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143                                            	Bialogue = Bisexual + Dialogue.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="quotetext">Taking <b>Action</b> not just Offense</span>
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159                                           <span class="titletext">Dear Fellow Non-existent Beings . . .</span><br>
160                                           <i>countering current attempts to erase bisexuality</i>
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166                                        Throughout history, whenever somebody decided that some group of people or another is <i>'inconvenient</i> to their particular <i>'world view'</i>, sooner or later they hit on the bright idea of solving their problems by declaring that the bothersome group does not actually exist. &nbsp;&nbsp;
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168                                        At one time of another there were allegedly no Irish, Scottish or Welsh; no Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians or Latvians; no Kurds; no Jews; no Bosnians; no Palestinians; no Armenians, etc., etc. &nbsp;&nbsp;
169                                        The list goes on and on.  &nbsp;&nbsp;
170                                        <br><br>
171                                        Anyway, you may be unpleasantly interested to learn that there is currently a move afoot to <i>'solve'</i> the <i>'problem of bisexuality'</i> by declaring it to be <i>'non-existent</i>.  &nbsp;&nbsp;
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175                                         <b>Read an essay</b> about this topic: <a target="_blank" href="http://gibbin.org/curmudgeon.html">Dear Fellow Non-existent Beings</a>
176                                         &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size="1" class="footertext">by The Bisexual Curmudgeon (Gary B. North)</font>
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179                                        
180                                        <b>Beginnings of the current situation</b><br>
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182                                        While our existence has always been the subject of debate among the bigoted and the wilfully ignorant, the volume on the subject was turned up in 2005 by two related events. &nbsp;&nbsp;
183                                        <br><br>
184                                        The first was the completion of a new rather dubious <i>'study'</i>
184 entitled <a target="_blank" href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/bisexuality.pdf">“Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men”</a> by Rieger, Chivers and <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Bailey">J. Michael Bailey</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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188                                        <b>Read an article</b> on this topic: <a target="_blank" href="http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/MagArticle.cfm?Article=475&PageID=171&SID=2F61BCD15F440019472CA01253795FEB&DSN=nsrc_dsn">Sexual Prejudice: The erasure of bisexuals in academia and the media</a>
189                                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size="1" class="footertext">By Loraine Hutchins</font>
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193                                        Other than raising a few eyebrows among their more competent colleagues, this study would probably have passed relatively unnoticed, except for the fact that a gullible reporter for the New York Times happened upon it. &nbsp;&nbsp;
194                                        <br><br>
195                                        In July 2005 the New York Times then proceeded to published a not well researched <i>'popular science'</i> interpretation of this study, somewhat hysterically entitled <i>
196										<a target="_blank" href="NYTArticleJul05.html">“Straight, Gay or Lying: Bisexuality Revisited”</a></i>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
197                                        <br><br>
198                                        Because of the New York Times reputation and reach, this guaranteed that the story and the study would be picked up world-wide, and off we went.  
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202                                        <b>Take Action:</b> Read & respond to GLAAD's piece - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.glaad.org/action/write_now_detail.php?id=3827">The New York Times Promotes anti-Bisexual Stereotypes in <i>&quot;Straight, Gay or Lying?&quot;</i></a>
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210                                     Around October 9th 2005 the usually sensible sex therapist <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Ruth_Westheimer">Dr. Ruth Westheimer</a> told an advice seeker that they must <i>"choose"</i> their sexual orientation, since there is no such thing as <i>“a bisexual person"</i>. &nbsp;&nbsp;
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214                                     <b>Take Action:</b> Read the facts & respond to <a target="_blank" href="DrRuth9Oct05.html">help correct Dr. Ruth Westheimer's mistaken notion's on bisexuality</a>.
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