Introduction

The focus of the 2011 Unity It can no longer be that people For Further Information: Through Diversity, National with disabilities are the only ones In Our Own Voices staff are LGBT People of Color Health fighting to create safe spaces for happy to address any questions Summit is “Living at the differently-abled bodies. It can or inquiries concerning Unity Intersections.” The Summit is no longer be that the Through Diversity: Living at the designed to reflect on the professionalized women’s, gay, Intersections. current status of health and immigration and civil rights wellness, substance abuse, movements stay in their damn Staff is available Monday - spirituality and political silos. Poverty, violence, stigma, Friday from 9AM to 5PM. advocacy within the Lesbian, racism and hatred are the shared Gay, Bisexual and Transgender experience of millions of people People of Color (LGBT POC) thrown to the margins -- not just communities. Due to the by the rich, white, heterosexual complex interplay among the elite, but by some of our own intersections of different LGBT people. In Our Own Voices identities and communities of 245 Lark Street LGBT People of Color, The leadership we must Albany, New York 12210 particular attention and respect develop, support and embrace Phone: (518) 432-4188 must be paid to the multiplicities is one that understands the Fax: (518) 432-4123 that exist in people’s lives; liberated body has to live [email protected] segmenting ourselves for the through many identities and in www.unitythroughdiversity.com comfort of others is many movements. The unacceptable. (Intersections liberated body is free. It is not Consulting) raped by poverty or racism. It is not denuded, violated or The choice of “Living at the disparaged by bigots. It is not Intersections” as a focus for isolated or hidden away from this Summit is based on the public life because it is old or understanding that twenty-first disabled. It is not denied the century leadership in our many right to reproduce or to not movements must insist on a reproduce. It is not denied the liberation framework, a human right to change itself through rights framework, an medical intervention or intersectional politics in the lived physical presentation. The world, not an academic trope. It liberated body is strong. It is can no longer be that racism is proud. It is Feminist. It is our what Black people deal with or hope that the content and that immigration is what Latinos experience of this Summit will deal with or sex what queers reflect this vision and deepen deal with or gender identity what our understanding of the work trans people deal with. we need to do.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 1 Table of contents

03 Letter from President Obama 04-05 Keynote speakers 06 Schedule at a glance 07 Unity Through Diversity general information 08-14 Workshops - Friday, October 14 16- 19 Affinity Groups - Friday, October 14 20-27 Workshops - Saturday, October 15 28-30 Affinity Groups - Saturday, October 15 31 Funding Panel Presentation - Sunday, October 16 32-40 Presenters 41 HIV Testing and Counseling 44 About Albany, NY 45 Things to do 46 Places to eat 47 Thank you! 48 Contact

Unity Through Diversity 2 Living at the intersections Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 3 Keynote speaker Carmen Vazquez

national coalition of Reproductive Justice and LGBT Liberation activists) and of the Pride in Action programs at Empire State Pride Agenda. She was awarded an Honorary Law degree by CUNY School of Law in 2005 and her oral history and papers are part of the Sophia Smith Archives at Smith College

Her essays have been published in several anthologies. Carmen is currently the Coordinator of the Carmen Vazquez LGBT Health and Human Services Unit with the AIDS Carmen was born in Puerto Institute of the NYS Department Rico and grew up in Harlem, of Health and lives in New York. Among her many Brooklyn, NY accomplishments, Carmen was the Founding Director of the Women’s Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network , a coalition of over 55 organizations and groups in New York advocating for LGBT Health and Human Services. The Network has secured over $54 million dollars in state funding for its members. She is a founder and principal author of Causes in Common (a

Unity Through Diversity 4 Living at the intersections Keynote speaker Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz

From 2005-2010, she served as Weiner-Mahfuz is a graduate the director of capacity building of Wheaton College in Norton, for the National Gay and Mass., where she majored in Lesbian Task Force. As the first women’s studies and political staff person to be hired into this science, and minored in role, she actively embedded anthropology. She currently racial, economc and disability lives in Silver Spring, Md., justice work into building with partner Lisbeth Melendez stronger movement Rivera. organizations. Today she continues to be at the forefront of developing inclusive approaches to organization and movement building.

Her writings can be found in Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Colonize This! Young Women of Color and Feminism (Seal Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz is a Press, 2002), Fireweed co-founder of intersections/ Magazine’s “Mixed Race intersecciones consulting. Issue” (Issue 75), and through a Web-based project titled Weiner-Mahfuz has worked in BustingBinaries, which she several movements for social co-authors with Ana Maurine justice with a particular Lara. emphasis on building grassroots political power Prior to joining the staff of the across movements, issues, Task Force, she was the senior identities and communities. As field organizer for lesbian rights a capacity builder, movement for the National Organization builder, cultural worker and for Women, the pension plan writer she has dedicated much organizer for the National of her organizing life to chal- Organizers Alliance, and lenging oppression at the inter- Midwest regional organizer for sections of race, class, gender, the national office of Parents, sexual orientation, Families and Friends of gender identity and disability. Lesbians and Gays.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 5 Schedule at a glance Thursday, October 13 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM Registration 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Opening Reception Friday, October 14 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM Homorobics 7:30 AM – 7:30 AM Registration 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Welcome Keynote Summit Logistics 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Workshops 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Lunch - Video Presentation from Gilead 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Healthy Sexuality Panel Presentation 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Workshops 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Workshops 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Roundtables / Affinity Groups 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Entertainment: Karaoke Saturday, October 15 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM Homorobics 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Breakfast 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Workshops 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Movement Building Panel Presentation 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Lunch Panel Presentation 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Workshops 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Workshops 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Roundtables / Affinity Groups 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM Entertainment: Genda Revolution Ball Sunday, October 16 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM Homorobics 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Breakfast Session – Funding Panel Discussion

Unity Through Diversity is made possible by grants from the NYS Dept. of Health, AIDS Institute.

Unity Through Diversity 6 Living at the intersections Unity Through Diversity general information

Unity Through Diversity Time Photography Unity Through Diversity has Unity Through Diversity has In order to document this worked hard to make this many important and interesting special event, Summit staff and Health Summit welcoming and workshops, panels, and other volunteers will be accessible to all attendees. In presentations. In order for the photographing individuals in the spirit of unity through Health Summit to run smoothly, workshops, discussions, and diversity, please help us to and for attendees to get the throughout the Health Summit. create an atmosphere at the most out of this experience, it By registering for Unity Through Health Summit where all people is important that individuals are Diversity, attendees are are welcomed and respected. punctual. consenting to being photo- Be cognizant of attendees’ graphed by Summit staff. If you individual preferences in terms Designated Smoking Areas have any questions or of gender identity, dress, and The host hotel does not allow concerns, please speak to speech. smoking in meeting areas or in Summit staff at the Registration hotel rooms. Please only table. Assistance & Emergency smoke in designated smoking Contacts areas. If you are unsure, please Meals In Our Own Voices Staff ask Health Summit staff Health Summit Registration members and Health Summit for assistance. includes breakfast and lunch Volunteers will be available If on Friday and Saturday, and you require assistance at any Name Tags breakfast on Sunday. Snacks time during the summit. If you Please wear your Unity through will be available throughout the are unable to locate an IOOV Diversity name tag at all times. weekend. Dinner will not be staff member or volunteer, Your name tag is your pass to provided. please call (518) 331-4410 or all Health Summit workshops, (518) 331-4311. presentations, and dining areas. Homorobics If your name tag becomes lost, This fun upbeat dance class Hospitality Room please report immediately to provides participants with During the Summit there will the Registration Desk with a motivational cardio exercises be a designated hotel room photo ID to receive a new that could be easily added to for participants to access 24 name tag. their daily routine. This hours. The room will contain workshop is a mix of hip-hop, snacks and games among Latin, South African, and other items. All snacks and modern dances. Weaving beverages provided are free. between low and high impact The room number will be aerobics this class is great for announced during the opening anyone who wants to look good reception. Participants can also and feel gorgeous. receive the room number at the Summit registration desk.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 7 Workshops Friday, October 14

In Their Shoes – Faith and The Power of Adolescent/GLBTQ LGBT Youth and Young Transformation – Healthcare: Crossroad Adults of African Ancestry Identifying & and Consequences Overcoming the Effects of Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Vicarious Trauma Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Colonie Room Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Room: State Room Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Presenters: Room: Albany Room Presenter: Reverend Gale Jones; Daniel Garza, MD, Callen-Lorde Reverend Valerie Holly Presenter: Community Health Center DeShannon Bowens, MS, Workshop Description: ILERA Counseling & Education Workshop Description: LGBT identity for youth/young Services Few populations are as acutely adults often conflicts with aware of “Living at the spiritual/religious tradition, Workshop Description: Intersections” than LGBTQ which can be used to oppress, The Power of Transformation adolescents and young adults. demean, or justify a parent’s helps advocates, social Their self-actualization as right to discard them. The workers, counselors, and LGBT individuals occurs in the resulting impact is various service providers context of multi-dimensional disproportionately high rates become aware of how they changes in their physical, of homelessness, substance have been affected by working emotional and psychological abuse, sexual risk-taking, and with traumatized clients due to selves. The HOTT program, a vulnerability of HIV, pregnancy, the heartfelt connection large and specialized program and sexual violence. This established in the nature of designed to meet the primary workshop will examine and service. For LGBTQ POC and care and mental health care demystify sacred texts that are those who work within LGBTQ needs of this group, also used to hurt and oppress; communities, it is important witnesses their struggles with identify the spiritual needs of to discover how the nature of issues such as housing, youth and young adults; and empowering people who have education, and relationships. provide tools to empower youth experienced trauma can have Case examples will illustrate and offer ways to make spaces an impact on your life. This potential conflicts, and potential open for youth to intersect workshop utilizes interactive resolutions will be explored. LGBT identity with their exercises and mediation as a spirituality/religion. means of introducing wellness & self-care techniques.

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Why You Should ASSUME Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Working with POC LGBTQ When Providing Services Transgender, Queer Family Survivors of Intimate Partner Diversity: The Intersection of Violence Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Racial and Queer Identities Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Room: Salon A Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Time: 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Salon B Presenters: Room: Salon C Rick Thurmond, Gay Men of Presenters: African Descent, Inc.; Chris Presenters: Ursula Campos-Gatjens, New Johnson, MSW, Gay Men of Claudia E. Stallman, MA, York City Anti-Violence Project; African Descent, Inc. Lesbian and Gay Family Yejin Lee, New York City Building Project; Arlene Istar Anti-Violence Project Workshop Description: Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, Choices This capacity building Counseling and Consulting; Workshop Description: workshop addresses the Nadya Lawson, Holding Our In order to provide sustainable, design, development, and Own: Women’s Foundation; culturally competent services to delivery of transdisciplinary and Keith Dickerson LGBTQ POC who have multidisciplinary practices for experienced intimate partner client-centered interventions, Workshop Description: and sexual violence, an analysis with a specific focus on Identity issues having to do with of the intersection of identity integration preparedness and gender, sexual orientation and and oppression is essential. assessments. By the end of adoptee status emerge and This workshop will focus on the presentation, program re-emerge as children go how service providers, participants will be able to through developmental stages advocates and organizers can implement an Illness and adult relationships evolve. develop a deeper Management and Recovery Race and ethnic identity add understanding of the impact Model referred to as ASSUME: especially complex layers to institutional and individual We Assess, Set and Settling of LGBTQ family life. Adoption power has when working with misuse and abuse to in the US increasingly crosses oppressed communities. Understand the Meaning and racial and ethnic lines, and Workshop participants will Motivation of behavior, then LGBTQ adoptions are a part come together to deepen the help to Empower/Educate of that trend. This workshop dialogue about sexual the clients. addresses the challenges and orientation and gender identity, insights of LGBTQ families as they intersect with cultural navigating the diverse identities identity including race. of our members and changing the world in the process.

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Healthy Sexuality Panel Coming Home: The Long Hush Hush – Breaking the Road Back to God Silence on Sexuality and Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Sexual Abuse Time: 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Room: Empire Room Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Room: Colonie Room Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Facilitator: Room: Albany Room Dr. Robert Miller, Jr., Ph.D, Presenter: SUNY Albany Melanie Funchess, Mental Presenter: Health Association, DeShannon Bowens, MS, Panelists: Rochester, NY ILERA Counseling & Education Brandon Lacy Campos, Services activist and writer, Development Workshop Description: Director, Queers for Economic Utilizing a discussion format, Workshop Description: Justice; Rev. Valerie Holly, Unity participants will describe their Hush Hush examines where Fellowship Church; Carmen challenges adhering to some of our sexuality thoughts Vazquez, AIDS Institute, biblical interpretations within and beliefs can originate and NYDOH their respective faith traditions, how our programming can share their experiences seeking impact our expression of Panel Description: welcoming houses of worship, sexuality. This workshop looks This panel describes sexuality and explore ways to achieve at the prevalence of child and associated behaviors from spiritual well-being while sexual abuse and how our a sex-positive, affirming affirming their identities. limited understanding and perspective. The goal of the repression of sexuality often discussion is to explore supports a culture that seldom sexualities, behaviors and ideas breaks the silence about sex specifically targeted surrounding child sexual abuse to LGBT People of Color and to within families. Statistics, begin a conversation that helps educational handouts, the audience and narratives from the book Hush panelists frame an Hush will be shared, as well as understanding of healthy viewing an excerpt of a sexuality. The conversation is documentary film. designed for maximum audience participation and will be highly interactive.

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“I want your cake and my Youth: At-Promise or At-Risk Examining Intersectionality cake too!” Resolving and Discrimination of Health organizational and Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Care for LGBT POC Individual Conflict Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Room: Salon A Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Presenters: Room: Salon B Room: State Room Jason Dotson, Gay Men of African Descent, Inc.; Vaughn E. Presenters: Presenter: Taylor-Akutagawa, Gay Men of Zahara Raine, Lambda Legal; Marjorie J. Hill, Ph.D., Chief African Descent, Inc. Beverly Tillery, Lambda Legal Executive Officer, GMHC Workshop Description: Workshop Description: Workshop Description: This capacity building Using key findings from The possibility for conflict exists workshop will explore principles Lambda Legal’s Health Care all around us. Whether political and practices of training a cadre Fairness Survey, the workshop differences, contrasting styles, of youth/young adult leaders to will review results of tension between former lovers, make health promotion and risk unprecedented research on values or vision; organizations reduction community norms. health care disparities and suffer when effective conflict By the end of the presentation, discrimination faced by LGBT resolution is not achieved. This participants will be provided POC and people living with interactive workshop will focus with skills in positive youth HIV. By providing a powerful on identifying the underlying development by creating a snapshot of the experiences sources of conflict and various space where youth will of a diverse cross section of strategies for moving beyond it. transform into change agents members of the LGBT and HIV Special emphasis will be made ready to reduce the spread of communities, this workshop will on the impact of racism, HIV and address issues also identify key sexism and homophobia as pertaining to youth. recommendations for health these dynamics often shape care institutions, federal, state and greatly influence conflicts. and local governments, and We will also explore the issue of individuals to act upon self-esteem (or lack thereof) as including comprehensive a particularly critical variable in cultural competency, the interactions of LGBT people inclusive policies, and of color. The primary aim will be training for medical personnel to examine the role of power and stronger laws. dynamics, emotions, communication and trust on our ability to work, organize and successfully build community together.

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Normalized HIV/AIDS LGBT POC Sexuality and The Subculture of Practice: Taking Sexual Health Workshop Corrections and how to Responsibility for Settler combat this phenomenon so Colonialism in Queer Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 that providers can effectively Health Services Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM work with the female prison Room: Colonie Room population Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Presenters: Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Room: Salon C Carmen Vazquez, AIDS Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Institute; Kraig Pannell, Room: Albany Room Presenter: AIDS Institute Cameron Greensmith, Ontario Presenter: Institute for Studies in Workshop Description: Veronica (Roni) Minter, Sistas Education, University of Toronto The intersection of Healing Old Wounds, Inc. homophobia, heterosexism, Workshop Description: and racism directly impacts the Workshop Description: This workshop calls for the comprehensive health of LGBT Sistas Healing Old Wounds, decolonizing of HIV/AIDS health POC. This workshop will consist Inc. – A new innovative program services, which takes seriously of open and honest dialogue created by a formerly the on-going settler colonialism about the intersection of incarcerated woman to address that infiltrates health services sexuality, culture, and race past and present Traumas that and continues to disavow designed to engage participants keep female offenders trapped indigenous self-determination, in exploring various elements in a vicious circle of sovereignty and HIV/AIDS of their sexuality and sexual incarceration, substance use activism. Participants will health, including: roles in LGBT and abuse and behaviors that receive a better sense of their culture, sexual relationship put them at high risk for HIV/STI own responsibility as social dynamics, and infections. The workshop will workers, educators, and health acknowledgement and define how to utilize the practitioners in eradicating recognition of the impact of subculture of the Pseudo racism and settler myths/stereotypes on sexual Family within Female colonialism within HIV/AIDS health and behavior. Correctional Facilities to practices and the strategies strengthen HIV prevention work that can be adapted to ensure and other lifestyle work with that white, gay men no longer this population. become the entire focus of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Do You Have “C.L.A.S.”? Be Brown About It: Health You Don’t Know Where You Care Access Starts with You! Are Going if You Don’t Know Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Your History: Untold History Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 of LGBT POC and Successful Room: Salon A Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Strategies for Advocacy and Room: Salon B Shaping Policies Presenter: Rob Curry, M.S Ed, UHPP, Dr. Presenters: Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Annis Golden, SUNY Albany, Dr. shay(den) Gonzalez, Qui Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Christine Pluviose, UHPP, Blue Alexander, and David I. Joseph; Room: Salon C Carreker, UHPP Brown Boi Project Presenters: Workshop Description: Workshop Description: Eduardo Morales, Ph.D., Alliant For several years, Upper The Brown Boi Project shifts International University, Hudson Planned Parenthood the health curriculum to speak AGUILAS of San Francisco has been working on an specifically to young masculine NIH-funded research project of center womyn and gender Workshop Description: with SUNY-Albany’s Center for nonconforming youth of color. This interactive workshop will the Elimination of Health Care The project focuses on review the untold history of Disparities in a unique gynecological health, linking LGBT POC and the stories academic-agency collabora- mental health, and centralizing surrounding key historical tion model, aimed at addressing bodies of color that are trans events critical in LGBT History. barriers and solutions to imple- and gender nonconforming. LGBT POC have stepped up menting C.L.A.S. Standards Targeting masculine of center to the plate and played critical (Culturally and Linguistically womyn and trans people of roles in contributing to LGBT Appropriate Services) to women color specifically will fill a rights and social justice of color living in poverty via critical gap in the burgeoning movements but their “The Women’s Health Project” LGBT health field, producing contributions have been in Hudson, NY. This interactive vital data on the invisible. Past and current workshop will introduce disproportionately concentrated successful strategies, as well participants to the basics of negative health impacts within as lessons learned for C.L.A.S. Standards, as well as low-income communities and advocacy and shaping provide an opportunity to communities of color. policy will be presented assess individual and and discussed. programmatic cultural competency through discussion, lessons learned, resources available, and shared effective strategies used to increase cultural competency when working with underserved populations, including LGBT people of color.

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Trans Justice and Disability model determines which bodies Justice are correct and which bodies need to be ‘fixed’ . In Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 this workshop, we will explore Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM the ways in which the MIC Room: State Room works to oppress transgender people and people living with Presenters: psychiatric and physical Pooja Gehi and Chase disabilities (as well as the many Strangio; Sylvia Rivera people who encompass both Law Project identities) in hospitals, prisons and jails, immigration Workshop Description: detention centers and other Many transgender people are state and federal custody units. also people who live with We hope to build a psychiatric and physical conversation to move forward disabilities. Yet there is with a disability justice lens in enormous controversy and all of our work . differing views about whether gender identity disorder (GID) should be classified as a diagnosis in the DSM 4. Some transgender people don’t want to be considered to have a pathological diagnosis (GID). Similarly, disability rights advocates work towards ensuring that specific benefits are granted to people living with (mostly) physical disabilities (not transgender people). We embrace Industrial Complex (MIC), a disability justice model in which all bodies that are othered are not oppressed by medical establishments. Rather than competing for certain benefits, we challenge folks to consider the ways in which the medical

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Men of Color Affinity Group Vaughn E. Taylor-Akutagawa Vaughn Taylor-Akutagawa is Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 a dedicated and experienced Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM social activist, entrepreneur Room: Salon A and community researcher. Mr. Taylor-Akutagawa is Group Leaders: currently working in New York Vaughn E. Taylor-Akutagawa City, both as the Deputy and Jonathan Lang Executive Director of Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), and Group description: the Chief Executive of Imhotep The Men of color Affinity Group Solutions. GMAD is the is a space for individuals who oldest indigenous Black Gay identify with each other Male serving organization in because of similar cultural or NYC. Imhotep Solutions is a ethnic characteristics and other burgeoning ethnocentric life circumstances. This is a consultancy dedicated to time to share and get support making men’s health matter by on commonalities, as well as focusing on the differences that give us multidimensional man. collective power to see the change we want to see for our Jonathan Lang communities. We welcome all Jonathan Lang is the Director Men of Color of Asian/Pacific of Governmental Projects and Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, Community Development for and Black/African, Native/ the Empire State Pride Agenda Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin/ and is responsible for Caribbean descent. Men of overseeing all of the Pride color also include individuals Agenda’s advocacy activities from various physical & mental with the Executive Chamber abilities, gender identities & and New York State agencies, expressions, sexual and the NYS LGBT Health and orientations, political affiliations Human Services Network. and spiritualties.

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LGBT Youth/Young Adult Miguel Garcia and because of routine Affinity Group Miguel Garcia is from Detroit, marginalization at mainstream and currently a junior studying LGBT organizations on Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 English and Women, Gender, campus. Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM & Sexuality studies at Harvard Room: Colonie Room College. He is a first genera- Samantha Box tion college student and the For the past five years, Panelists: only male in his family to have Samantha Box has dedicated Samantha Box, Tree Alexander, graduated from high school. herself to photographing Miguel Garcia, and Quan Le After college, Miguel plans to homeless LGBTQ youth in New pursue a Masters of Education York City. Her project, Group Description: in Prevention Science & LGBTQ “Invisible”, has been The LGBT Youth/Young Adult Youth Counseling, and to recognized by the Affinity Group is a space for in- eventually obtain a law degree Anthropographia Award for dividuals who identify with each to advocate for LGBTQ Photography and Human other because of similar cultural communities of color. He is Rights, En Foco, and the New or ethnic characteristics and passionate about working with York Foundation for the Arts. other life circumstances. This LGBTQ homeless youth and The work has been published is a time to share and get sup- HIV education for communities in Kicked Out (an anthology of port on commonalities, as well of color. essays by current and formerly as differences that give us col- He is the co-founder of Harvard homeless LGBTQ youth), and lective power to see the change College GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, the online publications 100Eyes we want to see for our commu- or Whatever), a confidential and The Raw File. “Invisible” nities. We welcome all Youth/ support and social organization was exhibited in 2010 at The Young Adults of Asian/Pacific for queer students of color on Sanctuary for Independent Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, campus. GLOW is the Harvard Media in Troy, NY, and in 2011 and Black/African, Native/ College’s first and only student as part of the Open Society Indigenous, and Hispanic/ organization for queer students Institute’s “Moving Walls” Latin/Caribbean descent. of color. GLOW is committed to exhibition. LGBT Youth/ Young adults also recognizing the various include individuals from intersections of student various physical & mental abili- identities and social justice ties, gender identities & expres- movements. Beyond serving as sions, sexual a confidential support group, orientations, political affiliations Harvard College GLOW works and spiritualties. to ensure inclusiveness through advocacy and events that promote queer-cultural awareness. He co-founded the organization as a response to repeated suicide attempts by students of color on campus,

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Quan Le Tree Alexander Quan Le is from Austin, Texas Tree Alexander, HIV-positive and a sophomore at Harvard AIDS activist , social advocate, college. He is studying motivational speaker, and youth Human Evolutionary Biology advocate; “I am the change I and involved in public service wish to see.” Tree’s goal is to work particularly with immigrant empower the youth and reduce youth in Boston and health social stigmas. Tree found advocacy among out his HIV status one month elementary school children. after he turned 20 and HIV has When he first arrived at changed his life completely. Harvard, he felt particularly Focused on health and misplaced between the Queer nutrition, Tree travels the world Student Alliance and different and tells his story, letting culture clubs. The lack of people know that if we continue acceptance he felt was his to conceal and fear this initial attraction to Harvard disease, we shall never College GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, overcome. or Whatever). Being part of Glow not only instilled a sense of belonging, but a realization that GLOW welcomes others creating a lasting unity between different groups at Harvard and hopefully beyond.

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Women of Color Affinity Gabby Santos at Juneteenth. She is currently Group Gabby Santos is the Program a Human Rights Specialist with Coordinator for Underserved the New York State Division of Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Communities for the Oregon Human Rights. Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Coalition Against Domestic and Room: Salon B Sexual Violence. Racial justice, gender identity activism and Group Leaders: criminal justice reform are at Gabby Santos and the heart of her passion. Her Akosua Valerie Y. Woods 17 years of leadership include the Communities of Color Task Group Description: Force and the Gender Positive The Women of Color Affinity Shaping Culture Club. She is Group is a space for also a “techie” as part of the individuals who identify with NNEDV Safety Net Project. each other because of similar cultural or ethnic characteristics Akosua Valerie Y. Woods and other life circumstances. Akosua means “girl child born This is a time to share and get on a Sunday afternoon”. The support on commonalities, as name was given to Akosua by well as differences that give women elders when she visited us collective power to see the Ghana West Africa in 1999. change we want to see for our communities. We welcome all As a Griot, Akosua brings our women of Asian/Pacific history/herstory to life. Through Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, music, drumming, and Black/African, Native/ handmade crafts; she keeps Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin/ our legacies alive to audiences Caribbean descent. Women of both young and old. color also include individuals from various physical & mental Akosua is a community abilities, gender identities & activist; a recording clerk on expressions, sexual the board of directors for SAGE orientations, political affiliations Upstate; a facilitator for the and spiritualities. Community Wide Dialogues on Race, Racism and Racial Healing; a volunteer with ] FACES (an AIDS education program); a workshop facilitator/presenter on many different issues; a craftswomen

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Transgender/Gender shay(den) Gonzalez Qui Alexander Non-Conforming People of shay(den) graduated from Qui Alexander is a black and Color Affinity Group Eugene Lang College with a Latino Trans man, originally BA in 2006. Most recently, from Buffalo, NY. He graduated Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 shay(den) has worked with from Bryn Mawr College with a Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM what was one of the only degree in the Growth and Room: Salon C national LBTQ youth advocacy Structure of Cities. Now organizations (NYAC) and residing in Philadelphia, he Group Leaders: trained providers to work more currently works as Mazzoni shay(den) Gonzalez and effectively with queer and trans Center’s Community Health Qui Alexander youth, while also providing Educator, teaching adolescents empowerment and movement about healthy sexuality. He is Group Description: training for youth. His very active in Philadelphia’s Transgender Affinity Group is specialties are sexual health, diverse LGBTQ an open group to Trans social marketing, social media, communities as: a volunteer at Individuals and is an accepting and creating healthy youth/ the Attic Youth Center and environment for the exchange adult partnerships. Currently, co-facilitates Young, Trans and of ideas. The group provides he is doing national consultant Unified, a weekly support group a safe space where issues of work providing capacity for trans and gender variant importance to Transgender building assistance training for youth, a member of the Trans individuals can be raised in non/not-for profit organizations. Masculine Advocacy Network order to facilitate a dialogue You can also call him shay, for trans masculine folks of that explores what it means to which is always written in color, a member of Philly live at the intersections. This lowercase. Stands Up, a collective group is for Asian/Pacific working towards a non-punitive Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, accountability process for and Black/African, Native/ perpetuators of sexual assault. Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin/ Qui is an advocate and Caribbean descendants. activist for trans/queer folks Transgender/Gender Non- in the Philadelphia area and is Conforming people of color also a proud and active mem- also include individuals from ber of the Brown Boi Project. various physical & mental abilities, gender identities & expressions, sexual orientations, political affiliations and spiritualities.

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First Ladies Care: Engaging Beyond Alphabet Soup: Tailoring Outreach to Trends African American Churches What Health Care Providers for LGBT POC in HIV Prevention Really Need to Know Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Room: State Room Room: Colonie Room Room: Albany Room Presenter: Presenter: Presenter: Rashaad Banks; Alex Vanessa Campus, Judith Bauman, MSW/MPH, Demopoulos; Brendan Dwyer; Gay Men’s Health Crisis The MOCHA Center and Ryan Levy (intern), AIDS Council of Northeastern Workshop Description: Workshop Description: New York The “First Ladies Care” is a LGBT people are invisible in campaign that targets Black large health care data sets, Workshop Description: churches and features images which results in very little being The AIDS Council of of the “First Lady” of the church known about the intersection of Northeastern New York’s on fans, with messaging that race, sexual orientation/identity/ Project Hope (HIV Outreach, urges the congregation to behavior and health outcomes. Prevention, and Education) support one another in talking This workshop explores the provides HIV/STI screenings, more openly about HIV kinds of data commonly education/counseling and prevention, testing and safer collected by health care entities prevention tools to a 15 county sex. Typically, a First Lady is and researchers, the kinds of area in Upstate New York. For the wife of a senior pastor (or data that is NOT collected, and more than 15 years, Project the head of a church). In many how it influences HOPE has addressed the faith-based communities, HIV understanding of LGBT-specific challenges of providing HIV/ and AIDS are taboo topics health care practice and STI prevention and outreach most often associated with sex research. Participants will gain services to both urban and rural and drugs. Through the use of an understanding of how to populations. Tailoring outreach church fans, the stigma develop and advocate for an to LGBT POC in both urban and associated with discussing HIV LGBT-focused health care and rural communities is essential to and AIDS was reduced and health care research agenda increase access to and usage church goers were eager to comparable to the CLAS model of these critical services. This take the fans— which normally developed at the federal level. workshop will explore solutions remain at the church—home to to these challenges, family and friends. incorporating Project HOPE’s strategies and successes as well as viewing these strategies against national statistics.

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Engagement, Recruitment, The Burden of Abuse and Risks in the Later and Retention are Easy as Unforgiveness Life of the Latina Lesbian 1, 2, 3 Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Time: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Room: Salon B Room: Salon C Room: Salon A Presenter: Presenter: Presenters: Kelly Clark, Gay Alliance of the Graciela Laguna, Wisconsin Damon L. Humes; Paris Mullen; Genesee Valley Coalition Against Domestic Fred Hutchinson Cancer Violence Research Center Workshop Description: The insidious nature of Workshop Description: Workshop Description: homo- and transphobia have Aging is a complex process, This workshop will provide caused many in the LGBTQ affecting an individual’s technical assistance tools that community to face mental, physical, financial, specifically address stigmas staggering levels of rejection, emotional, sexual, community and discrimination among Black causing them to experience life, and spirituality. The lives gay men, a population sadness, loneliness, anger, of elder Latina Lesbians have underrepresented in clinical self-loathing, and yet to be properly documented research trials, due in part to a Unforgiveness. Workshop and researched. This invisibil- widespread mistrust of participants are invited to ity impacts the quality of their researchers, western medicine examine the nature of health, financial security, access and government. The forgiveness in the lives of to resources, recreation, and a information presented in this LGBTQ people, as well as the sense of belonging and session will include biological findings on contributing to community recommended ways that forgiveness. Participants will events. This workshop uses scientists, practitioners, explore ways to include theatre and dialogue to explore administrators, site staff, and conversations on love and some of the issues affecting outreach/educators can forgiveness with the work they Latina lesbians of all ages, develop comprehensive plans do with their clients. but in particular elders who that will address barriers to remain in the darkness due enrollment of Black gay men in to homophobia, racism clinical research. and poverty.

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Movement Building Panel This panel will highlight the Presentation theme for this year’s conference: Living at the Date: Saturday, Intersections. Panelists will offer October 15, 2011 a framework for what Time: 11:30 PM – 1:00 PM movement building with an Room: Empire Room intersectional analysis looks like. For decades, the Facilitator: mainstream LGBT movement Carmen Vazquez, AIDS has organized as a single issue Institute, NYDOH “equality movement” that often ignores the centrality of Panelists: economic and racial justice in Brandon Lacy Campos, the lives of LGBT POC, activist, writer and Development including our disabled sisters Director, Queers for Economic and brothers. This is not Justice; Collette Carter, Co- organizing that is useful to us. It Director, the Audre Lorde also does not allow for Project; Paulina Hernandez, Co- elevating the work that we do in Director, Southerners On New other social justice movements Ground; Lisa Wiener-Mahfuz, such as immigration reform, Principal Consultant, reproductive justice, labor and Intersections Consulting. many others.

“The leadership we must develop, support and embrace is one that understands the liberated body has to live through many identities and in many movements.” (Carmen Vazquez)

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Lunch Plenary Session Plenary Description: Attendees will receive an This session will begin with an overview of a comprehensive Understanding Clinical overview of the Legacy eLearning training curriculum Research: Awareness, Project’s new strategic plan, entitled, “Understanding the Education, Safety, Informed where attendees will learn Clinical Research Process and Consent, Confidentiality, about Legacy’s current local Principles of Clinical Research”, Community Involvement, and national initiatives as well developed by the Office of HIV/ Eligibility and Participation as projects in development. AIDS Network Coordination’s Through a moderated panel (HANC) Community Partners Date: Saturday, discussion, advances in HIV Training Working Group (CTWG) October 15, 2011 vaccine, microbicide and PrEP in partnership with the Division Time: 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM research will be highlighted, as of AIDS (DAIDS). Topics Room: Empire Room well as the value of these new covered in these materials prevention technologies in the include the History of AIDS, the Panelists: growing tool box of Clinical Research Process, Damon Humes; Russell D. effective and safe preventative Elements and Principles of Campbell; Steven Wakefield; strategies and the challenges Clinical Research, and the Jeffrey Schouten, the Legacy providers face incorporating History and Role of Project, Office of HIV/AIDS research information into their Community Advisory Boards Network Coordination, Fred work will be explored. (CABs) in the Research Hutchinson Cancer Research Panelists will also address ways Process. Session attendees will Center to increase community have an opportunity to access awareness of trials through and view segments of the lessons learned and best training. This panel discussion practices, and provide will conclude with an open effective ways to respond to forum for questions and safety, confidentiality and answers by audience members. eligibility concerns.

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Public Policy Developments Client Advocacy: No One “Spotlight”: Five Years of for LGBT People of Color in Can Tell Your Story Better Community PROMISE in the New York State Than You House and Ball Community”

Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Room: Colonie Room Room: Albany Room Room: State Room

Presenters: Presenter: Presenter: Somjen Frazer, Strength in Ed Shaw, GMHC Ivan Monforte, Gay Men’s Numbers Consulting, Inc.; Health Crisis; Luna Ortiz, Gay Jonathan Lang, Empire State Workshop Description: Men’s Health Crisis Pride Agenda; Barbara E. Thirty years into the HIV Warren, Roosevelt House Public epidemic, people are living Workshop Description: Policy Institute at Hunter longer than ever before with For the last five years (since College HIV due to improved access 2006), GMHC’s Community to treatment. However, new Health Department has Workshop Description: infections continue to occur developed the CDC’s This workshop will describe and women, African Ameri- Community PROMISE DEBI in the public policy developments cans, Latinos and men who the New York City House and affecting LGBT POC in NYS. have sex with men continue to Ball Community (HBC). Through reviewing the 2010 see increased new infections. Adapting the DEBI to this Blueprint for Meeting Health This workshop will explore how population was a natural fit for and Human Service Needs in client and consumer advocacy GMHC, with its long history in New York, the workshop will continue to shape policy and the HBC including the annual show how positive funding responses to the House of Latex Ball, which the developments in LGBT data epidemic. Participants will hear agency has sponsored for the collection, government best practices on engaging last 21 years. GMHC will soon stewardship of LGBT health, clients, particularly people living be completing a 5-year cycle of provision of stronger primary with HIV, into advocacy work Community PROMISE that has care, mental health, tobacco as well as efforts to maintain included creating 32 “role control, and substance abuse momentum. Examples of model stories” in which care and strengthening of advocacy work will include community members programs to combat hate local, state and national efforts. showcase their own personal violence have a particular history. In our presentation impact on removing health (slides and video) we will review disparities for LGBT POC. the Spotlight stories to show how the progressive development of pride in this program challenges internalized stigma and celebrates the community.

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Power at the Intersections, The SOMOS (“WE ARE”) Harsh Realities: Addressing Power in Our Communities! Project: Latino Gay Men Anti-LGBT Bias and Bullying and HIV “It is Not Only Faced by Black and Latino Date: Saturday, About Sex” Male Youth October 15, 2011 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Date: Saturday, Date: Saturday, Room: Salon A October 15, 2011 October 15, 2011 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Presenter: Room: Salon B Room: Salon C Gabby Santos, Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Presenters: Presenters: Sexual Violence Bolivar X. Nieto, Latino Monroe France, New York Commission on AIDS; Kevin University; Travis Gabriel, Workshop Description: Williams, Latino New York University This workshop provides a Commission on AIDS space to discuss the Workshop Description: challenges of building Workshop Description: According to the American movement in and within LGBT This workshop will provide Association of Suicidology, the communities of color while a greater understanding of rate of suicide among black working against mainstream the importance of developing men ages 15-24 increased 83 adversities, as well as to community-based home-grown percent throughout the ‘80s and explore practices that promote interventions that not only focus into the ‘90s, and these figures equity and social justice as a on sexual behavior and HIV/ are continuing to rise. means to violence prevention. AIDS but instead use a holistic According to GLSEN, sexual The workshop will present how approach addressing internal orientation and gender the intersections of multiple and external socio-cultural expression were the most oppressions affect domestic factors that influence common reasons LGBT and sexual violence survivors, individuals’ behavior. The Latino students of color reported and how we can engage Commission on AIDS feeling unsafe in school. This ourselves as leaders to affect developed the SOMOS workshop will focus on change within a dimensional intervention to address exploring how bullying and social-ecological model by homophobia within the Latino harassment on the basis of addressing accountability on community in New York City by race, class, gender expression, all levels. using a community assessment, one’s perceived sexual including key informant orientation, and appearance interviews, a literature review is experienced by both young and focus groups. Latino boys and young boys of African descent.

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Program Evaluation: A Tool Life on the Other side of Brothas Gonna Work It Out – for Funding LGBT People of “Have You Heard??” A Practice-Based Color Organizations Surviving Your Faith Multidiscipline Behavioral Journey and the Expression Intervention Date: Saturday, of Your Sexuality October 15, 2011 Date: Saturday, Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 Room: Colonie Room October 15, 2011 Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Room: State Room Presenters: Room: Albany Room Somjen Frazer, Strength in Presenters: Numbers Consulting, Inc.; Presenter: Vaughn E. Taylor-Akutagawa, Carmen M. Vazquez, LGBT H. Bernard Alex, Syracuse Gay Men of African Descent, Health & Human Services Unit, Model Neighborhood Facility Inc.; Chris Johnson, MSW, Gay AIDS Institute Men of African Descent, Inc. Workshop Description: Workshop Description: This workshop will teach Workshop Description: Many POC organizations participants how to keep This capacity-building provide critical but under- yourself focused on your workshop addresses the noticed services to their spirituality during the process of design, development and constituent POC communities. discovering and accepting your delivery of transdisciplinary and While organizers and service sexuality. This workshop will multidisciplinary practices for providers know the benefit of show participants how to relate client-centered interventions. their work, it’s often hard to to the struggles and By the end of the presentation, quantify the success of those expressions of negativity that participants will understand programs. Evaluation is a are shared in some faith how to design, develop and critical part of any successful communities, walking and living deliver a practice-based funding effort. Empowerment, through the seasons of “Have intervention. Participants will advocacy, and community you heard?” (when your life is develop a strong building can all be measured. discussed among people who understanding of the role of sex This workshop will answer should be building you up and in masculine socialization as questions about WHY to do giving you strength), and how integral to understanding the evaluation and HOW to do to find a faith community that complexity found when good evaluations. It will will accept you, and your assessing the current discourse introduce SMART outcomes personality, not just your on Black homosexual identity and talk about the role of sexuality. formation. Participants will also evaluation in funding. gain an understanding of how mental illness can affect an individual’s ability to undertake health-promoting behaviors.

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Best Practices for Engaging HIV Education and Contextual Community MSM Communities During Health care Access with Prevention Intervention: Black Gay Pride Events Latino LGBT Populations: An Innovative Social Capital The Use of Community Approach for HIV Date: Saturday, Mobilization Models Prevention, Treatment, and October 15, 2011 Follow Up Care Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Date: Saturday, Room: Salon A October 15, 2011 Date: Saturday, Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM October 15, 2011 Presenter: Room: Salon B Time: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Paris Mullen; Damon L. Humes, Room: Salon C HIV/AIDS Network Coordination Presenters: Legacy Project Bolivar Nieto, the Latino Presenter: Commission on AIDS; Eduardo Morales, Ph.D., Workshop Description: Dr. Andrew Spieldenner, the Alliant University and AGUILAS This workshop will detail best Latino Commission on AIDS of San Francisco practices, novel approaches, and lessons learned from Workshop Description: Workshop Description: activities conducted by the The Latino Commission on This workshop will present the Legacy Project to increase AIDS has implemented the Contextual Community recruitment of MSM into HIV Mobilizing Emerging Hispanic Prevention Theory, which is an vaccine studies, including Populations (MEHP) model, a HIV prevention program for targeted recruitment activities community mobilization Latino gay/bisexual men. It that occurred during Pride and initiative to encourage health focuses on changing Black Pride events throughout care access amongst various behaviors of community the nation. Participants will immigrant populations. The members by creating a learn novel outreach and model is based on four core visible institutional presence in recruitment strategies and best principles: leadership the community that draws the practices for engaging development, unity between targeted population by creating communities in HIV clinical diverse communities, a sense of ownership, identity, research at Black Pride events, increasing knowledge and skills, inclusion, and opportunities and acquire a broader and action within the for growth among its targeted understanding of ‘how’ Black local community. This workshop members. This workshop will Gay Pride events can be used will evaluate the outcomes of examine how to replicate this as viable vehicles for implementing MEHP in diverse intervention on local levels and programmatic and research locations throughout the how to evaluate the study recruitment. United States. effectiveness of this approach.

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What’s wrong with Diversity Jaye Holly Training? Jaye Holly has more than 20 years of training and staff Date: Saturday, development experience and October 15, 2011 is the principal of Jaye Holly Time: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Consulting. She has facilitated Room: Colonie Room workshops and courses on a wide variety of topics including Presenter: workplace diversity, employee Jaye Holly engagement, performance management and leadership Workshop Description: development. She is also an Diversity training has long been active volunteer in the a staple in the American community, serving as vice workplace, often an annual president on the board of event focusing on race and directors for In Our Own Voices gender inequality that is and working with the Diversity dreaded by employees and & Inclusion Committee for the managers alike. Managing Capital Region Human workplace diversity is a far more Resources Association. complex issue that requires a more thoughtful approach. The multiple dimensions of diversity influence our behavior in subtle, and not so subtle, ways. Diversity training must address those multiple dimensions, and do so in ways that support the differing needs of learners. Failure to manage diversity effectively in the workplace can have devastating effects on individuals and on companies.

Unity Through Diversity *Please note: all workshops are subject to change 28 Living at the intersections Affinity Groups Saturday, October 15/Cont.

“As a Black Gay Man – This group discussion moves Antoine Craigwell Understanding Why I’m along the path to breaking that Antoine Craigwell is a journalist/ Depressed” silence by bringing out into the writer for Out In Jersey open a conversation that is long magazine. He has written for Date: Saturday, overdue: how does my being several newspapers and October 15, 2011 Black and gay contribute to magazines, including FORTUNE Time: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM my depression? Why do I feel Small Business magazine. In Room: Salon A responsible and guilty because 2008, he earned two awards an older man sexually molested from the New York Association Presenter: me? Why do my pastor and of Black Journalists (NYABJ) for Antoine Craigwell family make me feel less than a his investigative reporting. person because I am attracted Antoine obtained a double Workshop Description: to another man, doesn’t God degree in journalism an Today, as more and more love me because I like another psychology from Bernard M. people become aware of man? Why do I feel like Baruch College of the City injustices in society, Black gay damaged goods because I am University of New York (CUNY), men are realizing that they have HIV positive? As an older Black and he is a member of NYABJ, been living and gay man, how can I find relief the National Association of suffering in silence - not only from this suffocating silence Black Journalists, and the what is raging in their heads enveloping me? Society of Professional and how they feel, but that Journalists and the Deadline taboo that one never speaks Come let us rip to shreds the Club (the Society’s New York his business to another. In the veil of silence which has stifled chapter). Black community, not many lives, causing many to speaking how one felt was a suffer in silence; come let’s talk defense mechanism against about and find that we have the the White slave masters who strength to reach out for help. sought every opportunity to Come, let’s learn how to break and destroy the Black recognize the signs when one family. While the silence was a of us is dealing with depression; form of protection, it became let’s find out if I’m depressed a means of suppression of a and talk about what’s troubling person’s identity and the feeling me. Don’t let us wait until one of himself. of us is lying in a coffin for us to shake our heads at the funeral, asking, “Why didn’t he come to me?”

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NYS Capacity Enhancement/ capacity building needs of your Norman Candelario Building Programs: agency and/or group. Norman Candelario graduated Focus Group Additionally, a short survey will from the University of be distributed at the end of the Massachusetts/Amherst in Date: Saturday, group. December 1990 with a Bachelor October 15, 2011 of Science degree in Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Social Community Public Health. From Room: Salon B Join us to socialize and meet November 1993 to August 1996 others who are interested in he served as HIV/AIDS Service Presenter: enhancing services for Latino Director for the Centro Mark Kornegay and and Black Gay men in NYS. You Hispano de Chelsea, MA. In Norman Candelario will learn how you can access March 1998, he moved across services to enhance the the city to Gay Men’s Health Workshop Description: capacity of your agencies and/ Crisis (GMHC) as a Senior Harm The New York State Taskforce or groups. Light food and Reduction counselor. In that on Black Gay Health, a refreshments will be served. role, he worked with diverse collaboration between Gay populations of gay men and Men’s Health Crisis, The Mark Kornegay used a variety of techniques MOCHA Center, and JUNTOS Mark Kornegay has been including harm reduction, CONSTRUYENDO (Building working in the HIV Field in recovery readiness and Together), a New York various capacities since 1995. motivational counseling in Statewide Latino Gay, Bisexual, He is currently the Coordinator carrying out assessments, short and MSM Network of the Latino of Capacity Building term individual and group Commission on AIDS, invite Enhancement at Gay Men’s counseling, acupuncture you to participate in a focus Health Crisis (GMHC). His work relaxation treatments and peer group and social during the in the field started as a support. Having been promoted 2011 Unity Through Diversity volunteer for Soul Food @ several times during his tenure Health Summit. Agencies and/ GMHC. He began to at GMHC, he is currently the or groups that are interested in volunteer, do outreach and Manager of Gay Community enhancing and/or building their facilitate groups. He became a Based Research in the Institute capacity to work with Black Peer Educator, then a Stipend for Gay Men’s Health. In this and/or Latino Gay Men in New worker, all while holding full role he has been responsible for York State are invited to attend time work in accounting. Mark the coordination and these events. wanted to change the course implementation of research and of his life and see if he could evaluation projects that inform Focus Group find employment in the work in programmatic development There will be room for up to 15 which he became so interested and execution. Mr. Candelario participants in the focus group. and grounded in as a result finished his master degree from The group will be facilitated by of friends dying from HIV. He Hunter College School of Social staff from both the Taskforce wanted to work somewhere that Work in January 2011. and Network, who will lead a would be engaging and that structured discussion regarding affirmed his sexuality.

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Funding Panel Presentation Jonathan Lang Daniel O’Connell Jonathan Lang is the Director Dan O’Connell is Deputy Date: Sunday, of Governmental Projects and Director of the AIDS Institute October 16, 2011 Community Development for where he oversees HIV, STD Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM the Empire State Pride Agenda and Hepatitis C prevention Room: Empire Room and is responsible for and epidemiology. Dan also overseeing all of the Pride is responsible for LGBT health Panelists: Agenda’s advocacy activities and human services, the AIDS Jonathan Lang, New York with the Executive Chamber Institute’s research functions Empire Pride Agenda; Paul and New York State agencies, and programs for injection drug Stewart, Community Loan and the NYS LGBT Health and user health. He has been with Fund; Dan O’Connell, New York Human Services Network. the Institute for over 24 years. State Department of Health, AIDS Institute Paul Stewart Paul is the Director of Training Panel Description: & Technical Assistance. Paul The purpose of the funding has been on staff since 1998 panel is to expose those in and possesses well over twenty attendance to alternative years of experience in providing sources of funding and give services to low income people them insight into what local, and administering community regional, and national, funders development programs. He are considering when awarding served as the Executive applicants. This panel Director of Albany County discussion will also offer a Opportunities Inc. (a question and answer period for Community Action Program) attendees to help explore and Director of Parish and strategies, options, and best Community Services for the practices to strengthen LGBT Albany Catholic Family and POC not-for-profit Community Services. He is the organizations. recent winner of the U.S. Small Business Administration award for Minority Small Business Advocate for the year.

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Judith Bauman Travis Gabriel Bolivar X. Nieto Ms. Bauman has been involved Travis Gabriel is a Residence Bolivar Nieto was born in with MOCHA for over 7 years Hall Director at New York Guayaquil, Ecuador. Bolivar serving in various capacities University, where he serves as Nieto obtained a degree in prior to joining the staff in 2008. resource, educator and Statistics Engineering from the The MOCHA Center promotes support system for 800 second Polytechnic University in health and wellness in commu- year students. Travis graduated Ecuador. In 2001 he joined the nities of color through interven- from the University of South Latino Commission on AIDS tion and service with an empha- Florida with a Bachelor’s degree and currently serves as the sis on LGBT programming. in Criminology and Sociology, Director of Juntos in which he was a member of Construyendo, a network of Monroe France the collegiate swimming and organizations and groups who Monroe France is the Director water polo team. He has a provide services to the Latino of New York University’s LGBTQ master’s degree in Higher Gay, Bisexual and MSM com- Student Center with more than Education Administration from munity in New York State. 15 years of experience as a Florida International University, professional trainer, consultant, where he served as the Kevin Williams strategist, and keynote Graduate Student Association Kevin is a native Washingtonian. presenter. Monroe has also President during his second He has managed HIV worked as the Education year of graduate school. prevention and AIDS service Training Manager for the Gay, programs for community-based Lesbian & Straight Education H. Bernard Alex organizations focusing on Network (GLSEN). Monroe H. Bernard Alex is the Director African American, Caribbean, received his BA in English from of Health Services for Syracuse and Latino populations in urban John Carroll University, Model Neighborhood areas for the past decade. Mr. completed a dual MA in Higher Facility FACES Program and Williams holds a BA in Education Administration and Senior Pastor/ Teacher of Psychology. Cultural Studies in Education Victory Temple Fellowship from The Ohio State University Church...connected to the and received a degree in from community through a passion the Fashion Institute of to educate, inform and serve as Technology. a “connector” to those seeking a way to express their faith while accepting their personal expression of their sexuality. Has served on panels, focus groups to address the issues of HIV within the community of color and the call to action from the faith community.

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Yejin Lee Somjen Frazer Eduardo Morales, Ph.D. Yejin Lee is the Local and Somjen Frazer is the founder, Eduardo Morales, Ph.D. Statewide Programs Associate President and Principal Distinguished Professor and at the New York City Anti- Consultant at Strength in faculty at Alliant international Violence Project. Yejin Numbers Consulting Group. University is also executive coordinates the legislative and She was a Rhodes Scholar, director of AGUILAS, administrative policy work in Cornell Presidential Research co-founder of UCSF AIDS New York City and New York Scholar, and a Progressive Health Project, UCSF Center for State to ensure that legislation Women’s Voices Media Fellow, AIDS Prevention Studies and protects and supports LGBTQ as well as the author of it’s the Multicultural Inquiry and survivors or violence. The New numerous peer-reviewed Research on AIDS, the first York City Anti-Violence articles, book chapters, and LGBT of Color Counseling Project is dedicated to conference papers. Program in S.F., and AGUILAS eliminating hate violence, sexual for Latino gay/bisexual men. assault, stalking, and domestic Blue Carreker Awards include: 2009 APA violence in LGBTQ and Blue Carreker is Vice President Award for Distinguished HIV-affected communities for Public Affairs and Contributions to Institutional through counseling, advocacy, marketing for UHPP. Blue has Practice, 2009 S.F. Latino organizing, and public been involved in the field of Business Leadership Award, education. reproductive choice and 2006 National Latino reproductive justice for over 20 Psychological Association Cameron Greensmith years. She currently works with Distinguished Service Award, Cameron Greensmith is a PhD college campus “VOX” groups and numerous more. Candidate in Sociology and (chapters) in order to raise Equity Studies in Education at awareness of sexual health the Ontario Institute for Studies issues and need to protect in Education of the University reproductive choice through of Toronto in collaboration with social marketing, grass roots Aboriginal Health. He holds activism, and cultural a MA in Women and Gender competency to young adults Studies at the University of and in underserved community Toronto and a BA in Sociology neighborhoods. at Brock University.

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Nadya Lawson Claudia E. Stallman Arlene Istar Lev Nadya Lawson is a mediator Claudia E. Stallman, MA, is Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, and facilitator with the Women’s founding Project Director of the CASAC, is a social worker, Building Family Ties Mediation Lesbian and Gay Family family therapist, and project, providing alternative Building Project, based in educator whose work dispute resolution for LGBT Binghamton, NY. The Project addresses the unique families. A long time anti- was established in 2000 with a therapeutic needs of LGBTQ racism/anti-oppression grant from the NYS Health people. She is the founder of educator and activist, she is Department to the Ferre Choices Counseling and currently President of Holding Institute, Inc. and is dedicated Consulting (www. Our Own: Women’s Foundation to helping lesbian/gay/bisexual/ choicesconsulting.com) in and a member of The Women’s transgender/queer (LGBTQ) Albany, NY, is on the adjunct Building Board of Directors. people in Upstate New York faculties of the University at Nadya was a founding member achieve their goals of building Albany, School of Social of IOOV and served as co- and sustaining healthy families Welfare, and Empire College. director for several years; she (www.PrideAndJoyFamilies.org). She has authored two books: has also worked with Claudia brings to this work 27 The Complete Lesbian and Gay several community years of professional Parenting Guide and organizations, including the experience as an educator, Transgender Emergence. Dismantling Racism Project, community planner, and Arlene Lev is the Founder of NYSCASA and the Social organizer in the environmental Rainbow Access Initiative and Justice Center. She is the proud field, and in the movements for the Clinical Supervisor for single, adoptive parent of 10 women’s, and gay and lesbian Center Support Counseling year old Jason. rights. With her partner of 23 Services. years, Claudia is the parent of two amazing children, ages 6 and 14.

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Jonathan Lang Barbara E. Warren PsyD, Zahara Raine Jonathan Lang is the Director CASAC, CPP Zahara Raine is the National of Governmental Projects and Barbara E. Warren Psy.D., Community Educator for Community Development for CASAC, CPP is Distinguished Lambda Legal. Raine develops the Empire State Pride Agenda Lecturer and Directors at the training and education curricula and is responsible for Center for LGBT Social Science used by Lambda Legal’s staff, overseeing all of the Pride and Public Policy at Hunter partners, and the general Agenda’s advocacy activities College, City University of New public. with the Executive Chamber York. Dr. Warren holds a and New York State agencies, doctorate in counseling Marjorie J. Hill, Ph.D and the NYS LGBT Health and psychology and is a Marjorie J. Hill, Ph.D., is the Human Services Network. credentialed alcoholism and Chief Executive Officer of Gay substance abuse counselor and Men’s Health Crisis. GMHC is Rob Curray a credentialed substance abuse the world’s first and leading Rob Curry, is the Senior Vice prevention professional in New provider of HIV/AIDS President for External Affairs York State. prevention, care and advocacy. with UHPP. Rob has presented Building on decades of locally, regionally and Annis Golden dedication and expertise, we nationally about many sexual Dr. Annis Golden is a professor understand the reality of HIV/ health issues, and is of Communication at AIDS and empower a healthy considered an expert on men’s SUNY-Albany, specializing in life for all. sexual health, LGBT issues, and communications and public sex education in the USA. He is health. She is member of the currently working with the NYS interdisciplinary faculty who DOH and State Dept. of comprise the Center for the Education in creating a Sex Elimination of Minority Health Education bill for New York Care Disparities, housed at schools, expected to be SUNY-Albany’s campus. She is introduced by the New York presently involved in an state legislature in January NIH-funded research project 2011. with UHPP to identify and remove barriers to health care among poor women of color in Hudson, New York.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 35 Presenter Biographies / Cont.

Brendan Dwyer DeShannon Bowens Kelly Clark Brendan Dwyer is a DeShannon Bowens, MS, is Kelly has twenty years of Prevention Intervention a professional development experience as a multicultural/ Specialist with Project HOPE at trainer and therapist at ILERA diversity director. In Her role at the AIDS Council of Counseling & Education the Gay Alliance, she has Northeastern New York in Services. ILERA is an developed and led specific Albany. Brendan is innovative organization LGBT cultural competency responsible for implementing committed to uplifting families, trainings for rape crisis, law much of the digital and online/ communities, and agencies enforcement, S.A.N.E nurses, social media intervention through transformative district attorneys, domestic methods utilized by Project programming. Our services violence advocates, and other HOPE on websites like Project specifically focus on cultural victim service providers. HOPE’s very own Rubbaboyz. factors influencing sexuality, com as well as Gay.com, sexual abuse, healing and Graciela Laguna Adam4Adam, Manhunt and wellness. Graciela Laguana has a Facebook. His duties include Master’s Degree in International program promotion, outreach Beverly Tillery Relations. She has presented and sexual health education Beverly Tillery is the Director in many conferences on many and HIV/STI testing and of Community Education and subjects around Sexual Assault counseling for LGBT clients in Advocacy for Lambda Legal. and Domestic Violence. She community locations from the Tillery coordinates Lambda was the Program Coordinator bar to the bathhouse, as well as Legal’s education and outreach for five years at Unidos Against online and at the AIDS work that actively engages DV and SA. She currently is Council’s walk-in testing LGBT community and its allies working for the Wisconsin location in Albany. in our ongoing fight for equality Coalition Against Domestic and justice. Violence. She has been active Melanie Funchess in the movement to eradicate Melanie is the Director of gender-based, domestic and Community Engagement with sexual violence for more than the Mental Health Association 20 years. in Rochester, N.Y. She has been an advocate for over twenty years. She has used her expertise in cultural and linguistic competence to help communities have difficult conversations about race, culture, and class through the creation of safe spaces.

Unity Through Diversity 36 Living at the intersections Presenter Biographies / Cont.

Alex Demopoulos Chris Johnson Qui Alexander A recent graduate of SUNY Christopher Johnson, MSW, Qui Alexander is a black and Albany, Alex Demopoulos is came to Gay Men of African Latino Trans man, originally a new addition to the Project Descent (GMAD) in August, from Buffalo, NY. He graduated HOPE team. Alex is 2006 as Clinical Coordinator of from Bryn Mawr College with a responsible for the Popular their Intensive Prevention degree in the Growth and Opinion Leadership Program, a Project. Currently, his Structure of Cities. Now community-level intervention, position is Manager of residing in Philadelphia, he involving identifying, enlisting, Supportive Services. He has currently works as Mazzoni and training key opinion an extensive history of Center’s Community Health leaders to encourage safer working in mental health, Educator, teaching adolescents sexual norms and behaviors domestic violence, and about healthy sexuality. He is within their social networks substance abuse services. He very active in Philadelphia’s through risk-reduction is also currently working part diverse LGBTQ conversations. In addition to time with The Bridge, Inc. as a communities as: a volunteer at the program, Alex is responsible substance abuse counselor at the Attic Youth Center and for HIV/STI testing and Iyana House, a residential co-facilitates Young, Trans and counseling at venues where setting for women just Unified, a weekly support group young LGBTQ individuals discharged from prison and for trans and gender variant congregate, as well as at the are back in the community on youth, a member of the Trans AIDS Council’s walk-in testing parole. Masculine Advocacy Network facility in Albany. for trans masculine folks of Rick Thurmond color, a member of Philly Daniel O’Connell As the Prevention Program Stands Up, a collective Dan O’Connell is Deputy Services Manager, Rick brings working towards a non-punitive Director of the AIDS Institute his wealth of experience in the accountability process for where he oversees HIV, STD field of HIV/AIDS which spans perpetuators of sexual assault. and Hepatitis C prevention from Outreach, STI Disease Qui is an advocate and and epidemiology. Dan also Intervention, Case activist for trans/queer folks in is responsible for LGBT health Management, Capacity the Philadelphia area and is also and human services, the AIDS Building, and HIV/STI testing a proud and active member of Institute’s research functions counseling. He’s responsible the Brown Boi Project. and programs for injection drug for overseeing and providing user health. He has been with guidance and direction to all the Institute for over 24 years. aspects of the Prevention Services operation at GMAD.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 37 Presenter Biographies / Cont.

Jason Dotson shay(den) Gonzalez promotion, education and Jason Dotson, GMAD’s shay(den) graduated from discussions. Rashaad also coordinator for youth services, Eugene Lang College with a oversees the holds 10 years of experience in BA in 2006. Most recently, implementation one of the CDC working with youth in the realm shay(den) has worked with what approved interventions, Popular of Human Services. Mr. was one of the only national Opinion Leader (POL) and the Dotson’s professional career LBTQ youth advocacy day-to-day functioning of consists of holding various organizations (NYAC) and Project HOPE; which include positions, such as: the Child trained providers to work more line staff, Project HOPE’s Crisis Specialist for a group effectively with queer and trans website, www.rubbyaboyz.net, home for children, program youth, while also providing and other events. coordinator for an after- school empowerment and movement youth program for homeless training for youth. His Daniel Garza children, and a co-program specialties are sexual health, Dr. Daniel Garza is a medical Director for a youth drop in social marketing, social media, graduate of Columbia University center charged with the and creating healthy youth/adult in New York City and completed mission to provide risk partnerships. Currently, he is his residency in psychiatry at reduction HIV counseling doing national consultant work the Mount Sinai Medical Center. techniques to education and providing capacity After completing a Fellowship mobilize a community to building assistance training for in Public Psychiatry at Colum- become agents of change. non/not-for profit organizations. bia University he became the Mr. Dotson graduated with his You can also call him shay, director of Elmhurst Hospital’s Bachelor of Arts in which is always written in Mobile Crisis Unit. He is the communication and holds a lowercase. psychiatrist for the Health graduate degree in Human Outreach to Teens (HOTT) Services with a concentration Rashaad Banks Program, a primary care clinic in counseling. Rashaad Banks works as the serving LGBT lesbian, gay, Prevention Projects Manager bisexual and transgender ado- for Project HOPE at the AIDS lescents and young adults; and Council of Northeastern New he is a consultant for the SCO York, here in Albany, New York. Family of Services working with Rashaad supervises the Project their programs for foster homes, HOPE team; which provides LGBT youth, juvenile justice and outreach and HIV, STD/Syphilis/ the developmentally disabled. Hep C testing at LGBT venues, He teaches regularly at both such as bars, bathhouses, and the local and national levels on community centers. Project commitment law, substance HOPE also provides abuse and the health of racial personalized risk reduction and sexual minorities. He is in counseling to meet the needs of private practice in Manhattan. the MSM community, as well as provide online program

Unity Through Diversity 38 Living at the intersections Presenter Biographies / Cont.

Paul Stewart Ed Shaw Keith Dickerson Paul is the Director of Training Edward Shaw affectionately Keith Dickerson is part of a & Technical Assistance. Paul called “Dr. Shaw” was transracial family from Ithaca has been on staff since 1998 diagnosed with HIV in 1988. NY. He and his partner of 10 and possesses well over twenty Over the years he continues to years are certified foster/adop- years of experience in providing assist patients to navigate the tive parents in Tompkins County services to low income people health care systems at local since 2006. They are the proud and administering community area hospitals. His leadership parents of a special needs 8 development programs. He and voice is a constant not only year old boy whom they have served as the Executive in New York but also at national fostered since 2007 and recent- Director of Albany County forums at which he’s ly adopted in 2010. Opportunities Inc. (a participated in countless HIV/ Community Action Program) AIDS symposiums, confer- Reverend Gale Jones and Director of Parish and ences, and workshops at both Reverend Jones is a Pastor/ Community Services for the community and government spiritual teacher, program Albany Catholic Family and levels. He currently serves as developer, advocate and Community Services. He is the the Chair of the Consumer activist with 24 years working recent winner of the U.S. Small Advisory Board at GMHC (Gay with Women, LGBT, HIV/AIDS Business Administration award Men’s Health Crisis). and disenfranchised youth. for Minority Small Business Advocate for the year. Carmen M. Vazquez Reverend Valerie Holly Carmen M. Vazquez is the Reverend Holly is a Senior Luna Ortiz Coordinator of the LGBT Health Pastor and a LCSW with over Luna Luis Ortiz is a prominent and Human Services Unit with 30 years’ experience gay rights and HIV/AIDS the AIDS Institute of the NYS specifically focusing on factors activist known for his Department of Health. She is that enhance self-esteem and participation in several the founding director of the promote self-empowerment. large-scale social marketing Women’s Building in San campaigns and community Francisco, co-founder of the mobilizing efforts. Currently, Lavender Youth Recreation Luna Luis Ortiz serves as and Information Center in San Community Health Francisco, and the founder of Specialist at Gay Men’s Health Causes in Common, a national Crisis (GMHC). In this coalition of Reproductive capacity he works with at Justice and LGBT Liberation high- risk youth in a program activists. called Club 1319. Ortiz offers over 16 years of community organizing and community level programming to address health disparities and raise awareness within communities.

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 39 Presenter Biographies / Cont.

Ursula Campos-Gatjens Ursula Campos-Gatjens is a Domestic Violence Counselor Advocate at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, where she has created a unique support group model for LGBQ survivors and victims of intimate partner violence and has taken the lead on an initiative to cre- ate a culturally competent IPV assessment model.

Kraig Pannel Kraig Pannel is an advocate and educator experienced in health & human services; with an emphasis in HIV/AIDS and LGBT health. He is a CDC/ ASPH Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership Fellow and has a diverse background in LGBT program design, implementation, and evaluation.

Unity Through Diversity 40 Living at the intersections HIV Testing and Counseling

PROJECT HOPE, from the AIDS For more information about Council of Northeastern New Whitney Young’s HIV Services York will be providing free program, please call confidential HIV and Syphilis At Whitney Young, we offer (518) 465-4771 ext. 4621 Testing in addition to screening comprehensive services to for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia assist individuals throughout on Friday and Saturday from their testing, and if needed, 10 AM to 4 PM. On Saturday treatment experience. We evening from 9 PM to 12 AM, have credentialed and trained Staff from the Cheer Program staff ready to serve the needs of Whitney M. Young Jr. Health of HIV+ individuals. Our HIV Services will be providing free Clinical Director has 25 years confidential HIV testing. Both of experience in HIV medicine organizations will have staff to and is certified by the American provide counseling and other Academy of HIV Medicine. Our resources. primary care team consists of medical case managers, RN and LPN nursing staff and mental health professionals. The team also works collaboratively with community service providers to enhance the patient’s overall clinical outcomes. About Project HOPE Project HOPE is a trusted HIV/ Whitney Young HIV Services STD resource for the gay, lesbi- program offers: an, bisexual, and transgendered · Primary medical care community. Project HOPE ser- · Medical case management vices are provided in convenient · Mental health services, locations and hours including including psychiatry bars, bathhouses, commu- · Treatment adherence nity centers and more. Project counseling and health HOPE offers outreach and pre- education vention education; risk reduction · Transportation assistance counseling; free, confidential · Nutrition services HIV/STI/Syphilis/Hep C testing; · Dental services online individual interventions in- · Eye Care services cluding internet chat on various · Support groups LGBT sites and Project HOPE’s · Individual, group and own website www.rubbaboyz. community level interventions net; and referrals & connections · HIV counseling, testing and to services. referrals Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 41

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Albany—our NEW location at 855 Central Avenue Hudson—190 Fairview Avenue Troy—200 Broadway in the Hendrick Hudson Building 1.800.230.PLAN (7526) www.uhpp.org About Albany, New York

Welcome to Albany, New 1686. The “Dongan Charter” In October, the average high York’s historic Capital City on was virtually identical in content temperature in Albany NY is the banks of the mighty Hudson to the charter awarded to the 58.3 and the average low River! Albany is firmly rooted in city of New York three months temperature is 38.0, with a daily its history and moving toward earlier. Pieter Schuyler was average of 0.16 inches of the future. Albany is the capital appointed first mayor of Albany precipitation. city of New York State, with a the day the charter was signed. population of about 100,000. The Albany Marriott It has a total area of 21 square In 1797, the state capital of The Albany Marriott, where the miles, located on the Hudson New York was moved Health Summit will be held, is River, approximately 136 miles permanently to Albany. The located on Wolf Rd. in Albany, north of New York City. Albany State Capitol building was NY. Visit www.wolfroadonline. is one of the oldest continuing begun in 1867 and finished in com to discover great activities settlements in the nation. The 1899 when Governor Theodore close to the hotel! city still serves under its original Roosevelt declared the building charter, which dates back to completed. It was inspired by There are many exciting and July 22, 1686. the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in interesting places to explore Paris, France. Notable on Wolf Rd. and in the city of Permanent European claims architectural features include its Albany! Here are just a couple began when Englishman Henry “Million Dollar Staircase.” suggestions: Hudson, exploring for the Dutch East India Company on the Albany is increasingly seen as a Colonie Center Halve Maen (or Half Moon), leader in nanotechnology, with Colonie Center, a 1.3 million reached the area in 1609. the University at Albany’s square-foot enclosed two- nanotechnology program level, regional shopping center Albany as we know it today being respected as a national with over 100 specialty stores, first began as a Dutch trading leader. The city is at the center includes a Boscov’s, Macy’s, post, built in 1624 and named of a 19-county region in Sears, and LL Bean. Fort Orange. Nearby areas were eastern New York state branded incorporated as the village of as “Tech Valley” due to the Along with a wide array of Beverwyck in 1652. When the growing number of companies, popular retailers including land was taken by the English in entrepreneurs and research Christmas Tree Shops, The 1664, the name was changed to facilities focusing on high-tech Gap/Gap Kids/Baby Gap, Albany, in honor of the Duke of industries such as Express, Bath and Body Works, York and Albany. nanotechnology, biotechnology, Kay Jewelers, Lane Bryant, homeland security, American Eagle, Victoria Secret, Albany was formally chartered information technology and and New York & Company; the as a municipality by Governor alternative energy. Albany has center is home to many stores Thomas Dongan on July 22, four distinct seasons, with cold, that are unique to the market, snowy winters, and hot, including Spector’s and wet summers. Hannoush Jewelers.

Unity Through Diversity 44 Living at the intersections Things to do in Albany

Along with a food court, Colonie biology, anthropology and promoting interest in the history, Center is home to the history of New York. The art, and culture of Albany and Cheesecake Factory Museum hosts more than the Upper Hudson Valley. Restaurant, P.F. Chang’s and 750,000 visitors each year, The museum achieves this the always popular Friendly’s making it one of the largest mission through its collections, Restaurant. cultural attractions in the state. exhibitions, education www.shopatcoloniecenter.com It is a research museum, one of programs, library, research a select and vital group of projects, publications, and other Address: institutions charged by our programs offered to the general 131 Colonie Center society with both preserving public. Albany, NY 12205 and investigating the material Phone: (518) 459-9020 record of our past. It is the only One of America’s oldest such institution which takes museums, the Albany Institute Hours: New York State, its natural and of History & Art was founded in Monday – Saturday: cultural heritage, as its 1791, during the presidency of 10:00am–9:30pm mandate. http://www.nysm. George Washington, Sunday: 11:00am–6:00pm nysed.gov/ making it older than the Louvre, the Smithsonian, and the The Crossings of Colonie Admission: Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Crossings of Colonie is a The NYS Museum is free. www.albanyinstitute.org 130-acre park located just off of Donations are accepted at the Wolf Rd. With 6.5 miles of trails, door. The Carousel is free. MUSEUM HOURS: it is the ideal place for walking, Donations are accepted. Wednesday–Saturday: running, biking, or inline skat- 10:00 am–5:00 pm ing. www.colonie.org/parks/ Address: Sunday: Noon–5:00 pm crossings/ (518) 474-5877 Cultural Education Center of the GENERAL ADMISSION: Address: Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY Adults: $10.00 The Crossings of Colonie On Madison Avenue, across Seniors: $8.00 580 Albany Shaker Road the Plaza from the State Capitol Students w/ID: $8.00 Loudonville, New York 12211 Building. Children 6-12: $6.00 (518) 783-2760 Children under 6: FREE Hours: Members are always FREE Hours: Monday - Saturday, 8:00 AM - Dusk 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM ADDRESS: Closed Sundays Albany Institute of History & Art The New York State Museum 125 Washington Avenue The New York State Museum, The Albany Institute of Albany, NY 12210 located in the capital city of History and Art Tel: 518.463.4478 Albany, New York, is a major The Albany Institute is research and educational dedicated to collecting, institution that conducts preserving, interpreting and investigations into the geology, Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 45 Places to eat in Albany

Places to eat The Health Summit does not offer dinner for attendees; however there are many restaurants on and near Reel Seafood Co. Romano’s Macaroni Grill Wolf Rd. 195 Wolf Road 1 Metro Park Rd. Albany, NY 12205 Colonie, NY 12205-1101 Phone: (518) 458-2068 Phone: (518) 446-9190 Web: www.reelseafoodco.com Web: www.macaronigrill.com Colonie Chili’s Hours: 60 Wolf Road Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM - 10 PM Colonie, NY 12205-2603 Fri. 11 AM - 11 PM Phone: (518) 489-4664 Sat. 3 PM - 11 PM Web: www.chilis.com Sun. 3PM - 9:30 PM Olive Garden Hours: 178 Wolf Rd. Mon - Thr: 11 AM - 11 PM Colonie, NY 12205 Fri - Sat: 11 AM - 12 AM Phone: (518) 458-8676 Sun: 11 AM - 11 PM Web: www.olivegarden.com Red Lobster 170 Wolf Rd. Colonie, NY 12205 Phone: (518) 459-1040 Outback Steakhouse Web: www.redlobster.com Koto Japanese Steakhouse 145 Wolf Road Hours: 260 Wolf Road Ext. Colonie, NY 12205 Sun.-Thurs. 11 AM - 10 PM Latham, NY 12110 Phone: (518) 482-4863 Fri. & Sat. 11 AM - 11 PM Phone: (518) 869-8888 Web: www.outback.com Web: www.kotoalbany.com Hours: Hours: Mon - Friday: 4 PM - 9:30 PM Mon.-Thurs. 11:30 AM - 10 PM Sat: 12 PM - 10:30 PM Fri. & Sat. 11:30 AM - 11 PM Sun: 11:30 AM - 9 PM Buca Di Beppo Sun. 3:30 PM - 10 PM 44 Wolf Rd. Colonie, NY 12205 Phone: (518) 459-2822 Web: www.bucadibeppo.com Tandoori Restaurant Hours: 8 Wolf Road Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM - 10 PM Albany, NY 12205 Fri. & Sat. 11 AM - 11 PM Phone: (518) 482-1500 Sun. 11 AM - 9 PM Web: www.albanytandoori.com Hours: Open everyday 11:30 AM - 10 PM

Unity Through Diversity 46 Living at the intersections In Our Own Voices would like to thank the following individuals for their support. • Yejin Lee, • Kendra Malone, • Albany Marriott NYC Anti-Violence Project IOWA Coalition Against Sexual Assault • Jessica Joye • Gabby Santos, Oregon Coalition Against • Gary Paul Wright, • Ladawn Sebastian Domestic and Sexual Violence African American Office of Gay Concerns • Mayor Jerry Jennings, • Lourdes D. Follins, The City of Albany MSW, Ph.D, CUNY - • Tree Alexander Kingsborough Community • Ann Janeski, College • Charles Solidum, Gilead Asian and Pacific Islander • Jagadisa-devasri Dacus, Coalition on HIV/AIDS • All of the Workshop, Harm Reduction Coalition Panel, and Affinity • Keith Powell, Group Presenters • Carmen Vazquez, Kodak Gallery NYS DOH AIDS Institute • All of the Volunteers • Jeff Rowland, • Damon Humes, Kodak Gallery • IOOV Staff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Tandra LaGrone, Phillip Burse, Research Center • Steve Pandori, Jasan Ward, Sara Gonsiewski, Kodak Gallery Carolyn Pierce, Brenda Erazo; • Jonathan Lang, Empire State Pride Agenda • Curtis Canham, • IOOV Board of Directors, CSA Creative Studios, LLC Guy Mallory, President; Jaye • Collette Carter, Holly, Vice President, Interim Audre Lorde Project • Dan O’Connell Secretary; Tonya McQueen, NYS DOH AIDS Institute Treasurer; Dr. Robert Miller; • Kraig Pannel, Perry Foster NYS DOH AIDS Institute • Alma Candelas, NYS DOH AIDS Institute • Thank you • Elwood Powell A special Thank You to the • Shawn Horne, NYS Dept. of Health, AIDS • Akosua Valerie Y. Woods, NYS DOH AIDS Institute Institute for their support of NYS Division of Human Rights Unity Through Diversity. • Dr. Marjorie Hill, Gay Men’s Health Crisis

Unity Through Diversity Living at the intersections 47 Contact

For more information about In Our Own Voices programs and services or to provide feedback concerning Unity Through Diversity, please use the contact information below.

In Our Own Voices 245 Lark Street Albany, New York 12210 Phone: (518) 432-4188 Fax: (518) 432-4123 [email protected] www.unitythroughdiversity.com

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Are you the victim of a crime?

Do you have questions about your legal options?

Are you in need of emergency assistance?

The LGBT Crime Victim Assistance Program is dedicated to assisting members of the LGBT community who have been victims of any type of crime, (including domestic violence, sexual assault, harassment, robbery and discrimination) by providing crisis intervention and case management services, including obtaining legal representation; emergency assistance to obtain clothing, food, and shelter; and completing compensation claims for reimbursement of expenses. Call (518) 432-4188 to speak to a Crime Victim Assistance Specialist.

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This project is made possible by a grant from the New York State Crime Victims Board and the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) In Our Own Voices presents TransCare Healthy living for transgender people of color

In Our Own Voices (IOOV) is a nonprofit organization that provides programs and services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People of Color (LGBT POC). We seek to develop the leadership of LGBT POC; strengthen the voices of LBGT POC in order to effectively communicate our presepectives within the larger community; and strengthen our capacity to combat oppression and marginaliztion. In Our Own Voices is a comprehensive LBGT POC organization in upstate New York and one of a handful in the United States.

For more information on any of the programs IOOV provides, or to schedule a training or work- Dedicated to empowering the lives of transgender men shop, contact: and women.

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