Coming Out Day this year is all about bisexuality. 3FM DJ Giel Beelen announced this on behalf of the COC on Tuesday morning in his radio program GIEL! The interest group asks every Dutch person to hang up a special poster (photo) on Coming Out Day, Friday 10 October, in order to contribute to the acceptance of bisexuals. According to the Social and Cultural Planning Office, more than one in ten Dutch people is bisexual. That's almost 2 million people. About a third of this is 'in the closet'; for lesbians and gays it is only 2 percent.
Tanja Ineke, chair of COC Netherlands: “'Being bi is also a profession', is the thought that occurs to many bisexuals when they have to explain for the umpteenth time that they are really bi. That they really like women and men. That they are not 'actually' lesbian, gay or straight. As a bisexual, you would almost wish that 'bi' was one of those commonly used boxes where people tuck each other in, just like 'gay'.” Bisexuals experience relatively many problems at work (bullying, burnout), feel less accepted than lesbians and gays and there are few bisexual role models.
The COC will distribute hundreds of thousands of Coming Out Day posters in the coming days. This is done, among other things, through the free daily Metro of 10 October, the LGBT catering industry and the twenty COC member associations in the Netherlands. The poster can also be downloaded here.
The interest group asks people to hang the poster on Coming Out Day in front of the window, at their workplace or in another visible place, to show that bi's should always and everywhere be free to come out. On the front of the poster is the motto 'Being bi is also a profession' in rainbow colours, the international symbol of LGBT acceptance. On the back are six portraits of men and women who live proudly and openly as bisexuals.
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