One of our members came across this blog post about Bivisible’s club night, Greedy. I was encouraged by the comments from readers, which mainly said that, as bisexual people, they took this to be a tongue in cheek name and were not offended by it. However not everyone felt this way. Other commenters provided the extra info that the night was run by bi people, rather than a gay venue’s misguided attempt to cash in on the bi market. They also stated that at least this was a night for bisexual people and they were glad it existed, which warmed my cockles no end.
When the issue was mentioned on Facebook, one of the facilitators of the Bivisible group gave this response:
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I can confirm that the name is indeed tongue-in-cheek. At Bivisible we recognize that some people might find the name problematic, but we also enjoy having a sense of humor about ourselves, and the name Greedy is supposed to be in the spirit of feeling greedy for post-weekend fun (since it’s on a Tuesday night). There is no assumption being made here that bi people are greedy or slutty or whatever. Just as so many queer nights have words like fag or dyke in their names, we are simply trying to make something positive and fun out of a negative phrase. If anyone would like to discuss this further, why not come to our Bivisible meet-up at Cafe Kino this Thursday evening? X
An excellent response to which I might only add that we were interested in fitting in with/riffing from the other gay nights around the city, which at the time were named Mutiny, Wonky and Liberty. Having heard of other bi nights that “reclaim” stereotypes (such as The Fence-Sitter’s Ball) the name Greedy became completely irresistible.
All of this was decided in conversation with our current members, however I realise now I have yet to publicise in print the reasons for our decision on the name. I found the conversation on the other blog post mentioned above very interesting, so does anyone else have any thoughts about the name Greedy?
ps, if you appreciate that the club night exists, why not come down and join us next week, we can’t continue to exist and represent the bi community’s diversity if you are not present!
EDIT: have revisted the blog and have a couple more thoughts. One is that it makes me sad to go to such effort to provide things for other people in my community and be trashed for it 🙁 Such is life though. No-one with a positive or negative comment has asked us why we used the word Greedy, yes the venue is a gay club and finally I have no idea where the poster they have used on the blog post came from – I don’t think it’s one of ours. As you can see from the Greedy page, ours are much better than that!
Tagged: bi, club night, community, greedy, happy 
