Conferences enable professionals to come together and share their work, promoting formal and informal discourse. Bisexuality is so often misunderstood and marginalized. This makes a conference like BiCon, a national conference on bisexuality in the United Kingdom, all the more important and special. A history of these meetings can be found on the BiCon Website (http://bicon.org.uk/). Due to its central location with respect to bisexual communities, BiCon has often combined with the International Conference on Bisexuality (ICB). In 2010, the 28th BiCon meeting and the 10th ICB meeting came together. The event included the first meeting of BiReCon, a one-day conference with a special focus on various types of research in bisexuality. The Website for the three combined events is http://www.bicon2010.org.uk/bicon/about-icb/. I am pleased that we can offer selected papers from BiReCon. Conferences often feature interesting and important papers, but not everyone has the opportunity to attend the meeting and hear these works. This special issue helps to keep these works alive, making them accessible to a wider audience.
There are many individuals to thank for this special issue. A debt of gratitude goes to Meg Barker and her colleagues for their work in making BiReCon a reality. I appreciate each of the authors in this issue for their willingness to share their work. I thank Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, the guest editor for this issue, for her time and work on these papers and the issue, and Regina Reinhardt, the managing editor, for her continued assistance and dedication to the journal.