That was 2022 in bisexual
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Each year I do a roundup of the year for Bi Community News magazine. Here's 2022's. Past years: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 The 2020s have been a tough time for many people and while a lot of “normal” life returned in 2022, things are still not quite as they were before. We start in January, with the brilliant and long-awaited news of human trials for a vaccine against HIV. The UK government announced the erasure of some more historic offences where bi or gay men were convicted under biphobic and homophobic laws. Student Pride announced it would be postponed in one of the last cases of CO ..read more
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That was 2021 in bisexual
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 I wrote this round-up of the year's news for Bi Community News. That was 2021... The original is here https://bicommunitynews.co.uk/15830/that-was-2021/   It was another COVID year so the bi review of the year is a little different than usual – but here’s our roundup of 2021! We start in January, which seems both a moment ago and a million years. New US President Joe Biden got off to a good start. Getting Lady Gaga to perform at his inauguration was only a part of it. New Zealand had fascinating research on bi experience of crime, and there were rumours of a ..read more
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Bi Review of the Year: 2020
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 A piece I wrote for Bi Community News wrapping up the news of the past 12 months. Original is here: https://bicommunitynews.co.uk/13410/bi-review-of-the-year-2020/ At the start of the year very few of us realised what might be ahead as the COVID-19 virus was still thought to be far away and most likely confined to a corner of China. So for those first ten weeks or so of 2020 things were happening as normal. So it was at the start of January when Layla Moran became the first UK MP to come out as pansexual. Courts compensated a worker who had been told to pretend ..read more
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Labour: tackling the symptom but not the disease
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This week Labour have - inevitably - suspended Jeremy Corbyn over what from the brief reports I have seen seems to be consistent and persistent enabling of anti-Semitic bullying, harassment and conspiracy theory promotion within the Labour Party. I've seen people talking about it at a couple of levels. At the level of setting distance in the public eye from the massively losing 2019 campaign it is a little bit of a "Militant" Kinnockish moment, albeit probably not enough when the average voter is still far more focused on COVID. And it's, so that logic goes, a great move by the new leader to s ..read more
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Rewind
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4y ago
How time flies.    Around this time in the morning three years ago Labour were celebrating delivering another Tory led government, again to the right of the previous one. Maybe at the next election, in 2022, they'd actually make a stab at taking power, but it was vital to let the Tories do Brexit first and so avoid having the blame for its inevitable failures.   It was also the moment Nick Clegg left the political stage. I've mixed feelings about the chap, but he does still have the title "most effective politician on the UK left of the last decade."   Theresa May's co ..read more
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Misreading Tom
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4y ago
My social media timeline has a big dash of talk about the money raised by one man's sponsored walk.  There are about equal levels of "he's amazing and personally made these millions of pounds of difference", and "it is outrageous that this should happen as he should have been sat comfortably in an armchair and the money happened another way". I don't think he raised this money in that sense that it would otherwise not have been forthcoming. I don't mean to belittle anything about his excellent efforts, but whether you run a marathon and get sponsored £100 or £10m you still do the same am ..read more
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Goodbye, Jeremy
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With a new Labour leader elected, Jeremy Corbyn steps back into the shadows of centre-right politics, bringing a wave of reflection on his time at the helm. Heck, let's go with the flow. How was his five year stint? He succeeded in his central aims: - Keep the Tories in power - Enable every Tory measure - Have a mass movement of people who have been sold a promise of a better yesterday working to ensure the Tories remain in power so that Jeremy can enjoy saying "no!" to an eager audience. He got one of his stretch goals too: Britain out of the EU, leaving us free to adopt laws that go beyon ..read more
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That was 2019
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The annual year roundup that I write for Bi Community News: That was 2019. Three dates for Brexit came and went, the EU elections swung to the extremes of isolationist and internationalist politics, America impeached a President, and a handful of Brits chose a new Prime Minister and then 14 million voters endorsed the decision in time for Christmas. In queer life, we marked twentyone years of the bisexual flag and fifty years since the Stonewall riots in the USA. The year saw more Prides than ever before including London adding itself to the roster of Trans Prides around the country and a Bi ..read more
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Mentally Processing 2020
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My favourite analogy for what is going on just now is that humanity has been dumped. You know when you're on the receiving end of a breakup and you don't see it coming, and it is with someone you have been seeing for long enough that you kind of have a life together at least half-assedly mapped out in your head. Your spending plans are tied to them. Your social plans. Your happiness. Your sense of who you are. Your sense that you can trust how things will be from one day to the next, derived from how things have been between you and them each day until now. That's what happened to us all la ..read more
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Let It Snow
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So I've been sinking into Christmas films by way of cooling down to the festive season.  It's gonna be strange, like any Christmas where someone important is missing for the first time and you're trying not to mention the heartache. Regular readers of my proper blog will know all about that so I'll not waste space on it here. Amongst the films distracting me is Let It Snow, a rare Christmas film with queer representation.  I loved the effusion of this bit: Have you ever been with someone and you stay up until, like, 4am, just talking about everything, like how you're both super scared of gett ..read more
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