Great to see a heterosexual on the committee. I would identify myself as bi but have never felt at home at York's LGBT. I think it's less their lack of acceptance but York as a whole. It's such a small city and the LGBT "sector" is too small for me to find likeminded people.

Femininity is not at all, in my case, concomitant with my sexual interest in members of the same sex. At all the LGBT events I've been too it's hard to find a guy who is principally "masculine" and also gay or bi; effeminacy always comes with it. This is not a criticism - it is essential of course that everyone can be what is in them to be. But I do wonder, there must be some guys or girls out there where gender identity is separate to sexuality?

I am really only "myself" in larger cities, a trip to Leeds is greatly liberating and is one of my key saviours from states of depression in what appears to me (perhaps naively) to be a place where I don't belong.