{"id":2925,"date":"2015-09-24T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=d7bb2da2baa6373d07f04ad5323e1d2a"},"modified":"2015-09-24T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:02:00","slug":"bi-visibility-day-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/09\/bi-visibility-day-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi Visibility Day and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fab to see that once again bi activists were invited to a roundtable debate at the White House this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bivisibilityday.com\/\">Bi Visibility Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what about here?<\/p>\n<p>I took to twitter to see the engagement from political groupings<\/p>\n<p>Lib Dems: Now a long time ago &#8211; in the 90s I think &#8211; the Lib Dems LGBT+ group got me and some other folk in to help with bi inclusion and representation. It&#8217;s well reflected with about ten tweets on the day including photo and video content.<br \/>Tory: Their LGBT wing had nothing of its own but retweeted a couple of other bi tweets.<br \/>Plaid: One tweet, but well crafted.<br \/>Labour: Not a peep<br \/>Greens: Not a peep<br \/>UKIP: Not a peep<br \/>SNP: Can&#8217;t find anything there either<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere the Government Equalities Office had a couple of tweets and the junior minister for Women and LGBT equalities tweeted a message too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fab to see that once again bi activists were invited to a roundtable debate at the White House this Bi Visibility Day.But what about here?I took to twitter to see the engagement from political groupingsLib Dems: Now a long time ago &#8211; in the 90s I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi","category-ldb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}