Sex between men became legal in the England and Wales in 1967* with an age of consent of 21. That stayed the case for nearly thirty years but by the mid 1990s pressure for change finally hit boiling point and…
Category: Politics
December 2003: Legally Bi
For a long time, bisexuality in UK law existed in a sort of limbo: there were laws that were written with heterosexual people in mind, laws written with gay men in mind, and occasionally lawmakers wondered about the existence of…
1987: NUS kicks out the bis
The National Union of Students has long had a lesbian & gay section and conferences. These days the conventional values in NUS circles are that the campaign and the conference alike are for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer students.…
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…