Bi
Men Network Responds to
ACTION ALERT:
New York Times
Suggests Bisexuals Are "Lying"
ACTION
ALERT:
New York Times Suggests Bisexuals
Are "Lying"
Paper fails to disclose study author's
controversial history
In a lead article in the New York
Times' July 5 Science section, headlined,
"Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality
Revisited," Times writer Benedict
Carey reported that an upcoming
study "casts doubt on whether
true bisexuality exists, at least
in men." In suggesting that
men who claim a
bisexual sexual orientation are
liars, the Times relies heavily
on a single study whose senior researcher
has a career marked by ethics controversies
and eugenics proposals--facts that
were not presented to readers .
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the rest of the article here
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Letter to New York Times
from "MAC" Bi Men Founder
Dear
PUBLIC EDITOR - NEW YORK TIMES:
I am ashamed for you to have been
so rash and hasty as to run that
"Gay, Bi or Lying" article
without further serious examination
of the harmful potential of such
actions. While newspapers are black
and white themselves such complex
issues such as bisexuality are rarely
so. As we say at the Bi MEN NETWORK
- now with over 1/4 million active
adult male members with us today
worldwide - it is merely
INFINITE SHADES OF GRAY.
Bisexuality is a continuum of gay
bisexuals to bi bisexuals to straight
bisexuals. You hardly ever if NEVER
hear from the straight bisexuals
who are often swingers or have an
infrequent tryst or threesome.
The
bisexuals YOU DO HEAR of tend to
be the gay bisexuals and likely
those were very well represented
in this very small study sample.
Also gay bisexuals tend to be the
ones - like ME - that you hear from
as they are more open and willing
to come forward - after so many
decades since STONEWALL have gone
by with a bit more acceptance.
The TIMES should be ashamed of itself
and owes an apology to ALL bisexuals
who represent an all but silent
sexual minority. Pieces like this
this do nothing to help bisexuals
come out of their closets.
You can read of the TEN major types
of bisexuals on our Bi MEN NETWORK
world website. There you will note
the major types of gay bisexuals
and bi bisexuals and the straight
bisexuals.
This sort of REDUCTIONIST thinking
you report in this "study"
is absurd. As Freud who spent a
lifetime studying human sexuality
concluded we are all bisexuals.
If you and your staff and readers
would be honest - they would all
admit to at least some BISEXUAL
impulses in their lifetimes - if
not one
bisexual "fling" at some
moment in time in their lives. As
Heinlein portrayed in the future
in his "Stranger in a Strange
Land" we will likely all one
day "happen" to be bisexual
and it will no longer be any big
deal whether one "happens"
to be gay, bi, transgendered or
heterosexual.
All I can surmise is that it is
Summer and even the folks at the
New York Times take it easy during
the summer rushing off to Fire Island
or the Hamptons or what not and
did not THINK this piece through
or fully evaluate its implications
or probe the study's author and
his sad reputation. Or did you just
want to cause this uproar and boost
circulation and get some attention?
Well, we all appreciate a little
attention now and then. Long ago
I surmised with the Bi MEN NETWORK
- just spell our name right - you
did not spell the bisexual male
name right this time. Shame on you.
Please do better by us bisexuals
next time. We are out there! So
is the TRUTH.
Best Wishes,
Stewart ("Mac") McCloud
Founder and President
Bi MEN NETWORK
www.bimen.org
Over 1/4 million men with us worldwide!
SUMMER
(or WINTER down unda)
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2005!
MEN:
I need your help ALSO in telling
all bi men, bi-curious guys, and
gay male friends about US - worldwide!
We also welcome bi-couples and all
transsexuals Any such adult aged
18 to 118 is welcome here. IT IS
FREE! Please we will go and grow
if we can double our numbers! So
much of this is a numbers game.
WE ARE NUMBER ONE - the largest
social and support organization
for bisexuals (and bisexual men)
on earth today. We are also one
of the ten largest gay male groups
on earth today.
You
surely know some prospects to join
us free as almost anywhere on earth
we have geographic coverage. We
also have coverage in new racial
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We have groups on all six continents
- in every major city on earth -
and in almost every nation today!
PLEASE just FORWARD one of our Emails
that you think a buddy would like
on to a pal just ONCE A WEEK - EACH
WEEK this summer and urge him to
join us free at: www.bimen.org
and do him a big favor and help
US too! More and more websites,
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As you may know Yahoo just closed
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UP.
IF each one of you brought in one
new member we could easily be HALF
A MILLION strong by 2006.
Thank you for your support with
our NEW TRAVEL DESK and in the membership
drive! Hugs! "MAC"
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