Finding Bisexuals

From BiOrgResources

How do we find bisexuals and others who would be interested in bi community stuff? How would they find us? Are we looking at bi identification, attraction or behaviour? In what languages?

• Internet (split further by Bi specific, Include bis in the name e.g. LGBT, Bi friendly)

  * Mailing lists
  * Social Networking: List of major social networking websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
      * Biggest international according to above (accuracy?, but what about UK?): MySpace, Facebook, Windows Live Spaces, Habbo, hi5
      * Top UK sites April 2007 from http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/social-media-7471/myspace-bebo-dominate-uk-social-networking/
         * MySpace 33.77%
         * Bebo 33.53%
         * Facebook 12.82%
         * Faceparty 4.00%
         * Piczo 3.36%
         * Friends Reunited UK 2.12%
         * Tagged 1.60%
         * hi5 1.47%
         * Windows Live Spaces 1.10%
         * Facebox 0.93%
      * January 2008 at http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/social-media-7471/top-social-media-sites-in-the-uk-jan-2008/
         * YouTube
         * Wikipedia
         * Facebook
         * Blogger 
         * MySpace
         * Bebo
         * Slide
         * Yahoo! Answers
         * Live Spaces
         * TripAdvisor
      * Most popular in bi community: Livejournal, Facebook, MySpace
  * Podcasts
  * Influential Blogs (http://technorati.com/ or http://blogsearch.google.com/ may help, see search terms below)
      * http://sexgeek.wordpress.com/?p=199 Sex Geek and the top 100 sex bloggers of 2008
  * News sources
      * AfterElton and AfterEllen seem pretty bi friendly
  * Dating
     * Bi specific places?
     * LB or GB places, eg Gaydar, Gingerbeer
     * What are the most popular main dating sites?
     * Popular: OKCupid, Informed Consent, alt.com
  * Advice
  * Entertainment
  * Pornography / erotica
  * Academic / research
  * Health
  * Search terms - what might people type into a search engine? If they do, what might they find? Targetted ads (Google Adwords, on social networking sites...)
     * "bisexual", "bisexuality", "bi", "bi-sexual", "bi-sexuality"
     * "bicurious", "bi-curious", "questioning sexuality"
     * as above add "event", "community", "resources", "helpline", "group", "support", "help", "advice", "conference", "con", "convention"
     * add "women", "men"
     * "omnisexual", "omni-sexual", "pansexual", "pan-sexual"
     * "fluid sexuality"
     * Slang terms "switch hitter", "AC/DC" perhaps including negatives: "fence sitter", "unsure sexuality", "unstable sexuality"
     * "Queer", "bi-dyke", "bi-amorous"
     * "bicon", "bifest" possibly mishearings / spellings "bicom" "bi.con"
     * Also "bisexual -lesbian" or similar to cut out "lesbian gay bisexual and transgender" pages for advanced searchers

• Print

  * Academic
  * Community
     * Pink paper, Scotsgay
  * News
  * Lifestyle
  * Entertainent

• Events

  * BiCon
  * BiFests
  * Bi activist weekends
  * Meetups from community lists / websites or http://meetup.com/
  * Prides

• Groups
• Phone

  * Helplines
  * Sex lines

• Social spaces

  * pubs, clubs etc.

• Sex spaces

  * saunas etc.
  * public

• Other spaces

  * LGBT Centres

• At work

  * Unions 
  * Representative bodies for professionals eg. BMA for doctors - also see Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD),  Law Society + see the Lesbian & Gay Lawyers Association.