Welcome to what will be the website for BiCon® 2026
What’s BiCon?
BiCon: a bisexual gathering for the community, by the community 🙂
It’s a ‘by the community, for the community’ gathering of people under the bi+ umbrella (attracted to more than one gender, whatever they call their sexual identity) and their friends.
Unlike most Pride events, what happens is generated by the people who come: they will suggest sessions they’d like to run, the organisers will pick a balanced selection of those (some serious, some silly, some talky, some practical etc…) and put together a timetable. During the event, people will have a choice of which to go to at any particular time.
It is defiantly non-commercial: everyone involved in running it is a volunteer and the price to attend depends on your resources. There is no way to know who paid what to attend. People who pay more don’t get a shinier badge or better seats or any other perk: instead we all get more lovely people at BiCon! Win!
It’s also the UK’s longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event (and the world’s longest running bisexual event!)
Do I need to be bi to attend?
Come as you are.
Absolutely not! While most attendees think of themselves as bisexual, bi, pansexual, pan, fluid, queer, m-spec, flexible, bi-curious, etc etc, others use lesbian / gay / straight or don’t have a word for their sexual identity.
If we ask about people’s identity, you don’t have to answer (it’s just to keep track of trends) and we don’t have four or five tickboxes to choose between, because we know that for many people it’s not that simple.
Whatever your identity, you do need to behave: we care about that a lot.
I’m trans and..
BiCon is where you can be yourself
Welcome! BiCon was an early adopter of accepting people’s self-identified gender for all purposes at BiCon, including single-gender spaces, if any BiCon wants them.
We had the vote about what was already the policy in 1993 and to our knowledge there have been zero problems as a result since. It is not up for debate. If you disagree with it, we suggest you do not attend any BiCon.
Who’s running it?
We don’t know yet – email info@biconcontinuity.org.uk if you’re interested in finding out what it involves.
You don’t need to be responsible for all of it: there are things like…
… doing publicity and social media
… dealing with incoming email
… sorting session suggestions into a programme
… doing the tech for Online BiCon
that all need doing by someone, as well as ‘on the day’ things like being on the reception desk.
Where is it?
No matter where, no matter who, BiCon feels like coming home.
We don’t know yet – while we have reused venues, it’s not been in the same place two years in a row, so the answer depends on the ‘who’.
Having said that, BiCon 2025 was in a venue that was particularly good in a lot of ways, so it will probably be in Nottingham at the Nottingham Girls’ High School again.
When is it?
BiCon in bitopia
A weekend at some point in 2026, probably the one from the evening of Friday 21st August to the late afternoon of Sunday 23rd August.
Where can I find out more?
… like an extended chosen family coming together, with all its love, quirks and history that act as glue in an amazing DIY project.
There’s an email list for news about BiCon and similar events: send an email to BiCon-News+subscribe@groups.io to join it. When the place and date is confirmed, that’s the first place it will happen. You can unsubscribe at any point.
The main BiCon website has more on the event and its history.
There are BiCon websites online going back to 1996. You can find them (or their recreations) at the year.bicon.org.uk – so 2024’s is at 2024.bicon.org.uk for example.
How can I contact BiCon 2026?
Until there’s a team for BiCon 2026 (see above!) you can email nextbicon@gmail.com – it currently goes to the organiser of BiCon 2025.
What other events are there apart from BiCon?
BiCamp – “a 4 day camping event organised by and primarily for bisexuals and those who fall under the larger bisexual+ umbrella” that happens in the summer. 2025’s was on Thursday 29th May to Sunday 1st June.
Bi Pride – a one day event at the end of August / start of September that’s more like an indoors Pride ‘festival’, with stalls, an entertainment stage, plus panels of speakers. 2025’s was cancelled, but we’re sure 2026’s will be as good as their previous ones.
BiFest – a sort of one day BiCon, designed to be good for new people. There hasn’t been one since Covid-19, but there will doubtless be more at some point.
London Bi Meetup – as well as its own socials, points people to other bi+ things, especially in and around London.
Bi+ World Meetup – an online socialising meeting that happens every three months.
There is a plan to have a ‘World BiCon’ in Amsterdam, probably just before the World Pride events that will be happening in that city in summer 2026. When more details are known, they’ll be posted here and to the BiCon-News email list.
All quotes from BiCon 2024 attendees