{"id":8561,"date":"2019-09-08T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisofcolour.home.blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-09-08T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:36:57","slug":"bi-pride-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2019\/09\/bi-pride-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi Pride 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I attended the first Bi Pride on 7th September 2019. \u00a0I was surprised at the turnout – it felt like hundreds of people were there! \u00a0I was also pleasantly surprised at being at the most diverse mainstream* bisexual event EVER.<\/p>\n

I spoke on the Mental Health and Bisexuality panel, about the problems with long waiting times, how NHS mental health services are awful and putting bi and trans people in danger. \u00a0I also spoke up as an audience member during the session on Bi Community. \u00a0I raised the point of the barriers to building bi communities, when so many meet-ups and events were held in pubs, which are often unfriendly to visibly queer, POC, those who wear religious clothing, and\/or gender non-conforming clothes. \u00a0These places are also often inaccessible to those with mobility issues.<\/p>\n

Overall I was impressed at how professional the event was – the scale of things to do, and the community marketplace. \u00a0Also the Sensory relaxation room was small but it was AMAZING!<\/p>\n

*mainstream, as in the event was not for bi people of colour only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended the first Bi Pride on 7th September 2019.  I was surprised at the turnout – it felt like hundreds of people were there!  I was also pleasantly surprised at being at the most diverse mainstream* bisexual event EVER. I spoke on the Mental Health and Bisexuality panel, about the problems with long waiting … Continue reading Bi Pride 2019<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,9,133,192,63,185,400,509,728,15,166,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-pride","category-bisexual","category-bisexuality","category-bisexuals","category-lgbt","category-london","category-nonbinary","category-pansexual","category-pansexuality","category-pride","category-queer","category-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/9427"}],"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=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}