The Bisexual Center

Category: Historical Events

Ground breaking, volunteer run Bisexual Community Center, offering support groups, counseling services, social events and a newsletter, and publicly aligned with the gay movement. Founded in 1976. Closed in 1984.

Source: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA BI COMMUNITY AND THE BAY AREA BISEXUAL NETWORK (BABN) - By Lani KaÂ’ahumanu and Melissa White - Updated November 13, 2002 (www.babn.org)

Mission statement:

We are people seeking to love and share intimately with both women and men. Self-defined as bisexuals (although such labels are limiting) we are working to create for ourselves and others a strong sense of community.

The Bisexual Center is united in struggling for the rights of all women and men to develop as whole, androgynous beings.

We support relationships between persons of the same and other sex. These relationships may include relating spiritually, socially, emotion­ally, sensually, sexually, and intellectually. We also support persons choosing a celibate lifestyle.

We support people who have been oppressed because of sexual prefer­ence, gender, age, or ethnic group.

We encourage and support people struggling (a) to bring about equal­ity in areas of employment, housing, medical care and complete sexu­al information; (b) for the right to engage in the free expression of con­senting sexual activity.

We support the open expression of affection and touch among people, without such expression necessarily having sexual implications.

Source: Jay P. Paul - San Francisco's Bisexual Center and the Emergence of a Bisexual Movement