Bi & Proud Worldwide
As Pride season kicks off we caught up with one of last summer’s Cake Award winners and quizzed them about Pride events – with one eye on London hosting World Pride in July. Tell us a little bit about yourself My name’s Sharon Langridge; I’m 33. I’m a queer, bisexual woman living in London and [...]
Tags: Interviews, Pride · Posted in: BCN 113: June 2012
BiMate: Neil Hudson
Neil Hudson was one of the winners of the Cake Awards at BiCon 2002 Take a seat and introduce yourself. I lived in Reading for eighteen years, or rather I was undead in Reading, because no one can truly be said to live there. I then went to university in Norwich to read mathematics. It [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 61:, Jen Yockney
BiMate: Trish
Trish has been around the UK bi scene for longer than almost anyone – her first BiCon was in 1991 in London, soon after joining London Bi Group. Bi, poly and involved in sexual freedom campaigns like Countdown on Spanner, a lot of her activism has been crossing the boundaries between those identities – perhaps [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 80: Jul 2006
BiMate: Anna Maria Staiano
Take a seat and introduce yourself. I grew up in Naples and swittly moved to London after discovering David Bowie and learning English from his songs. I was so disappointed when I found out that nobody else spoke like him! I started attending the London Bi Group on Valentine’s day 1992 and since then I [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 64: Nov 2003, Jen Yockney
BiMate: Marcus Morgan
Which Olympic sport (current or wished for) could you represent your country in? Hmm… The 100 Metres Freestyle Synchronised Plene. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then I’ll explain later… What’s the best collective noun for bisexuals? Why, a “bitch of bisexuals” of course… What’s your favourite film? Well, I don’t have a [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 41: 1999
BiMate: Jade Fruut
Take a seat and introduce yourself Jade runs www.fruut.com*, a very popular website devoted to bisexual women. As well as a free area, passwords to the section with the rude pictures can be obtained by a (short) call to a premium rate number. Which Olympic sport (current or wished for) could you represent your country [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 47:
BiMate: Meg
Take a seat and introduce yourself. Hello, I’m Meg. I’ve been out in varying degrees as bisexual since my mid teens but more definitely so after attending my first BiCon in 1997 (after meeting Grant Denkinson who has a lot to answer for!) I didn’t go back again for a few years but my sister [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews, Theory · Posted in: BCN 81: Sep 2006
BiMate: Grant Denkinson
This month’s BiMate is Cake Award winner and onetime BCN editor, Grant Denkinson – pictured at a canalside during a break at the Birmingham Bi Activist weekend. Take a seat and introduce yourself. I call myself Grant Denkinson. About 10 years ago I started thinking of myself as bisexual, decided I really liked SM, started [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 67: May 2004
BiMate: Jen Yockney
Jen was one of the winners of the Cake Awards at BiCon 2002. Take a seat and introduce yourself. In the 1990s, Jen Yockney overheard a critic describe her as “leader of the bisexual liberation army”. It only encouraged her. She came out aged 16 but it took until she was 21 to actually find [...]
Tags: BiMate, Interviews · Posted in: BCN 62:, Jen Yockney
