{"id":9401,"date":"2024-01-01T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=69edcd291b63a50ada457c2886e087c6"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:12:30","slug":"fast-approaching-thirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2024\/01\/fast-approaching-thirty\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Approaching Thirty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEha3c_rNmTb3pKS7Cr9ZelSqcYC9Caca-qZsFrOwAg0mKMbaZN3MVMsAy0ExRl-5gy5LYP3vejce55AmbhJLSq9ywaTrejl3TwTWPzHJmV_BNrairaOJ6EpTjir9mLi8bNULSLcohMGIaTLIKyLTxOT9ma6gbe7L4QqOjfFXMuh35q3BBCU-J32P4kwfolj\/s1200\/30-years-gold%5B1%5D.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"630\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEha3c_rNmTb3pKS7Cr9ZelSqcYC9Caca-qZsFrOwAg0mKMbaZN3MVMsAy0ExRl-5gy5LYP3vejce55AmbhJLSq9ywaTrejl3TwTWPzHJmV_BNrairaOJ6EpTjir9mLi8bNULSLcohMGIaTLIKyLTxOT9ma6gbe7L4QqOjfFXMuh35q3BBCU-J32P4kwfolj\/s320\/30-years-gold%5B1%5D.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The last few years have been tough for a lot of us<\/strong> &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping 2024 will give us a break!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it, or could use a reminder of the events of the past 12 months, Bi Community News magazine has its <a href=\"https:\/\/bicommunitynews.co.uk\/2023\/12\/31\/bi-review-of-the-year-2023\/\">annual &#8220;wrap up of the bi year&#8221; story here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 we will celebrate our 30th year as a bi group. BiPhoria started<br \/>\nback in 1994 after a national bisexual conference, where people from the<br \/>\n existing women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s bi groups came together and considered a new<br \/>\n joint project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In doing so they recognised that it was a little strange to have people<br \/>\nfor whom gender was not the delineating factor in their attraction to<br \/>\nmeet solely in gendered groups, and that binary gendered groups meant a<br \/>\nnumber of potential members didn&#8217;t really have a group where they could<br \/>\nbe comfortable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The gendered groups died away over time &#8211; closing down by around 1998 &#8211;<br \/>\nand new projects like our campaign group came to replace them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few years have been tough for a lot of us &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping 2024 will give us a break!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it, or could use a reminder of the events of the past 12 months, Bi Community News magazine has its annual &#8220;wrap up of the bi year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions\/9402"}],"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=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}