The government has now launched its public consultation on changing the laws on marriage in England and Wales, to take gender out of the equation and make marriage open to any couple. Bisexual magazine BCN is highlighting it with the slogan “Bi Do!”, reflecting their readers survey last year which found over 80% support...
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Bisexual magazine BCN is one of the first organisations to declare support for a new grassroots same-sex marriage campaign. The pro- same-sex marriage campaign group Coalition For Equal Marriage has started announcing its coalition members and supporters. BCN was one of the first eight coalition members to be announced, with Humanist & Secularist groups,...
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Have you signed the petition for equal marriage yet? Across Scotland and across England and Wales the pace is quickening in the campaigns over letting same-sex couples get married. A recent readers’ poll for bisexual magazine BCN showed overwhelming support for the change amongst bi people. BCN editor Jen Yockney says, “ten years ago,...
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Call for Papers – BiReCon 2012: Bisexuality and mental health **Deadline extended to 31st March 2012**Research suggests that bisexual people are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidality than lesbian, gay or heterosexual people. Biphobia and bisexual invisibility can mean that if bi people seek help from health professionals and therapists they...
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To round off our Bi Stories for LGBT History Month, a story that spans the past and the present. In 1995, members of Bisexual Action Manchester lobbied their city council about its Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and statements. The council’s diversity monitoring offered three options for sexual orientation: Heterosexual, Gay and Lesbian. Service...
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Since the launch of The Bisexuality Report just under a fortnight ago, the full PDF file of it has been downloaded more than 20,000 times. That’s about two thousand times a day. Brilliant!
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Another way to find out about the Bisexuality Report following the print and online editions of the report and the podcast – the video! This was produced for the Open University but we’ve chosen to embed a youtube copy which has had subtitles added so if for example English isn’t your first language, or...
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For a long time, bisexuality in UK law existed in a sort of limbo: there were laws that were written with heterosexual people in mind, laws written with gay men in mind, and occasionally lawmakers wondered about the existence of lesbians. Bis thus had a jumbled situation: some relationships more recognised or recognisable in...
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BBC Radio Manchester talks to two of the co-authors of The Bisexuality Report tonight at nine. Meg Barker from BiUK and Jen Yockney from Bi Community News will be talking about the groundbreaking publication on the station’s LGBT Citizen show from 9pm. The show is available on the iPlayer for a week after broadcast.
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Ani DiFranco’s so bisexual she was even born on International Celebrate Bisexuality Day, September 23rd. The American folk-rocker was one of the great queer icons of the 1990s, on the cover of Diva and Bi Community News alike. Her rugged independence, still running her own record label to avoid compromise with corporate giants, mirrors...
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