Bi website RaspberryMousse.net has shut up shop after a year. Initially conceived as a social networking style of website it rapidly shifted to be news, opinion and pop culture focused. However, running a busy website like that takes a lot of time and energy and so all due credit to Raspberry supremo Kanika Ameerah...
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Manchester-based bi project BiPhoria will launch a new pocket guide to coming out and staying out this Tuesday. The booklet, Getting Bi in a Gay / Straight World, talks about coming out and staying out, and how we keep a sense of bi identity. There are local and national listings of key resources like...
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It’s Manchester’s turn for bis on the airwaves tonight, as local radio station for Stockport Pure FM interviews Holly Matthies from local bi project BiPhoria. The group are launching a new pocket-sized guide to bi life, “Getting Bi in a Gay/ Straight World”, next Tuesday. There will be a special launch event on Tuesday...
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This year’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Trans History Month begins today, with a host of events across the UK to look forward to celebrating LGBT life today and gone by. As we celebrate 30 years of UK bi activism, two bisexual community events are planned for this February. In London, ‘20th Century Bi’ will...
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The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) moves today from its present location at Middlesex University, to the Bishopsgate Institute, London. The move comes because the campus at Middlesex where LAGNA is based is closing in June 2011 and the Bishopsgate Institute has offered the Archive a new home. Despite the name, LAGNA is...
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Issue 104 of Bi Community News is out now with news about events coming up for LGBT History Month, questions of how bi events could grow tenfold, reporting back from the International Bi Research Conference, and more besides. Cover stars are the bi morris dancers from Birmingham BiFest. You can subscribe online at...
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The average coming out age has fallen by over 20 years in Britain, according to Stonewall. Their recent online poll, which had 1,536 respondents, found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people aged 60 and over came out at 37 on average. People aged 18 and under are coming out at 15 on average. Ruth...
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We are pleased to report the launch of a new, UK-centric site for everyone who identifies as any variation of non-monogamous. While that’s not the same as being bi, we know there’s plenty of bi folk out there who may be interested. Carrying articles and opinions, and with aims to grow into areas like...
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If you’re queer and online it’s been hard in the last month not to pick up the “It Gets Better” project, making short videos where people who had a hard time growing up because of biphobic, homophobic and transphobic bullying talk about how that is a tough time but life does improve especially once...
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A number of short films taken from the presentations at August’s BiReCon international academic & research conference on bisexuality can now be seen on YouTube. Speakers include John Sylla from the American Institute of Bisexuality, Meg Barker from BiUK, Jenny Kangasvuo on bisexuality in Finland, Miguel Obradors on Deconstructing Biphobia and much more. See...
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