Calling all bisexual, pan, omni, fluid, non-monosexual queer, and other bi+ folks and allies, come celebrate Bi+ community with the Bisexual Organizing Project at Twin Cities Pride on June 25-26, 2016 in Minneapolis.

Twin Cities Pride Festival - Saturday and Sunday
Let's fill Loring Park with beautiful bisexual, pan, omni, non-monosexual queer, and other bi+ people and allies! Come visit the BOP Booth (B020, B022, & B024 across from the Loring Park Dunn Brothers).

We also need volunteers to pass out stickers, host a community booth for the bi+ community, sell bi+ swag at the BOP Store, and more! Volunteering is a great way to meet folks and get connected with the community. Sign up now!

Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade - Sunday
Choose between carrying the Big Bi Flag with unit #7 or march with streamers and signs with unit #21. Line up by 10:15 am along 3rd Street between Hennepin and Marquette in Minneapolis. More details: https://www.tcpride.org/wp-content/uploads/2016-Parade-Participant-Guide.pdf

Dress for the weather and walking. The parade route is longer and hotter than you think! Unit leaders needed, please email bop@bisexualorganizingproject.org if interested. Sign up now at or come join us on Sunday. Feel free to jump in anywhere along the Parade route.

We look forward to seeing you this weekend. Happy Pride!

As many of you know, there was an incident with the University of Minnesota Police on Saturday evening at BECAUSE 2016. Discussions are ongoing between the GLBTA Programs Office, the Bisexual Organizing Project Board of Directors, the BECAUSE committee, and University of Minnesota Police regarding how the University Police engaged with an African American and transgender attendee of BECAUSE on Saturday night outside Coffman Union. Please send any comments or concerns you may have to BOP@bisexualorganizingproject.org.

We are taking this incident seriously as a board and a community. We will continue to keep our BOP family updated as we have more details.

Can you believe that BECAUSE is just a few days away? We're really getting ready to have you all join us this year. We've got a cadre of volunteers working behind the scenes to make BECAUSE amazing again this year. Do you think you could join us?

If you've already signed up to help out at BECAUSE this year - THANK YOU

If you haven't, now's the perfect time. Maybe you didn't know what you wanted to do before. Maybe you've been talking it over with friends to see when you can volunteer together. Maybe you just decided that BECAUSE sounded awesome and you want to be there. But now that you've decided - you can sign up to help at the convention!

You can sign up here!

Here's what VolunteerSpot says about signing up:

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see our Sign-up on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/5TgL8o
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on VolunteerSpot.

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact us and we can sign you up manually.

We'll see you this weekend!

On Monday evening, February 8th, Dr. Ibrahim Farajajé passed away. Dr. Farajajé was surrounded by a small group of family and friends at Alta Bates Medical Center in Oakland, California where he had been struggling to recover from a heart attack. We offer our condolences to family.

Dr. Farajajé, who has also been known as Elias Farajajé-Jones, was a keynote speaker at the BECAUSE Conference twice and a long-time activist working at the intersections of race, faith, gender, and sexuality. Our community has lost a person who touched many lives, expanded many minds, and filled many hearts with joy. FaceBook bi+ groups have blossomed with remembrances of Dr. Farajajé in a beautiful outpouring of love.

BiNet USA has created their first ever #BlackBisexualHistoryMonth shareable image to honor Dr. Farajajé which was released yesterday as part of their memorial blog post.

There will be a workshop session at BECAUSE 2016 celebrating Dr. Farajajé's life and work.