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What’s London BiFest? It’s an annual day (or afternoon) event celebrating the bisexual community and its allies. There are other …

Partly discussing why gay and lesbian people should come to bi events.

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London BiFest is back on Sat 18 August at the Kingston Quaker Centre - a celebration of the bisexual community and its friends.

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Gscene reviews Purple Prose

Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain is a great and far ranging anthology looking at all the myriad aspects of the day to day and night to night life of a bisexual person in the United Kingdom. It’s also the first of its kind: a book written for and by bisexual people in the UK There’s a wide range of experience represented here, through interview, essays, poems and stories but it’s also wonderfully intimate, relevant and honest.

Often an anthology particularly one with such laudable aims as this one can drift and try and get too much in, but the clear focus on the personal, the immediate and the experiences of Bi folk in Britain keeps the narrative focus tight.

Editor Kate Harrad has picked some seriously entertaining and interesting stories from different cultural and ethnic perspectives along with challenging insight into non monogamy, gender queerness and disabled experiences.

Harrad has managed to keep the personal at the fore which makes the readers journey a pleasure, the book itself a relevant commentary on contemporary British Bisexual experience and a must read for Bi people and their allies from across the LGBTQ world.

An important and entertaining book.

#purple prose #bisexuality #bisexual books #gscene

bismuth-butterfly

A guide to the bi community in the UK, and an exploration of the issues facing bisexuals everywhere. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

Just 5 days left to support this excellent project and get a copy of the book when it is published as well as lots of other cool rewards!

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Only 72 hours to go!

bidyke

This is so important

divahibi

Is bisexuality confusing?

Not really, says Kate Harrad, one of the editors behind Purple Prose:B Bisexuality In Britain, a new book about bisexuality due to be published next autumn.

In an article for divamag.co.uk, Harrad dispels some of the pervasive and unhelpful myths about bisexual people and points out that nobody’s orientation is entirely straightforward, whatever label they adopt. Read the full story here.

As for her forthcoming book, we reckon it will be a crucial contribution to the discussion about bi identities and lifestyles.

Published by American independent Thorntree Press, Purple Prose: Bisexuality In Britain is reliant on crowdfunding to help it reach our bookshelves. Click the link in the article or go direct to www.indiegogo.com/projects/purple-prose-bisexuality-in-britain to find out how to support the project and how you’ll be rewarded for your generosity!

#bi erasure #bisexuality #purple prose

#bis of colour #bisexual #racism #biphobia #purple prose

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The pic above are a few of the editors of Purple Prose.

Purple Prose is a UK guide to bisexuality. That in itself is pretty unique, as it often feels like any literature on bisexuality in the UK is at least 20 years old. Another unique thing is that People of Colour in the UK have not been ignored! Jacq Applebee edited a large chapter on the experiences of bisexual people of colour. Five talented writers of colour tell of their experiences of being an invisible minority within a minority. Other topics include faith and ethnicity, how research often lets us down, how dress codes make it difficult for people of colour to fit in spaces, and how unwelcoming and outright racist the UK bisexual communities can be. There is also a list of resources for bisexual people of colour in the UK.

Purple Prose also contains chapters on Disability, Non-Monogamy, Gender, Faith and Religion, Ageing, Bi Myths and Legends, and Fictional bisexuals!

There is currently a crowdfunder for Purple Prose: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/purple-prose-bisexuality-in-britain#/ Please support it, as this book is desperately needed. There is sadly very little for people coming out as bisexual. Biphobia in lesbian and gay communities mean the spaces we thought would welcome us, turn out just as bad as the straight communities many of us have fled. Just the fact that none of the lesbian and gay publishers in the UK wanted to be involved with this book, speaks volumes (no pun intended). So support your local bisexuals, and start supporting Purple Prose!

Purple Prose will be published by Thorntree Press

Party to celebrate the crowdfunding launch of Purple Prose, the new UK book on bisexuality by bisexuals. Come!

#bisexuality #lgbt london #purple prose #london events

London Bisexuals Walking Group

It’s London LGBT Pride this Saturday (27th) and the Bs in LGBT have a walking group. If you want to come and march with us, here’s what you need to do:

- Read this: http://prideinlondon.org/codeofconduct/

- Join the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1444947409146838/1445429289098650/ (if you want)

- Join the event here: http://meetu.ps/2DP4WM (if you want)

- Follow http://twitter.com/LondonBiPride. If you want!

- Wear purple (if you want) and bring a banner or flag (if you want). Also, make sure you have something to drink with you, and protection from the sun if it’s sunny.

- Meet at 11am on Saturday at the Grazing Goat on New Quebec Street. The group organiser is me, Katy, and I will be easy to recognise owing to the large purple banners and flags I will be attempting to carry.

- Our group will walk to the assembly point at 11.30. We’re in Section A, which starts at Portman Close. In other words, we’re at the front!

- The parade starts at 1pm, and once it starts you’re committed to staying in it till it finishes (could be an hour and a half, could be longer).

- If you want to be involved but marching is not for you, how about helping on the bi stall in Trafalgar Square? Jacq will be on the stall from 11am. It's next to FtM London & Albert Kennedy. We have a bi flag that should be visible, but if not, our pitch is 18/19/20. If you get to Trafalgar Square, and face the direction of the National Portrait Gallery, the stall should be on the left hand side.

- If you want to bring relevant flyers, business cards etc to leave on the stall, please do!

- Pride has its flaws as an organisation, but the parade is an amazing experience, and bisexuals should be represented. Come and help to represent us?

#pride #lgbt pride #lgbt london #bisexual

SHERLOCK - The Musical (Season 3)

Internet Trolls - The Halloween Musical

rutaskadi

one of the worst things about becoming educated on social issues is when people are like ‘you used to have a sense of humor’

no i used to have internalized prejudices which i’ve worked really hard to overcome and i realize now that your jokes are shitty

In October, kids' dance party Big Fish Little Fish is doing a special event with Out With the Family, for LGBT families in particular (plus all their usual crowd). It's a great event anyway - dancing, cakes, crafts, bubbles, activities, baby area, toddler area, more dancing! - and this is a really important thing for them to be doing. Also, the Readers Wifes from Duckie are DJing.

Spread the word, bring your children, see you there!

#lgbt #lgbt london #lgbt parenting

bidyke

Here's one for the "bad bisexuals"

For every “bad” bisexual who ever existed out there. Every bi person who ever fit a stereotype. Every bi person who’s been shamed, doubted or ridiculed for not being “bi enough” or for being “too bisexual”. Every bisexual woman who’s ever survived sexual violence. Every bi person who’s considered suicide. Every bisexual person of color, every disabled bi person, every asexual bi person, every bi trans person. Every bi person who’s ever experienced multiple intersections of marginalization and oppression. You are magnificent.

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1. If you take one straight person and one gay person, add them together and divide them in half, you will get two slightly bewildered bisexuals. 2. Bisexuals are almost, but not entirely, invisibl...

On this blessed bisexual day, let us not forget the essential bisexual facts.

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I'm planning to put together a book about bisexuality in the UK. As far as I can tell there isn't a recent, accessible, UK-focused book on the subject, so there's clearly a gap in the market. If yo...

Want to help document the history and experiences of the UK bi community? Want to give useful advice to UK bi people just coming out or thinking about it, or to their partners, parents and friends? Want to write about bisexuality in the context of race, disability, age, gender, fiction, stereotypes? Or have something you've already written that you'd like to see published in a book? We can make it happen. We have the technology. Contact us.

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