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Mentally Processing 2020

My favourite analogy for what is going on just now is that humanity has been dumped.You know when you're on the receiving end of a breakup and you don't see it coming, and it is with someone you have been seeing for long enough that you kind of have a ...

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LGBT History Month is here!

In February 2005, the UK marked its first LGBT History Month.I loved the notion: although looking back over old correspondence it seems that the organisers were perhaps collaborating on something to be marked in the more progressive schools around...

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Mathematical Operators

A small thought. The thing about "LGBT+" as a term is that it needs a counterpart.Specifically "LGBT-", for where you say LGBT on the tin but you really mean a slightly smaller list.(I want to carry on to other maths operators here but the n...

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More Bis In Photos

And so - following on from yesterday's photo roundup - to this years BiCon photo, which is also out on the Bi Community News website ahead of its proper schedule date by way of celebrating the opening of bookings for BiCon 2020 tomorrow. Subscrib...

Ally Challenge

I got chatting to someone the other afternoon about bisexuals and allies. In part it was prompted by being at Sparkle and seeing some publications offering tip for allies on how to be supportive to your trans friends, family, workmates and partners....

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Opting Out Of Oxbow Lakes

Many readers will have noticed the story in the media about "LGBT lessons" in a Birmingham school and how lots of people who have somehow been entrusted with the care of small children want them protected from being told about how two men can marry now...

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A fine debate in the Lords

Bi Community News reports on the second reading of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths Bill in the House of Lords last week.There were some excellent contributions all round, though Lib Dem peer Baroness Barker gave for my money the best contr...

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2018 in Bisexual

Something I wrote for the BCN website wrapping up loads of bi news from the past twelve months...So, 2018 has been and gone. Here are our bi-lights of the year past.Seen On ScreenWe had more bis on TV than ever including shows with bisexual leads The B...

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The 20th Bi Visibility Day is here!

...well, Bi Visibility Weekend then. I'm going to be rather busy the rest of the weekend so I thought I better get my blogpost in early: the Big Day is tomorrow.It’s the 20th annual Bi Visibility Day this Sunday, September 23rd.The date highlights bise...

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Bi Erasure at the Beeb

Sadly little surprise that the BBC politics team is erasing bisexuality again. It's over a decade since they were taken to task over reporting about another prominent left-wing bisexual MP, Simon Hughes, as John Pienaar declared that someone who had ta...