrate Bisexuality Day.
There will be a worldwide Facebook event on Friday celebrating bi-visibility and Pride hosted by Bi Visibility Day.įirst observed in 1999, Bi Visibility Day is the brainchild of three United States bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas. However, to submit an event for listing, click here. To help you do that, here’s 5 things you should know. None in its current listings to date have any Texas events that have been submitted. Much like Bi Visibility Day, when bisexual people remove their invisibility cloaks and instead don their fetching bi vis jackets, Pan Visibility Day is a day to celebrate and recognise those who identify as pansexual. Greater bisexual visibility is the best solution to that problem, helping more bis find a space where they are neither in the ‘straight closet’ nor the gay one,” Yockney mentioned.Įach year, the website posts information about Bi Visibility Day events around the world. “Where lesbians and gay men have one closet to escape, many bi people find that leaving one closet just leads to being put in another. It’s a community holiday now celebrated every year on September 23, one which has expanded into a wider celebration of Bi Visibility that spans the whole month of September. 16 and culminates with Bi Visibility Day on Friday. They joined bi communities worldwide in proclaiming the very first Celebrate Bisexuality Day (also known as Bi Pride Day). Bi Visibility Day, like bisexual visibility…keeps growing and growing.”īisexual Awareness Week kicked off on Sept. On Bisexuality Visibility Day, we celebrate the beauty, resiliency, and diversity of the bi+ community no matter who you are or whom you love, your identities are valid, and you deserve the right to live openly as your authentic selves. Jen Yockney MBE, of the he international listings site, said in a media release, “We saw events in more than 30 countries around the world in both 20. Bi Visibililaty Day also celebrates those organizations and institutions around the world that support visibility and equality. Every year, this day is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty, strength and joy of the bi+ community. (Courtesy art)Īs Bisexual Awareness Week continues, Thursday’s date highlights bisexual orientation as well as all the challenges posed by biphobia and bisexual erasure. September 23 has been celebrated around the world as Bi Visibility Day or International Celebrate Bisexuality Day since 1999. The bisexual flag was created in 1998 by Michael Page.
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