Amen and mazel tov. I'm thrilled to announce:
The 10th International Conference on Bisexuality, hosted by The University of Rhode Island's (URI) 14th Annual Symposium on GLBTIQA Issues, is confirmed for the dates Thursday, July 24 – Sunday, July 27, 2008, to be held on the URI Kingston campus in beautiful midcoastal Rhode Island.
With the conference director, Andrew of the URI GLBTIQA Symposium, I met Joe Pittle, the URI conference coordinator, whom I found immensely likeable and sharp (and yes, bearishly handsome). Joe is most importantly utterly professional and completely enthusiastic about the prospect of the Symposium hosting 10 ICB in the way we have initially proposed. He understands our needs and assured me that he will ensure that our event will work out stupendously.
So [drum roll] we have a general event reservation for
Thursday, July 24 – Sunday, July 27, 2008, as
The 10th International Conference on Bisexuality,
hosted by The University of Rhode Island's 14th Annual Symposium on GLBTIQA Issues
held on the URI Kingston campus in beautiful midcoastal Rhode Island, USA.
When Joe returns in two weeks, we'll meet to start to map out specific rooms and venues, and at that point we can start negotiating prices, but initial numbers look very good.
Joe is completely enthusiastic about the idea of booking a major talent like Margaret Cho, Rupert Everett, Sandra Bernhard, Allan Cumming &c for a premium Saturday night program that would attract folks from all over southern New England. He would want to try to get Ryer Auditorium, a 7,700-seat venue, and then he would completely pull out all the stops to publicize this event, and of course also the Symposium, the Conference, the University, &c.
So if you are a famous bisexual celebrity who wants to do right by the bisexual activist community by allowing us to honor and worship you in every possible manner, please contact me.
I met other key staff around campus and confirmed that nobody seemed even the least “spooked” or intimidated by the idea of a bisexuality conference. In fact, as I understand it, this conference is exactly the sort of major progressive liberal arts attraction that the University wants to attract, and they seem to be eager not only to help us have a great conference in itself but also to showcase our event to publicize their facilities and the presumed glory of the esteemed university.
