Books

Getting Bi Too

By Newsdesk

It’s now four years since the publication of “Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World”, a book bringing together a rich blend of bisexual experience from 32 different countries. Since then the world has moved on: for example, here in Britain the introduction of Registered Civil Partnerships means that while back then same-sex… »

The Bi Shop

By Newsdesk

British bisexual magazine Bi Community News are furthering their fundraising efforts by opening up an online shop in collaboration with Amazon.com. BCN editor Jen Yockney says, “Each time people make a purchase through the website it gives us a few pence – at no extra cost to the buyer compared to buying books, DVDs… »

Bi Book of the year? Lammy shortlist published

By Newsdesk

News from across the Atlantic as the list of the 2008 nominees for the Bisexual category in the Lambda Literary Awards (“the Lammies”). All are books with bi themes published in 2007, and the category covers both fiction or non-fiction.
1. Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
2. Lord Carabas, James Buchanan (Phaze)
3. Crossdressing,… »

Bi resources a hit

By Newsdesk

The Both Directions guide to the UK bi scene has been downloaded nearly 4,000 times in the past year. While hundreds of printed copies have been distributed around the UK by local groups like BiPhoria, Bothways and Bisexual Underground, downloads have reached far more people still.
UK bi journal Bi Community News have released their download… »

Both Directions on the web

By Newsdesk

It’s now even easier to get your hands on the definitive guide to the UK bisexual scene, Both Directions, produced by the UK Bi Activist Network and published by Bi Community News.
Already available online as an Adobe pdf file, the guide has now been added to the BCN website as a web page, so people… »

Our “book of the year” for 2006

By Newsdesk

If you’re looking for that little something to distract yourself or the bi in your life, BiMedia.org recommends…
The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe.
Buy it online here
Probably the best lighthearted “tell me about this bi thing” read we’ve ever… »

Lammy Nominees for Bisexual Category 2006

By Newsdesk

The nominations for the new Bisexual category in the Lammy book awards, in alphabetical order:
1.. Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men edited by Ronald C. Fox, PhD (Haworth Press, due out Oct 2006)
2.. Bi Guys: A Fiction Anthology edited by Ron Suresha (Haworth Press, November 2006)
3.. Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way… »

Our “book of the year” 2005

By Newsdesk

Having read a lot of good, bad and indifferent bi and queer themed books in 2005, for your Christmas reading BiMedia.org recommends…
Bentley Street by Kathy Armani
Buy it online… »