Sheela Lambert

Sheela Lambert is a veteran bi and LGBT activist and writer. She is the founder of the Bi Writers Association, Bi Mental Health Professionals Association, co-founder of Bi Women of All Colors, co-founder of the Coalition of Unity and Inclusion and Organizer of the Bisexual Speakers Bureau. She writes a blog entitled Bidar, reporting on bisexuality in the media. She was the lead activist who, together with transgender activist Pauline Park, spearheaded the successful inclusion campaigns convincing The Center, The Pride March, The Pride Rally, The Pride Festival and The Film Festival in New York City to change their names from “Lesbian and Gay” to “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender” and spearheaded the successful campaign to add a bisexual award category to the Lammy book awards. She is the host of Out Professionals’ LGBT Filmmaker Series and editor of the forthcoming anthology, Best Bi Short Stories. She produced and hosted the first weekly bi TV series on the planet, Bisexual Network, on NYC public access cable in 1993 and was a correspondent on the GLBT public access cable show Out in the 90’s 1992-93. She has been an active member of Heritage of Pride, Queer Nation, Educational Coalition on Lesbian and Gay Youth (ECoLaGY) and the Manhattan Borough President's LGBTQ and Two Spirit Advisory Board. She has worked as an HIV Counselor, in homelessness prevention and managed health food stores. In her youth she lived in a Yoga monastery for five years at the Integral Yoga Institute, coincidentally, across the street from the LGBT Community Center on 13th Street.