Sixteen years ago today, the peer education project set up by Bisexual Action on Sexual Health (BASH) held an awareness evening at George House Trust in Ardwick, Manchester. A couple of dozen bi and questioning people took part in a…
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14th November 1930: Marlene kisses in Morocco
Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman in the 1930 film Morocco, and performs a song dressed in a man’s tuxedo – all very daring in its day. Her character, Amy Jolly, slips a man her room key moments after kissing a…
22nd October 2006: Everything Changes
“Everything Changes”, the first episode of BBC television’s Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, aired in the autumn of 2006. Aimed at an older audience than Doctor Who, the programme follows the adventures of a group of alien hunters in Cardiff…
5th January 1948: Sexual Behavior In The Human Male
Alfred Kinsey’s “Sexual Behavior In The Human Male” was published at the start of 1948. One of the landmark texts in modern understanding of sexuality, it followed extensive interviews with men across the USA and its findings about sex and…
1st September 1994: Manchester bis unite
Now one of the most high-profile bi groups in Britain, BiPhoria formed thirteen years to the day after the UK’s first bi group had started in London. In 1994, Manchester already had a well-established pairing of a bi men’s group…
