Bi Media Watch: December 2012

Welcome to Bi Media Watch! Picking up where BiWatch left off with semi-regular articles on bisexuality, bi characters and all things bisexual in the media. This first one is a bit of a short one, mainly because most US series are on their mid season break, and UK TV is moving inexorably towards Christmas Telly. [...]

Tags: , ,  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 116: December 2012, Jules

Bi Media: October 2005

Captain Jack Comes Back For those of you whose lives would not be complete without him, Captain Jack will return to Doctor Who according to The Mirror (August 17th 2005).  Pity they couldn’t decide whether he’s gay or bi though… “… Davies said he had no qualms about making Jack – who starred in five [...]

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Sex, drugs and lawyers A seminal BBC series is due to return to our screens – and it’s not Dr Who. “They slept with each other. They slept with their work colleagues. They slept with their flatmates’ parents. During the day they were in court, in the evening they were on drugs. This was the [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 79: Jun 2006, Cat

I Love My Prejudiced Friends, I Just Don’t Want Them Having Newspaper Columns

Diary of a ‘crap lesbian’ part seven… Usually, I’m all for journalistic impartiality. In this case I must however say this : Lowri Turner – what a bitch. Since it’s not entirely possible to rip its author apart piece by piece, I shall instead do the same to her recently published piece, ‘However Much I [...]

Tags: ,  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 78: Apr 2006, Libby

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Before I get started properly with the media column, there are two things I would like to point out. 1. For those of you who only ever read this for updates on Captain Jack aka John Barrowman, turn the page NOW. There is not one gratuitous mention of him this month (aside from this). 2. [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 78: Apr 2006, Cat

BiMedia

George Melly Recalled by his wife, Diana, as being “…famous for singing in a jazz band, and being bisexual” in the Daily Telegraph (24th October 2005), George Melly has just published Slowing Down, the latest installment of his autobiography. A review in The Scotsman (5th November 2005) said: “So candid is he about medical examinations [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 76: Dec 2005

Bi News Roundup

Bi Festival Explosion The coming twelve months are set to have more and bigger bi events than we’ve seen in many years. Three cities are now gearing up to hosting day-long bi community events ahead of Glasgow BiCon. Manchester Manchester will be first off the mark, with Manchester BiFest taking place on December 10th. Held [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 76: Dec 2005

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Captain Jack – Cute, Flirty, And A Bisexual Conman. . . As BCN goes to press, the new series of Doctor Who is erupting into a bisexual plot arc with new character Captain Jack Harkness (John Borrowman) joining the series part way through on a contract which apparently runs into the next season. It would [...]

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Summer BiMedia (2004)

Autumn 2004 Well, it’s been the silly season, so while most journalists have been naffing off on holiday, there’s not been an awful lot of bisexuality, or indeed of anything else substantial, in the media over the summer. There have been bits and pieces – Big Brother finished, and no, it doesn’t seem that any [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 69: Oct 2004

BiMedia – July 2004

Corrie’s Gay ‘Breakthrough’ Kiss Sorry, haven’t we been here before? In September last year, Coronation Street pre-publicity went into overdrive, announcing that it would be screening the soap’s first ever gay kiss. As it transpired, that steamy snogfest turned out to be really quite chaste, with ‘confused’ Todd Grimshaw kissing his girlfriend’s brother on the [...]

Tags:  Âˇ Posted in: BCN 68: Jul 2004