The Biscuit Purple List 2017
Your nominations have been counted, your thoughts have been collected and your faithful Biscuit team has cogitated, confabulated and contemplated every single line you’ve written. It hasn’t been easy, but we are at last ready to present the Biscuit Purple List 2017.
We asked you who inspired you, who made you proud and who you though deserved more recognition than they got, and you answered in your hundreds. You told us you value visibility as much as outreach and community building efforts, with household names like Sara Ramirez, Joe Lycett and Nicola Adams appearing alongside prominent activists like Jen Yockney and Meg-John Barker and community organisers like Sali Owen.
From the worker bees of grassroots organising to the Queer elite, the full gamut of the bi community is represented here. YouTube starlets who educate while they entertain; local group leaders who do so much more than just give us a space to… Continue reading
Bi Causes Benefit from CaBiRet
A night of bisexual cabaret (or, as the organisers insist, cabiret) raised over £100 to be split between the Bisexual Index and Bis of Colour.
It was standing room only last night, when more than sixty people arrived at the Cavendish Arms in Stockwell for a night of bisexual cabaret. The event was held to celebrate Bi Visibility Day and featured comedy acts, music, magic and poetry.
“It was a fantastic night,” Marcus Morgan of the Bisexual Index told us. “It’s so great to see people coming together to support our community and celebrate the positives of bisexuality.”
Jacq Applebee performs poetry
Funds raised at the event – totalling more than £100 – will be split, with half to go to the Bis of Colour group, and half to go to the printing costs of the Bisexual Index.
The Biscuit Purple List 2015
Your nominations have been collected, heated discussions have been had and disagreements have been thwarted, and now we are proud to be able to present the first ever Biscuit Purple List.
The Purple List was conceived as a reaction to the bi-erasure of similar honours lists, which neither recognise the work done that specifically benefits the bisexual community, nor the importance using the word ‘bisexual’ to describe the non-monosexual people who do appear in them.
We think that it’s important to make a really big deal about the awesome people who give their time, energy, cash and resources to make life a little bit better for bisexual people. As a group we have lower rates of well being than gay and lesbian identified people. We’re more likely to commit suicide and to self harm. We are more likely to misuse drugs. Our teens have … Continue reading
LGBT* in UKIP Gatecrashes Pride
Pride in London is courting controversy once again, by allowing UKIP to march in the Parade that was held in the West End on Saturday.
UKIP, a far-right political party whose members have been outspoken in their racism and homophobia, had their application to march in the parade controversially turned down by the Pride in London committee following an outcry by the LGBT community. The committee insisted the decision was not made on political grounds but in the name of safety.
In December, Kerry Smith, standing for UKIP South Basildon and East Thurrock resigned from his candidacy after calling gay people ‘fucking disgusting old poofters’. In February the group UKIP Christian Soldiers, authorised by UKIP HQ circulated leaflets that claimed educating school children on LGBT issues was ‘sexual grooming’.
Approximately 15 LGBT* in UKIP activists – who had not paid the fee required to take part in the parade,… Continue reading
You Didn't Hear it from Us 27/06/15
Here’s a round-up of some of the news, blogs posts and comment we missed this week.
- Attitude and DIVA both said enough is enough when it comes to biphobia in lesbian and gay communities.
- Vogue got slammed for calling Cara Delevigne’s bisexuality a ‘phase’.
- Gwendolyn Fougy Henry posted a brilliant tumblr post on the reasons bi people of colour may not participate in spaces created for them.
- The Stonewall Inn was given ‘landmark’ status.
- A report by Public Health England told us that rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis are going up in gay and bi men.
- There’s a “God loves Gays” sign and a homophobic banner rotating on the same billboard.
- Femmeviolet talked about femme as a queer identity.
- HuffPo delved into the world of bisexual OKCupid.
- A lesbian-identified bi woman described her battle with heterosexual privilege.
Did we miss any other must-see stories?… Continue reading
You Didn't Hear it from Us 20/06/15
Here’s a round-up of some of the news, blogs posts and comment we missed this week.
- Bis of Colour launched their survey report.
- Kristen Stewart’s mother maybe outed her…
- … or maybe didn’t.
- We read a beautifully written piece about being queer at Ramadan.
- An ex-Surgeon General of the US wants bi people to come out to their doctors.
- Activists supporting trans* women of colour halted Boston Pride’s parade.
- A photographer shot portraits of 65 LGBT survivors of discrimination worldwide.
- We learned the truth about sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome.
Did we miss any other must-see stories? Let us know in comments…
Image: “Joseph Kawesi, 31. Uganda, MARCH 2015 ” by Robin Hammond. Shared under fair use. Via Time.com
