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…
Category: Visibility
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…
5th December 1998: The Bisexual Flag
There’s so much pink, purple and blue bi stuff these days it’s hard to imagine a time before those colours became a ubiquitous code for ‘bi’. But like every flag, the bi flag had to be invented and it…
6th July 1997: London Pride Goes LGBT
Another date from bi history for you: 6th July 1997 was the first London Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Pride. Previously called Lesbian & Gay Pride, the name change had happened at the start of the year following work in…