Manchester BiPhoria are gearing up to make a new edition of “Getting Bi In A Gay / Straight World“, the pocket guide to coming out and staying out as bi – and are appealing for donations to help boost the print run.
Their successful funding bid for an original print run of 5,000 was boosted up to 11,500 copies in 2011 – over ten thousand of which have now found their way to good homes across the UK, so the supplies are nearly exhausted.
With enough money now in hand to print another 2,000 copies they are inviting any friendly bis and bifriendlies who can afford to donate to pitch more money into the pot.
Jen from BiPhoria told us, “it’s been an incredibly successful and popular resource with bi outreach stalls, in leaflet racks and at Prides. We’ve made it more widely accessible as a pdf, on issuu and flickr and a version on vimeo for people who prefer video or audio to the printed word. However the print version is now running out.
“We’ve had nearly £200 in donations so far, which has been really heartening and uplifting. We’d like to use economies of scale in print costs that mean a single bulk order for say £500 would mean we get many more copies than if we made two separate £250 print runs a year apart.”
“£100 gets around 500 more copies made including delivering them to a bi or LGBT group elsewhere in the country, so if you can afford £50 or £100 it can be targeted to give a bi visibility resources in a particular area a boost.”
If you can help, there is a big yellow Donate button on the BiPhoria website here.
