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Jul. 11th, 2009 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
BiCon 2009 is six weeks away, on Thursday 20 - Sunday 23 August, in Worcester. The deadline for booking is three weeks away, on Saturday 1 August. I will of course be there; I haven't missed one since my first in 1991, and it changed my life then, and again and again since, for the better.
Some of you probably wonder what all the fuss is about! The important thing to bear in mind is that BiCon isn't really about bisexuality. BiCon exists not because 200 people are bursting to talk about bisexuality every year - I'm largely not - but because it works as an event. Bisexuality is just the tiny fragment of stuff about which the pearl of BiCon is built. Though people do talk about bisexuality every year at BiCon, it is sustained year on year not by those discussions but by the atmosphere that BiCon creates: one in which assumptions about sexuality are given a good shake, and one in which a lasting and (for its many flaws) lovely community welcomes new people and reunites old friends.
And don't think you'll be the only cynical old bastard in a building full of hippies either - I assure you that BiCon is quite diverse on the hippy/cynical old bastard scale too.
Read the links from this post to the BiCon community and have a look at what people say immediately after the event is over. Don't wait until *this* year's is over and you're reading what a great time everyone else had!
Some of you probably wonder what all the fuss is about! The important thing to bear in mind is that BiCon isn't really about bisexuality. BiCon exists not because 200 people are bursting to talk about bisexuality every year - I'm largely not - but because it works as an event. Bisexuality is just the tiny fragment of stuff about which the pearl of BiCon is built. Though people do talk about bisexuality every year at BiCon, it is sustained year on year not by those discussions but by the atmosphere that BiCon creates: one in which assumptions about sexuality are given a good shake, and one in which a lasting and (for its many flaws) lovely community welcomes new people and reunites old friends.
And don't think you'll be the only cynical old bastard in a building full of hippies either - I assure you that BiCon is quite diverse on the hippy/cynical old bastard scale too.
Read the links from this post to the BiCon community and have a look at what people say immediately after the event is over. Don't wait until *this* year's is over and you're reading what a great time everyone else had!
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Date: 2009-07-11 03:50 pm (UTC)*applauds*
I can't wait! With so many of my existing friends in attendance and the chance to make new friends, not to mention all the excellent workshops/Sessions, I wouldn't want to miss it!
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Date: 2009-08-01 10:54 pm (UTC)Lovely post.
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