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'''Jen Yockney''' is editor of bimonthly bisexual magazine [[Bi Community News]] and Convenor of [[BiPhoria]], the UK's longest-running bisexual community project. | '''Jen Yockney''' is editor of bimonthly bisexual magazine [[Bi Community News]] and Convenor of [[BiPhoria]], the UK's longest-running bisexual community project. She was chair of [[LGBT+ Liberal Democrats]] from 2006 to 2009. | ||
In 2016 she was awarded the MBE<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528696/birthday_honours_list_prime_ministers_list_2016.pdf ''Birthday Honours List 2016'' www.gov.uk</ref> and became both the first person to be named in the UK's Honours List with the title Mx, and the first to be given an honour "for services to the bisexual community". | In 2016 she was awarded the MBE<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528696/birthday_honours_list_prime_ministers_list_2016.pdf ''Birthday Honours List 2016'' www.gov.uk</ref> and became both the first person to be named in the UK's Honours List with the title Mx, and the first to be given an honour "for services to the bisexual community". | ||
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Jen Yockney is editor of bimonthly bisexual magazine Bi Community News and Convenor of BiPhoria, the UK's longest-running bisexual community project. She was chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2009.
In 2016 she was awarded the MBE[1] and became both the first person to be named in the UK's Honours List with the title Mx, and the first to be given an honour "for services to the bisexual community".
In January 2013 she started the Bisexual History Project, identifying bi-related events from history, which shares those events as "On This Day" on social media each day. [2][3]
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