By: Amy Andre, Lauren Beach, and Sarah Young.Hear straight from Point Scholars and Alumni.
The meeting also boasted attendance from high ranking federal governmental officials and representatives from national LGBTQIA organizations on Monday, your website September 23, over 30 leaders from the bisexual community attended the first ever White House Roundtable Discussion on Bisexuality in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by BiNet USA and the Bisexual Resource Center. The historic time included talks about how precisely HIV/AIDS, psychological state, real wellness, hate crimes, workplace discrimination, and domestic physical physical physical violence effect bisexual communities.
Day current Point Scholar Sarah Young (вЂ11) and Point Alumni Amy Andre (вЂ07) and Lauren Beach (вЂ06, вЂ09) attended the event and share with ViewPoint their perspectives and experiences of being at the White House on Celebrate Bisexuality.
That which was your part in case?
Amy Andre: I happened to be the Team Leader for the Health Team. We had been tasked with presenting on real wellness disparities faced by the community that is bisexual. For instance, are you aware that bisexuals, when compared with gays, lesbians, and people that are straight have actually notably higher prices of cigarette smoking? Tobacco is a killer, and is related to all sorts of cancers. Yet, unfortunately, bisexuals (when compared with heterosexuals) have actually the cheapest price of cancer tumors tests. Which was the type of information my group ended up being here to allow the government understand about. We introduced for my group, providing a 5 moment speech plus PowerPoint.
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