Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif, speaks at bisexuality confab.
Posted on 08/27/2003 12:16:58 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
It's not every day a member of the United States Congress addresses an audience in a ballroom where every chair is covered with packets of sexual lubricants.
But that's just the kind of audience Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., addressed last weekend at the North American Conference on Bisexuality at the Radisson Hotel in San Diego.
The conference featured workshops involving full male and female nudity, "sex toy" demonstrations, XXX porn video screenings, and advice on throwing sex parties.
Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif, speaks at bisexuality confab. |
Davis dismissed concerns of citizens who had called her offices earlier in the week protesting her presence at the conference, which had been previously reported by WND.
"A lot of those calls were coming from well outside the district, well outside the state of California," she explained.
Against a backdrop of the pink, blue and lavender-striped bisexual flag, Davis and executive director Joan Garry of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation addressed an estimated 500 attendees.
During her speech, Garry cited negative media representations of bisexuals and detailed her organization's efforts to fight "biphobia." She railed against news organizations that provide coverage of people who have successfully left homosexuality, saying, "Let's face it: Most people in our country are pretty hip to the fact that the American public is being deceived by anti-gay activists who claim to be ex-gay," adding, "We're fighting the ex-gay movement on their turf and their terms."
Garry called the recent Supreme Court decision overturning sodomy laws "a landmark moment in our community's civil-rights struggle," and said, "The fundamental notion of equality is a very tough one for the anti-gay right to swallow. … I believe they are getting desperate, and in that desperation, the viciousness of their attacks will continue to escalate."
In addition to Garry's address, Friday's opening plenary included speeches by Dr. Amanda Quayle of the San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center; Pat Washington, a former professor of women's studies at San Diego State University and local NAACP chairwoman; and sexologist Carol Queen, 46, who advised audience members to hiss whenever they hear the term "opposite sex" and told the crowd, "I have at least 14 different sexual orientations."
A reported 40 young people attended a one-and-a-half day "Bi Youth" pre-conference institute funded by a $4,000 grant from the San Diego Foundation. The Bi Youth institute was convened by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and Advocates for Youth, an organization that is under investigation by the Centers for Disease Control for suspected misuse of public funds.
Pamphlets from Advocates for Youth littered information tables at the event, including one titled "I Think I Might Be Bisexual, Now What Do I Do?" It included quotes from children as young as 14 and offered advice on "safe sex" methods and tips for meeting other bisexuals.
Friday afternoon's workshops included "Bi Parents and Their Children," co-presented by UCLA journalism teacher Michael Szymanski and Eve Diana. As his two young sons – whom his male partner conceived with his sister – romped in the back of the room, Szymanski related how his 7-year-old once asked him, "When are you going to marry my Mommy?" Diana showed photos of her long-haired little boy dressed in lavender overalls, a ballerina tutu, and fairy princess and purple Teletubby Halloween costumes.
Szymanski, who writes adult-video reviews under the pen name of Mickey Skee, later hosted a bisexual adult entertainment seminar where he showed XXX porn film clips, including "Night of the Living Bi Dolls," which portrayed fake cannibalism, shooting and decapitation. Szymanski told participants, "There's a growing trend of women who really like to see two guys going at it – and that may be arranged tonight."
A workshop on "Hosting Sensual/Sexual Parties" instructed participants on how to hold sex orgies in hotel rooms and private homes. Said presenter Tom Limoncelli, "I think sex parties are a way to change the world." Among the tips offered:
On Saturday morning, David Longmire, a "Body Electric School-trained Sacred Intimate" from Seattle, demonstrated "erotic touch" on fully nude male and female models. Female model "Gabriela" disrobed before participants, then lay on a table while Longmire demonstrated his methods on her backside and frontal private parts.
What is it with Dems and always being linked to sex toys
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I would not ask for "room service." When you go to a "gay" hotel, do they say something like: "Do you want a gay, straight, or bisexual room?" I wonder how many tourists innocently check in there, and later notice something "queer" about the place? I do wonder how many vacations and business trips have been ruined when people accidentally stumbled into an establishment or event that is on the "gay" side of the cultural war? You know -- families going to Disney during "gay week" by mistake, some out of town business people who discover they are meeting at a "gay" restaurant, etc.
Why do you think she didn't? Maybe that's the only way she can get a date!
Whom I nominate for the distinction of "world's most tedious Left-wing ideological snore". This person's whole world is wrapped up in teaching journopolemicists to use NewSpeak. I bellyfeel doubleplusgood prolefeed. I bellyfeel INGSOC.
Anatomical inadequacy?
Governor Terminator: "I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual-that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me."
I enjoy a good cigar. I'm a member of the NAACSP. What's the deal with your bigotry?
We, the members of the National Association for the Advancement of Cigar Smoking Persons, are a proud bunch working for the rights of the common cigar to not be branded with the stigma of being called a simple "sex toy."
The little fool! Abort him! Abort him!
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