![]() Benjamin Spock in 1977.Īlan Rockaway (left). In response, The San Francisco Bisexual Center helped coordinate a press conference with lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and pediatrician Dr. In response to the first successful gay rights ordinance (co-authored by bisexual Alan Rockway), Anita Bryant launched a national anti-LGBTQ campaign. The longest surviving bisexual community center, the San Francisco Bisexual Center, opened its doors in 1975. In 1972, the National Bisexual Liberation Group was founded in New York and issued the first bisexual newsletter, The Bisexual Expression, to its members. Image credit: Efrain Gonzalezīisexual advocacy continued to rise in the 1970s. Brenda went on to found the New York Area Bisexual Network to coordinate resources for regional bi+ individuals. Because of this, she is often known as the "Mother of Pride." Today, the " Brenda Howard Memorial Award" is given by PFLAG Queens to celebrate advocates making a difference for the bisexual+ community. A year later, Howard coordinated another march to commemorate the year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, thus beginning the longstanding tradition of pride parades each year. In response to Stonewall, bisexual activist Brenda Howard organized the Christopher Street Liberation Day March a month after the riots. Stonewall is considered by many LGBTQ historians to be the watershed moment of the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Johnson, and Miss Major to the streets in order to fight for LGBTQ rights. The patrons of the bar, bisexuals included, followed Stonewall leaders such as Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. In 1969, a series of spontaneous and violent riots in response to the June 28 th police raid of the Stonewall Inn took place-commonly known as the Stonewall riots. For example, bisexual activist Stephen Donaldson (also known as Donny the Punk) founded the first university-sanctioned gay student group, the Student Homophile League, at Columbia University. Like the rest of the queer civil rights movement, bisexual political activism began to flourish in the 1960s. ![]() However, bisexuality was rarely openly discussed until the second half of the twentieth century due to the pervasive cultural stigma surrounding being gay. The word "bisexual" was first used to refer to a sexual attraction to both men and women by Charles Gilbert Chaddock in an 1892 translation of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. Therefore, this #BiWeek we're looking back at the history of the contemporary U.S. Retelling a history that is inclusive of bisexual+ people is an important way to affirm the validity and importance of the bisexual+ experience. The ubiquity of bisexual+ erasure seeps into history too prominent bisexual+ individuals of the past are rarely remembered as bisexual+ (recalled as gay or lesbian instead) and the contributions of bisexuals+ to the broader LGBTQ movement are overlooked. As a whole, the history of LGBTQ people is rarely taught comprehensively in schools, addressed in the media, or easily accessible within popular culture. Image credit: bisexual+ movement has a long, complex, and often hidden history.
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