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Cc13 Program.Pdf Welcome to CONTENTS Schedule at a Glance 1 Welcome Letters From the Executive Director 3 From the Conference Host Committee 5 Two-Spirit Open Letter 7 Greetings from Elected Officials 9 Conference Information Host Committee & Thank You’s 4 Creating Safer Space for Everyone 20 A Guide to Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette 20 Trans Etiquette 21 Creating Accessibility 24 General Information First Timers’ Orientation, Childcare, Cyber Café 28 Host Committee Services 28 Spiritual Gatherings 29 Exhibitors 33 Conference Events Plenary Programs 36 Award Honorees 38 Film Screenings 41 Sessions By Topic 45 Wednesday Schedule of Events 61 Thursday Schedule of Events 63 Friday Schedule of Events Academy Training Session 1, Session 1, Session 2 73 Academy Training Session 2, Session 3, Session 4 84 Caucus 1, Evening Events 94 Saturday Schedule of Events Academy Training Session 3, Session 5, Session 6 103 Academy Training Session 4, Session 7, Session 8 113 Caucus 2, Evening Events 123 Sunday Schedule of Events 133 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Task Force Leadership Council 140 Task Force Board and Staff 142 In Memoriam 143 DOwnLOAD nOw! The Creating Change App available for both iPhone® and AndroidTM devices View the full schedule Stay up to date with the latest news Hotel maps Register for the conference Look through or add your own photos App Sponsored by Available at Developed by Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. SCHEDuLE at A GLANCE Registration Wednesday, January 23, 2013 see page 61 Tuesday, January 22 9:00am – 6:00pm Day-Long Institutes: Racial Justice 6:00pm – 10:00pm wednesday, January 23 Thursday, January 24, 2013 see page 63 8:00am – 10:00pm 9:00am – 6:00pm Day-Long Institutes Thursday, January 24 6:30pm 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 8:00am – 10:00pm 7:00pm First Timer’s Orientation Friday, January 25 7:00pm welcome To Atlanta Reception 8:00am – 8:00pm 8:00pm Opening Plenary with Deepak Bhargava, Saturday, January 26 Executive Director, Center for Community Change 8:00am – 6:00pm see page 73 Sunday, January 27 Friday, January 25, 2013 8:00am – 12:00 noon 9:00am – 12:15pm Academy Trainings 1 9:00am – 10:30am Workshop Session 1 Social Media Lounge 10:45am – 12:15pm Workshop Session 2 Thursday, January 24 12:15pm – 1:30pm Lunch on your own 8:00am – 10:00pm 12:30pm Muslim Friday Prayer Salat-ul-Jumah Friday, January 25 1:30pm – 2:45pm Plenary with Rea Carey: State of the Movement 8:00am – 8:00pm 3:00pm – 6:15pm Academy Trainings 2 Saturday, January 26 3:00pm – 4:30pm Workshop Session 3 8:00am – 6:00pm 4:45pm – 6:15pm Workshop Session 4 Sunday, January 27 6:30pm – 7:30pm Caucuses and networking Sessions 1 8:00am – 12:00 noon 7:30pm 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 7:00pm Shabbat Service and Celebration Off Site; see page 29 Exhibit Area 8:30pm Receptions and Evening Events Thursday, January 24 to Sunday, January 27 9:00pm HOTlanta Awareness Mini-Ball and Dance: Get Your Vogue On! Saturday, January 26, 2013 see page 103 Child Care 9:00am – 12:15pm Academy Trainings 3 Thursday, January 24, 9:00am – 10:30am Workshop Session 5 Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26 10:45am – 12:15pm Workshop Session 6 8:00am – 6:30pm 12:15pm – 1:00pm Break Sunday, January 27 1:00pm Pizza and soft drinks service prior to Plenary Session 8:00am – 3:00pm 1:30pm – 2:45pm Plenary with Jose Antonio Vargas and DREAM Activists 3:00pm – 6:15pm Academy Trainings 4 3:00pm – 4:30pm Workshop Session 7 4:45pm – 6:15pm Workshop Session 8 6:30pm – 7:30pm Caucuses and networking Sessions 2 7:30pm 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 8:00pm MasQUEERade Ball and Amateur Drag Show for Youth 9:00pm 50+ and Allies Dance Sunday, January 27, 2013 see page 133 9:30am Engaging the Spirit: An InterFaith Gathering 9:30am – 10:30am Workshop Session 9 11:30am – 1:00pm Brunch and Closing Plenary with Frenchie Davis 2:00pm Feedback Session with Conference Managers national Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 1 CONfERENCE SPONSORS Official Airline Platinum Media Sponsors Plenary Sponsor Mobile Application Sponsor Platinum Sponsors families Programming Sponsor 50+ Dance Sponsor Youth Hospitality Suite Gold Media Sponsors Gold Sponsor friend of the Host Committee Silver Sponsors General Sponsors Task force National Corporate Partners 2 national Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 Welcome from the Task force Executive Director Welcome to the fabulous city of Atlanta for our 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. For a quarter century we’ve been converging, convening and com- ing together to create positive, lasting change for all! First up, let’s give a huge shout out to the Atlanta Host Committee for working so passionately for many months to ensure a warm welcome for all of us. We can feel the love! A special thanks to the Atlanta leadership team of Jesse Morgan, Michael Shutt, Gwen Thomas, and Everette Thompson. Thanks also to our very own staff Sue Hyde, Russell Roybal and Daniel Pino for their hard work to produce Creating Change. what an amazing and historic year it has been since we gathered in Baltimore for the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. Election 2012 saw stunning results for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, from the passage of the first-ever marriage equality measures by popular vote, to the historic election of the first openly lesbian candidate to the U.S. Senate and a total of seven openly LGBT members of Congress to the re-election of the most pro-LGBT president in American history. Bottom line: We are living in a watershed moment for LGBT equality in America. We’ve turned a corner and we’re not go- ing back. And it’s because of you that this has been possible – 25 years of mobilizing, strategizing, and yes, celebrating our right to love and be ourselves! The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, is proud to have been a leader in every major advance made by the modern LGBT rights movement, from the American Psychiatric Association’s de-classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, to hiring the first-ever HIV/AIDS lobbyist in 1982, to the historic marriage victories at the ballot box on November 6, 2012. we are sharing our stories and standing up for who we are and whom we love. These stories are personal, public and profound. They have helped shape the legal, cultural and political landscape of this country since the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Yet, while the wall of discrimination is tumbling down brick by brick, we still live in a country where LGBT people and others face real discrimination and undue hardship, as well as threats of violence. That’s why we continue to push Congress to act on several transformative pieces of legislation, including the Employment non-Discrimination Act, the Respect for Marriage Act (to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act), the Uniting Ameri- can Families Act, the Student Non-Discrimination Act, as well as comprehensive and humane immigration reform, an end to racial profiling, protections for reproductive rights, economic security, combating HIV/AIDS and other critical issues. we recognize that LGBT people are part of every community and demographic, which fuels our groundbreaking cross- movement work on issues related to racial and economic justice, immigration reform, labor, reproductive freedom, building pro-equality communities of faith, and so much more. It is why we are the progressive voice of the LGBT movement, and the LGBT voice of the progressive movement! As we gather together in Atlanta, as we have gathered each year since 1988 in cities across this country, we strengthen our movement, our communities, our families and ourselves by working together, building skills and planning strategically for a better future for all. I thank each and every one of you for your courage and commitment. Together, we will keep creating change! Rea Carey Executive Director national Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 3 A SPECIAL THANK YOu! Host Committee Thanks and many appreciations for your help in making The 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Co-Chairs Creating Change a great success! Jesse Morgan Michael Shutt African American Working Group Old Lesbians Organizing for Gwen Thomas Change (OLOC) Alliance for Full Acceptance Everette R. Harvey Thompson OnYX Southeast Chapter Amnesty International USA Laci Lee Adams Mangala Kanayson Out & Equal Dohyun Ahn Tonu Kearny API Working Group Chase Andrews Kimberly Knight Suzanne Pharr Michael Aycock Chris Kontopidis Arcus Foundation Chris Pollum Herlynn Benoit Carl Kroeger Atlanta Prime Timers Josh Bergeleen Audrey Krumbauch Project South Mickyel Bradford Julie Loppacher Mel Braman and Zan Savage Elizabeth Broadley Jasmyn McClelland Queers for Economic Justice Lee Buckley Luther McKinnon Campus Pride, Shane Windmeyer Queer Muslim Working Group Amy Burke Jennifer Miracle Mandy Carter Kiki Carr Michael Moore Rights Working Group Jinchul Cha Jessica nguyen Center for Community Change Itzel Chacon Stasha Oakley (CCC) SAGE, Michael Adams and DeeDee Chamblee Kay Oates Serena Worthington Dan Chapman Bonita Okonkwo CenterLink, Terry Stone Allen Schuh and Anderson Prize Raphael Coleman Jessica Oliveira Consortium of Higher Education Tyler Coon Shu wen Ong Foundation LGBT Resource Professionals Amy Coppala Charone Pagett Jeffrey Z. Slavin Lilly Correa George Parsey Define American Cheryl Courtney-Evans Aby Parsons SPARK Reproductive Justice Tricea Dawkins John Peterson Emory University Office of nOw Jarvis Dean Manda Pfannkuche LGBT Life Tom Dempsey John Pine Southern Poverty Law Center Francisco de León @ FADesign Lore Dickey nicole Pitts Southerners on New Ground Michele DiPietro Emily Popler Doyle Printing, Tom Doyle and Daniel Driffin Joetta Prost Christine Shelton The Bishops and Elders Council Dr.
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