{"id":345,"date":"2013-08-06T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=a9c226eb686e63c3c6be1d4607b36f50"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T10:45:00","slug":"vote-bi-in-the-gay-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2013\/08\/vote-bi-in-the-gay-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Bi in the Gay Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Please help give bisexual visibility a boost from your armchair by voting for me in this year’s Homo Hero awards!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\ufeffThe shortlists for the annual awards have been revealed, and I’m delighted to have been shortlisted for LGB Role Model of the Year. It was all a bit of a surprise really, I knew one person had put in a nomination for me but didn’t think it would go anywhere. <\/p>\n

Why me?  Well, y’know, I’ve done a thing or three for the bis.  Editing a print magazine<\/a> for over ten years, running a regular local social-support group<\/a> for over fifteen years, organising networking and visibility at LGBT and mainstream conferences and prides, championing Bi Visibility Day<\/a>, doing silly and sensible outreach and visibility work from Getting Bi<\/a> to the Bisexual Recruitment Army<\/a>. Being an out & proud genderqueer bi person in so many lesbian and gay focused LGBT meetings, giving neat binaries a little wobble with judicious use of the word “and<\/i>” when confronted with too much of the word “either<\/i>“.<\/p>\n

The Homo Hero awards are run by the Lesbian & Gay Foundation, which is the UK’s largest LGB health charity, yet which doesn’t have a B <\/i>in its name. I’m amused at the idea of bi-ing the gay agenda of a “homo” awards do, so please help me.  It’ll take a few clicks and an email address.<\/p>\n

You can go and vote here at the Homo Heroes webpage<\/a>. <\/strong>Role model is the third category down, where you’ll find a lovely picture of me with my hair all blue and blonde. <\/p>\n

21 people or organisations are nominated across 7 categories – you can vote for some or all of the categories, so you can just vote for me or vote in other sections too.  Two years ago<\/a> there were three bi community activist nominees shortlisted – me, Natalya and Marcus – and one bi project, BCN, but last year none made the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/div>\n

Please help give bisexual visibility a boost from your armchair by voting for me in this year’s Homo Hero awards!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The shortlists for the annual awards have been revealed, and I’m delighted to have been shortlisted for LGB Role Model of the Year. It was all a bit of a surprise really, I knew one person had put in a nomination for me but didn’t think it would go anywhere. <\/p>\n

Why me?  Well, y’know, I’ve done a thing or three for the bis.  Editing a print magazine<\/a> for over ten years, running a regular local social-support group<\/a> for over fifteen years, organising networking and visibility at LGBT and mainstream conferences and prides, championing Bi Visibility Day<\/a>, doing silly and sensible outreach and visibility work from Getting Bi<\/a> to the Bisexual Recruitment Army<\/a>. Being an out & proud genderqueer bi person in so many lesbian and gay focused LGBT meetings, giving neat binaries a little wobble with judicious use of the word “and<\/i>” when confronted with too much of the word “either<\/i>“.<\/p>\n

The Homo Hero awards are run by the Lesbian & Gay Foundation, which is the UK’s largest LGB health charity, yet which doesn’t have a B <\/i>in its name. I’m amused at the idea of bi-ing the gay agenda of a “homo” awards do, so please help me.  It’ll take a few clicks and an email address.<\/p>\n

You can go and vote here at the Homo Heroes webpage<\/a>. <\/strong>Role model is the third category down, where you’ll find a lovely picture of me with my hair all blue and blonde. <\/p>\n

21 people or organisations are nominated across 7 categories – you can vote for some or all of the categories, so you can just vote for me or vote in other sections too.  Two years ago<\/a> there were three bi community activist nominees shortlisted – me, Natalya and Marcus – and one bi project, BCN, but last year none made the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-bi","category-ldb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/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=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}