Short answers, pulled from the story.
Michael Page unveiled the bisexual flag in 1998. The design features three horizontal stripes with deep pink at the top, blue at the bottom, and purple in the middle to represent attraction to more than one gender.
A July 2014 NHIS report found that only 0.7 percent of Americans identify as bisexual. Recent Western surveys indicate about 10 percent of women and four percent of men identify as mostly heterosexual while only 1 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men identify specifically as bisexual.
Charles Gilbert Chaddock coined the term bisexuality in the 19th century. This definition arrived decades before Michael Page unveiled the community flag in 1998.
The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior published in 1993 concluded that five percent of men and three percent of women considered themselves bisexual. A 2002 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found 1.8 percent of men ages 18 to 44 identified as bisexual while 2.8 percent of women in the same age group did so.
In 1914 the first documented appearance of bisexual characters occurred in an American motion picture called A Florida Enchantment directed by Sidney Drew. Under censorship required by the Hays Code the word bisexual could not be mentioned until 1968.