We’d like to expand the BiMedia website with the best of videos about being bi – perhaps we should add, strictly “work safe” stuff! It could be personal experience, academic stuff, talks, fun animations or all sorts of other things. There’s a new page where we are getting started at Bis On Film, but...
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There’s a positive bisexual radio explosion this week!. Tonight on BBC Radio Manchester, members of local group BiPhoria are interviewed about the new bi pocket guide “Getting Bi In A Gay/Straight World”. They’ll be talking about the guide and the reasons for raising bi visibility, the launch event tomorrow night, and the context of...
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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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Sue George – the author of the early 1990s groundbreaking book “Women and Bisexuality” – will be talking about bisexuality and the bi community on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM radio this Tuesday (8 February), between 6.30-7 p.m., as part of their LGBT show. Sue will be talking about ’20th Century Bi’, the London bi...
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Someone pointed us at this fun little YouTube video. Bringing together many of the daft things people say about bis into a short mock public information film – while the comments on youtube suggest a few people took it a bit too literally, we found it a good giggle. And with that, a happy...
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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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BBC Radio Manchester’s weekly LGBT show focuses on the B in LGBT this week. Presenter Ashley Byrne and co-hosts Andrew Edwards and singer/songwriter Claire Mooney are joined by researchers from the University of Huddersfield including Surya Monro who have been studying how bisexual people are treated by local councils in the UK. They found...
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A new YouTube short film interviews people at this year’s International BiCon in London, asking how the main event in the UK bi calendar was for them. You can view it here or on the YouTube website.
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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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Stonewall’s new report on bisexual, lesbian and gay representation on TV points out that while there was only a tiny amount of positive representation of gay and lesbian people in the programming monitored, there was no positive portrayal at all of bisexuals. The BBC’s reporting of the Stonewall publication, however, wiped that from the...
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