More than a celebration

Bi Visibility Day is celebrated every year on 23 September and this year, we want everyone to be a part of it!

Royal Mail Group will mark the day by flying the bisexual flag over our head offices in Farringdon, London. And our LGBT+ & Friends steering group will be sharing stories from bisexual colleagues and their allies.

It’s more than a celebration

Bi Visibility Day celebrates one of the most invisible parts of the LGBT+ community. Often misrepresented, people who are attracted to both men and women can face stigma from both within the LGBT+ community and from wider society. This is known as biphobia.

Despite the work that the LGBT+ & Friends steering group has undertaken over the past few years, openly bisexual colleagues still remain underrepresented.

Content production manager, Julia Casson, said: ‘Let’s make the B in LGBT+ shine! Our network will be teaming up with charity group Bi Pride UK to try to make the steering group more accessible for all members of the LGBT+ community. 

‘The 2018 Employee Survey results show that we have just under a thousand bisexual people working across Royal Mail Group. We want to make a stand for this community. Help us have the right conversations, engage with and raise the profile of bisexual colleagues and bisexual issues, and help us build our strategy.’  

Supporting our people

Are you bisexual? Do you want to be a part of something brilliant? Share your story or become a role model and help make the B in LGBT more visible! The LGBT+ & Friends steering group would love to hear from you.

You can contact them or subscribe to their newsletter by emailing: LGBT&Friends@royalmail.com. If you want to join their protected Facebook group, just email them with your pay number and the email address you use to sign into Facebook and they will send you an invite.