Savage Love Episode 413
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.2 | while there's nothing you can't ask on the savage love cast. |
| 0:23.6 | I like to do what I can to raise bisexual awareness. I am very pro-bigh. Some people think I'm biphobic, but I don't think that's true because a lot of what I do when I talk to bi people is I encourage them to come out of the closet. 70 plus percent, 78 percent of gay men and lesbians out to everyone |
| 0:44.3 | important in their personal lives, professional lives. It's a Pew Research poll that found that |
| 0:50.0 | and only I think 26 percent mid-20s of bisexual people are out to everyone in their lives, friends, family. And that's a real problem for bi-visibility, that so many bi-people are closeted is a big problem for bi-visibility. So I am always importuning bi-people to come out. And I get a lot of letters that Savage Love for bi people who have come out and are grateful for the little encouragement, little push I gave them. So to those of you who think I'm bifobic, you know, somebody who's bifobic doesn't want there to be more out by people. I think that kind of disproves the bifobia thing. But I bring up bisexuality, not just to be an asshole, but because it is bisexual awareness week. And I want to do what I can to raise awareness about bisexuality. |
| 1:28.8 | It is Tuesday, September 23rd. |
| 1:31.2 | And the theme, if you go to Binet, USA, every day of bisexual awareness week has a theme. |
| 1:36.7 | Sunday's theme was by history, Monday by facts, Wednesdays by media. |
| 1:41.0 | Thursday will be recognized by men. |
| 1:48.3 | Friday by trans and Saturday by allies, which I consider myself one. |
| 1:55.3 | But today, Tuesday, the theme for bisexual awareness week is, my bisexuality looks like. |
| 1:57.9 | What does your bisexuality look like? |
| 2:02.2 | Which brings us to Charles M. Blow's bisexuality. |
| 2:06.6 | Charles Blow is a really terrific writer and op-ed columnist for the New York Times. |
| 2:10.1 | And Charles has a new book coming out, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. |
| 2:13.3 | It's a memoir about his life and his journey. |
| 2:20.7 | And the New York Times ran a front page excerpt from Charles's new book in the Sunday review section this weekend. |
| 2:21.9 | And it is amazing piece. |
| 2:23.1 | It's getting tons of play. |
| 2:26.3 | A lot of people are tweeting about it and writing about it and forwarding it. |
| 2:29.9 | If you didn't see it, if you didn't read it, please go read it. |
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