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| genre      = [[Bisexuality]]
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| location   = Varies
| country    = Varies
| first      = October 1991
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| founder_name = [[Fritz Klein (sex researcher)|Fritz Klein]] et al.
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| attendance = 200&ndash;1000 (approx.)
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The '''International Conference on Bisexuality '''('''ICB'''), also known as the '''International BiCon''', was a periodic gathering of [[bisexual]] [[activists]] and [[Academic staff|academics]] from around the world.

Started by [[Fritz Klein (sex researcher)|Fritz Klein]] and a group of fellow activists, the first ICB was held in [[Amsterdam]] in 1991<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Burleson |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg5IAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22International+Conference+on+Bisexuality%22&pg=PT165 |title=Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community |date=2014-04-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-71260-2 |language=en}}</ref> and followed the concept of a [[BiCon (UK)|BiCon]] started in the UK in 1984 and San Francisco in 1990.<ref name=":0" /> The last one was 2010 in London.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Paternotte |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sviqCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22International+Conference+on+Bisexuality%22&pg=PA158 |title=The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism |last2=Tremblay |first2=Manon |date=2016-03-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-04291-4 |pages=158 |language=en}}</ref>

==Past events==
{| class="wikitable"
! Number
! Date
! Location
! Country
! Attendance
! Notes
|-
||1st ICB
||October 1991
||[[Amsterdam]]
||[[Netherlands]]
||250<ref name=":0" />
|| --
|-
||2nd ICB
||23–25 June 1992
||[[London]]
||UK
||''253''
|| Held at a church in North London
|-
||3rd ICB
||24 June 1994
||[[New York City]]
||United States
||350<ref name=":0" />
|| The event was held in the week prior to the 25th Stonewall Anniversary Parade. A large number of participants at the conference marched under an "International Bisexuals" banner in the parade.
|-
||4th ICB
||October 1996
||[[Berlin]]<ref name=":0" />
||Germany
||''196''
|| --
|-
||5th ICB
||3–5 April 1998
||[[Harvard University]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
||United States
||910<ref name=":0" />
||Held over 140 workshops, panels, or performances; "largest-ever gathering of bisexual advocates from around the globe"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Belmonte |first=Laura A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M5oJEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22International+Conference+on+Bisexuality%22&pg=PA168 |title=The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History |date=2020-12-10 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4725-0695-5 |pages=168 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
||6th ICB
||25–28 August 2000
||[[University of Manchester]]
||UK
||265
||This event was held in combination with [[UK|the UK's]] [[BiCon (UK)|BiCon 18]]
|-
||7th ICB [http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet/7ICB.htm]
||25–28 October 2002
||[[Sydney]]
||Australia
||80<ref name=":0" />
|| Coincided with [[Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras|Mardis Gras]] and the [[Gay Games]]<ref name=":0" />
|-
||8th ICB
||5–8 August 2004
||University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Campus [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]]
||United States
||225
|| This conference was hosted by the [[BECAUSE (Conference)#Bisexual Organizing Project|Bisexual Organizing Project]].
|-
||9th ICB
||15–18 June 2006
||Ryerson University [[Toronto]]
||Canada
||200
|| This conference was hosted by the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project. It offered 57 workshops and included keynote addresses from Dr. [[Loraine Hutchins]] and researcher Trevor Jacques.
|-
||10th ICB
||26–30 August 2010
||[[London]]
||UK
||454
|| This event was held in combination with [[UK|the UK's]] [[BiCon (UK)|BiCon 28]]. During the 9th ICB this was announced as being the 11th, however the 10th ICB had no immediate takers. Although work was then done on the issue, a planned conference in 2008 in [[Rhode Island]], United States failed to get off the ground. The 2010 ICB in the United Kingdom was consequently the 10th.
|}

== See also ==

* [[BiCon (UK)]]
* [[Bisexual community]]

== References ==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.binetusa.org/pennpoints.htm "Why Bisexual Conferences are Important"]   by [[Denise Penn]] in Penn Points (June 2004)

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