Listen to "At the Table with the Bisexual Organizing Project" on KFAI!
Listen as KFAI celebrates Pride Month on the air! Join members of the Bisexual Organizing Project, or “BOP” on Thursday, June 21st at 2:00 pm on KFAI for an hour of “At the Table with BOP”. We will delve into what Pride means to the bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid, and unlabeled (bi+) community, and what it means to celebrate and hold space for Pride as a bi+ person. We will also discuss what it’s like to be involved in BOP, and share details about our upcoming conference, BECAUSE 2018! The full schedule of KFAI Pride Programming can be viewed here! March with the Bisexual Organizing Project in the Twin Cities 2018 Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade! Join with us in community on Sunday, June 24 from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm to let Twin Cities see our true colors! All ages welcome! We need volunteers in the BOP marching unit, as well as volunteers to hold the bisexual flag in the color guard at the head of the parade! The parade route is down Hennepin Avenue from North 3rd Street to 16th Street in downtown Minneapolis, MN. The color guard is in spot #3, meeting on 3rd Street between Hennepin Avenue and the Nicollet Mall. BOP is in spot #28, meeting on 3rd Street between the Nicollet Mall and Marquette Avenue. Click here to see the lineup map. Click here to march with us in the Pride Parade! Volunteer at BOP's booth at the Pride Festival in Loring Park! BOP will have an exhibitor booth at the Twin Cities PRIDE Festival again this year! Our booth will be open on Saturday June 23, and Sunday, June 24 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm in Loring Park, 1382 Willow Street, Minneapolis, MN 55403. We will be in the Blue section on West 15th Street in spaces B20, B22, and B24. We will need volunteers to set-up and tear-down the booth, hand out BOP info and stickers, meet and greet community members, and run the BOP store! Volunteers can sit or stand under the shade of the tent. Volunteers will get free water, light snacks, and sunscreen! You may choose multiple or partial shifts. Click here for the park vendor map. Click here to volunteer at BOP's Pride Festival booth!
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We are looking for member feedback about the programming and services BOP provides, and how we can better serve our community.What events do you want to see from BOP in the future? What do you want to volunteer for? Are there things that prevent you from attending BOP events and activities? What do you think we're doing well? What do you think we could be doing better? We want to know all of this AND MORE!!
Click here to fill out this brief survey and give us your input! The Bi+ Book Club reading for July 11th will be "Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham" by Emily Bingham.
Summary: "Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and pleasure of her early decades, the toxicity of judgment from others, coupled with her own anxieties, resulted in years of addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family—she was labeled "a three-dollar bill." But forebears can become fairy-tale figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in whispers." The Bi+ Book Club meets from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Quatrefoil Library, at 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407. Hope to see you there! |
BECAUSEBECAUSE 2023
September 30 - October 1, 2023 Wellstone Center St Paul, MN We hope you will join us for the BECAUSE Conference in fall 2023! MissionBuild, serve and advocate for an empowered bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community to promote social justice. Vision
Within the next five years grow Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP) into a successfully-run Upper Midwest nonprofit organization with annual funding of $100,000 that provides community building, education, and advocacy for the bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community and our allies.
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