August 2007: Time To Lobby Stonewall

Bisexual Action have had enough of moaning about Stonewall - Britain's biggest LGB lobbying organisation - publishing reports and recommendations that seek only to change things for lesbians and gay men. As Stonewall believe the way to change minds is through sending postcards, they've produced a postcard to lobby Stonewall to be more bi-inclusive.

The postcard is designed to be printed double-sided - print one side, flip over and print the other side so one side has the "tackling bisexual invisibility" logo and the other has the message to Stonewall.

Over 330 downloads of this resource in the four months from its launch.

Download here, print double-sided onto card, and distribute / mail in.

June 2007: Does the Pink Economy want the Purple Pound?

Bisexual Action have been writing to gay businesses in Manchester ahead of the BiFest that BiPhoria are organising. In this city many 'gay' venues have been found to operate biphobic door policies in recent times. Several gay clubs turning bis away at the door on their "gay only" policy. A Canal Street bar operating a "bisexuals on weeknights but not welcome on weekends" rule.

That was always offensive and stupid - but now it is also illegal. To test the water of how welcoming gay venues are, we wrote to every venue in Gay Village we could find an address for to ask if they welcomed bi custom in this new era. We'll post a list of who we wrote to soon but suffice to say, it was pretty much everyone you'll think of.

And the result? Only two venues in Manchester's gay village actually say they welcome bisexual customers. Hats off to the Rembrandt and Taurus. Guess the rest of the gay scene still has a lot of catching up - and growing up - to do.