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…
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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…
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”…