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Posted on 25 July 202016 September 2021 by Ian

The instructions for the London Bisexual Helpline magic box

See the article on the history of bisexual phonelines in the UK for more details, but from its start in 1987 until 1995, when I think it became unviable to repair, the London Bisexual Helpline used a call-diverter box.

Here are the instructions on how to use it that people doing shifts were given… Read more

Posted on 3 June 202028 October 2021 by Ian · 1 Comment

UK bisexual phonelines

One of the sessions at BiCon 2003 was "Number unobtainable – what next for bisexual phonelines?"

This is an expanded version of that session, now with added bisexual phoneline.. that I forgot about until after first publishing it, ahem.

At that point, there had been five six 'bisexual phonelines' in the UK and none of them were operating any more. Read more

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Assorted stuff from about a dozen large boxes of Bi Stuff collected over the past forty-ish years.

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1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s bcn bicon books edinburgh health promotion london magazines newspapers nottingham outside the community phoneline services square peg TV USA

Recent stuff

  • London Bisexual Phoneline: Dear HEA, please give us some money
  • London Bisexual Helpline draft monitoring policy – August 1998
  • Original BiCon Guidelines
  • Tom's guide
  • Marcus's 'how to run a BiCon' manifesto
  • Ian's guide to running a BiCon (or any other bi event)
  • It's Prejudice That's Queer campaign – THT 1999
  • London Bisexual Helpline call record sheet
  • The bisexual bench in HIV/Aids health promotion work
  • More Health Education Authority memories
  • The speech about the epic fail of Edinburgh First at BiCon 2013
  • Boys and girls come out to play (The Independent, 1997)
  • The Health Education Authority's bisexual and 'definitely not' bisexual ads
  • How Can We Help You? – Information, Advice & Counselling for Gay Men & Lesbians (1989)
  • The instructions for the London Bisexual Helpline magic box
  • AIDS Spectre for Women: The Bisexual Man (New York Times 1987)
  • Draft poster for the 9th National Bisexual Conference (BiCon 9)
  • Square Peg 17 on 5th National Conference on Bisexuality (BiCon 5)
  • Bi-Issues #3
  • Outright #43 article on BiCon 11
  • Bi-Issues #2
  • Bay Area Reporter on first US national bisexual conference
  • Bi-Issues #1
  • Square Peg on bisexuality
  • Bisexual Phoneline rings the changes
  • UK bisexual phonelines
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