Tomorrow (Sat 12th) is Birmingham BiFest, a day out for bis, partners, friends and allies, being held at the Nightingale club on Kent Street. It’s being organised by Brum Bi Group as part of the city’s SHOUT festival. The daytime event will run 11am – 5pm and timetabled sessions include: 12pm – Safe sex...
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Bisexual men have unique health needs compared to exclusively homosexual and heterosexual men, but the stigma they face makes learning of their needs – and even reaching bi men in their “hidden communities” – difficult for public health professionals, say researchers at Indiana University in the USA. The reported need for privacy, because of...
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In just over a week Wednesday 16th November, the LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing will be hosting Edinburgh’s very first LGBT Family Planning Event. It will explore family planning options available for LGBT people and give bisexual, trans, lesbian and gay people an opportunity to have their say. Representatives have been invited from...
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Tuesday night is a busy night for bi groups with Birmingham, London and Sheffield local groups all having meetings lined up for November 8th. Saturday has the Brighton Bothways coffee meetup, while also this Saturday is the third Birmingham BiFest
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Calling all bi activists and those who want to discuss the future of bi events, bi research and bi communities in the UK. Such matters and more will be discussed on the weekend of 26-27 November in Leicester. Bisexual Activist Weekends are an informal chance for new and existing bi activists to network and...
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Earlier this week we reported on the Equality Network’s meetings to discuss the proposals for changes to the law on partnership recognition in Scotland. As well as those meetings there is now an online questionnaire – which you can fill in here. Same-sex marriage has been legalised in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain...
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Earlier this year the UK Census was carried out to gather information necessary to planning and improving service provision across the country. But – despite lobbying in recent years – there was no question asking about sexual orientation. This missed a chance to find out important information about the lives of bisexual people across...
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The Scottish Government are currently consulting on whether to introduce same-sex marriage in Scotland; as we know the anti-equality lobby will mobilise to try and keep discrimination entrenched, it’s important that the views of bisexual people are heard. The Equality Network will be hosting five special LGBT consultation events in partnership with the Scottish...
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Two members of BiVisible Bristol were on BCFM local radio last Thursday, talking about the group and being bisexual more generally as part of the local weekly LGBT show ShoutOut. The programme’s available as a ‘listen again’ type stream on the radio programme’s website here and to download as a podcast – it looks...
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