We are each of us angels with only one wing.

( Attention Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid + Queer-identified Youth (25 and under) Robyn Ochs, Editor of the quarterly newsletter 'Bi Women' invites you to submit pieces for the Spring 2010 issue )


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renaissance2010
Turning to photography as a creative outlet during a valiant fight with breast cancer at age 34, renaissance10 survived and set up a photo contest to help raise funds for the Lavender Trust, a nonprofit that provides information and support to younger women with breast cancer. In the first two years, the competition brought in over £65,000 (that's $107,260.73 U.S.!), with entries from 130 countries last year. Renaissance10 recently joined LiveJournal to meet other passionate photographers and find supportive friends.

curiouscupcakes
Holy buttercream frosting! If you have a sweet tooth for sugary goodness or a wandering eye for whimsical confection, this is pure ecstasy iced in deliciousness. Hailing the beloved cupcake as the artisinal canvas of choice, you'll enjoy recipes, photos, and bountiful tips to bake up a batch, whether your taste leans toward French classics or funky and flavorful.

mission101
With New Years in the offing, it's an ideal time to reflect on past accomplishments, make peace with disappointments, and refocus the lens on future goals. This community welcomes you to create a bucket list of 101 things you plan to accomplish in the next 1,001 days. Offering support, guidance, and inspiration, this is a great way to jumpstart those pesky resolutions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8428819.stm

Pakistan's Supreme Court says eunuchs must be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights.

i_hope_that
For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

The National Union of Jewish LGBTQQI Students's 14th annual conference will take place January 15th to the 17th at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As usual the conference will be held over a weekend, and co-hosted by a campus Hillel, the NUJLS leadership conference features workshops, services, community building, and social time. This year's keynotes are Rabbi Bradley Artsen, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and comedian Dana Goldberg!

We welcome students from all sorts of backgrounds (religious, not, newly out, not, liberal to conservative, and more). Workshops, speakers, and text studies address such topics as Judaism and homosexuality, activism, relationships, ethics, coming out, and politics. Last year more than one hundred students came from across the United States and Canada to participate, and we anticipate a similar turnout this year! Registration ($80) includes meals (all kosher), housing, and all conference events. Travel and registrations subsidies are available upon request (in the registration form). View past schedules and register at http://www.nujlsonline.org/conferenceinfo.html

( If you are pansexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, fluid, queer-identified, transgender, genderqueer . . . )

( If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, fluid, pansexual, queer-identified, transgender, genderqueer . . . )

OK, so again please forgive my newness if I am off base. I have been trying to keep up with the terminology and understand some of the debates and ideas, particuarly in the last discussion on transgender/transexual gender labeling. At first I was going to ask for a gender dictionary, conceptual guide or some literature I could read to catch up.

Then it occurred to me that the distinctions are very fine grained. While the discussions on many of the finer distinctions are very interesting to me I was wondering if the terminology and concepts are useful to people in answering the question of "what am I?" vs an understanding of what Individuals feel, like, want and desire.

Labels can be incredibly important in helping to identify like minded groups of people, but they can also be very confusing and inhibit accessability of information to people who may desperately need it. What does everyone think?

( Gay history thesis + loving but homophobic family + history nerd father + the holidays = oh holy shit )

ETA: Sorry, lj-cut fail.

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Hello, lovelies! So, I'm a teenager (17) and I know that y'know, teens are sort of known to question their sexuality. I've identified myself as pansexual since I was 14 because I don't rule anyone out. I'm fine with being intimate with anyone, boy, girl, transgendered etc. But I'm a little confused as to what pansexuality is. See, I'm sexually attracted to people because of their looks as well as their personality. And idk if you see that a lot with pansexuals or if they're more attracted to just a person's personality. And I get in these moods where I feel like I want to date a girl, or a boy or someone else. But like I said, I'm also very attracted to personality as well. Any insight would be very helpful~! Thank you! :) <3

everyone. I am kind of new to blogging so please bear with me. I would like to know some people's thoughts on what it means to be pansexual. For a long time I have felt very alone in my way of thinking, though for me it is just the way I am. I tend to both express myself as well as explore and interact with people in a sexual way. Typically what happens is that as I get to know and like someone I become intensely attracted to them. This happens wether the person is female, male, transgendered, tall, short, petite, big and beautiful and even physically impared.

I am a reasonbly good looking 37 year old guy. I try to be honest with people about my feelings and my relationships, but many times it puts people off. My relationships with both women and men are always affected when I communicate my feelings and sexual preference. I have often been labeled as a slut or variations thereof and at times worn the label with pride or felt disgusted with myself over it. I seem to relate best to women and have even been married but a monogomous relationship with on gender somehow always feels unfulfilling in a way that is hard for me to describe.

I did try therapy for a while for some problems I was working through (mostly unrelated) and when all of this came up the therapist suggested I was a sex addict and wanted to treat me for it... That just didn't feel right, like being treated for having arms or something like that. I don't feel I am explaining this well, let me know if you understand please?

A friend of mine recently suggested I might be pansexual. That was the fist time I heard the word. I have read a little and I want to know more about what it means and if there is a community there I might share feelings and common experience with. While I am not overall a big fan of categories and labels, I guess I would like to know if I am alone in thinking there is something more to this than sluttiness or sex addiction?