THE EARLY DAYS Bisexuals have been part of the modern Lesbian
and Gay Civil Rights and Liberation Movement since at least the
mid-1960s. For a variety of reasons bisexuals have also
organized separately while continuing to be active in gay,
lesbian and other progressive movements. Throughout the 1970s
while popular press articles focused on "bisexual chic" in the
club scene and among celebrities such as Elton John, David Bowie
and Patti Smith, bisexual groups formed in several large US
cities signaling the birth of the modern Bisexual Civil Rights
and Liberation Movement. 1972 - The Quaker Committee of Friends
on Bisexuality issues the "Ithaca Statement on Bisexuality"
which appears in The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian news
magazine. The statement announces a new bisexual consciousness
to gay readers. 1972 - The National Bisexual Liberation Group
forms in New York. Within three years, more than 5,500 members
in 10 US chapters receive what is probably the earliest bisexual
newsletter, The Bisexual Expre