Bi-Victoria

What is Bi-Victoria?
Bi-Victoria is a social and support group for people who acknowledge attraction to more than one gender, and their partners and friends. You don’t have to be bisexual, just accepting and supportive. We are keen to create an environment that is friendly and welcoming, including to newly identifying people.

How to get involved
To keep updated and chat to other Bi-Victorians, join our Yahoo Group. With over 450 members, it is a great place to talk about everything related to bisexuality and being bisexual, especially for those that aren’t out to family and friends. There are options of going on digest (a daily email with all the days posts), no email (read it through the Yahoo website) or special emails only. The archives are also easily accessible.

Activities and events
Bi-Victoria’s activities and events are self-organised. If you’d like to get together with others, then post your idea and see who is interested. Past activities and events have included meet-ups at cafes, bars and pubs, bowling evenings, movies, and various other things including those of a more “adult” nature.

Regional and rural areas
Members of Bi-Victoria live all over Victoria. Activities and events have been held in many different parts of Victoria. If you are in a regional and rural area, and would like support or to find others in your area, please post up on the list. You might be surprised at how many bisexuals, just like you, are nearby!

Other Victorian bisexual groups
Melbourne Bi Chat is a regular discussion group held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Father Flanagan’s Irish Pub, 484 Smith Street, Collingwood. It begins at 7.30pm. Contact James 0407 823 025 or james.dominguez@gmail.com

Bisexual Alliance Victoria

MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: James Dominguez
0407 823 025
james.dominguez@gmail.com

Melbourne community groups form alliance to increase awareness of bisexuality within government, service providers and the broader society.

Melbourne, Victoria. March 28, 2010 – Members of Melbourne Bi Chat and Victorian Bi Activists recently voted to join in an alliance to coordinate the representation of issues common to both groups.

Melbourne Bi Chat, which holds monthly discussion groups, and Victorian Bi Activists, an online issues and action announcement forum, bring a combined membership of 70 people with a diverse range of skills and experience.

“Some of our members have felt that the B in GLBTIQ has been treated as silent by some in the community for too long. Partnering via an incorporated body like the Bisexual Alliance will provide us with a way to
be taken seriously when we raise issues such as this while the chat group can remain informal,” states Melbourne Bi Chat facilitator and president of the Alliance James Dominguez.

As well as encouraging relationships between like-minded bodies, the alliance is to work towards removing sexual orientation and gender identity being the basis for discrimination in law or practice within Victoria. To
this end the alliance acknowledges the work already done by organisations such as the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, ALSO, Australian Coalition For Equality. We particularly acknowledge the work of Bi-Victoria.

Bisexual Alliance Victoria looks forward to working with these and other groups in the future.

• President: James Dominguez
• Vice President: Rebecca Dominguez
• Treasurer: Sally Goldner
• Secretary: Nigel Wells