This year’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Trans History Month begins today, with a host of events across the UK to look forward to celebrating LGBT life today and gone by. As we celebrate 30 years of UK bi activism, two bisexual community events are planned for this February. In London, ‘20th Century Bi’ will...
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Following the success of last summer’s Big Bi Fun Day in Leicester, there will be a second Big Bi Fun Day in four months’ time. It will be held on 21st May, at the Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester: pop it in your diary now! The BBFD site notes: Big Bi Fun...
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Celebrating 30 years of UK bi activism, writer and blogger Sue George (Women and Bisexuality, Bisexuality and Beyond) leads a panel of speakers discussing bisexuals and bisexuality in the 20th century in London in just over two weeks’ time, as part of LGBT History Month. Tickets can be booked online here. Details: Saturday 12...
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Manchester bi group BiPhoria host a day for bis and our friends this Saturday, the 22nd January. Manchester BiFest will bring together workshops and art / craft spaces, and celebrate sixteen years of the group’s work – and the timetable for the day is now public so we know what to expect! What’s more...
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Manchester bi group BiPhoria will be having a day of bi fun in a little over a week, on the 22nd January. Manchester BiFest will bring together workshops and art / craft spaces, and celebrate sixteen years of the group’s work. The event will be at the new Lesbian & Gay Foundation building, on...
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Celebrating 30 years of UK bi activism, writer and blogger Sue George (Women and Bisexuality, Bisexuality and Beyond) leads a panel of speakers discussing bisexuals and bisexuality in the 20th century as part of this year’s LGBT History Month. The event’s on Saturday 12 February 2011, 2.30–4.30 pm, Conway Hall (Bertrand Russell Room), 25...
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Someone pointed us at this fun little YouTube video. Bringing together many of the daft things people say about bis into a short mock public information film – while the comments on youtube suggest a few people took it a bit too literally, we found it a good giggle. And with that, a happy...
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For the first time in the annual Pink Paper’s Readers’ Awards a bisexual group has made the shortlist for the “Best LGBT Group” category. Manchester BiPhoria is listed alongside Icebreakers (also Manchester), GYRO in Liverpool, London group Opening Doors and national website Outdoorlads.com. Jen from BiPhoria told BiMedia, “It’s brilliant to be the first...
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If you’re queer and online it’s been hard in the last month not to pick up the “It Gets Better” project, making short videos where people who had a hard time growing up because of biphobic, homophobic and transphobic bullying talk about how that is a tough time but life does improve especially once...
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BBC Radio Manchester’s weekly LGBT show focuses on the B in LGBT this week. Presenter Ashley Byrne and co-hosts Andrew Edwards and singer/songwriter Claire Mooney are joined by researchers from the University of Huddersfield including Surya Monro who have been studying how bisexual people are treated by local councils in the UK. They found...
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