BiFest events happen all over the UK and increasingly often these days – in the first half of this year they are lined up for Oxford, Cardiff and London, and that’s just the ones we know about. The first “BiFest” one-day-long bi awareness-raising festival was in February 1999 in London at the UCL on...
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There was a lot less bi visibility in the media back in 1992 and so bisexual and lesbian/gay groups were up in arms when the film Basic Instinct came out. It quickly became a totemic example of negative bi and queer representation on screen: one of the central characters is a manipulative bisexual woman...
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This week’s two big bi meet-ups are both on Tuesday night. In Manchester it’s BiPhoria, a social & support discussion group, from 7.30pm at the Lesbian & Gay Foundation on Richmond Street. The same night from 6.30pm Cardiff bi group meet up.
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Being Me – An opportunity for people who identify as black or minority ethnic and bisexual, lesbian or gay to share experiences, listen to others and find out about the support and information available. It’s this Saturday – 4th February 2012, 1-5pm at The Lesbian & Gay Foundation’s Community Resource Centre, Number 5, Richmond...
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There’s so much pink, purple and blue bi stuff these days it’s hard to imagine a time before those colours became a ubiquitous code for ‘bi’. But like every flag, the bi flag had to be invented and it made its first appearance in the world at the end of 1998. It was...
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Another date from bi history for you: 6th July 1997 was the first London Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Pride. Previously called Lesbian & Gay Pride, the name change had happened at the start of the year following work in 1996 by a specially convened Pride Bi Working Group. For a couple of years...
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Are you under 25, bi and living in or near Birmingham? The people who who made the bi documentary with Tom Robinson for Radio 4 last year are now making a sexuality programme for Radio 1 and looking for young bisexuals to talk about their experiences…(must be 18-24). Ashley from the Made In Manchester...
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Our first bisexual history date for LGBT History Month is 30-and-a-half years ago. That was the first meeting of the London Bisexual Group. The group closed down a few years ago but can be seen as the birth of the UK bi ‘movement’ – it ran for more than 21 years and went on...
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As LGBT History Month kicks off in the UK, over in the USA February is Black History Month. American bi website Bi Social Network has a weekly podcast show which for the next few weeks will focus on black bi history – thanks to the power of the internets, you listen in wherever you...
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BiUK and Bi Community News have produced guidance for researchers working on and around bisexuality. Frequently at BiMedia we get contacts from academics and researchers wanting to find subjects to interview about being bi. We know other bi projects in the UK do too, and imagine the same goes for bi organisations overseas. When...
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