Author: Ian

Bookings for day tickets is now open (otherwise known as I finally copied the booking form and changed the figures as well as losing some other bits from it…)

Getting them in advance helps get everyone in more quickly on the day.

You can book them here.

We'll be announcing the exact location on the 14th 16th October, but it's very close to Alexandra Palace Station in Haringey, London.

The nearest tube station is Wood Green (Piccadilly line).

Update: see Getting there for the details

See the book page for more info and a link to the online registration form.

BiCon is the annual get-together of the UK bi community and its friends.

As there's been one every year since 1984 (and two in 1985!) it is the UK's longest running annual LGBTQ+ event.

This year's will be in London at the end of November/start of December, close to the 40th anniversary of the first one. (Hence the look of this website: it's not that we can't do pretty ones with lots of graphics, but BiCon predates Windows, never mind the Web.)

As with Bi Pride, you don't need to identify as being in the Bi+ family (bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, multisexual, omnisexual, fluid, etc etc) to attend, but there are some differences.

Compared to Bi Pride..

.. it's a multi-day event, not a single day. This year it will be over a weekend. Other recent ones have been three or four days long

.. it's more of a DIY event. At one, everyone who'd helped in some way was given a particular sticker for their name badge – by the end of the event, well over half of the attendees had been given one

.. there are far more discussions and practical sessions than 'four people on a panel' ones. Some are serious, some very much not so. There is usually space in the programme to add ones on the day (see that comment about it being a DIY event!)

.. there isn't a performance stage during the day, but there will be a Saturday evening party

.. it's smaller in terms of numbers of attendees

.. most have been residential: you've been able to stay onsite. This year's won't be, being in London

.. it doesn't have sponsorship, so it's not free. It's not expensive though, and there will be a sliding scale for ticket prices.

Interested? Email us to be kept in touch.

In the meantime, if you want to know more, have a look here as well as the rest of this site.

The first in the series of events we now call BiCon was held at the start of December 1984, so 2024 sees its fortieth anniversary.

With no Pride event happening in London in 1998, this makes BiCon the UK's longest continuously running annual LGBTQ+ event!

Although there is no-one running a residential BiCon this year, there was no way that we (OK, Ian W) were going to let that record go.

So we are looking to have a BiCon in London, close to the anniversary.

It will be held over a weekend.

It will be non-residential and, if you don't live in London, you will have to sort out accommodation yourself.

While that will make the event different to recent ones, it makes the event possible: as anyone who has run one knows, dealing with the accommodation for a BiCon is more than half of the work, even after you have found a suitable venue.

The first six BiCons were all non-residential, as were BiCons 8 and 9. Before this year, the most recent non-residential one was BiCon 12 which was held in 1994*, so it will be thirty years since the last one.. another significant anniversary!

Don't miss it.

We should have more information, including the dates, by the end of August. And if you want to help run this, please get in touch!

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* If you are wondering how BiCon 12 could happen ten years after the first one, there were two in 1985, the only time that has happened.