The Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.) is mourning the unexpected loss of our matriarch Lou Hoffman who died of natural causes on October 6, 2025. She was 67 years old.
Lou was a steady and long-serving member of our community for decades. Lou began working with the Bisexual Connection around 1990, co-founded the BECAUSE conference in 1992, served in leadership positions with the Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP), and BiNet USA, and helped organize the 8th International Conference on Bisexuality in 2004. She attended the inaugural White House by-invitation-only Bisexual Roundtable in 2013.
Lou was always willing to share her gifts and talents to nurture our bi+ community and will be sorely missed.
—Submitted by Dr. Marge Charmoli, her friend and co-organizer
