This year’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Trans History Month begins today, with a host of events across the UK to look forward to celebrating LGBT life today and gone by. As we celebrate 30 years of UK bi activism, two…
Category: Research
London gets LGBT news archive
The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) moves today from its present location at Middlesex University, to the Bishopsgate Institute, London. The move comes because the campus at Middlesex where LAGNA is based is closing in June 2011 and the…
Coming out younger… or are we?
The average coming out age has fallen by over 20 years in Britain, according to Stonewall. Their recent online poll, which had 1,536 respondents, found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people aged 60 and over came out at 37 on…
Manc BBC asks if bis are invisible
BBC Radio Manchester’s weekly LGBT show focuses on the B in LGBT this week. Presenter Ashley Byrne and co-hosts Andrew Edwards and singer/songwriter Claire Mooney are joined by researchers from the University of Huddersfield including Surya Monro who have been…
Perhaps it’s not 1 in 200…
Hot on the heels of last week’s claim that only 1.5% of the UK’s population identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual – in roughly equal measure – comes a rival study from the USA suggesting we should double that figure,…