Manchester’s big launch

Manchester-based bi project BiPhoria will launch a new pocket guide to coming out and staying out this Tuesday.

The booklet, Getting Bi in a Gay / Straight World, talks about coming out and staying out, and how we keep a sense of bi identity. There are local and national listings of key resources like helplines, campaign group Bisexual Index, BCN magazine, and – we’re pleased to say – BiMedia.

It’s 28 pages long, glossy and in colour – and just begging you to pick it up, read it and take it home.

Produced with help from the Community Foundation for Greater Manchester, more than ten thousand copies have been printed to be given away free across the county, and it’s already appearing in over two hundred leaflet display racks in bars, theatres and suchlike.

It’s a long time since the 2005 launch of Both Directions, and a publication like this is long overdue.  The world has moved on a long way and Both Directions for example didn’t talk about social networking websites because the web just hadn’t got to that stage yet when it was written. As a cheaply printed, black-and-white booklet of dense text it was also much more narrow in its appeal.

Manchester bi group BiPhoria will get together on Tuesday night for a launch ‘do’ for the booklet at the Inspire centre. Find out more on their website or the facebook event page.