Tag: Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato
Ensuring That the B & the T Are Not Silent
Jul 9, 2021 | 2013 Winter - Mixed Marriages
By Francesca Fortunato How do you like your Alphabet Soup? Is your chosen combination LGBT? Is it...
Read MoreThe Bi*-Trans* Connection: Connecting the Dots (or Not)
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Winter - The Bi *Trans* Connection
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato I was excited to learn that the theme of this issue of Bi...
Read MoreAside from This
Jul 8, 2021 | 2015 Fall - Pick a Side, Poetry
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato When urged to pick a side (not sit astride the fence) my...
Read MoreBivocational, Biritual and Bisexual
Jul 8, 2021 | 2015 Winter - Religion/Spirituality
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato Many years ago, when I was first discerning the call to...
Read More“Half Out” at Work: A Bisexual Phenomenon
Jul 7, 2021 | 2016 Spring - Out at Work (or Not)
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato At my last job before this one (teaching drama in an after...
Read MoreOn Being a Bisexual Woman Who Was Married to a Man for Fourteen Years
Jul 7, 2021 | 2016 Winter - Partnering w/ Men
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato When I tell people that I used to be married to a man, the...
Read MoreA Dyed-in-the-Spandex Bisexual Manhattanite
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Fall - Intersection: Geography
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato To most people who have never lived in New York City,...
Read MoreOne Word: Bisexual Coming of Age in the Late 1970s-Early 1980s
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato We had one word: bisexual. In those days, some people still...
Read MoreOlder Than What? Being a Bi Woman at 57
Jun 24, 2021 | 2019 Fall - Growing Older
By Francesca Maria Fortunato I used to be an actress, and I can remember reading casting notices...
Read MoreMy Activism
Jun 17, 2021 | 2020 Spring - Being an Activist
Kate Michelle I joined the LGBTQ committee at my Catholic parish (a huge rarity) and I’m one...
Read MoreStories
Nov 1, 2017 | 2017 Fall - Coming Out Stories, Articles
Compiled by Robyn Ochs Carla Imperial Me: (strummin’ my guitar)She: There ain’t nothin’ sexier...
Read MoreA Matter of Gender
Sep 26, 2016 | 2016 Fall - Does Gender matter?, Articles
By Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato It seems unlikely that there is anyone who truly “doesn’t see...
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