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Celebrating the Bi community

06 Sep 2021

This annual event on 23 September has been marked by the University every year since 2012

Bi visibility Day

This day has been marked nationally since 1999 and is a call for the bisexual community, their friends and supporters to recognise and celebrate bisexuality, bisexual history, bisexual community and culture, and all the bisexual people in their lives.

Here at the University we have a significant bisexual population – with 2.3% declaring their sexual orientation as ‘bisexual’ in the 2019 Staff Survey.

You can read profiles of some of our bisexual members on our ALLOUT Profile pages or listen to an It Gets Better Podcast.

We have a special Zoom background for people to use – if you would like a copy, please message:

Special event

We have a special fun evening event planned for 23 September with BiBingo!  Everyone is welcome, you just need to register here:

What else can you do?

  • Take a picture of yourself with your Zoom background and Tweet it to @BiVisibilityDay using #BiVisibility.
  • Wear colours of the biflag to show support to friends and colleagues.
  • Watch the very first TED Talk on bisexuality, or this TED Talk  which looks at bi-erasure.
  • Contribute to Wikipedia - you can edit the pages of bi celebs!. This video gives a flavour of what you can do
  • Look at these Workplace stories of Amy, Pierette and Stella from Stonewall about being bi in the workplace
  • Familiarise yourself with our LGB Guidance for managers.
  • Check and update your equality details in MyView and encourage others to do the same.
  • Read all about The Kinsey Scale which describes a person's sexual orientation.
  • Become a member of ALLOUT – the LGBT Staff Network Group or become an ALLOUT Ally - supporting all LGBT Staff – you will even learn how to be a bi-ally - plus all allies get a choice of LGBT+ lanyard to wear!

Our Director of HR, Karen Heaton says: “As the senior leadership champion for LGBT+ staff I am always delighted to see that all people in this community are represented and have the chance to celebrate their identity.

“This will be the 10th year we have done something to mark BiVisibility Day and now more than ever it’s especially important that we acknowledge every person within the LGBT+ acronym.  We have a tendency to overlook some of the barriers faced by our bi colleagues and I hope that by accessing our resources, attending the event and learning more about how to be a bi ally we can all learn something new.”