Sunday 23rd September is International Celebrate Bisexuality Day, and all over the world bisexual people and their friends will be hosting events to mark the occasion. This year, BiScotland will be celebrating in style at the MED Cafe in Glasgow’s recently-opened LGBT Centre on Bell Street. The cafe will be open throughout the afternoon...
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A new bisexual social-support group for Birmingham launches on 11th September, meeting monthly. They say: “We’re putting the Bi in Birmingham, every 2nd Tuesday of the month at HGL Centre 146. Find us at 146 Bromsgrove St from 7.30, then at the Green Room on Hurst St from 9 for drinks.” Their website is...
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Bi Community News will have another year’s worth of cover bis thanks to a photo session at this year’s Treforest BiCon. Editor Jen Yockney said, “we were running out of community faces to put on the cover of the magazine, but we’ve got some truly fabulous photos from the photo shoot we held at...
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The Manchester bi groups BiSociality and BiPhoria will be appearing both on the local Pride festival’s parade (as “birates”) and running a bi info stall in the event’s “Lifestyle Expo” over the next three days. If you’re at Pride in Manchester do give them a wave or drop by and say hello – or...
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After delays over printing Bi Community News issue 86 just made it out in time for BiCon this year. The Summer 2007 edition features: Here Be Dragons (getting to BiCon 2007) Queer Parenting: Gender Play Easy Activism: Lobbying Stonewall Bi Activism Conference 2007 unveiled BiFest, BiFest, BiFest… Manchester and Sheffield. Subscriptions etc – see...
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One of the biggest BiCons since the event went residential in the early 1990s, BiCon Treforest has now drawn to a close. Expect photos and a full writeup on the BCN website and in BCN issue 87 soon!
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Mews reaches BiMedia.org that the publisher Taylor & Francis has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire the academic books and journals of Haworth Press. Haworth is the US publisher behind the quarterly “Journal of Bisexuality” and many other academic journals. Intriguingly the deal does not include Harrington Park Press, which is being sold separately...
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Bisexual Action have been writing to gay businesses in Manchester ahead of the BiFest that BiPhoria are organising. In that city, many ‘gay’ venues have been found to operate biphobic door policies in recent times. Several gay clubs turning bis away at the door citing their “gay only” policy as meaning we’re not welcome....
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The provisional programme for Manchester’s BiFest in two weeks’ time has been published. The programme runs: 12.00 – 12.30 Tea / coffee / hello! 12:30 – 1:30 Speed Meeting 1:30 – 3:30 What is Bi? – or – Bi Activism 3:30 – 4:30 Partners of Bi’s – or – Bi Scene? 4:30 – 6:00...
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