Since the launch of The Bisexuality Report just under a fortnight ago, the full PDF file of it has been downloaded more than 20,000 times. That’s about two thousand times a day. Brilliant!
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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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Brighton BothWays started in September 2003. It was the first specifically Bi group for 18 yearas to run in the city that’s been known for its large and vibrant LGBT community for decades. The group has always been open to allies as well as bi people and those questioning their sexuality. The group has...
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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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It’s the end of the month which with the cycle of most bi groups, there’s nothing to report til Thursday when it’s Saint David’s Day and the start of March. Thursday sees Brighton Bothways‘ monthly talky space group meeting at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, from 6.30 til 8.30pm. Two days later on...
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Sex between men became legal in the England and Wales in 1967* with an age of consent of 21. That stayed the case for nearly thirty years but by the mid 1990s pressure for change finally hit boiling point and the House of Commons voted on a series of proposals for reform. The first...
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For a long time, bisexuality in UK law existed in a sort of limbo: there were laws that were written with heterosexual people in mind, laws written with gay men in mind, and occasionally lawmakers wondered about the existence of lesbians. Bis thus had a jumbled situation: some relationships more recognised or recognisable in...
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The February 1989 edition of Bi Monthly was memorable as the first time that an arm of the UK government took the bi community seriously. The centre pages were taken up by a big bold advert about safer sex, taken out by the Health Education Authority. Under the slogan “They used to say masturbation...
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The National Union of Students has long had a lesbian & gay section and conferences. These days the conventional values in NUS circles are that the campaign and the conference alike are for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer students. In the 1980s though just as other sections of the gay liberation movement were...
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