FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at Bi Visibility Day.

The day is celebrated annually on September 23 and is a key date in the calendar for promoting LGBTQ+ rights.

Stonewall, a charity which supports people in the LGBTQ+ community, said that bisexual people are often a forgotten part of the LGBTQ+ community.

George Alabaster, the digital officer, said: "Our experiences are commonly assumed to be the same as lesbian and gay experiences, and our identities are frequently made invisible or dismissed as something that doesn’t exist, by people both inside and outside of this community.

"We face a number of negative stereotypes, the primary ones being that we’re greedy, manipulative, incapable of monogamy and unable to make our minds up – the last of which is the same as saying who we are isn’t real.

"The assumptions about bi people are also gendered. Bi women are more likely to be viewed as ‘actually straight’, their sexual orientation merely a performance to attract straight men, whereas bi men are frequently seen as going through a ‘phase’ on the way to coming out as gay."

In many towns and cities across the world Pride events are held on an annual basis to help shine a light on the experiences of those who are apart of the LGBTQ+ community.

Here in North Cumbria regular Pride events are held. For many years events have been held in Carlisle, and recently Whitehaven has begun to host their own Pride event, along with a lot of other towns in the area.

These photos show Cumbrians taking part in different Pride events over the years.