We’ve already mentioned its role as home of the first UK bi group but London has another claim to fame in modern bi history. Three years after London Bi Group’s first meeting, they organised a two-day conference to talk about…
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With 6 months to go, Your BiCon Needs You!
With six months to go before this year’s big bi festival / conference BiCon, the call has gone out for people to help with the entertainments programme this August. The organisers say: The entertainments (Ents) at a BiCon is a…
25th May 1895: Oscar Wilde sentenced for gross indecency
Any LGBT history before the modern era depends on interpretation. It’s hard to map our current concepts of sexual orientation on to times and cultures that may be very different. Because of this Oscar Wilde has been variously ‘claimed’ as…
13th February 1999: London’s first Bi Festival and first Bi March
BiFest events happen all over the UK and increasingly often these days – in the first half of this year they are lined up for Oxford, Cardiff and London, and that’s just the ones we know about. The first “BiFest”…
22nd March 1992: Bisexual Icepick Killer Storm
There was a lot less bi visibility in the media back in 1992 and so bisexual and lesbian/gay groups were up in arms when the film Basic Instinct came out. It quickly became a totemic example of negative bi and…