After the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, as the bisexual community in the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey & Connecticut grew larger, more active, more diverse and organized, a need was seen to have a more formal methodology to keep everyone informed on all the various facets of the community. Taking as its model Boston's highly successful East Cost Bisexual Network (ECBN), now the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC), in 1987 the "New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) was formed.