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…
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June 1972: The Ithaca Statement
A Quaker group, the Committee of Friends on Bisexuality, issued the “Ithaca Statement on Bisexuality” following their first gathering in June, 1972. It is named after the city in New York state, USA, where the meeting was held. It is…
April 2010: Orlando Jordan, out bi wrestler
Orlando Jordan is a professional wrestler. He came out as bisexual in April 2010, proudly waving the bi flag on TNA Wrestling’s “Impact” programme. After leaving TNA, who chose to call him “eccentric” and “bipolar” rather than bisexual, he’s moved…
27 October 1998: “Ron on the Common”
The Secretary of State for Wales resigned on 27 October 1998 following what he would later call a “moment of madness” that led to him being mugged by a man he had met on London’s Clapham Common. The Common was…
8th & 9th December 1984: The Politics Of Bisexuality
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…