This year’s biggest UK bi event, BiCon, starts today! The conference / convention, which goes to a different city each year, is for 2010 in London and this time incorporates the International Conference on Bisexuality. It has already broken all attendance records in the 26 year history of the event, with more than 300...
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August Bank Holiday weekend is Manchester Pride weekend, and once again there will be a bi contingent on the parade on the Saturday. Manchester’s is one of the biggest Pride events in the country and this will be its 20th year. Marchers should assemble near Deansgate train station before lunchtime: see the Facebook event...
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This month’s London BiCon have unveiled their plans for the evenings at the year’s biggest bi event. They say: We think the evenings at BiCon are every bit as important as the days. They provide a chance to relax, slow the pace down, resume conversations and meet people. We’ve tried to cater to a...
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This year’s combined BiCon and ICB looks set to enter the record books. “We’ve now got over 300 people pre-booked for BiCon”, says Marcus Morgan (chair of 10ICB/BiCon2010), “which is a record number for a bisexual conference in the UK. And although we’ve now closed the reservation of bedrooms on-site at the UEL Docklands...
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Issue 101 of Bi Community News magazine is out now. With Pride photos, community listings for the breadth of the UK bi scene and more. Features include: - Raiders of the lost archive - Rollergrrls - BiCon Worcester: the money - BiReCon packs a powerful lineup
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Is your sex-uality overly hy-phenated? We all know there’s no hyphen in hetero-sexual or homo-sexual, but some folks need to be reminded that there’s no dash in bisexual. Help spread the word by joining the “M-y Se-xua-lity I-sn’t H-yph-ena-ted” Facebook group.
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The trades union Unison’s LGBT wing will be holding a meeting for bisexual members on Friday 23 July, from 10.30am –1pm, in London. To find out more email out@unison.co.uk or call – in confidence – on 020 7551 1799.
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The openly bisexual Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes has been elected deputy leader of his party this evening. The election followed the previous deputy leader stepping down due to taking up a cabinet post in the new Coalition Government. Stonewall had used the deputy leadership contest to highlight the relative voting records on LGBT...
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This year the UK BiCon is relaunching the International Conference on Bisexuality. They have a colossal event planned and hope to bring many people from around the world to London for the conference. However, if you want to snag a bargain rate, you need to book now! They say: Currently we’re pricing our overseas...
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Bisexual Index know economic times are tough, so as the UK government rolls out the chance to get your own state ID card for as little as, er, quite a lot of money, they’ll offer you a bi ID card for free. Based on an idea from “Anything That Moves” magazine, the bisexual id...
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