The Open University have released a video of highlights of the launch event of The Bisexuality Report.. The report was launched in February 2012 in London, at the Open University’s Camden campus. As well as the report’s co-authors from BiUK. Bisexual Index and Bi Community News there are speakers from the Government Equalities Office,...
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The Bisexuality Report is now available in a Spanish translation. The translation work was done by Manuel Sebastia, and you can download El Informe sobre Bisexualidad, along with the original version of the report here. Meg Barker from BiUK said, “We hope that the translation proves useful and might prompt further discussion about the different...
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Bisexual magazine Bi Community News has confirmed today that its subscription prices will be forced to rise following this week’s leap in the price of postage. BCN told us: “The additional postage costs will add about a pound to every subscription, and our margins just aren’t big enough to absorb that after last year’s...
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New research published today into bisexual and gay men’s health highlights some frightening figures for those working with bi men. Stonewall’s survey looks at bi and gay men’s health, as a counterpart to a similar women’s survey they conducted a few years ago. Mostly it combines bi and gay data together, however two snippets...
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The annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Health Summit is to be held at the University of Kent in Canterbury, 13th – 14th September 2012. Established in 2006, the LGBT Health Summit is a unique UK event that brings individuals and organisations from across the UK together to debate and discuss LGBT...
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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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For many years the people who ran bi groups and events picked up anecdotal information about bi life, but it was only relatively recently that this turned into formally researched academic findings that did not merge gay and bi experience. One such was Ellison and Gunstone’s research in 2009 on lesbian, gay and bi...
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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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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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The latest edition of bi magazine BCN is out today with a major focus on bisexual history for LGBT History Month (including a plug for our daily bi history items – thank you!) and the launch of the Bisexuality Report. Lost Girl stars Anna Silk and Zoie Palmer are on the cover as season...
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