Although this meant that bisexuality was visible, it was still met at times with tension. According to van Alphen, some queer activists accused bisexual people of “having their cake and eating it too—in other words, appearing heterosexual by day and homosexual by night.”23 Bisexual people were assumed to be able to take advantage of “sexual camouflage” (a term that bi researcher Samuel Lawton has used), blending into both homosexual and heterosexual spaces. For those in heterosexual-looking relationships, particularly in marriages, this morphed by the late 1960s from the idea of bisexual
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