BiCon 2012 today opened bookings for the biggest event in the bisexual calendar. With prices for the five day residential event starting at just £135 including accommodation, attendance is expected to be high: 2011′s BiCon set a new record attendance for a UK bi event. Libby, one of the pair heading the team this...
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Manchester bi group BiPhoria will be taking their bi banners on the road again this weekend as they head down the M62 for Saturday’s Liverpool Pride. Why not join them? They’ll be gathering around 11.30am at St Georges Plateau, by Lime Street station. If you can’t find them by looking for the pink, purple...
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an opinion piece from BCN editor Jen Yockney for BiMedia: The UK’s leading “lesbian, gay and bisexual” (according to its Christmas cards) charity Stonewall has published its response to the government consultation on reforms to marriage and civil partnership legislation. It seems that bisexuals have dropped off the Stonewall radar once again. Stonewall have...
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While Downing Street’s lesbian & gay reception kept itself to itself, the key speech at the equivalent event across the pond has now been published on the White House’s TV channel. Sometimes hidden by a mass of hand-held cameras waved aloft, US President Barack Obama asks LGBT activists to judge him by what he...
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Prime Minister David Cameron has just announced his second LGBT garden party reception at 10 Downing Street, this one to kick off London’s extended LGBT Pride week. Last year’s event – hosted jointly by David Cameron and Deputy PM Nick Clegg – had a smattering of famous ‘names’ and people in and around politics,...
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Bi activists and those who want to discuss the future of bi events, bi research and bi communities in the UK will be getting together in London this weekend. The event is being hosted by BiUK in association with The Open University (at the OU’s Camden campus in London) and is set to run...
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Bi Social Network boss Adrienne Williams has been invited to a celebration of LGBT Pride Month, to be held at The White House and hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Adrienne has been asked to attend in recognition of her activism for the bisexual community. BSN is roughly the USA’s...
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Today (May 17th) is the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, marking 21 years since the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Across the world there are events and shows of support for tackling prejudice against lesbian, gay, bi and trans people and the profile of “IDAHO” is growing every year....
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Pro-AV campaigners took the campaign to change the voting system to the heart of London’s LGBT scene on the Bank Holiday with a bold purple theme. Purple’s the colour most associated with bisexuality – but also the colour taken by the pro-AV campaigners, as a group including figures from the Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem...
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The four parties competing in the Welsh Assembly elections will be grilled on LGBT equality at a special hustings this Tuesday. Organised by Stonewall Cymru and hosted by Enfys, Cardiff University’s LGBT Staff Network, the event will give bisexual, gay and trans people their opportunity to ask what the main political parties will do...
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