With six months to go before this year’s big bi festival / conference BiCon, the call has gone out for people to help with the entertainments programme this August. The organisers say: The entertainments (Ents) at a BiCon is a huge part of the convention. Over the years we have seen them grow to...
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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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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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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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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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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History Month begins today with events all across the UK over the coming 29 days (it’s a leap year so we get that little bit more history this time!) Last year there were two bi-specific events that we know of (in London and Manchester) celebrating bi history, but this...
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The theme for the Ball at this year’s biggest bi event has been announced -and this time BiCon is all at sea. “You are cordially invited aboard the HMS BiCon for a sea-faring adventure that’s naughty-cal, but nice!” say the organisers. “Help us celebrate the 30th UK BiCon with an oceanic party of DJs,...
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This Valentine’s Day campaigners will be marching from Edinburgh University to the Scottish Parliament in support of legalising same-sex marriage in Scotland. Starting at Bristo Square at 2:30pm on Tuesday Feb 14th, the Equal Marriage march, organised by the Scottish Youth Parliament, NUS and the Equality Network, will head for Holyrood. There’s more information...
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Oxford’s first BiFest in 2010 was an excellent day out with lots of bi and bifriendly people and a packed programme of discussion spaces, dancing and more. That set the bar high so perhaps it’s no wonder it has taken 2 years for another Oxford BiFest to come together! But we’re delighted to report...
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This summer’s UK bisexual research & academics conference has issued its Call for Papers: Call For Papers BiReCon 2012: Bisexuality and mental healthPlease circulate 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...
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