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		<title>13th February 1999: London&#8217;s first Bi Festival and first Bi March</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BiFest events happen all over the UK and increasingly often these days &#8211; in the first half of this year they are lined up for Oxford, Cardiff and London, and that&#8217;s just the ones we know about. The first &#8220;BiFest&#8221; one-day-long bi awareness-raising festival was in February 1999 in London at the UCL on Malet Street. It included a bisexual march long nearby streets that drew 49 people &#8211; just short of the 50 required by the police for it to be allowed on the road. That meant that what would have blocked off a small strip of road instead occupied a long stretch of pavement as the bisexuals had to march more or less two by two. So far as we know that makes it a double first &#8211; the first BiFest and the first bi parade. Unless you know better? &#160; Submit your favourite bi people and events to remember for LGBT History Month – see here for details]]></description>
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		<title>22nd March 1992: Bisexual Icepick Killer Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot less bi visibility in the media back in 1992 and so bisexual and lesbian/gay groups were up in arms when the film Basic Instinct came out. It quickly became a totemic example of negative bi and queer representation on screen: one of the central characters is a manipulative bisexual woman who seems to be using her sexuality to get away with murder. Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas starred in the film famous for two things: the scene where audiences got a fleeting glimpse up Stone&#8217;s skirt, and her character&#8217;s tendency to reach for the icepick during sex. Reportedly after the film was released Sharon Stone complained that interviewers always wanted to talk about how shocking the film&#8217;s sex scenes were, yet didn&#8217;t seem to have a problem with characters being killed in a grisly fashion. &#160; &#160; Submit your favourite bi people and events to remember for LGBT History Month – see here for details]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Manchester and Cardiff!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s two big bi meet-ups are both on Tuesday night. In Manchester it&#8217;s BiPhoria, a social &#38; support discussion group, from 7.30pm at the Lesbian &#38; Gay Foundation on Richmond Street. The same night from 6.30pm Cardiff bi group meet up.]]></description>
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		<title>Being Me in Manchester</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being Me &#8211; An opportunity for people who identify as black or minority ethnic and bisexual, lesbian or gay to share experiences, listen to others and find out about the support and information available. It&#8217;s this Saturday &#8211; 4th February 2012, 1-5pm at The Lesbian &#38; Gay Foundation&#8217;s Community Resource Centre, Number 5, Richmond Street, Manchester M1 3HF.  The organisers promise &#8220;an afternoon of celebration of all that is lesbian, gay and bisexual from all aspects of our diverse community. Celebrating through food, through video and through personal experiences.&#8221; It&#8217;s free &#8211; to reserve your place please email or telephone Darren Knight at The Lesbian &#38; Gay Foundation: darren.knight@lgf.org.uk or 0845 3 30 30 30.]]></description>
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		<title>5th December 1998: The Bisexual Flag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There&#8217;s so much pink, purple and blue bi stuff these days it&#8217;s hard to imagine a time before those colours became a ubiquitous code for &#8216;bi&#8217;. But like every flag, the bi flag had to be invented and it made its first appearance in the world at the end of 1998. It was invented by BiNet USA volunteer Michael Page in response to the growing visibility and value of the rainbow flag as a symbol for lesbian and gay people. The three stripes represent same-gender attraction (pink), opposite (blue) and the middle stripe both (purple being a blend of the two). With four-fifths of the flag thus symbolising homosexuality or heterosexuality, this is surely one of the most generous flags in the world &#8211; what nation devotes 80% of its flag to its neighbours? You can find out more here. &#160; Submit your favourite bi people and events to remember for LGBT History Month – see here for details]]></description>
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