London’s annual Bi Pride festival is moving out west – though only to west London, not Birmingham as their teaser campaign this week made some speculate. The University of West London, Ealing Campus, will play host to the event on Saturday 31st August 2024. Attendees will be treated to a variety of entertainment on the Main Stage, while discussion panels on a wide variety of bi+ topics will take place on the I Am Proud Stage. Stalls will fill the community hub, with various food and drink options being available for people of all dietary needs. This year’s host also holds a special connection ..read more

The Australian High Court will rule tomorrow on the case of a bi asylum seeker. His anonymity is being preserved in the media by referring to him as ASF17. He came to Australia from Iran to seek asylum, but his case is in part challenged by the authorities’ claim that he did not mention his sexual orientation as a reason he could not safely return to Iran until the start of proceedings to remove him from the country. If he is allowed to remain, the Australian Solicitor General argues that this will open the door to other bisexual asylum seekers having a constitutional claim to remain regardles ..read more

Dating app Grindr is set to find itself in court over claims it leaked private data about users. Grindr is mainly used by bi and gay men, with a focus on hookups over relationships. The legal action is being brought by class action specialist law firm Austen Hays. They claim the app misused “private information of thousands of affected UK Grindr users, including highly sensitive information about their HIV status and latest tested date”. Without users opting into that happening the case alleges this would be a breach of UK data protection laws for sharing sensitive data to third parties for co ..read more

Bi Pride is teasing us with where its 2024 festival will be held. In a social media post they promise to announce the venue soon – but offer a poem as clue “Can you guess from this silly little rhyme? We’ll be in a place where students spend their time. Find us in a direction that rhymes with best, Does the phrase ‘electric fish’ help with our test? You’ll find us in a place known for education, Not too far from Northfield station! “ Now there are two stations with names like that in the UK. Northfield (which is what the graphic and accessibility-text says) is just outside Birmingham ..read more

Our online archive of BCN back numbers is complete! Over the past couple of years we have been filling in the gaps in the online collection of Bi Community News articles going right back to the start in 1995. Some of those have required OCRing or retyping from scratch as the original digital files have been lost. This week we have added issues 44 and 45, from the summer of the year 2000. Back then the community was focused on an upcoming International Conference on Bisexuality in Manchester, while down south London’s main Pride festival was going by the name Mardi Gras. They were the final two ..read more

Prime Video has set a date for the new season of superhero drama The Boys. The fourth run of the show drops onto the Amazon streaming service on June 13th. The Boys is based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson and is an often-bleak, often-funny take on how superhero life would pan out in the barely-restrained capitalism of the modern USA. In season four, the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lo ..read more

Two more back-issues of BCN are now in our web archive. Issues 13 and 14, from November 1996 and January 1997 respectively, are now here on our website. They are here. That means that now all the editions from the 1990s are online for you to read back through – issues 1 to 40 and our pilot edition “Issue Zero” which included a ballot paper for readers to decide what the name of the magazine / newsletter should be. In those days BCN was a photocopied black-and-white bulletin and it slowly evolved to the full-colour magazine today. The post Another two issues in the archive! first appeared on Bi ..read more

The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books for 2023 and the State of America’s Libraries Report, which highlights the ways libraries and library workers have taken action to address community needs with innovative and critical services, as well as the challenges brought on by censorship attempts. The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by ALA. “In looking at the titles of the most challenged books from last year, it’s obvious that the pr ..read more

Trades union Unison has announced its annual bi network conference. It will be held on 12 July from 2-4pm at their Northern regional office, in Newcastle upon Tyne. They note the meeting is open to members of Unison who feel they fit anywhere under the big bi umbrella: “At Unison, we work with inclusive, umbrella definitions of bisexual and at Unison’s LGBT+ conference in 2019, we voted to become a bi+ network. Our bi+ network is for members who are pansexual, omnisexual, bi romantic, asexual, demisexual, questioning and/or bi-curious to name a few.” The union is one of the Labour Party’s bank ..read more

Actor Chance Permodo, who was on the cover of BCN issue 154, has died aged 27. He lost his life in a motorcycle accident. He played the role of Ambrose in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, where he can still be celebrated if you have that streaming service. Ambrose was a young bisexual warlock whose dating life was frustrated by being under magical house arrest, and much of his character was based on the cat in the Sabrina The Teenage Witch series from the 1980s. More recently he played Andre Anderson in Prime Video’s Gen V spin-off show set in the The Boys universe. The post Chance Permodo ..read more