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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

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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 : 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

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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 for the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change.

Election 2012 saw stunning results for lesbian, gay, bisexual and (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 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 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

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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 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 for Economic Justice Lee Buckley Luther McKinnon Campus Pride, Shane Windmeyer Muslim Working Group Amy Burke Jennifer Miracle 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. Rene Dubose Adrian Puebla Kristin Dunkle Hiram Ramirez Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against The City of Atlanta Angie Duprey Andy Ratto Defamation (GLAAD) Kaitlyn Edge Amy Rehner The David Bohnett Foundation Lisa Geduldig Em Elliot Richard Rhodes The First Nations Collective Whitney Elmore Cheryl Robinson Generational Alliance Mary England LaVerne Robinson The Health Initiative and Monica Evans-Brown Matthew Robinson Georgia Equality and Jeff Graham Linda Ellis Edric Figueroa Ryan Roche Andrea Fitzroy William Rush GlitterBomb! ATL The Phillip Rush Center and Amy Burke Lorraine Fontana Kijua Sanders-McCurty Grassroots Institute for Jillian Ford Tiken Savang Fundraising Training The National Religious Leadership Rosalind Garner Kellie Scheer Roundtable Casey Geyers Chad Schone Equality Federation Danny Glassman Kate Shapiro Roberto Tijerina Alysia Gradney Anneliese Singh Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund Jeff Graham Tyler Sit and TRANS(forming) Shannon Greshom Wendy Spencer Hilton Atlanta, Damir Cesar and Transgender Working Group Diane Guthrie Danielle Steele Mario Thompson Brandon Hall Stefan Trevor Project Jim Hannison Charles Stephens Institute for Welcoming Resources Marilyn Harris Florence Tang Unity Fellowship of Atlanta Carol Lautier Michael David Harris Ray Taratuot US Human Rights Network Opal Harris Griff Tester Leather Leadership Award Carmen Vazquez Kevin Hatcher Cole Thomas Winners Group Dave Hayward Tiera Thomas Victory for the World United Minister Yeshua Holiday Robin Thompson MondoHomo Reba Hood Sarah Tucker Church of Christ National Black Justice Coalition Roshelle Hudson Gary Uitvlugt Dave Wait Jon Hurst Daniel Wallace National Center for Transgender Welcoming Church Program Rachel Hurvitz Tia Williams Equality Pat Hussain Cortez Wright Leaders LaJoya Jackson Emery Wright National Coalition of Anti-Violence WET Meagan Johnson Daniele Xenos Projects Amir Jones Melo Yap Beth Zemsky Marley Jones Ayo Yetunde Sybil Jones Nikki Young

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Two Spirit Open Letter

Two Spirit Open Letter to the Creating Change Community

The First Nations Two Spirit Collective is honored to welcome you to the 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, in what is called Georgia, part of the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee, Creek, Alpalache, and other Indigenous Nations.

We are an autonomous Collective that works to provide greater awareness of and access for Two Spirit people ev- erywhere–including at Creating Change. It is unfortunate but true that over the course of the next few days, we may become the voice for many. However, we cannot speak for all. We are here as people committed to justice with an intersectional understanding. We are here to make space for those who are not here yet, who are not ready, or who could not afford the journey. We accept this responsibility with humility and honor while knowing that we cannot speak for the many facets of our community.

Our presence means that we have also come forward with requests to ensure that First Nations people will feel wel- come, respected and accepted at Creating Change. Our efforts are not meant to alienate any other community, but rather to recognize our unique standing in the United States. We begin within the framework of the sovereign status of our nations. As the original peoples of this land, we have a relationship with this land rooted in spiritual understanding dating back to the beginning of time. Our nations have retained this spiritual connection, as well as our sovereignty, de- spite the attempts of colonialism to destroy both. Through treaties, we have protected our government-to-government relationship with the United States. In the retention of these rights, our nations continue to stand as distinct political units that have granted to the United States much of the land and resources it now enjoys.

LGBT history in this land known as America began long before Stonewall. LGBT First Nations people have celebrated multiple gendered people for millennia, and since the European invasions, have struggled to keep this and other tradi- tions alive. Two Spirit is a contemporary term that references historical multiple-gender traditions in many First Nations cultures. Many First Nations people who are LGBTIGNC identify as Two Spirit; in many nations, being Two Spirit carries both great respect and additional commitments and responsibilities to one’s community. Two Spirit people also face discrimination in our communities due to the assimilation of Christian beliefs and hundreds of years of targeted violence against our historical Two Spirit people.

In the spirit of building a movement in which respect is a core value, we ask that you refrain from using phrases like “circle the wagons” or “hold down the fort,” as they are rooted in a colonial, racist and imperialistic language. “Pow wow” is a cultural event rooted in tradition and spirituality, not a meeting. By being conscious of language, you create an environment conducive to inclusivity where First Nations people are equal partners in the overall LGBTIGNC movement for liberation.

Within our own communities, more often than not, we have held a place of honor and respect as Two Spirit people. We were teachers, spiritual leaders, and family members. Our presence here is to offer this larger community a vision beyond tolerance or equality. We offer a vision of acceptance and reverence that existed pre-colonization, that our com- munities remember, and from this the larger community may benefit.

In the spirit of liberation and access, we welcome everyone with an open heart filled with good intentions. In the words of Sitting Bull, “Let us put our heads together, and see what kind of future we can build for our children.”

Thank you,

The First Nations Two Spirit Collective

Paulina Hernández - Chicana Mestiza; Melissa Hoskins – Cherokee: Robert-John Hinojosa – Pueblo / Zuni; Angel Fabian – Zapoteco Xicano; Melissa L. Pope – Navajo

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Welcome from Atlanta City Council Member Alex Wan

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Welcome from Fulton County Commissioner Joan P. Garner

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Welcome from State Representative Karla Drenner, Ph.D.

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Welcome from State Representative Keisha Waites

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Welcome from State Representative Simone Bell

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There are two fundamental principles to the Creating A Guide to Bisexual/ Change Conference: human rights and solidarity. Sexual Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette harassment and other forms of violence strike at the heart of both. Harassment, violence and bigotry create feelings The bisexual identity speaks more to the existence of at- of fear, uneasiness, humiliation and discomfort. They are traction to people of any gender, rather than merely a state- expressions of perceived power and superiority by the ha- ment of past or current relationships and/or sexual activi- rasser over another person. Sometimes, even when our ac- ties. Bisexual, pansexual, fluid and folks who choose to tions are not intentionally hurtful, what we say and do can remain “unlabeled” are part of the LGBT community and hurt others or make them feel uncomfortable. need you as an ally just as much as they remain your strong partner in the fight for equality. To that end, we offer a few Sexual harassment is a form of sexual violence. Sexual ha- notes on bisexual/pansexual/fluid communities. rassment is any unwanted attention of a sexual nature. Ex- amples may include: Common misconceptions about bisexual/pansexual/fluid communities include: There’s no such thing as ; • Remarks about appearance or personal life bisexuality is just a phase; bisexual people have multiple partners and/or can’t have monogamous relationships; bi- • Unwanted flirtations or advances sexuality itself reinforces the ; bisexual people spread sexually transmitted diseases; and bisexual people • Offensive written or visual depictions like graffiti or face less discrimination than gay, lesbian and transgender degrading pictures people.

• Touching someone without their permission (grab- We have all had moments in our lives where we have been bing, hugging, petting, biting) misperceived and misunderstood; we hope everyone will draw from their own experiences to create a space in which • Unwanted sexual demands, pressure, proposi- we can all be our full selves during the conference. tions, or requests for sexual activities Each individual may have a different definition of bisexuality. • Graphic comments about an individual’s body or Contrary to common misconceptions, bisexuality is not ex- dress clusively a transitional phase between and homosexuality. No single pattern exists among bisexuals. • Verbal abuse (including sexual insults and name Many people declare their bisexuality to claim their personal calling) history. They don’t want to erase previous loves or parts of themselves to buy acceptance. Because one’s definition • Rewards for granting sexual favors or the withhold- does not fit another does not make it any less valid. Please ing of rewards for refusing to grant sexual favors respect each person’s power and ability to define them- selves. Creating Change is proud to host a beautiful and diverse LGBTQ and allied community where vibrant diversity in A few other ways to embrace the bisexual/pansexual/fluid , and communities: is welcome. It is all of our responsibility to ensure that each member of our LGBTQ and ally family feels welcome and • Use inclusive language, instead of “gay rights” or “gay affirmed. marriage” try “equal rights” and “marriage equality.”

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• Question the negativity associated with bisexual gender or sex of someone by their physical body, voice, stereotypes. or mannerisms. we consider it polite to ask: “What pro- noun do you prefer?” or “How do you identify?” before us- • Check in with someone about what term(s) they ing pronouns or gendered words for anyone. When you are prefer – Remember that no one person repre- unsure of a person’s gender identity and you don’t have an sents a community; no two people are the same opportunity to ask someone what words they prefer, try us- and definitions may vary. ing that person’s name or gender-neutral phrases like “the person in the red shirt,” instead of “that woman or man.” If • Recognize that bisexuality is often invisibilized/ you have met a person before, and their gender expression delegitimized, so bi/pan/fluid people usually have is now different, be open to the fact that they may now be to come out over and over. identifying as a different gender and feel good about asking politely about their identity. • Respect people’s privacy and boundaries. Take a moment before asking questions and look into One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs the assumptions behind them. is to designate restrooms gender neutral, which we have done here at Creating Change with educational signs. In • Recognize that bisexual people often face similar bathrooms, many transgender people face harassment discrimination and obstacles as gays and lesbians that can lead to anything from deep discomfort to arrest or with regard to job security, healthcare, marriage, death. Regardless of what bathroom you are in, please let custody, visitation and adoption of children. everyone pee in peace. Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong. • Recognize the way that specific relationships function is entirely independent of sexual orienta- Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories tion. Be positive about all relationships –monoga- when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s pri- mous, polyamorous, or anything else. vacy and boundaries and do not ask questions that you wouldn’t ask of anyone else. Do not make assumptions • Accept you might never fully understand someone about other people’s gender identity or expression. Do re- else’s sexuality, and that it’s okay not to. spect and call people what they ask you to call them.

Thank you for respecting all the ways we can love each If you make a mistake about someone’s pronoun simply other! Enjoy the conference! make a correction and move on. Do not justify the misstep, over-apologize or beat yourself up. Compiled by 2011 Creating Change Bisexual/ Educate yourself through books, web sites, and transgen- Pansexual/Fluid Organizing Institute Co-coordinators, der-themed workshops. Then please join the many hard- Becky Saltzman and Faith Cheltenham. working allies who are working to respond appropriately to transphobic situations. Respectful allies, who learn from Thanks to The Bi Resource Center, UC Davis BiVisibility and with transgender people and then educate others, are Project, Human Rights Campaign, The National Gay and important for successful transgender liberation. Lesbian TaskForce, Sean Cahill, and Robyn Ochs for source material To learn more about making LGBT spaces and organiza- tions fully transgender-inclusive, consult the free guide writ- Transgender/Gender ten by The Task Force and National Center for Transgen- Non-Conforming Etiquette der Equality, entitled Opening the Door to the Inclusion of and Inclusion Transgender People: The Nine Keys to Making LGBT Orga- Adapted from the 2002 Portland Creating Change Host Committee nizations Fully Transgender-Inclusive.

To ensure that the transgender and gender non-conforming Thank you for your help and have a great conference! (transgender, , genderqueer and more) mem- bers of our community and movement feel included by all who attend Creating Change, please read and act upon the following.

Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression but remember that a person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity. You cannot know the

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force ple as possible, speak at a moderate vol- and the Host Committee’s Accessibil- ume and pace. Practice active listening by ity Subcommittee strive to make Creating asking and responding to questions and Change 2012 welcoming and accessible giving both verbal and non-verbal cues that for attendees with disabilities. In the spirit of you are still engaged in the conversation. learning how our communities can be inclu- sive of and accessible to all people, we have When you are speaking to someone using put together these guidelines for creating a an interpreter, address the person you are community where people with disabilities speaking with, not the interpreter. are valued and respected. Many people here have disabilities that af- Words like “cripple,” “defect,” “spastic,” fect the ways that they learn, understand, “lame,” “retard,” “psychotic”, “paranoid” and/or communicate. You can show re- and “crazy” have been used to bully and spect for people by practicing patience with oppress disabled people for many decades. those who learn and/or communicate at Don’t use these words casually. You may a different pace or in a different way than hear disabled people calling each other crip you do. Don’t make assumptions based on or gimp. This is “insider” language, akin to atypical speech patterns, body language, LGBT people calling each other queer. It’s or eye contact. If you are having difficulty not appropriate language for non-disabled communicating with someone, try a differ- people to use. ent form of communication, like writing or demonstration instead of talking. Understand that the lives of disabled people are neither inspirational nor pitiful by virtue of Flashing lights can trigger seizures or other our disabilities. Rather our disabilities are or- conditions. Avoid wearing or carrying deco- dinary and familiar parts of who we are. rative flashing lights and don’t take photo- graphs using the flash on your camera in Ask and wait for an answer before you try to public spaces. help someone. What you assume is helpful may not be. There are seats set aside for people with varying disabilities, both up front and scat- When you encounter someone using a ser- tered throughout in the plenary space and in vice/assistance or guide dog, do not pet, the meeting rooms. Please be prepared to offer food to, or interact with the animal in move chairs to make room for people using any way. Do not comment on the dog’s wheelchairs, wherever they may wish to sit presence i.e. “and who do we have here?” at plenary sessions and workshops. They are working hard; you are supporting the independence and autonomy they pro- In order to make it easier for everyone to vide by not distracting them. move around the conference freely, please keep the aisles clear. Be aware of the people In order to be understood by as many peo- around you when navigating tight, crowded

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public spaces, and leave plenty of room for stop by the Accessibility Table adjacent to people to pass safely; and please hold inac- the conference registration area. If no one cessible doors open for people. is available, please seek assistance at the conference registration area. Becoming scent-free is an important step toward access for people with disabilities Please listen to the needs and stories of dis- and/or chronic illnesses and is a skill you abled people when they are volunteered; yet can practice everywhere. If you are not ac- please respect people’s privacy and bound- customed to going scent-free, it is impor- aries by not asking unnecessarily intrusive tant to think carefully about all the products questions. Many disabled people deal with you use in your day. You can either not use daily curiosity about our bodies and find shampoo, soap, hair products, perfume, it exhausting. Educate yourself through essential oils, skin lotion, shaving cream, books, web sites, and at the disability-re- makeup etc., or use fragrance-free alterna- lated workshops at Creating Change. Then, tives that are available in many drug stores. please join the many hardworking allies who If you must use scented products please sit are working to respond appropriately to or stand as far away as possible from areas ableist situations. designated “Scent Safer” areas. During ple- nary sessions, scent-safer spaces are des- Please stop by the Accessibility Table ad- ignated in the Grand Ballroom and in Salon jacent to the conference registration area E, across the hall from the Grand Ballroom. outside for: If scents and chemicals present a barrier for you, please know that Creating Change is Programs in large print. not yet a scent-free conference. Electric scooters and wheelchairs. If you smoke (or hang around people while Viewing a large print grid schedule of events. they smoke) please do so only in the des- To pick up an Assisted Listening device for ignated areas and away from entrances. use during the conference. When inside please sit or stand as far away as possible from those areas designated Conference attendees utilizing ASL inter- “Scent Safer” areas. preting services can meet interpreters at the Accessibility Table adjacent to the registra- Challenge your assumptions. Some disabil- tion area. ities are less visible than others. Everyone has a right to use the accommodations they If you want or need a place to hang out with need without being criticized or questioned. disabled people, visit the Disability Hospital- ity Suite. Check the conference grid sched- The Accessibility Table will be staffed by vol- ule for exact room number. unteers during the Creating Change Con- ference. If you have questions, concerns or Thanks for helping to make Creating Change need assistance regarding access, please a truly accessible event for all.

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First Timers’ Orientation Each attendee at Creating Change will receive an email Thursday January 24, 7:00 PM from the Task Force in the days following the conference Please check the grid schedule for location. that invites you to complete an evaluation of the overall First time at Creating Change? Feeling a bit overwhelmed conference experience. By completing this form, you will by the amount of information that you need to quickly di- help us design and present a better and more relevant gest in order to make good choices about how to spend Creating Change Conference next year in Houston. your time? Want some help? Come to the First Timers’ Orientation session with the Conference Director to get Finally, for those of you who prefer to participate in a your questions answered by the expert! face-to-face meeting, the Conference Director conducts a Feedback Session on Sunday following the closing ple- Child Care nary in the Grand Ballroom. Childcare services are provided by Elegant Event Sitters, Inc., an experienced agency specializing in event child- Host Committee Services care. Please check in at the conference registration area Check the Grid Schedule for locations. on Lobby Level for the exact room location of childcare. There is no charge for on-site childcare, but we ask that Bisexual Hospitality Suite parents pick up children for lunch from Noon to 1 PM. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 AM - 10 PM Some activities will be provided by Elegant Event Sitters. The Southeastern with friends and allies invite you to a hospitality suite to celebrate some of Childcare is available: our community’s unique identities. Our suite will provide Thursday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM lite meals throughout the conference as well as serve as a Friday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM space for people to engage and meet. Most importantly, Saturday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM we want all conference attendees to recognize and cel- Sunday 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM ebrate our community’s full range of identities—prepare yourselves for laughter, politics, and fun! We ask par- Social Media Lounge ticipants of our suite be those who identify outside Creating Change provides a Social Media Lounge for of the heteronormative and homonormative norms. your cyber chores! Social Media lounge hours coincide We especially give a loud shout out and Southern wel- with hours of operation in the conference registration come to our bisexual, pansexual, and fluid folks. area. The Social Media Lounge is located on the Lobby Level, adjacent to the registration area. Please be aware Youth Hospitality Suite that the computers are a shared resource, so limit your Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 AM - 10 PM time if others are waiting. Free wi-fi access is available in The youth of the dirty South welcome all young folks to and around the Social Media Lounge, the Marketplace celebrate our community, unique voices, and fierce fac- Restaurant and Southern Elements on the Lobby Level. es. Yes gerrrl, our suite is a place for young people make Wi-fi signals may reach further, but connection can be friends and partake in real fun during the conference. erratic. Lunch and dinner will be provided as well as an assort- ment of snacks throughout the day. Board games, cards, We Love Your Feedback and video games are just some of the few activities that Our annual Creating Change Conference offers a rich and will be provided. Don’t be tardy to the party! If you are rigorous program of workshops, trainings, film screen- lucky, you might just see some diva drag queens struttin’ ings, caucuses and networking sessions, meetings and their stuff. We ask that this space be dedicated to social and spiritual gatherings. those who are 24 and younger.

This year, our program includes 17 Daylong Institutes on Youth Suite Sponsor Wednesday and Thursday, 20 sessions in the Task Force Academy for Leadership and Action, and over 250 work- shop sessions and caucuses/networking sessions on Transgender Hospitality Suite Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Special programming for Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 AM - 10 PM faith community leaders is presented under the heading Drop by for relaxation as well as informal socializing and Practice Spirit Do Justice. Evaluation forms for each of networking with transgender folk and allies at Creating these sessions are distributed and collected by our con- Change 2013. Come and relax, converse with a friend, ference volunteers. Please let us know what you found network, strengthen community relationships while on useful and helpful at sessions by filling out the evaluation your transgender journey. All are welcome and we hope forms and returning them to volunteers in the meeting to see you there! Hosted by the Transgender Hospitality rooms. Subcommittee.

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Elder Hospitality Suite Names is an opportunity to honor them in community Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8AM - 10 PM and with others who can support and lift you up as you The Elder Hospitality subcommittee honors and invites remember with joy their impact on your life. During this our wise and seasoned LGBT family to stop by our suite plenary session join us and celebrate the lives of those for refreshment, relaxation, networking, and conversa- who have marked our journeys by calling their names, tion. Meet new friends, reconnect with long time bud- loudly and proudly. dies, and share your stories with Creating Change 2013 attendees from across the country. Hosted by SAGE and Shabbat Services the Elder Hospitality Subcommittee Friday, January 25 • Gather in Lobby at 6:30 Open to all Creating Change participants. This year’s Disability/Accessibility Suite Shabbat will be held at Congregation Bet Haverim, 2676 Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8AM - 10PM Clairmont Rd NE, Atlanta, as part of their Shabbat Shirah The Disability/Accessibility subcommittee honors and in- Fest 2013. This celebration of liberation is entitled Be- vites you to stop by our suite for refreshment, relaxation, tween Two Worlds and begins at 7:00 pm. Free buses networking, and conversation. Come share some com- will be available to take participants to the synagogue. mon resources - more room to maneuver, an accessible bathroom, large-print program books. we encourage Engaging the Spirit: you to use the space as a touchstone during the confer- An Interfaith Gathering • All Welcome ence. Meet new friends, reconnect with long time bud- Sunday, January 27, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM dies, and share your stories with Creating Change 2013 The intent of the interfaith worship is to celebrate the hu- attendees from across the country. man spirit and honor various traditions and practices of honoring the Divine. Speakers will represent from a di- People of Color Hospitality Suite verse group of faith communities and traditions that em- Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8AM - 10PM brace and celebrate the LGBTQ community. The People of Color Hospitality Suite welcomes all to get connected, get comfortable, mix and mingle. Get informed on significant topics; hear some spoken word and comedy!! Meet community leaders; learn about POC specific LGBT organizations. Lots of food, fun and laugh- ter! All are welcome!!!

12 Step/Recovery Meeting Thursday 6:30 PM; Friday and Saturday 7:30 PM Keep your recovery going at Creating Change! Spiritual Gatherings and Resources Check the Grid Schedule for locations.

Muslim Friday Prayer (Salaat-al-Jumu’ah) Muslim Congregational Prayer Friday, January 25, 12:30 pm Friday Prayer is the weekly congregational prayer of Mus- lims, observed annually at Creating Change. The prayer service provides a safe, welcoming, and inclusive spiri- tual space for LGBTQ Muslims and their allies. The Fri- day sermon and prayer will be led by an LGBTQ Muslim leader. It is open to all.

The Calling of the Names: We Remember Friday January 25 • Plenary Session 1:30 PM Who are the people you have lost that have marked your life? How do you remember them? Who were the people whose stories, whose presence, words, and deeds live on after they have died? Who have you lost to AIDS, can- cer, hate crimes, or other tragedies? The Calling of the

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Exhibitors

AARP Integrity USA American Institutes for Research/ Interfaith Working Group Center for Disease Control Kimpton Hotels American Atheists Lambda Legal Americans United for Separation of Miami Beach Visitors Center Church and State MondoHomo Alternative Queer Arts & Association of Welcoming and Music Festival Affirming Baptists National Black Justice Coalition Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Between Angels Commerce Bolder Giving National Gay and Lesbian Task Force California Institute of Integral Studies National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Care2 Office Depot Campus Pride Out and Equal Center for Excellence in School Counseling OutServe-Servicemembers Legal Defense and Leadership (CESCAL) Network Charis Books & More Pacific School of Theology Center for Choice USA Lesbian and Gay Studies Comcast Point Foundation Prime Timers Worldwide Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals Purple Books Publishing Communications Workers of America Rights Working Group dotgay LLC Rootscamp EMD Serono Safe Spaces Project Equally Blessed SAGE Gay-Straight Alliance Network Sean’s Last Wish Generational Alliance Southern Poverty Law Center Georgia Equality Teach for America Haymarket Books The Rockway Institute Hilton Worldwide The Trevor Project Human Rights Campaign United States Peace Corps Iliff School of Theology VirtuallyAbout LLC

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Mistress Opening of Keynote Ceremonies Address Thursday, January 24, 8:00 PM

Kate Clinton, a faith-based, Deepak Bhargava, Executive tax-paying, America-loving political Director of the Center for Community humorist, maxes out on multiple for- Change (CCC), builds the power and mats. Kate penned three books, has capacity of low-income people, es- nine CDs and three DVDs, and is a pecially low-income people of color, columnist, film and stage actress, TV to change the policies and institu- commentator and blogger, vlogger tions that affect their lives. Under his and tweeter til the cows come home. leadership, CCC has played a lead- In her 30-year career, Kate has lived ing role in campaigns to achieve uni- and laughed through economic versal health care coverage, improve booms and busts, Disneyfication and jobs and safety net policies and ad- Walmartization, gay movements and vance Comprehensive Immigration gay markets, lesbian chic and queer Reform. Deepak is a leading pro- eyes, and eight presidential inaugu- gressive thinker and strategist, and rals. We crown Kate the movement’s has written and spoken widely about funniest and smartest comic. For issues such as poverty, immigration, more information: http://www. kate- and community organizing. Born in clinton.com Bangalore, India, Deepak immigrated to the United States when he was a child. He lives in washington, D.C. with his partner Harry Hanbury, a documentary filmmaker.

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The State Keynote Address Closing Plenary of the and Panel with Brunch and Movement Address Presentation Frenchie Davis! Friday, January 25, 1:30 PM Saturday, January 26, 1:30 PM Sunday, January 27, 11:30 AM

Rea Carey, executive director of JoSE aNTonio vargas is the Songbird FrENCHIE davis was the national Gay and Lesbian Task founder of Define American, a non- born in Washington, D.C. and raised Force since 2008, is one of the most profit, nonpartisan organization dedi- in Los Angeles, where she started prominent leaders in the U.S. les- cated to elevating and reframing the her musical journey performing in bian, gay, bisexual and transgender immigration conversation. A Pulitzer plays throughout her school years, (LGBT) rights movement. Through Prize-winning journalist, Vargas, in a eventually deciding to audition for the her leadership, she has advanced June 2012 cover story for Time mag- second season of the groundbreak- a vision of fairness and justice for azine titled We Are Americans• (•Just ing Fox show American Idol. Her suc- LGBT people and their families that not legally), popularized the term “un- cess on the show launched the How- is broad, inclusive and unabashedly documented Americans” in describ- ard University alum’s rise to fame. progressive. During Carey’s tenure, ing the country’s population of 11.5 Frenchie joined the Broadway cast the Task Force was a key player in million undocumented immigrants. of the hit show Rent and played the passage of the LGBT-inclusive fed- Jose has written for some of the most role of Effie White in Dream Girls, and eral hate crimes prevention law; the prestigious news organizations in the won a Grammy nomination for the defeat of multiple anti-LGBT ballot country, including the New Yorker, revival of Ain’t Misbehavin. Recently, measures across the country; the Rolling Stone, the Huffington Post Frenchie joined Team Christina on creation and implementation of the and the Washington Post, where he NBC’s hit show The Voice, becoming New Beginning Initiative coalition, was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning one of the top four finalists. Frenchie which secures federal administrative team that covered the 2007 massa- has established her own label called policy changes to improve the lives of cre at Virginia Tech. His 2006 series Frenchie Davis Music Group and re- LGBT people and their families; and on AIDS in Washington, D.C. inspired corded her smash single Love’s Got the release of the largest-ever study a feature-length documentary – The A Hold on Me. “I want to live my life on transgender discrimination in the Other City – which he co-produced to inspire people to be brave and U.S. Carey serves on the advisory and wrote. In the landmark essay for courageous,” says Frenchie, “And to board of the LGBTQ Policy Jour- the New York Times Magazine titled believe in themselves and never take nal of Harvard’s Kennedy School of My Life as an Undocumented Im- no for answer.” Government. Follow her on Twitter @ migrant, June 2011, he revealed his rea_carey. undocumented status and declared his mission to speak truthfully about immigration in America in the 21st century. He lives in but calls the Bay Area home. Jose will moderate a panel of DREAM Act advocates.

Plenary Sponsor

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 37 Award Honorees In november 2011, Daniel won election to the Sunny- The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has the great side Unified School District governing board, which cov- privilege to present awards recognizing the hard work ers southern Tucson and adjacent areas in Pima County. and dedication of colleagues in our LGBT movement. Daniel is a proud Democrat, having worked on numerous These awards are generously supported by the Paul An- campaigns in Arizona and serves as a member of the City derson Prize Foundation, administered by Allen Schuh; of Tucson Commission on LGBT issues. the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals; Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund; and Servic- The SAGE Advocacy Award for Excellence es & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). We thank these in Leadership on Aging Issues organizations for joining us to lift up activists who express Southeast Asia Resource their passionate commitments to social justice in many Action Center, Doua Thor, important ways. Executive Director Southeast Asia Resource Ac- Award for Distinguished Achievement in tion Center (SEARAC), founded LGBT Support Services in Higher Education in 1979, facilitates the reloca- Dr. Sue Rankin tion of Southeast Asian refu- The Consortium of Higher Educa- gees into American society tion LGBT Resource Profession- and fosters the development of nonprofit organizations als recognizes and honors Dr. Sue led by and for Southeast Asian Americans. SEARAC has Rankin as a preeminent advocate, grown into an organization that strengthens the capac- researcher, and practitioner within ity of community-based organizations led by refugees lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans- from around the world. SEARAC is a core work group gender support services in higher member of the Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC), an initiative education. Dr. Rankin’s research on campus climate supported through Atlantic Philanthropies to improve the and trans-inclusion provides relevant data and promis- lives of vulnerable elders. The DEC is comprised of seven ing practices for colleges and universities throughout the national organizations representing a growing majority of world. Her leadership and advocacy for LGBT access, millions of older people throughout the country: racially inclusion, and equity are unparalleled and helped estab- and ethnically diverse older adults; lesbian, gay, bisexual lish the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource and transgender (LGBT) older adults; and poor and low Professionals, founded at the 1997 Creating Change income older adults. It promotes policy changes and pro- Conference. grammatic solutions that remove the barriers facing our communities. The DEC envisions a world where all older The Paul A. Anderson Youth Leadership Award adults can live full and active lives as they age. Daniel Hernandez Jr. Daniel Hernandez Jr. worked as The Leather Leadership Award an intern for Congresswoman Ga- Race Bannon brielle Giffords of Arizona’s Eighth Kinky sex has been one of Race Congressional District. while as- Bannon’s passions as a practi- sisting Congresswoman Giffords tioner, organizer, writer, educator, at a constituent event in Tucson commentator, activist and leader on January 8, 2011, Daniel acted since his first explorations of the quickly and courageously to save the life of the Congress- leather world in 1973. Race has woman after a gunman shot her and 18 other people. His ardently explored his own sexuality medical training, fast thinking, and brave actions on that and encouraged others to do the same. Race’s belief in day have caused him to be celebrated as a true Ameri- the inherent freedom to proudly claim one’s sexual ori- can hero, although he humbly rejects the title. He is the entation and identity is the foundation upon which many author of the soon-to-be-released They Call Me a Hero: of his community efforts have flourished. Race is a co- A Memoir of My Youth. Daniel, a Tucson native and grad- founder of Kink Aware Professionals; a leader of The uate of the University of Arizona, is dedicated to student DSM Project that led to a beneficial change in the way advocacy and political activism. He served as a director the psychotherapy profession views kink; author of the on the Arizona Students’ Association’s Board of Directors best seller Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and advocated for affordable and accessible higher edu- and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Pub- cation for all Arizonans. Daniel attended public schools lishing Company; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and in Tucson’s Sunnyside Unified School District where he a member of Chicago Hellfire Club. Race is currently the received his training in certified nursing and phlebotomy. Board Chair for the Community-Academic Consortium

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for Research on Alternative Sexualities and he sits on the The Susan J. Hyde Award for Boards of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and Longevity in the Movement the Leather Hall of Fame. A public health advocate, Race The Right Reverend V. Gene has worked on many HIV prevention projects and was a Robinson: IX Bishop of New core organizer for the first San Francisco town hall forum Hampshire (Retired) on hepatitis C that changed the way the City Health De- Bishop Gene Robinson is the for- partment deals with hepatitis C. Race lives in San Fran- mer bishop of the Diocese of New cisco where he’s been in a triad (poly) relationship with his Hampshire in the Episcopal Church two partners, Jim and Mike, for over 16 years. in the United States of America. He became the first openly gay man in Creating Change Award the world to be elected bishop in the Anglican Commu- Jose Antonio Vargas nion in 2003 and entered office in March 2004, to great Jose Antonio Vargas founded De- public fanfare and gnashing of teeth by conservatives in fine American, a nonprofit, nonpar- the Episcopal Church USA and the worldwide Anglican tisan organization, to elevate and Communion. He endured public shunning by Church el- reframe the immigration conver- ders, was a target of death threats, and was excluded sation. He published a June 2012 from the 2008 Lambeth Conference, a once-a-decade cover story for Time magazine titled gathering of Anglican bishops and clergy. In the face of all We Are Americans* (*Just not le- of this, he has repeatedly called for understanding, love gally) and brought the term “undocumented Americans” and dialogue with his detractors. Bishop Robinson retired into popular discourse as a way to describe the country’s from his New Hampshire post on January 5, 2013. Co- population of 11.5 million undocumented immigrants. In author of three AIDS education curricula for youth and so doing, Jose has contributed significantly to consigning adults, Bishop Robinson has done AIDS work in the Unit- the odious phrase “illegal aliens” to the dustbin of his- ed States and in Uganda and South Africa. He has been tory. In a landmark essay for the New York Times Maga- an advocate for anti-racism training in the diocese and zine titled My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, June wider Church. Bishop Robinson has spent every Christ- 2011, he revealed his undocumented status, which he mas Eve of the past decade ministering at New Hamp- did not know until 4 years after he arrived in the U.S., and shire’s women’s prison. He says, “I do church work 24-7, declared his mission to speak truthfully about immigra- but I never feel more like I’m doing God’s work than when tion in America. Having lived much of his life hiding his I’m there.” Donations for his retirement purse will be given immigration status, he reflects that as gay at to set up an endowment fund for the continued work in Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California the chaplaincy program at The New Hampshire Prison in 1999 was “less daunting than coming out about my for women. Bishop Gene Robinson’s good words are legal status.” many, perhaps none so important to us as his becom- ing a symbol of the ongoing struggle to win full accep- Corporate Leadership Award tance of LGBT people in communities of faith; his story is featured in the film For the Bible Tells Me So. Bishop Robinson’s latest book is God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage. He resides in New Hampshire In just the past few years, Office Depot has become an with his long-time partner and husband Mark Andrew. exemplary corporate institution embodying a strong ex- Bishop Robinson joins the Center for American Progress ample of how corporations can effectively partner with as a Senior Fellow, focusing on immigration, health care and support the LGBT community and their LGBT em- reform, poverty and LGBT issues. ployees. Office Depot supported its LGBT employees by establishing an impressive list of internal benefits and protections, notably health benefits to transgender em- ployees. Office Depot supports LGBT youth through its $1,000,000 contribution to the Born This Way Founda- Congratulations tion and supports LGBT-owned businesses through Award leadership efforts in supplier diversity and strategic rela- tionships with LGBT business enterprises. We are hon- Honorees! ored to present Office Depot with the 2013 Corporate Leadership Award.

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Film Screenings

United In Anger: A History Of Act Up Lincoln Memorial to London’s Lambeth Palace calling for Friday, Jan. 25, 3:00 PM • Salon E all to stand for equality – inspiring bishops, priests and United In Anger: A History Of Act Up is a unique fea- ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change ture-length documentary that combines startling archival history. Reveal Productions; directed by Macky Alston; footage that puts the audience on the ground with the produced by Sandra Itkoff. 83 minutes. (USA/2012) activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS The New Black Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspec- Saturday, Jan. 26, 4:45 PM • Salon E tive – how a small group of men and women of all races Excerpts from The New Black, a forthcoming documen- and classes, came together to change the world and tary that uncovers the complicated and often combative save each other’s lives. The film takes the viewer through histories of the African-American and LGBT civil rights the planning and execution of a half dozen exhilarating movements. Specifically, the film examines homopho- major actions including Seize Control of the FDA, Stop bia in the black community’s institutional pillar, the black the Church, and Day of Desperation, with a timeline of church, and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the U.S. exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti- government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS gay political agenda. The New Black goes from California crisis. United In Anger reveals the group’s complex cul- to Washington DC to to document the stories ture – meetings, affinity groups, and approaches to civil of the gay gospel singer Tonex and Sharon Lettman- disobedience mingle with profound grief, sexiness, and Hicks, the Executive Director of the National Black Jus- the incredible energy of ACT UP. Directed by Jim Hub- tice Coalition, each of whom challenges in bard; produced by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman. the black church and works with traditionally white LGBT 93 minutes. (USA/2012) organizations around issues of race. The film also follows some of the leading anti-LGBT black ministers as they God Loves Uganda fight efforts to advance LGBT rights, and work unsuc- Friday, Jan. 25, 4:45 PM • Salon E cessfully to pass a ballot initiative in Maryland that would A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to reverse the recently won right for same-sex couples to change African culture with values from America’s Chris- marry. Maryland has a 30% African-American population tian Right, God Loves Uganda is a journey into the heart and both sides vie to win the black vote. Through these of East Africa, where Ugandan pastors and their Ameri- stories and other secondary characters, the film reveals can counterparts spread God’s word and evangelical val- a political alliance between members of the black church ues to millions desperate for a better life. Inspired by his and the Christian right that has shaped the fight for gay own roots in the African American Baptist church, direc- rights over the last 20 years. The New Black production tor Roger Ross Williams explores a place where religion team received a supporting grant from the Documentary and African culture intersect. God Loves Uganda had Film Program and Fund of the Sundance Institute. Direct- its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ed and written by Yoruba Richen. Produced By Yoruba where it was selected for the US Documentary Competi- Richen and Yvonne welbon; co-produced by Angela tion. Directed by Roger Ross Williams; produced by Julie Tucker. Q&A and discussion follow the screening with Goldman. 81 minutes. (USA/2013) writer/director/producer Yoruba Richen.

Love Free Or Die Saturday, Jan. 26, 3:00 PM • Salon E Love Free Or Die is about a man whose two defining pas- sions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay per- son to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Chris- tendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since. The film follows Robinson’s personal story as American churches debate whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God while our nation debates whether LGBT people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of the law. In Love Free Or Die, Bishop Gene steps onto the world stage as he travels from small-town churches to Washington’s

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Sessions By Topic

Friday, January 25 Academy Session 1 • 9:00 am-12:15 pm Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 am-10:30 am All Academy Sessions 3 Hours • No Pre-Registration Required Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 am-12:15 pm Academy Session 2 • 3:00 pm-6:15 pm Create Change Track Build Power Track Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 pm-6:15 pm We are Multitudes: Story telling Cross-Movement and Multi-Issue Academy Session 1 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • 6:30 pm-7:30 pm Ally Practice in LGBT Campus Centers and Beyond Conquer Your Fundraising Fear Saturday, January 26 Academy Session 1 • All Audiences Academy Session • All Audiences Academy Session 3 • 9:00 am-12:15 pm Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 am-10:30 am Handling Conflict and Build, Win, Build, Secure: Organizing Workshop Session 6 • 10:45 am-12:15 pm Using it as Resource for Growth Campaigns to Build a Movement Academy Session 4 • 3:00 pm-6:15 pm Academy Session 2 • All Audiences Academy Session 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 pm-4:30 pm The Art and Science of Marrying Racial Justice and LGBT Workshop Session 8 • 4:45 pm-6:15 pm Voter Persuasion Rights Caucus 2 • 6:30 pm-7:30 pm Academy Session 2 • All Audiences Academy Session 3 • All Audiences

Sunday, January 27 Calling ALL Brown Bois: Organizing our Allies and Interlock- Workshop Session 9 • 9:30 am-11:00 am Building Infrastructure for Change! ing Our Movements Academy Session 3 • All Audiences Academy Session 3 • All Audiences Session Skill Levels Engaging the Dynamics of Organizing Lessons Learned from Fundamentals – Basic/entry level for Power & Privilege as Facilitators the Black Panther Party new staff, board members, volunteers and of Social Justice Work Academy Session 4 • All Audiences activists, or existing staff, board, volunteers Academy Session 4 • All Audiences and activists with new responsibilities. Typi- cally 0-1 year of experience in the topic area. Anti-Racist Practices for White LGBT Content covers terminology, basic theory and Professionals in Higher Education Practice Spirit, building essential skills. Academy Session 4 • All Audiences Do Justice Track

Intermediate – Intermediate, 2-5 years Take Action Track How Can Faith Settings Respond to experience. Content includes putting theory Alarming Suicide Rates Within the into practice, and practical application. Ses- Bridging the Gap Between Transgender Community? sions deal with serious challenges or barriers Campaigns and Congregations: Academy Session 1 • All Audiences to being effective. Some time is devoted to The Fine Line of Spiritual Diplomacy problem solving. Include pre-requisites for Academy Session 1 • All Audiences Talking Smack Outside the Shack intermediate sessions in the session abstract Academy Session 2 • All Audiences portion of the proposal form. Talk Is Action: A New Strategy For Creating Change The Erotic, The Sacred & The Spirit: Advanced – Advanced, 5+ years of expe- Academy Session 2 • All Audiences Just Sex on Fire rience. Sessions tailored for lead volunteers Academy Session 3 • All Audiences and organizers, board chairs, executive direc- Popular Education and tors and senior managers, and experienced Organizing for LGBTQ Liberation Queering Religious Partnership lobbyists. Content includes advanced theory, Academy Session 3 • All Audiences Academy Session 4 • All Audiences organizational management, and best prac- tices. In addition, advanced sessions can in- “I Never Thought About it That clude case study examinations and high-level Way”: The Media as a Tool for problem solving. Advocacy and Public Education Academy Session 4 • All Audiences All Audiences – Session is suitable for participants at all skill levels.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 45 AGING AND AGEISM Turn up the HEAT! (HIV Education Activities Toolkit) The Older Americans Act: Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences The Most Important Law You’ve Never Heard of and How We’re Working to Make It More LGBT Inclusive. HIV Prevention, Queer Liberation, Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences and Intersectional Organizing Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Old is not a Four Letter Word: Ageism through the Ages Hallelujah Our Heroes: Tales of Activism Against AIDS Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

Improving the Quality of Services and Supports Offered , HIV/AIDS, and the Future of Advocacy to Older Adults in LGBT Organizations Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 and 4 • All Audiences ANTI-VIOLENCE, INCLUDING SEXUAL Extension of Cultural Competency Training ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE on Aging Issues Caucus 1 • All Audiences Responding to Violence in LGBTQ Communities Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals SAGENet Caucus: Emerging Trends, Best Practices, Model Programs Hanging Out & Hooking Up Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals

Reshaping State Aging Policy: Collaborations that When It’s One of Our Own: Focus the Lens on LGBT Older Adults Sexual Violence in LGBTQ Communities Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate Workshop Session 4 • Fundamentals

Finding the Tools You Need From the Deepening the Roots of Our Movement; National Resource Center on LGBT Aging Organizing to Prevent and Reduce Police Violence and Caucus 2 • All Audiences Misconduct Against LGBTQ Communities Workshop Session 5 • Fundamentals National LGBT Aging Roundtable Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences Trading Sex for Survival: Developing a Progressive LGBT Response AIDS/ HIV Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate

Bad Science, Bad Policy, Bad Health: He Continues to Make a Difference: HIV Criminalization Laws, What You Should Know The Story of Matthew Shepard and What You Can Do Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Interpersonal Violence (IPV) Programs for LGBTQ-H Tour of The Names Project Communities: Increasing Services in the Pacific North- Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences west & Stretching the Dollar to Build in the South Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Health Equity and the LGBT Community: What Happened to HIV? ART & CULTURE Workshop Session 3 and 4 • All Audiences Exploring Art and Activism or HIV/AIDS & Islamic Ethics Exploring Activism Through Art Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 and 5 • All Audiences

Or: The Second Closet: Theater for Social Change: The Pros and Cons to living openly with HIV From Page to Stage in 90 Minutes Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

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Art, Culture, Memory and Points Make A Star: An LGBTQ Center Successful Black Gay Men’s Community Organizing Partnership with Four Other Cultural Centers Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Spit That Truth: Propel the Caucus on Women’s Colleges Movement Through Performance Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Inspiring Brown Bois in Student Affairs The First Annual LGBTQ International Caucus 1 • Intermediate Documentary Challenge Caucus 1 • All Audiences Queer Like Me: Supporting Community Formation for LGBTQA Students of Color with Limited Mirrors Southern-Style Cultural Organizing Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 7 and 8 • Intermediate, All Audiences Serving Students at their Intersections: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Politics Reorganizing Academic and Student Services to Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Meet the Complex Identity Needs of the Contempory College Students Call Me William: The Life and Loves of Willa Cather Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Caucus 2 • Fundamentals Exploring the Experiences of LGBQ College Students of The Poetics of Communicating Desire; Color in their Search for Meaning Epistles, Email & Sexting Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate, All Audiences Do Our Puzzle Pieces Fit?! Creating the Connection BISEXUAL COMMUNITY & ISSUES between College Campuses & LGBTQ Community Resource Centers to Work Together for Success. Making the Invisible Visible: Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences How Your Group Can Become Bi Inclusive Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals Queering Modern Retention Efforts – Mentoring Programs Caucus 2 • Fundamentals, Intermediate Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Caucus Caucus 1 • Fundamentals I’m Online: LGBT Identity Development in a Social Media Context Beyond Binaries: Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate Identity, Sexuality and Movement Building Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences COLLEGE CAMPUS ISSUES AND ORGANIZING FOR STUDENTS Feisty Bis: Building Community & Resisting Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Organizing Queer API Students on College Campuses Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences COLLEGE CAMPUS ISSUES AND ORGANIZING FOR Not a Club But a Movement LGBT ADMINISTRATORS Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals

Raising Activist Students Topics in Queer Student Leadership: Effective Leader- Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences ship Transitions, Assessment, and Goal-Driven Planning Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals, Intermediate Creating Change on Campus: Leveraging Cross Generational Organizing Sex (Education) is a RIGHT! Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals, Intermediate

Intersecting Identities: Serving Queer Students #Winning Your Campus Campaign While Looking at Intersectionality Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 47 Design the Change: How Millennials Can Amplify DISABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY their Voice and Impact the Policymaking Process Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Liberating the LGBTQ Movement of Physical and Social Barriers for Persons with Disabilities Complexities: Cross-Issue Movement Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals, All Audiences Initiative Building on College Campuses Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences The Liberation of LGBTQ Self-Advocates in the Disability Rights and LGBTQ Movements Two Ways to Get an Audience Thinking! Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals, All Audiences Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Queer Activism in Spanish Workshop Establishing Inclusivity in Campus Organizing Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Exploring Disability’s Intersectional Space in LGBTI Rights Beyond Outreach: Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Building Bridges with Queer Students of Color Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate Austin Unbound: Deaf, Trans, Disabled? Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Putting the “T” Back in LGBT Campus Organizations Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Austin Unbound: Deaf, Trans, Disabled? (continued) Caucus 2 • All Audiences College Student Caucus Caucus 2 • Fundamentals, All Audiences ELECTIONS/ CAMPAIGNS

Creating a Safe Space Program for Students Marriage Campaigns 2012: Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate Unique Paths to Victory on Nov 6th Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences 69 Ways to Use Saran Wrap: Queering your Campus’ Safer Sex Education Defending Our Courts Against Anti-LGBT Assaults: Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Strategies for Keeping State Courts Fair & Impartial Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences COMMUNITY ORGANIZING 2012 Campaign Strategy Tactics and Lessons The South: Sex, Politics, and God Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Marriage at the Ballot Box: Lessons Learned in 2012 Art of the Schmooze and How We Can Apply Them in 2013 and Beyond Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate, Advanced

Building Progressive Muslim Communities and Spaces Putting Faith in Action: Mobilizing Communities Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences of Faith on Politcal Campaigns Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences National Mobilization Meeting for LGBTA Participation in the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Putting Faith in Action: Mobilizing Communities Workshop Session 3 and 4 • All Audiences of Faith on Politcal Campaigns (continued) Caucus 1 • All Audiences Making OUR Invisibility Visible: Building an Active Lesbian of Color Community National Politics Panel Organization from Underground, and Beyond Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals Staying Strong as Individuals and Communities: How I Became An Icon and Saved Our Stories Surviving Anti-LGBTQ Politics Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

From Trauma to Triumph: Making Good Meanings Good Psychology: Using it Wisely for Messaging and Beyond Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate

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Electing Champions: What are the Models and The Prosperous Board Measures for Building an Impactful Elections Program? Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals, All Audiences Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate Towards a More Responsive Philanthropy: FAMILIES Grantmaking for Racial Equity and LGBTQ Justice Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Families Sponsor GAY MALE COMMUNITY & ISSUES We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re Parents: How to Build and Sustain Robust LGBTQ Family Passing the Torch: A U.S. Model for Engaging and Mo- Support Programs bilizing Young Black Gay Men to End the HIV Epidemic Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

Winning, Keeping, and Expanding Benefits for Hung? LGBT Couples and Families Workshop Session 9 • Fundamentals Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate GENDER AND IDENTITY The Artifice of the Nuclear Family: Exploring Alternative Family Models : An Introductory Workshop Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals

The Gender Dance: : The Psychological and Social Smashing Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Literature Damage Caused By Efforts to “Cure” LGBTQ People Caucus 1 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • Fundamentals

Conditional Love: Exploring Hmoob-American Culture & Identity Confronting Issues When Coming Out to Your Family Caucus 1 • Fundamentals, Intermediate Caucus 1 • All Audiences Sharing Stories of the Ex-Gay Movement Families Who Love So Much and its Continued Effect Caucus 1 • All Audiences Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Family Building for Community Organizers HEALTH Workshop Session 5 • Fundamentals Drum Yourself Whole Keeping Families Connected . . . .One Heart at a Time Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Making Obamacare Work for Our Communities Low-Income LGBT Families: Know Your Rights Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Whose Conscience? Making the Connections FUNDRAISING Between Treatment Refusals for Abortion/ Contraception and LGBT Persons Technology to Assist the Grantseeker Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Making the Case for Reproductive Justice Getting Corporate Partners: as an LGBTQ Issue How the Business of Change Supports LGBT Efforts! Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate IMMIGRATION Fundraising: Getting Past the Fear of Asking Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences DREAM Act 101 for LGBT Activists: Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer and Unashamed Building Your Donor Base Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate Caucus 1 • All Audiences

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 49 From Buckhead to the Beltway: Local and Federal Labor Caucus Responses in the Fight for Immigrant Justice Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences LEGISLATIVE/ POLICY INITIATIVES Intersecting Identities: Through Youth Activism Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences The 90 Minute Master’s in Social Change Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate LGBTQ Groups Come OUT against S-Comm Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate The Obama Administration: The Next 4 Years Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Moving Forward Together: Immigration & LGBT Messaging That Works Breaks in the School-to-Prison-Pipeline: Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences How Queer Youth Can Stop Bullying and Win Alternative Policy Solutions to “Zero Tolerance” INTERNATIONAL ISSUES Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate

U.S. Foreign Policy, Queer Activism, and The Global Hu- Congress - Where’s Our Federal Legislation? man Rights Movement: Tensions, Trials, and Opportunities Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Passing Legislation to Ban Efforts to Convert Minors The LGBT Movement of Cuba Today Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate, All Audiences Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

China’s Emerging Leaders: You Can’t Change What We Never Chose: An Innovative China/US Collaborative Conversion Therapy Action Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Why Have 87 LGBTQ Activists Been Killed in Honduras? How to Lobby/ Advocate on LGBT Issues Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

China’s Queer Movement: LESBIAN COMMUNITY & ISSUES Overcoming Obstacles Including the One Child Policy, Family Pressure, and the Police Lesbians 60 and Over Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Defending Family Values: How the US Religious Right is Lesbian Caucus Inciting Homophobia Across the Globe Caucus 2 • Intermediate Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences MARRIAGE AND FAMILY/ Beyond Uganda: RELATIONSHIP RECOGNITION the Death Penalty and Global LGBT Criminalization Caucus 2 • All Audiences Straight Spouses Whose Partners Come Out: More than “Allies” LABOR Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Uncommon Bedfellows? Organized Labor, MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS, Immigrant Justice and Queer Liberation Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate AND MESSAGING

Building LGBTQ Support for Workers: Buy Union From Bathroom Panic to Basic Rights: Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Winning the Message War on Trans Rights Legislation Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Organizing for Economic Justice & Transgender-Inclusive Benefits Social Media, Ethics, and the LGBT Community Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

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Turning Media Moments into Winnable Campaigns The Holy Grail of Changing Hearts & Minds Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate, Advanced on LGBT Equality: Why Can’t We Use It? Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Queering Hip Hop: Using the Social Message of Rap’s Storytelling to Shift Media Perspectives and Allies Take Risks to Support Us and Create Alternative Spaces We Have their Backs! Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals, Intermediate Workshop Session 8 • Fundamentals

Talking about Schools and LGBT Equality: Bro-Choice?! Engaging Men, Challenging Masculinity, How to Frame the Debate About LGBT-Inclusive and Queering the Reproductive Justice Movement Schools and Win Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Strategic Partnerships: Engaging Supporters Online: Building a Movement Across Lines of Difference Using Digital Tools to Win Campaigns Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Guerrilla Projection: Make Your Own Advocacy Bat Signal! Transforming Your LGBT Organization Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences to be Fully Trans-Inclusive Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences MILITARY & VETERANS ISSUES Evaluating Advocacy & Policy Change – Our Turn to Serve: Untangling the Mess Supporting the LGBT Military Community Workshop Session 5 • Advanced Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals, Intermediate I’m Ready to Evaluate, But Now What? Miles to March for Military Equality Practical Program Evaluation 201 Caucus 2 • Fundamentals Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate

MOVEMENT BUILDING PEOPLE OF COLOR

There Is No Wrong Way To Have A Body Creating Acceptance within Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences African-American Faith Communities Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences How to Become “Gay for Pay” – Kicking off Your Queer Career A Morning With National Black Justice Coalition: Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences LGBT Emerging Leaders Briefing Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences If You Want an Ally, Be an Ally: The Importance of Coali- tion Building in the Progression of LGBT Civil Rights Familia es Familia: Workshop Session 4 • Fundamentals A Groundbreaking National Partnership to Bring Conversations About LGBT Latinos Out of the Shadows Unid@s: Estamos Presente! Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences Ballroom 101 – Calling All the Children to School Queer African Caucus Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences Ballroom 102 – See You Afterschool, In Memory of Brandon Practice Makes Perfect Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Beyond Binaries: Mapping Power: Identity, Sexuality and Movement Building LGBTQ AAPI Organizing for Social Change Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 51 Intergenerational LGBTSQ Black Caucus Talking about LGBT Issues with Religious Traditionalists: Caucus 1 • All Audiences Best Practices and Common Pitfalls Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Queer Arab and SWANA Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences Could Queer Spirituality Save Christianity Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences First Nations Two Spirit Caucus Caucus 1 • Intermediate Creating Change in the API LGBT Christian Community: An API Family Conversation Unid@s: Estamos Presente! Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences Be Not Afraid - Help is on the Way! Identifying and Queer African Caucus Engaging Straight Allies in Faith Communities Caucus 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Unlimiting Blackness A La Familia: Working Within Our Congregations Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Coming Out-“A Family Affair” A Latino Perspective Caring for their Transgender Congregants: What Every Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Religious Leader Needs to Know about Their Transgen- der and Gender Non-Conforming Members Transcending Borders: Two Spirit People, Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Sovereignty and the Struggle for Liberation Workshop Session 7 and 8 • Intermediate Implementing Strategies for LGBT Jewish Movement Building Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Trans Women of Color: The Sisterhood Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate Race and Leadership in Faith-based Organizing Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101 Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Inspirational LGBTQQIA Organizing Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate National Strategy For Black Gay Youth In America Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Transgender Muslims: How Orthodox Islam Gets It Right (And Yet So Wrong) Building Our QAPI Movement: Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences A Caucus for Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders Transforming Congregations of Color from the Inside Out Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Stepping into the Rainbow: Oppression, Jewish Rituals to Celebrate LGBTQ People’s Lives Coming out, and the African American Community Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Caucus 2 • All Audiences Atheist/Agnostic/Non-believer Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences

PRACTICE SPIRIT, Introducing: “What Do I Do Now: When a Child Comes DO JUSTICE Out as Lesbian or Gay” Caucus 1 • Fundamentals Creating Acceptance within African-American Faith Communities Secrets to Engaging Conservative Christians Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

A 3-Tiered Model for LGBT Advocacy Building Movement Within Movements: TransFaith In Color within Faith Communities Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals

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Winning with Faith Queer Muslim Caucus Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Moving from the Land of Misfits to a Place of Inclusion United Church of Christ Caucus Workshop Session 5 • Fundamentals Caucus 2 • All Audiences

We Dream a World in Which All Are Free A Cry for Help: The Role of Religion in Homophobic Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Rape, Violence and Murder of LGBTQI People of Color Caucus 2 • All Audiences Unleashing Your Power Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences RACIAL/ ECONOMIC JUSTICE

A Conversation with Bishop Gene Robinson Building a National LGBT Economic Empowerment Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Learning Circle Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Mobilizing Catholics for Marriage Freedom: Ingredients for a Grassroots Movement Better Together: with Long-term Effect Connecting Racial Justice and LGBTQ Rights Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate

Intersections of Islamophobia and Homophobia Fear of a Brown Planet: Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Race, the Right, and the Queer Community Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate Amplifying Voices of Faith for LGBT Equality - Yours! Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Innovative Approaches for Addressing Poverty in LGBT Communities New Wine in Old Skins - the Role of Faith Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences in Lives of Old LGBT Persons Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences LGBTQ SURJ: White Queers Showing Up for Racial Justice Safe Space and Anti-Bullying Programs Workshop Session 7 and 8 • Intermediate in Faith-Based Settings Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals, Intermediate Lift Every Voice: Black LGBTQ Experiences Caucus 2 • All Audiences Moralism VS Pluralism – Changing the Conversation around Sexuality and Religious Freedom to RESEARCH AND POLICY ANALYSIS Liberate Our Bodies Workshop Session 8 • Fundamentals All Children Matter: LGBT Families of Color Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate The Love is Always Right Project Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Beyond 2012: Crafting an Agenda for the Black LGBT Community Transgender Suicide Prevention- A Faithful Response Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Community-Based Surveys: Collecting and Using Data Conversaciones de Fe – A Dialogue Amongst Latin@ to Secure Protections for LGBT People and Secular Faith Leaders Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Whose Conscience? Religious Refusal Policies and Jewish Queer Caucus the Impact They Have on the LGBT Community Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate, Advanced

Getting Through, Not Around, the Ex-Gay Movement Debunking Anti-LGBTIQ “Research” Caucus 2 • Fundamentals Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 53 Understanding the Court’s Opinion in CAUCUS: Femme Recent Cases Involving GLBT Discrimination Caucus 1 • Fundamentals Caucus 2 • All Audiences SexPositive POC RURAL/ SMALL TOWN ORGANIZING Caucus 1 • Fundamentals, All Audiences

Rural Organizing: Queering Small Spaces Mapping Our Desires Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Workshop Session 5 and 6 • All Audiences

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION, GRADES K-12 Sexual Liberation: A 40th Anniversary Conversation Advanced Topics in Safe Schools Law and Policy Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate, Advanced The End of Romance? Creating Welcoming, Gender Inclusive Schools: Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Lessons Learned from Partnerships Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences /Nonmonogamy Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences Federal Efforts to Achieve Safer Schools Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Butch/Femme: A Conversation Caucus 2 • All Audiences Pre-K-12 Educators Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences CAUCUS: Kink/Leather Caucus • All Audiences Transforming Schools: Safe School Organizing for Trans• and Gender Non-Conforming People TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY & ISSUES Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences A Gender Not Listed Here Achieving Safer Schools One District at a Time Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate Jobs for Trans People — SEXUAL FREEDOM Getting, Keeping and Suing for Jobs Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences SexPositive TransSex Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Cruel Exclusions: The Fight to End Health Care Discrimination Against Transgender People Doing Justice: A Place for Polyamorous/Non-Monoga- Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals mous Communities in the LGBTIQA Movement Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate “Meaningful Work”: Addressing the Issues of the Transgender Community in the Sex Trade You Say Fetish, I Say Affinity Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate, Advanced Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate, All Audiences The National Transgender Discrimination Survey Asexual Voices Panel Discussion Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences The Trans Agenda – The FAST Version – With Wheels! Because You’re Brown Honey Gurl!: Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences A Dialogue about Race & Desire Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate Saving Our Selves: Transgender Suicide Prevention and Intervention Asexy & Allies Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences Activating People to Take Action on Sexual Liberators Caucus Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences

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Cutting Edge Issues in Trans Rights: ID documents, Real G.R.I.T.S. (Gays Raised In The South): Jails and Prisons, and Police Mistreatment Recipes for engaging Southern LGBTQI youth Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Improving the Lives of Transgender Older Adults The Importance of Youth in the Movement Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals, All Audiences

Where do We Belong? yOUTh on the Inside: A Space for Trans Folks and Their Partners Juvenile Justice Reform for LGBTQ Youth in the U.S. Caucus 2 • All Audiences Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Caucus for State and/or Local Transgender Advocacy, Youth-Led Grassroots “Fun”-raising! Legal, and/or Political Organizations/Activists Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Caucus 2 • All Audiences Addressing LGBT Youth Homelessness in Transgender 101 Your Community; the Lost-n-Found Model Caucus 2 • Fundamentals Caucus 2 • All Audiences

WORKPLACE National LGBTQ Youth Roundtable Caucus 2 • All Audiences How to Become “Gay for Pay” – Kicking off Your Queer Career The Perfect Storm: Rural Organizations Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Empowering Youth with National Frame Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Taking the Leap: Becoming Corporate! Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals

Economics and Equality: Economic Development for the LGBT Movement Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

YOUTH

Empowering our Future: Why LGBTQ Youth Mentoring and Scholarship are Needed Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

The Trevor Project Lifeguard Workshop Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals, Intermediate

Piece of Cake: Applying Lessons Learned from the Marriage Equality Movement to the Queer & Trans Youth Movement Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention: A Public Health and Policy Approach Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Applying for a Queer Youth Fund Grant Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate

Youthlink: Creating a National LGBT Youth Policy and Advocacy Agenda Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate, All Audiences

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Schedule of Events • Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Please check the grid schedule for room locations.

Daylong Institutes After 6:00 PM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Receptions and Events The Racial Justice Institute The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals The Institute’s primary purpose is to offer Creating Annual Business Meeting Change participants a range of tools for working more ef- 8 PM – 10 PM Annual Meeting fectively towards racial justice in our churches, communi- ties, campaigns, and workplaces. This one-day institute The Consortium is a national organization of profession- provides a balance of self-reflection opportunities with als who provide support and services to LGBTQA stu- engaging learning activities and deeper intersectional dents, staff and faculty at colleges and universities and analysis of how racial justice and LGBT liberation connect who educate campus communities about sexual orienta- in contemporary social justice movements. The Racial tion and gender identity issues. The Consortium’s Annual Justice Institute has a rich history at Creating Change. Business Meeting is free and open to anyone interested Very well attended and well regarded, this Institute has in joining the Consortium and learning about LGBTA is- grown exponentially in size and scope. Facilitated by a sues at colleges and universities. team of seasoned racial justice trainer/facilitators, the Institute will be steeped in an anti-oppression lens that reflects the intersections of gender, sexuality, class, ability and race to offer sessions that are creative, thoughtful and give participants practical skills to make a difference through the work we do every day.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Schedule of Events • Thursday, January 24, 2013 Please check the grid schedule for room locations. Art Studio Space - CC13 Salon C, Second Level 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Creating Change is thrilled to bring back Art Studio Space - Creating Change. Through our creative, artistic, brilliant selves, we seek ways of expressing our fierce desires, love and passion, and our commitment to creating a world in which we want to live. The Arts have been a vital and historic component of our LGBTQ culture. Our creative expres- sions foster and reflect individual visions within our communities, through the banners we carry, the logos we brand for our organizations and the art we hang on our walls. Art Studio Space - CC13 is a collaborative space in which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own personal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The Art Studio is for participants to express their creative and individual hopes, compassion and desires with glitter, markers, cloth and paint. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC13 Banner, weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! Hope to see you there!

Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Advancing Trans Rights – Transgender People of Color Coalition, Columbia, MO; Strategies and Tactics for Success Alison Gill, Government Affairs Director, The Trevor Project, Washington, DC; Aidan Key, Executive Direc- Come join movement leaders with a wide range of expe- tor, Gender Diversity, Seattle, WA riences to help guide your efforts to secure transgender rights wherever you are. Trainers will provide overviews of LGBT Elder Institute 2013: how to build a strong and diverse team of trans people Aging Issues Activism and and allies, how to plan a campaign to get more rights, the LGBT Movement how to deal with conflict and interpersonal challenges, and how to avoid many of the pitfalls we have fallen into How do you direct your activism in a post-election cli- ourselves! Excitingly, we will learn about what attendees mate? what are the key opportunities and important are working on already, or want to work on in the future, challenges? How prepared are we, as members of the and many of these ideas will be “workshopped” in small LGBT movement, to mobilize and move LBGT older adult teams – where the team helps develop or enhance the inclusive federal policies and to gain access to federal plan/strategies/tactics that you are using or plan to use dollars? Learn about these issues and hone your grass- to make your effort a complete success! roots advocacy skills in this day-long session featuring demonstration exercises, peer-to-peer education and Faculty/Presenters: Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil facilitated discussion. Share your local LGBT aging advo- Rights Project Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task cacy tools and successes. Hear from Atlanta-area LGBT Force, Washington, DC; Trystan Reese, Senior Field elders about their local, regional and national initiatives. Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los In addition, attendees will share first-hand examples of Angeles; Gunner Scott, Executive Director, Massachu- local strategy. You will also hear from leading LGBT aging setts Transgender Political Coalition, Boston; Masen advocates, organizers and researchers from across the Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center, San country about effective tools for change at the local, state Francisco; Andrew Cray, Research Associate, Center and national level. for American Progress, Washington, DC; Angel Collie, Transgender Ministries Lead, Metropolitan Community The Creating Change LGBT Elder Institute is hosted by Church, New Haven, CT; Michelle Enfield, Interim SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Program Coordinator, Red Circle Project, AIDS Project and Transgender Elders). Planning, presenting and orga- Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Andy Bowen, Organizer, DC nizing faculty include members of The National Gay and Trans Coalition, Washington, DC; Mara Keisling, Ex- Lesbian Task Force, the National LGBT Aging Round- ecutive Director, National Center for Transgender Equal- table, and SAGENet, a network of SAGE Affiliates from ity, Washington, DC; Jaan Williams, Program Manager, rural and urban communities across the country. Victory Institute, Washington, DC; Pooja Gehi, Director of Immigrant Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New Presenters: Mary Anne Adams, MSW, Founder/ York City; Drian Juarez, Program Manager, Trans- Board Chair, ZAMI NOBLA (National Association of gender Economic Empowerment Project, L.A. Gay & Black Lesbians on Aging) and Director, Center for Com- Lesbian Center, Los Angeles; Kylar Broadus, Founder, munity Training/Research and Director, Community

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Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Engagement/ Outreach, Center for Health Disparities and agents of change in all areas of their lives. Research (CORE), Georgia State University Institute of Public Health; Linda Ellis, Executive Director, The Presenters: Jen Parshley, Remo Corso, Cheyenne Health Initiative, Inc. Atlanta; Cheryl Courtney-Evans, Johnson, Ian Fabrielle Schroeder Founder/Executive Director, Transgender Individuals Living Their Truth, Inc. (TILTT Inc.); Robert Espinoza, Executive Directors/CEO Institute: Senior Director of Policy and Communications, Services New Institute! and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE); Erin Fitzger- This Institute has evolved from the annual afternoon 3-hour ald, Urvashi Vaid Research Fellow, Program Associate, session called the E.D./CEO Roundtable. Led by a group National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Jan Griesinger, of seasoned E.D.s/CEOs at a variety of organizations Co-chair, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC); (larger, smaller, local, national), this Institute will involve both Pat Hussain, Proud grandmother of Premiere and presentations and interactive small and large group ses- Ka’Juan and Co-Founder of Southerners on New sions of relevance to nonprofit E.D’s/CEO’s. This session Ground (SONG); Toby Jenkins, Executive Director, is specifically for nonprofit Executive Directors/CEO’s only. Oklahoma Equality Center; Gerald McIntyre, Direct- ing Attorney, National Senior Citizens Law Center; Dan The agenda for this year’s Institute includes: Mullins, MSAS, Coordinator, Haven Associates; Aging and Ageism Consultant for Access to Independence • A two-hour intensive on “Working with the Media: En- Initiative and Coordinator, The Center, Cortland, NY; hancing the Visibility of Your Organization & Improving Richard Rhodes, Board Member, Atlanta Prime Timers as Media Spokesperson” Led by Jim Key, Chief Public and Founding Member, SAGE Atlanta; Eleanor Smith, Affairs Officer, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and Eric Ol- Founder, Concrete Change; Charles Stevens, Presi- vera, Director of Communications, National Center for dent, Atlanta Prime Timers and Member, American Vet- Lesbian Rights. eran’s for Equal Rights (AVER); Aaron Tax, Director of • Lunchtime Panel Discussion: E.D./CEO survival (Lunch Federal Government Relations, Services and Advocacy is included for those who register for Creating Change for GLBT Elders (SAGE); Laurie Young, PhD, Director 2013 in advance and select this Institute for Thursday, of Aging and Economic Security, The National Gay and Jan. 24) Lesbian Task Force; Sherrill Wayland, Executive Direc- tor, SAGE Metro St. Louis; Imani Woody, PhD, Chair, Skills Building Break-Out Groups – SAGE Metro DC and Founder, Mary’s House for Older Participants will choose one in each group: Adults; Serena Worthington, Director of Community Advocacy and Capacity Building, Services and Advo- GROUP A: cacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) • The building blocks of an annual giving program • Becoming a better public speaker The Ally Institute • Financial management Diversity vs. cultural competency vs. social justice? Creat- GROUP B: ing visibility around ? Your teachable moments? • Asking for Money & Getting It Awareness of gender identity? Recognizing our visible • Managing Up – tactics and strategies for and invisible privileges? The Minnesota GLBTA Campus managing a board of directors Alliance presents the third annual Ally Institute at Creating • E.D./CEO Employment Contracts & Evaluation Change. Designed for new and seasoned aspiring allies Small Group Discussions Based Upon Organization Size to and within LGBTQIA communities to strengthen their knowledge base, skills, and organizing savvy around is- The Coach Is In – Participants will gather with the con- sues of social justice, participants from all identities will vener of their choice who will offer counsel/coaching on consider how allies dedicated to the work of collective lib- any issues raised. eration movements can help create inclusive and acces- sible environments in the different positions where they Conveners: Lorri L. Jean, CEO, L.A. Gay & Lesbian live, work, play, and worship. Through a mix of facilitated Center, Los Angeles; Marjorie Hill, CEO, Gay Men’s group activities, skill sharing, and discussions, attendees Health Crisis, New York City; Kate Kendell, Executive will learn key concepts and training techniques for un- Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Fran- derstanding and education about LGBTQIA communities cisco; Lance Toma, Executive Director, Asian & Pacific within a social justice framework. Attendees will develop Islander Wellness Center, San Francisco; Terry Stone, their advocacy tools to become more effects advocates Executive Director, CenterLink, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Schools Focus: Sex Justice: Mapping Our Desire Safe, Respectful and Healthy Schools – How You Can Make a Difference! What are we doing in bed and why does it matter? How is the pursuit of our personal desire relevant to our work Are you a youth or adult interested in making a difference for justice? The modern LGBT movement was founded in the schools in your community and across the nation? on a belief that in our sexual and gender persecution lay Come to this Daylong Institute to learn about the current the seeds of a transformative sexuality that could topple state of LGBT issues in schools across the country, and a classist, racist, sexist, homo-bi-and trans-phobic order. what YOU can do to improve it. Whether you interact daily Ironically, the struggle for and emphasis on relationship with a school community or are an interested bystander recognition in the public square has forced an erasure of who wants to get involved, we’ll share tools for you to ad- sex from view in our movement conversations, organiza- vocate for and implement effective evidence-based inter- tions and agendas. At the Task Force, we believe that an ventions at the state and local level both personally and authentic, empowered sexuality is a tremendous asset to by providing information and resources to others. As part any movement for justice. This year’s Sex Justice Institute of the day, we’ll also have local safe schools advocates will focus on our desires: how we have shaped them and sharing their stories, challenges and successes. This in- how they have shaped us. In this space, we can begin to stitute is appropriate for any who are interested in safer consider: What is Just Sex? How can my personal claim- schools – whether you’ve been doing the work already ing of my desire foster more just sexual communities? for years or are just preparing to dive in. If you are a more Where do I begin? experienced schools advocate/organizer, please be pre- Presenters: Jaime Grant, Amelie Zurn, Ignacio pared to share some of your best practices in discussion Rivera, Asha Leong, Jack Harrison, Andrea sessions. Organized and presented by GLSEN, the Gay, Jenkins, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kenyon Farrow, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. Debanuj DasGupta, Julia Wallace, Amber Presenters: Kiwi Grady, Individual Engagement As- Hollibaugh, Harper Jean Tobin sociate and Ikaika Regidor, Chapter Engagement Associate, GLSEN, New York City Campus Pride Queer It Up Action Institute LGBTQ Campus Resource Professionals Institute Vision change. Dig deep. Take action. Young adult lead- ers from colleges and universities across the country will This Institute sponsored by the Consortium of Higher learn valuable strategies for empowering their voices Education LGBT Resource Professionals (the Consor- and being advocates for social justice on campus. This tium) provides professional development, skills build- Daylong Institute explores the skills and resources nec- ing, and networking for those who have a professional essary for successful leadership, coalition building and role supporting LGBTQ people on college and university tackling issues within your college campus or your local campuses. The institute is grounded in anti-racism and community. Valuable information will also be shared from social justice principles and focuses on access, inclusion Campus Pride’s Q Research Institute for Higher Educa- and equity for LGBTQ students and employees in higher tion (QRIHE) and the LGBT-friendly Campus Pride Index. education. This session is designed for those who en- Presented by Campus Pride, www.campuspride.org. gage in, or plan to engage in, LGBTQ work on college Faculty: Shane Windmeyer, Campus Pride; Ted campuses. This institute is for Consortium members with Lewis, Campus Pride, Nikita Burks, Campus Pride, limited space for nonmembers who are interested in at- Jess McDonald, Campus Pride & Campus Pride Leaders tending. To learn more about the Consortium, please visit our website at www.lgbtcampus.org. Funding Our Collective Liberation Presenters: D.A. Dirks, Gabe Javier, Matthew We are in a pivotal movement moment as fundraisers Armstead, Ashley Olson, Deanna Hurlbert, Sara and organizers. What will it take for us to better address Bendoraitis, Michael Shutt, Will Sherry, Matthew the challenges and conditions we’re up against in order Antonio Bosch, Lea Robinson, Katy Weseman, to build and cultivate the necessary resources, includ- Arleny Alvarez-Pena, Cornell Woodson, Yvette ing but not limited to dollars, to sustain our movements? Lerma, Matt Bruno, Matthew Carcella, Genny Join us for an interactive and participatory daylong ses- Beemyn, Jennifer Murray, Lauren Hannahs sion where we’ll strengthen and deepen our social jus- tice fundraising skills and analysis while also imagining

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Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM new models for sustainability. Learning objectives: This Latino LGBT. Mientras un sinfín de Latinos abiertamente interactive daylong session will be a space for fundraisers LGBT han creado poderosos vínculos a través de los and organizers to strengthen their skills and analysis as movimientos de justicia social, aun permanece mucho well as discuss how we can together create new models por hacer para alcanzar la cúspide de nuestra fuerza toward sustainability, movement building, and resource colectiva. Al impulsar la solidaridad y mediante el forta- organizing. lecimiento de las capacidades de un grupo diverso de latinos LGBT y sus aliados, el Instituto Latino pretende Training Team: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising reforzar y unificar la voz y los derechos de la comunidad Training (GIFT) latina LGBT. La Unión Hace La Fuerza: Nuestro encuentro incluirá una ceremonia de inaugu- Latino Institute ración y celebraciones culturales. Nos concentraremos en la cimentación de relaciones entre los participantes, Despite all odds, LGBT Latino activists are, and have una revisión del panorama del movimiento LGBT latino y been, at the forefront of many Latino and LGBT civil and las estrategias que nuestra fuerza colectiva cuenta para human rights victories. We cultivate the rich social, cultur- avanzar una reforma migratoria que incluya a la comuni- al and artistic tapestry of our movements and communi- dad LGBT. En el Instituto se abordarán temas relaciona- ties. With over 50 million Latinos in traditional and emerg- dos con las comunidades transgénero, América Latina, ing communities in the US, it is more critical than ever visibilidad de la comunidad Latina LGBT, el derecho al to invest in our Latino LGBT leadership. And while many matrimonio civil para parejas del mismo sexo y la acep- queer Latinos build bridges across the social justice land- tación familiar. Los participantes también se reunirían en scape, there is still much untapped growth to reach our torno a la afiliación de su elección. Esta cumbre de un full collective potential. This gathering will bring together día de duración sera el primer instituto para Latinos / His- diverse groups of LGBT Latinos and allies from across panos durante Creating Change. Para obtener más in- the country to foster supportive relationships and build formación acerca de La Unión Hace La Fuerza, por favor each other’s capacity to advance LGBT Latino activism. visite https://sites.google.com/site/creatingchangelatino/ Our convening will include an opening ceremony and cel- ebration of culture. The Faith Institute: We will focus on building relationships, a participatory Claiming Our Spiritual Actions review of the state of the Latino LGBT movement and A dynamic revelation of lessons learned during 2012 strategizing our collective power to move forward LGBT LGBT campaigns. The first half of the day will showcase inclusive immigration reform. The Institute will cover is- faith organizers who worked on these campaigns as well sues related to transgender communities, Latin America, as details from over 75 interviews with lay leaders, clergy, Latino LGBT visibility and spaces, marriage equality and faith volunteers and organizers who were also involved. family acceptance. In the afternoon we will showcase three of the trainings Participants will also caucus around the affiliation of their or forums that were utilized to inspire people to action. choice. This convening is the first ever Latino/Hispanic Toolkits, outlines and reports will be made available to day-long Institute at Creating Change. For more informa- use in future organizing efforts. Come and share your ex- tion about La Unión Hace La Fuerza, please visit https:// periences and take away best practices. This Institute will sites.google.com/site/creatingchangelatino/. be relevant for both faith and secular organizers.

La Unión Hace La Fuerza: Social Media Focus: Latino Institute New Media Training Institute A contra corriente, activistas Latinos LGBT están, y han At GLAAD’s New Media Training Institute (NMTI), you will estado al frente de innumerable victorias en la lucha por spend a day with social media experts including Ryan los derechos humanos y civiles para el bienestar de co- Davis, Executive Director of Social Innovation at Blue munidades Latinas y LGBT. Nosotros, los Latinos LGBT State Digital and @RyanNewYork on Twitter. You will learn entrelazamos este valioso lienzo social, cultural y artístico about the latest digital tools and online advocacy strate- de nuestros movimientos y comunidades. Con más de gies that you can incorporate into your work, how to find 50 millones de Latinos, localizados tanto en comuni- social media tools that are appropriate for your budget, dades tradicionales como emergentes en los EE. UU., es how to stay on top of the latest new media trends, and más importante que nunca el invertir en nuestro liderazgo how to successfully implement them at your organization. For more information, visit http://glaad.org/nmti2013.

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Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Working WITH Youth: Best Practices • An understanding of Asian American, South Asian, for Mobilizing, Engaging and Collabo- Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander queer histories rating with Queer and Trans Youth in the U.S. with a focus on immigration patterns This Daylong Institute will train adult leaders who want to • Skills building in local organizing, leadership develop- increase their individual and/or organizational capacity to ment, and capacity building. effectively mobilize, engage and collaborate with youth in movement building efforts. We will highlight research • A better understanding of the multiplicity of our com- and initiatives related to queer and trans youth, introduce munities across gender, nationality, religion, and other tools to assess organizational readiness and consider ap- lines and how this affects our ability to build a national proaches to increasing organizational capacity to do long movement. term movement work that is inclusive of young people. Human Rights Institute Faculty: Jessica Flaherty, Director of Programs, BAGLY (The Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth); Daunasia We are each, first and foremost, human beings. We may Yancey, BAGLY (The Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth) identify ourselves in many other ways but our humanity remains a constant. It is on that shared basis that we de- AAPI Focus: clare and demand our fundamental human rights and our Building a Queer AAPI Movement common freedoms. The Human Rights Institute will offer a full day of discussions, issue-focused work groups, and Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and skill-building/problem-solving sessions; this is a serious Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the fastest growing minority “how to do it” institute. Led by a group of experienced group in the nation and constitute an emerging sector human rights activists and skilled trainers, attendees will of the LGBT community. More and more LGBT AAPIs learn how to integrate broad and well-accepted human are coming out of the closet, yet they still face invisibility, rights themes into existing civil rights advocacy to achieve isolation, and stereotyping. The needs and concerns of specific goals. In this Daylong Institute, participants will LGBT AAPIs are often overlooked in the LGBT commu- also have the opportunity to build an action plan to move nity or marginalized in the AAPI community. To counter the queer agenda forward within a human rights frame- this, the national Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance work, to develop talking points on critical issues, build- (NQAPIA), API Equality- northern California, and API ing practical sound bites for use with public officials and Equality- LA are leading a coalition of organizations and the media. We will address common issues that LGBTQI individuals to present the daylong LGBT AAPI Institute. activists face related to family, sexual expression, relation- This will build on our successful AAPI Institutes in Min- ships, education, reproductive justice, sex worker rights, neapolis in 2011 and in Baltimore in 2012 and seeks to and sexual health. further the presence, visibility, and engagement of AAPIs at Creating Change and in LGBT social justice move- Faculty: Ricci Joy Levy, Executive Director, The ments. The Institute is open only to LGBT AAPIs. Ses- Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, Washington DC; sions will include a series of panels featuring experts in Ejim Dike, Yolande Tomlinson, Serena Garcia, US the field, proven activists and organizers, and interactive Human Rights Network, Atlanta GA group discussions. Participants are very much encour- aged to offer their own perspectives and opinions. We Class More Than Ever! aim to create an AAPI movement space. Below are what the organizers hope participants can walk away with after At a time of increasing crisis because of the current re- attending the Institute. cession, the absence of an agenda for the LGBTQ move- ment that prioritizes class and race and the impact of the • A network of fellow LGBT AAPI activists around the economic crisis on queer communities are deeply disturb- country ing. This Daylong Institute, presented by Queers for Eco- nomic Justice, will help participants examine why queer • Concrete ways to overcome barriers that frustrate poor and working class communities, often communities LGBT AAPI organizing of color, remain invisible in most mainstream LGBT orga- nizations. We will ask why class remains so hidden in the • Strategies on pressing public policy issues, how to queer movement and explore how class bias and class increase the visibility of AAPIs, and ways to counter assumptions determine the way that LGBT issues are homophobia in the larger AAPI community. deemed a priority or are not seen as “really” queer. To be more specific, economics and economic realities, fiscal

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Daylong Institutes • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM policy and austerity measures, bank bailouts and bank- every issue that the LGBTQ movement addresses and ruptcy, the dissections of social support services and the how this impacts LGBTQ people. protection of others (read preservation of Social Security versus the dismantling of TANF), corporate welfare and Faculty: Amber Hollibaugh, Darcy Okamoto, Terry welfare reform all have impacts that are specific to race, Boggis, Queers for Economic Justice, New York, NY; class, gender, gender identity, ability and sexual orienta- Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice, New tion. We want LGBTQ activists to think critically about the Orleans, LA ways in which economic justice issues are embedded in

After 6:00 PM Receptions and Events David Bohnett CyberCenter Reception Welcome to Atlanta Reception 6:00 - 8:00 PM • Trader Vic’s (inside the Hilton) 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Grand Ballroom Foyer, Level 2, Exhibit Area Join our fun and casual reception to chat about the David Bohnett CyberCenters – there are now 60 at LGBT Cen- Mix and mingle in the conference exhibit area. Refresh- ters from coast to coast. This event is for LGBT Com- ments and cash bar. Sponsored by the National Gay and munity Center leaders who already host a David Bohnett Lesbian Task Force CyberCenter or for LGBT Center leaders who want to learn more about this innovative program. Opening Plenary Session 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 6:30 PM Keep your recovery going at Creating Change!

First Timers’ Orientation 7:00 PM First time at Creating Change? Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information that you need to quickly di- Deepak Bhargava gest in order to make good choices about how to spend your time? Want some help? Come to the First Timers’ Center for Community Change Orientation session with the Conference Director to get 8:00 PM • Grand Ballroom your questions answered by the expert!

The Opening Cruise: After Opening Plenary Session Group 1: People Younger Than 35 and Their Allies Group 2: People 35 and Older and Their Allies These sessions, immediately after the opening plenary, are open to Creating Change attendees who are interested in meeting and/or hooking up with others at the conference. For folks who say, “I wish I had met you earlier in the conference,” you now have no excuse. This is your opportunity! In response to previous attendees’ feedback, we are dividing the Opening Cruise this year into two sessions: one for people younger than 35 years old and one for people 35 years and older but of course there will be no age verification so go where you think you would have the best experience to meet new people and connect.

Using a modified speed-greeting format, the Opening Cruise will provide participants with the chance to meet attend- ees in the room through quick introductions and questions. Then attendees can form small groups based on shared identities and interests, providing an opportunity to talk more with individuals who caught their attention. Participation is flexible and conference attendees are welcome to attend, inclusive of various identities and life experiences. Pro- gram hosts will be on hand to facilitate the event, answer questions, and help with resources.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Schedule of Events • Friday, January 25, 2013 Please check the grid schedule for room locations. Arcus Foundation Art Studio Space - CC13 Breakfast Briefing Salon C, Second Level 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM The Arcus Foundation provides an overview of its re- Creating Change is thrilled to bring back Art Studio Space cently announced five-year strategy for advancing LGBT - Creating Change. Through our creative, artistic, brilliant equality worldwide. The briefing includes an in-depth ex- selves, we seek ways of expressing our fierce desires, love ploration of the rationale behind the Foundation’s U.S. and passion, and our commitment to creating a world program, which is now focused on empowering young in which we want to live. The Arts have been a vital and people, communities of color and LGBT youth of color. historic component of our LGBTQ culture. Our creative Executive Director Kevin Jennings and VP of Social Jus- expressions foster and reflect individual visions within our tice Programming Tom Kam, along with other members communities, through the banners we carry, the logos we of the Arcus program staff provide basic information brand for our organizations and the art we hang on our and answer questions about Arcus’ plans to put LGBT walls. Art Studio Space - CC13 is a collaborative space in equality on the agendas of the world’s religious leaders, which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own per- international bodies and human rights organizations. At- sonal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The Art tendees learn which kinds of partners Arcus envisions for Studio is for participants to express their creative and in- this strategy and how their own work may align with or dividual hopes, compassion and desires with glitter, mark- complement Arcus’ strategies to effect change. ers, cloth and paint. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC13 Banner, weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! Hope to see you there!

Academy Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Bridging the Gap Between cent of respondents to a 2009 national survey reported Campaigns and Congregations: that they had attempted suicide, compared to 1.6 per- The Fine Line of Spiritual Diplomacy cent within the general population – efforts to understand Take Action • All Audiences causes, identify warning signs and prevent suicide activi- ties have become important steps for saving individuals, Before the phone banks and canvas, before the volun- families and communities from the shattering experience teer recruitment and messaging, it is essential to under- of suicide. Major targets for these life-saving efforts have stand the cultural differences between faith communities been health care and social service providers as well as and campaigns. Understanding the context, leadership educators and public safety professionals (law enforce- and communication styles, history and unique cultures of ment and fire fighters/emergency medical technicians/ both campaigns and congregations will make your jobs paramedics).Unfortunately, little effort has been focused as organizers, coalition builders and field staff a whole lot on religious communities and the leadership, places and easier! Avoid mis-steps and the risk of alienating people individuals that often have deep connections to those of faith. Learn how to work with existing coalitions like struggling with thoughts of suicide. This session will Councils of Churches, Integrity, and others. Understand bridge that gap and bring to faith leaders the tools that the assumptions that can and can’t be made about will help them understand the issue, its triggers, warning church statuses like Open and Affirming and Welcoming. signs and provide effective responses to individuals and families dealing with this crisis. Presenters: Ali Vander Zanden, Mainers United for Marriage, Equality Maine; Rev. Sue Gabrielson, Minis- Presenters: Ruben Hopwood, Transgender Health ter, Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church Program, Fenway Community Health; Minister Louis Mitchell, Recovering the Promise Ministries, Freedom How Can Faith Settings Respond Center for Social Justice and Trans-People of Color Co- to Alarming Suicide Rates Within alition; Jack Harrison, National Gay and Lesbian Task the Transgender Community? Force, Washington, DC Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences As the staggering levels of suicide attempts within the transgender community have become known – 41 per-

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Academy Session 1 Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Story Telling Exploring Art and Activism or Build Power • All Audiences Exploring Activism Through Art Art Studio Space • Salon C Second Level This interactive workshop will utilize several grassroots Art and Culture • All Audiences media campaigns from LGBTQ family building and social justice work to examine the use of storytelling, visual arts, Come explore activism and what it means to create digital media and oral history for education, advocacy, com- change through a dynamic, interactive art workshop! Art is munity and coalition building. Participants will see quilt pan- a wonderful way to deepen self-awareness, facilitate use- els from The LOVING Quilt: A People’s Living History of Mar- ful dialogue, foster better understanding of one another as riage Equality and Family Justice Movements, COLAGE’s activists and members of the queer movement. Absolutely That’s So Gay! exhibit, Let California Ring and API Equality no art experience or skill necessary (there’s no wrong way Multilingual marriage equality projects, watch digital stories to do it!) just bring yourselves and an open mind. and hear audio clips from StoryCorps OutLoud LGBTQ and Ally oral history project. Participants will practice telling a Facilitator: Tamara Weiner brief personal story using the StoryCorps model and several family leadership campaigns, and learn about projects in Raising Activist Students transgender, elder, youth, LGBTQI family, marriage equality College Campus Issues and Organizing for and reproductive rights movements. We will use the prin- LGBT Administrators • All Audiences ciples and practices of popular education and cultural hu- Students can be the best activists around but often they mility work to explore ways of utilizing oral history, visual arts are scared to act. While we see some action happening in and interactive media in public education, intercommunity urban areas, many staff and faculty members ask “Where alliance building and advocacy work. did the activist kids go?” Join seasoned activist justin ad- Presenter: Maya Scott-Chung MPH, Laurel Fertility Care kins to discuss how to engage student activists without losing your job? How can your help students navigate the We are Multitudes: Cross-Movement college/university system? What about tapping into other and Multi-Issue Ally Practice in LGBT organizations? What about intersectionality? Campus Centers and Beyond Presenter: justin adkins, Williams College Create Change • All Audiences In this Academy Session, participants will engage ally be- Organizing Queer API Students havior and proactive bystander intervention through the lens on College Campuses of multi-issue and cross-movement action. The intent be- College Campus Issues and Organizing hind cross-movement allyhood lies far beyond multi-tasking for Students • All Audiences for a common good, but is rooted in a deep understanding Organizing Queer API students on a college campus can of linked oppressions and common struggles. Initial con- seem daunting, especially when it seems like there isn’t ceptual framing provides a starting point from which partici- much support. In this workshop, we hope to engage stu- pants can discuss examples of cross-movement allyhood in dents about the needs of Queer API students on a col- their everyday lives. lege campus so that they may feel empowered to go out Presenters: Will Sherry, University of Michgan-Ann and bring together Q&A students at their own schools. Arbor; Gabe Javier, University of Wisconsin-Madison Presenters: Dohyun Ahn, Atlanta, GA; Amanda Carrington, Atlanta, GA; Tiken Savang, Atlanta, GA Conquer Your Fundraising Fear Build Power • All Audiences The 90 Minute Master’s in Social Change This workshop is designed for leaders to think beyond the Legislative/Policy Initiatives • Intermediate grant-writing box of fundraising to building sustainability for Learn the core knowledge from a master’s degree pro- their organizations. Participants will learn to do an assets gram about how to make social justice movements more inventory, map their funding universe, and develop realistic effective, but no BA or GREs required! Participants will get monetary goals. This interactive workshop is an introduction the key insights from cutting edge research and thinking to earned income strategies and grassroots fundraising for on social movements, policy process, and policy analy- those new to the sector. Great for board members too! sis, and they will immediately apply them to the LGBT Presenters: B. Cole, Brown Project; organizing work they are doing back home. Participants Erica Woodland, Brown Boi Project will also identify connections to other social movements

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Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

that might enhance broader social justice work. available on funding patterns and priorities to develop their development strategies and craft grant proposals. Presenters: M. V. Lee Badgett, University of Massa- chusetts, Amherst, MA; Steve Boutcher, University of Presenters: Bryan E. Glover, Funders for LGBTQ Is- Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Fran Hutchins, Univer- sues, New York, NY; Dave Clark, Philanthropy In/Sight sity of Massachusetts Amherst, MA Foundation Center, New York, NY; Ben Francisco Maulbeck, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, New York, NY Straight Spouses Whose Partners Come Out: More than “Allies” A Gender Not Listed Here Marriage and Family/Relationship Recognition Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate • All Audiences Join the authors of the study, “A Gender Not Listed Here: Presenting key information missing from public discus- Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and OtherWise in the sions about LGBT Equality in general and Marriage Equal- National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” for a pre- ity in particular, Amity Buxton, PhD, Straight Spouse Net- sentation of the findings and a community conversation work Founder, describes the painful experience of straight about what to do with it. spouses whose LGBT partners come out after trying to fit , Arcus Center for Social the heterosexual mold. Her new book, Unseen-Unheard, Presenters: Dr. Jaime Grant Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI; opens the window on the “collateral damage” done to , Williams Institute, UCLA School of straight spouses by anti-LGBT attitudes. Participants Dr. Jody Herman Law Santa Monica, CA; , National Gay will forge ways to include this information in local LGBT Jack Harrison and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC Equality discussions. Presenter: Amity P. Buxton, Straight Spouse Network, NJ The South: Sex, Politics, and God Community Organizing • All Audiences Advanced Topics in Safe Schools Law and Policy This workshop explores the Southern queer experience of organizing to defeat right-wing tactics where sex, politics, Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 and God are at play in every conversation and organizing • Intermediate, Advanced effort. SONG will lead a discussion on organizing strate- This workshop will look at hot topics in safe schools, in- gies such as coalition- building; nonviolent direct action; cluding the tension between bullying policies and crimi- trainings; community dialogue; addressing faith, race, and nalization, First Amendment issues and cyberbullying, place; celebrating intergenerational, multi-racial, anti-impe- laws that stigmatize and isolate LGBT students, bully- rialist, feminist, anti- capitalist, and sex- and body-positive ing and suicide, and the role of the federal government culture, and achieving victory through apparent defeat as in preventing bullying. This will be an interactive session a long-term strategy to dismantle the Right. with opportunities for attendees to discuss best practices Presenters: Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Southeners in safe schools law and policy from both advocacy and On New Ground, Atlanta, GA; Caitlin Breedlove, Sou- government perspectives. theners On New Ground; Kai Barrow, Southeners On Presenters: Alison Gill, The Trevor Project, Washington, New Ground; Bishop Donagrant McCluney, South- DC; Shawn Gaylord, GLSEN, Washington DC; Asaf Orr, eners On New Ground National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA; A Three-Tiered Model Technology to Assist the Grantseeker for LGBT Advocacy within Fundraising • All Audiences Faith Communities Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Fundamentals The movement to advance LGBTQ rights and equity re- quires blood, sweat, tears…and resources. This work- LGBTQ people suffer when one fundamental compo- shop will provide attendees with an overview of Philan- nent of their humanity, their spirituality, is denied to them thropy In/Sight®: LGBTQ. Developed by Funders for based on another, their sexuality and gender identity. LGBTQ Issues in partnership with the Foundation Center, This perpetuates homophobia within the church as well this online resource allows users to create maps that visu- as society at large. In this workshop, attendees will be alize the scope and reach of LGBTQ philanthropy world- introduced to a three-tiered model for advocacy in the wide. Grantseekers can use the information and insights spiritual community. Attendees will become familiar with

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aspects of LGBTQ spirituality and take away practical beliefs, ways to answer religious arguments, and tactics advocacy tools for working in faith communities. for moving the conversation forward.

Presenter: Dr. Donald G. Hoppe, Baton Rouge, LA Presenter: Jay Michaelson, Nehirim, New York, NY

The Obama Administration: Bad Science, Bad Policy, Bad Health: The Next Four Years HIV Criminalization Laws, What You Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences Should Know and What You Can Do AIDS/HIV • All Audiences Join the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in a ques- tion-and-answer session with Obama Administration “Shouldn’t HIV+ people disclose their status to poten- personnel to discuss the White House, federal agencies tial sex partners?” If you say “yes,” don’t worry. It’s the and the LGBT community. Audience members will have question that’s flawed. This workshop will explore how the opportunity to hear from political appointees repre- a good personal ethical standard can be a bad criminal senting the White House and federal agencies. Panelists law, explaining both fundamental flaws inherent in these will discuss changes in regulations and policies affecting laws and how their incompatibility with public health the LGBT community, legislative efforts, ongoing initia- has only exacerbated with medical advancements. The tives that impact LGBT people and their families, and workshop will also discuss what participants can do to what to expect from the Administration’s second term. effect change in this area. After hearing from the panelists audience members will have the opportunity to respond and ask questions. Presenter: Gregory R. Nevins, Lambda Legal Atlanta, GA Presenters: Brad Jacklin, National Gay and Lesbian Not a Club But a Movement Task Force, Washington, DC; Obama Administration College Campus Issues and Organizing Officials for Students • Fundamentals Responding to Violence Morehouse College is a conservative, Christian college in LGBTQ Communities that has been known for its lack of inclusivity for its GBTQ Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault community. However, SafeSpace, the gay-straight alli- and Domestic Violence • Fundamentals ance and student advocacy has been progressively and aggressively making strategic moves that have been ef- This workshop will provide an overview of rapid response fectively influencing the culture of the college. The pur- protocols that LGBTQ organizations can adapt to create pose of this session will be to teach and inform partici- comprehensive approaches to quickly respond to hate pants on how to navigate throughout one’s college to violence, intimate partner violence, police violence, and create an organization that will emerge into a movement. sexual violence in their own communities. This workshop will have a special focus on coordinating rapid response Presenters: Kenneth Pass, Morehouse College, for LGBTQ communities that are disproportionately im- Atlanta, GA; Marcus Lee, Morehouse College, Atlanta, pacted by violence such as LGBTQ people of color, low- GA; Ja’Mal Lewis, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA; income LGBTQ communities, transgender communities, Tre’vell Anderson, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA and transgender communities of color. We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re Presenters: Ejeris Dixon, Anti-Violence Project, New Parents: How to Build and Sustain Ro- York, NY; Chai Jindsaurat, Anti Violence Project, New bust LGBTQ Family Support Programs York, NY Families • All Audiences Talking about LGBT Issues with We’re here! we’re queer! AND we’re parents! Join us Religious Traditionalists: Best for this interactive workshop on building and sustaining Practices and Common Pitfalls robust LGBTQ family support programs for your com- Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences munity. This workshop will focus on our experiences as the nation’s largest city-funded LGBTQ Family Resource We may never convince some of our relatives, communi- Center (FRC). Participants will learn and leave with prac- ties, and debating partners about marriage equality. But tical tools to implement a more inclusive LGBTQ family there are ways to have better, more productive conver- environment, including but not limited to LGBTQ family sations about it. This workshop will give you some tools programs, community collaborations, the FRC model, to do so, including a clearer understanding of religious and funding ideas.

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Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Presenters: Julia Po, Our Family Coalition, San Fran- • Minnesota worked to defeat a constitutional amend- cisco, CA; Cheryl Troup, Our Family Coalition, San ment; Francisco, CA • Maryland and Washington sought to have voters up- Liberating the LGBTQ Movement hold marriage laws recently passed by their legislatures; of Physical and Social Barriers for • Maine proactively put marriage equality on the ballot. Persons with Disabilities Disability and Accessibility • Fundamentals, While all four states worked to build a majority of support- All Audiences ive voters, their stories are unique and worth knowing. Come hear how they won. Each state will talk about their This workshop will provide participants with the knowl- strategy and why it worked in the context of their state edge and skills to make LGBTQ facilities, events, com- and they’ll share their advice for leaders facing similar munity centers and written materials more accessible to scenarios back home. persons with disabilities. We will provide LGBTQ organiz- ers with hands on knowledge of accessibility resources Presenters: Sarah E. Reece, National Gay and and how to use those resources to overcome typical Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Leaders from accessibility barriers at events like Pride, community fo- Washington United for Marriage, Mainers United rums, or fundraisers. We will also focus on social barriers. for Marriage, Marylanders for Marriage Equality, Minnesotans United for All Families Presenters: Mel Leviton, Disability Rights, Idaho Moscow, ID; Elva Escobedo, Disability Action Center Art of the Schmooze – Northwest, Moscow, ID; Peri Jude Radecic, Arizona Community Organizing • All Audiences Center for Disability Law, Tucson, AZ Forming and cultivating relationships is at the heart of any Uncommon Bedfellows? – successful fundraising campaign, volunteer drive, com- Organized Labor, Immigrant Justice mittee effort or community building activity. Both intro- and Queer Liberation verts and extroverts will benefit from these practical tips on ways to engage someone in a conversation and exit Labor • Intermediate gracefully. Find out why croissants are better than ba- This interactive workshop will provide grounding around gels and other body language tips. Learn important tech- why folks that are workers, immigrants and/or LGBTQ- niques to cultivate and grow your network, then practice identified have common interests and mutually benefit at Creating Change. This is an extremely engaging, fast- when we work together. We will dissect the ways folks paced presentation. use these pieces of who we are to divide us and ways we have successfully built and used values-based mes- Presenter: Robbie Samuels, SoJust, Boston, MA saging to counter them. We will feature recent messages used by SEIU in 2012 ballot campaigns and contract From Bathroom Panic to battles. Participants will leave with an understanding of Basic Rights: Winning the Message how to unpack opposition messaging and build their own War on Trans Rights Legislation values-based message. Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences Presenters: Adan Jesus, SEIU Healthcare Penn- sylvania, Harrisburg, PA; Christopher Nulty, SEIU, For years, anti-LGBT groups have worked to sink trans- Washington, DC; Renee Rathjen, NGLTF Academy for gender rights legislation in State Houses and City Halls Leadership and Action & SEIU, Washington, DC; across the country by stoking unwarranted fears of “men Tiffany Richards, SEIU, Washington, DC having unfettered access to women’s locker rooms by pretending to be transgender.” It’s time for us to take Marriage Campaigns 2012: back the narrative. Participants will learn techniques Unique Paths to Victory on Nov. 6 to effectively frame discussions on transgender rights, Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences shape messaging, counter fear-based myths, and create community-driven public education campaigns – based Four wins – four unique roads to victory! Maine, Mary- on the I AM: Trans People Speak and personal stories – land, Minnesota and Washington—all faced and won a to increase the understanding of transgender people and public vote at the ballot box on marriage for LGBT people the realities of their lives and move the moveable middle. in November.

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Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Presenters: Gunner Scott, Massachusetts Transgen- makes no mention of LGBT elders. What are we doing to der Political Coalition, Boston, MA; Laura Kiristy, Gay make the OAA more LGBT inclusive? & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Boston MA; Stephanie Perkins, PROMO, St. Louis, MO Presenters: Aaron Tax, Services and Advocacy or GLBT Elders (SAGE), Washington, DC; Andrew Cray, Defending Our Courts Against Center for American Progress, Washington, DC; Andrea Anti-LGBT Assaults: Strategies for Levario, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC; Amy E. Gotwals, National Association of Area Agen- Keeping State Courts Fair & Impartial cies on Aging (n4a), Washington, DC; Dr. Laurie Young, Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC The judiciary protects constitutional rights. Anti-LGBT forces are increasingly politicizing the courts and trying Creating Acceptance to intimidate judges. They threaten to remove or impeach within African-American judges for doing their jobs. In 2010, three Iowa judges Faith Communities were ousted for recognizing equal marriage rights. A People of Color • All Audiences fourth faces election in 2012. Growing threats to an inde- pendent judiciary, including the court funding crisis, must Biblically based materials that deal with how to accept be addressed. A diverse bench reflecting our nation is a and affirm LGBTQ individuals that also speak to the expe- priority. Come hear how you can help. riences of African-American Christians have been difficult to find, until now. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Stud- Presenters: Liz Seaton, Justice at Stake, Washington, ies in Religion and Ministry located at the Pacific School DC; Leah Ward Sears, Schiff Hardin LLP, Atlanta, GA; of Religion in Berkeley, CA has developed the Umoja Eric Lesh, Lambda Legal, New York, NY; Liz Fujii, (a Swahili word for unity) Project which facilitates safe, Justice at Stake, Washington, DC non-threatening dialogue about the diversity of human sexuality and the tension that sometimes exists within Building Progressive Muslim African-American faith communities in relation to LGBT Communities and Spaces individuals. Umoja uses an in-depth curriculum and film Community Organizing • All Audiences resources to covers the following topics: Theology and sexuality, Church and family dynamics, Human rights vs This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities LGBTQ rights and same-gender marriage and families. that we have encountered in our organizing efforts to build Muslim communities that are progressive and inclusive. Presenters: Rev. Gwen Thomas,CLGS Berkeley, CA; The political atmosphere and Islamophobia facing Muslims Rev. Roland Stringfellow, CLGS Berkeley, CA in the West may be an opportunity to build coalitions and alliances with mainstream Muslim organizations. Strate- A Morning With National Black gies that have worked and methods that have not been Justice Coalition: LGBT Emerging as successful will be explored. The panelists will also offer Leaders Briefing concrete steps that you can take back to your community People of Color • All Audiences to begin to build progressive Muslim communities, as well as ways to build alliances with Muslim organizations. As an introduction to the work of the National Black Jus- tice Coalition, this presentation is an opportunity for LGBT Presenters: Abdul Aziz Sohail, Brandeis University, Bos- emerging leaders and stakeholders to meet, network and ton, MA; Urooj Arshad; Tynan Power; Hussain Turk engage. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the NBJC staff and leadership, learn about NBJC’s The Older Americans Act: overall mission and strategy, and become acquainted The Most Important Law You’ve Never with our specific programs for Emerging Leaders to in- Heard of and How We’re Working to clude the Emerging Leaders Council, the White House Make It More LGBT Inclusive Policy Briefing for Black LGBT Emerging Leaders, the Aging and Ageism • All Audiences NBJC Historically Black College University (HBCU) LG- BT-Equality Initiative, and the launch of the NBJC HBCU Have you heard of the Older Americans Act (OAA)? Do Affiliates Program for student organizations. you know that we have an aging network, what it does, and what its impact is on your community? This Great Presenters: Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, National Black Society program is the backbone of how we care for old- Justice Coalition, Washington, DC; Kimberley McLeod, er adults in our country, yet this critical piece of legislation National Black Justice Coalition, Washington, DC; Michael

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Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Brewer, National Black Justice Coalition, Washington, will take a 45 minute tour conducted by the staff of The DC; Samantha Master, National Black Justice Coalition, Names Project and will return to the Hilton Atlanta by Washington, DC; Je-Shawna Wholley, National Black public bus. A limited number of bus fares will be available. Justice Coalition, Washington, DC Organizer and Trip Leader: Marianne Seggerman, Familia es Familia: Westport, CT A Groundbreaking National Partner- ship to Bring Conversations About Could Queer Spirituality LGBT Latinos Out of the Shadows Save Christianity? Practice Spirit, Do Justice People of Color • All Audiences • All Audiences Familia es Familia is a partnership sponsored by Freedom This workshop will explore the current state of Christian- to Marry with every leading national mainstream Latino ity in the US utilizing the insights of Diana Butler Bass organization to bring LGBT issues out of the shadows. and others who ask the question “Can Christianity Be Check out FamiliaEsFamilia.org and come learn from top Saved?” Presenters will engage participants in a discus- Latino organizers how this groundbreaking public educa- sion of Queer Spirituality as a potential antidote to the tion campaign can impact your community. Get the latest widespread discontent with traditional religiosity. Partici- polling and message research and learn from state case pants will practice queer spiritual disciplines (e.g. queer- studies. ing [verb] scripture/tradition, social justice activism, etc.) Presenters: Monica Trasandes, The Gay & Lesbian as a way of revitalizing Christianity. Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); Catherine Pino Presenters: Rev. Elder Dr. Mona West, Austin TX; and Ingrid Duran, D & P Creative Strategies, Falls Rev. Dr. Kharma Amos, Fairfax, VA; Angel Collie, Church, VA; David M. Pérez, League of United Latin New Haven, CT American Citizens, Washington, DC

SexPositive TransSex Empowering our Future: Sexual Freedom • All Audiences Why LGBTQ Youth Mentoring and Scholarship are Needed Come to talk about bodies, language, behaviors, and Youth • All Audiences desires (and coming!) - all presented with trans• & gen- derqueer people in mind. Our communities have particu- This workshop will empower attendees with the facts, lar concerns, as well as special opportunities for fun and resources, and reasons why the time is now to begin to frolic, that are often left out of mainstream Sex Ed. Here’s take LGBTQ youth from mentoring to academic leader- a chance to learn about the care, feeding, and delight of ship & career advocacy. Participants will review the nega- your tingly bits (and/or those of your partner) in a safe and tive impact of negative school environments and what trans-positive environment. can be done in real life situations. In practice, attendees will review requirements for mentoring, tools to advocate Presenters: S. Bear Bergman; Tobi Hill-Meyer for LGBTQ youth, new tools for education, tutoring and various ways to become involved.

Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Presenters: Tamira Augustine, Houston, TX; Chay Tour of The Names Project Richards, Houston, TX; Natasha James, Houston, TX HIV/AIDS • All Audiences Getting Corporate Partners: The names Project headquarters, housing the entire How the Business of Change AIDS Quilt, is located less the 2.5 miles from the Hilton Supports LGBT Efforts! Atlanta. Join other conference goers to see the Quilt in Fundraising • Intermediate its home and learn about the ongoing work of education. Tour the facilities of the Names Project and see the Quilt, Mutually beneficial, sustainable and rewarding partner- composed of tens of thousands of panels, each com- ships between nonprofits and corporations are those memorating the life of a person who died of AIDS. that are aligned in mission, vision and objectives. Join us to talk to nonprofit and corporate representatives about Meet in the Hotel Lobby at 10:45 AM for a 25-minutes successful partnerships and collaborations, the steps public bus trip to The names Project in Midtown. we they took to get there, and the advice they have for oth-

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ers. we’ll also take a look at the Business of Change and their families and faith communities? What new re- website and social media sites, and how you can best sources and spaces do we need to create and produce use them for your non-profit organization. to serve API LGBTQ people and their families and faith communities more effectively? Participants in the dia- Presenter: Danielle Siragusa, Out & Equal Workplace logue will be influential in guiding the production of future Advocates, San Francisco, CA resources for the API LGBTQ faith community. The Trevor Project Lifeguard Workshop Presenter: Jess Delegencia, CLGS Berkeley, CA Youth • Fundamentals, Intermediate Ballroom 101 – The Trevor Project Lifeguard Workshop is an opportunity Calling All the Children to School for middle school, high school and college age youth People of Color • All Audiences to discuss mental health, suicide and ways to deal with stress and anxiety in a safe environment. Workshop par- The house/ballroom community stems from a place of ticipants will learn about the services The Trevor Project survival of LGBT people of color in the US. The houses provides, and how to get help for themselves or a friend. that compose the community are self-sufficient and have existed since the 1940s, longer than many mainstream Presenters: Wes Nemenz, The Trevor Project, New queer organizations. Their structure stems from what we York, NY; Arquimides Pacheco, The Trevor Project, know best, families: mother, father, and of course, the New York, NY; Nathan Belyeu, The Trevor Project, children, each with their own talent, gift and personal New York, NY struggle. Want to know more? Join us as we bring life and give LIFE to the ballroom community. Winning, Keeping, and Expanding Benefits for LGBT Couples and Families Presenters: Angel Infiniti, New York, NY; Grandfather Families • Intermediate Angel Infiniti, Miami FL; Miss Penelope, New York NY

Recognizing that some of the highest concentrations of Building a National LGBT Economic LGBT headed families live in states without marriage or Empowerment Learning Circle other statewide protections for LGBT families, and that Racial/Economic Justice • All Audiences some employers are using gains in marriage equality as an excuse to drop domestic partner (DP) benefits, this We are inviting all who are interested in the economic workshop will help attendees understand and implement health of LGBT communities to join us in a robust discus- proven strategies for passing local and state DP and sion about the nature of this work, sharing best practices Equal Benefits (EB) laws and persuading private employ- and data, and to actively explore the opportunity to cre- ers to adopt and keep DP benefits. ate a national learning circle around LGBT economic em- powerment. We will be sharing our work in transgender Presenters: Denise Brogan-Kator, Family Equal- economic empowerment, providing free tax preparation ity Council; A.J. Bockelman, PROMO; Geoff Kors, to same sex couples, and hosting LGBT Career fairs and National Center for Lesbian Rights Economic Empowerment Week. Creating Change in the API Presenters: Eugenie FitzGerald, San Francisco LGBT Christian Community: LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, CA; Kristen An API Family Conversation Kentner, NY LGBT Center, New York, NY; Clair Farley, Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences San Francisco LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, CA; Shannon Way, San Francisco LGBT Community The Asian Pacific Islander Roundtable holds convenings Center, San Francisco, CA nationwide designed to harness the stories, wisdom, and creative collaboration of API LGBTQ individuals, parents Piece of Cake: and families, community leaders, academics, artists and Applying Lessons Learned from the faith leaders for the generation of needed resources and Marriage Equality Movement to the spaces that serve and empower the API LGBTQ faith Queer & Trans Youth Movement community. In this convening, we will hear our individual Youth • All Audiences and collective stories (our unique and collective narra- tives) and discuss: What are the issues? What are exist- This interactive workshop will challenge the “us & them” ing resources and spaces that serve API LGBTQ people mentality of the Queer/Trans Youth and Marriage Equality

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Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM movements and explore how members of both can col- Better Together: Connecting Racial laborate successfully. The Marriage Equality movement Justice and LGBTQ Rights has been a successful one (with work still to be done)… Racial/Economic Justice • Intermediate can the Queer/Trans Youth movement gain progress by utilizing similar strategies? Participants will explore the Attendees will explore ways to connect racial justice and concept of equality from both a youth and marriage- LGBTQ issues and organizations in order to build unity, advocate standpoint, and use what they’ve learned to power and social change. How can we utilize inclusive is- bridge the gap between the two movements. sue frames and strategies to expand our base of support- ers, elevate shared values and advance mutual interests? Presenter: Ashley Skitzki, Emerson College, Boston, MA How can we build viable and visible strategic alliances across diverse and divided communities? We will explore Be Not Afraid - Help is on the successful practices and new opportunities for using unify- Way! Identifying and Engaging ing approaches that make us stronger together. Straight Allies in Faith Communities Presenters: Nayana Sen, Applied Research Center, New York, NY; Carla F Wallace, Louisville, Kentucky; Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Southerners on New Few topics cause as much stress for grassroots organiz- Ground, Atlanta, GA ers as the battle between LGBT activists and the religious right. This session provides a new framework and strat- DREAM Act 101 for LGBT Activists: egy, by highlighting key changes and ways to leverage Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer them, offering resources to reach individuals that struggle and Unashamed to reconcile their beliefs, giving guidance on how to have Immigration • Intermediate transformative conversations, and offering participants accessible group programs that can be used in faith Borrowing from various movements, this largely volun- communities to create new allies for equality. teer-led effort has created a national campaign to come out of the shadows, build power, and change hearts and Presenters: Jamie Henkel, PFLAG National Wash- minds. Undocumented queer immigrant youth are lead- ington, DC; Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National ing the charge. The DREAM Act is federal legislation that Washington, DC would grant a path to citizenship for undocumented im- migrant youth that arrived as children and have excelled Hanging Out & Hooking Up in this country. Come listen to the stories, issues and suc- Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault cesses of these undocuqueer pioneers! and Domestic Violence • Fundamentals Presenters: Jorge Gutierrez, United We Dream Most sex ed curricula are heterosexual based, and LG- Network Los Angeles, CA; Jesus Barrios, National BTQ people do not have the opportunity to openly dis- Immigrant Youth Alliance cuss sex, dating, and hooking up. nCAVP offers this reality-based workshop to equip LGBTQ communities, Theater for Social Change: especially youth, with safety strategies for hanging out From Page to Stage in 90 Minutes and hooking up. This workshop will focus on safer dat- Art & Culture • All Audiences ing and, through exercises, role-plays, and discussion. NCAVP will provide participants with support to develop Basic theater skills can help make speakers more confi- awareness of their own needs, wants, and boundaries, dent, messages more artful, and audiences more emo- as well as those of potential partners. tionally connected to your work. In this interactive work- shop participants will learn basic performance principles Presenters: LaDawn Best, Los Angeles LGBT to apply to their LGBTQ activist work. This will build on Community Center, Los Angeles, CA; Crystal techniques learned in our 2012 workshop. Participants Middlestadt, Anti-Violence Project, , will learn to use theater exercises, writing prompts and CO; Lisa Gilmore, Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL; group discussion to explore personal stories and how Chai Jindasurat, Anti-Violence Project, New York, NY they can inspire constructive community dialogue.

Presenters: Julia Lillis, BAGLY, Inc./The Theater Offensive, Boston MA; Giftson Joseph, BAGLY, Inc./ The Theater Offensive, Boston, MA; Evelyn Francis, BAGLY, Inc./The Theater Offensive, Boston, MA

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Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM U.S. Foreign Policy, Queer Activism, and Presenters: Darren Phelps, Pride at Work, Washing- The Global Human Rights Movement: ton, DC; Peggy Shorey, Pride at Work, Washington, Tensions, Trials, and Opportunities DC; Shane Larson, CWA-Pride at Work, Washington, International Issues • All Audiences DC; Kristin Winn, UNITE-HERE Pride at Work, Wash- ington, DC What is the relationship between LGBTQI advocacy in the United States and the realities of queer activism in the The Liberation of LGBTQ developing world? How should we consider the implica- Self-Advocates in the tions of U.S. foreign policy on the rights of sexual minori- Disability Rights and ties, gender-queer people, and sex workers worldwide? LGBTQ Movements Join a conversation about the struggles for LGBTQI Disability and Accessibility • Fundamentals, rights, sex worker rights, equality for queer youth, and All Audiences HIV prevention within the context of the global human rights movement and U.S. foreign policy. This workshop will chronicle the beginnings of the civil rights movement for people with intellectual disabilities Presenters: Javid Syed, American Jewish World as well as current civil rights struggles. Panelists will dis- Service, New York, NY; Kent Klindera, GMT Initiative cuss how they have overcome barriers to living opening Foundation for AIDS Research, New York, NY; Joseph as LGBTQ organizers within both movements. LGBTQ Fahed, International Youth Leadership, Washington, organizers will learn how to support self-advocates be- DC; Sangeeta Budhiraja, Astraea Foundation, New coming empowered and become allies. York, NY; Eric Castellanos, President of Collaborative Network of Persons with HIV in Belize (C-Net+/ Belize) Presenters: Peri Jude Radecic, Arizona Center for Disability Law, Tucson, AZ; A. David Frye, GLBTQ Social Doing Justice: A Place for Polyamorous/ and Support Group for Intellectual Disabilities, Winooski, Non-Monogamous Communities in the VT; Tia Nelis, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; Chester LGBTIQA Movement Finn, National Council on Disability, Washington, DC Sexual Freedom • Intermediate 2012 Campaign Strategy As LGBTIQA movements strive for society to recognize Tactics and Lessons and embrace a spectrum of gender and sexual identities, Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences the polyamorous/non-monogamous (poly/NM) commu- nities are working to gain recognition and equity within Talking to undecided voters and turning out student vot- these movements. This workshop is aimed at people who ers in 2012—some was tried and true, some was new – are interested in having a dialogue regarding poly/NM is- it was a mash up and it worked! This session will explore sues in broader LGBTIQA movements. We will examine two tactics: the innovative “Retention” program of the issues of “outness,” inclusion in LGBTIQA movements, Mainers United for Marriage campaign and the important and strategies for raising poly/NM concerns within your and effective Campus Get-Out-The-Vote programs of own work. Mainers United and the Minnesotans United for All Fami- lies campaigns, as well as Prop 34 the campaign to abol- Presenters: Robin Nussbaum, Philadelphia, PA; ish the death penalty in CA. “Retention”: The anti-LGBT Daunasia Yancey, Boston, MA opposition tries to scare the pants off voters! Come learn how we stopped them from peeling away so many of Building LGBTQ Support for Workers: our voters as they usually do. “Walk Victory to the Polls”: Buy Union De-bunking the myth that new student voters came out Labor • All Audiences of the woodwork –- we went to go get them! Learn about our effective organizing to increase student turnout like How do you manage a tight nonprofit budget that also never before (from 18% to 68% on just one MN campus!) aligns with your progressive principles? This session will – even on rural and community college campuses. support advocates for workers’ rights in truly standing in solidarity with labor. We will discuss the principle of “buying Presenters: Sarah E. Reece, National Gay and union” and what it means for LGBTQ workers. We will dis- Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Leaders from cuss how to find a union printer, hotel, cell phone service Mainers United for Marriage and Minnesotans or airline, and provide guidance on negotiating fair con- United for All Families tracts that are in alignment with organization’s principles.

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Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Jobs for Trans People – targeting this demographic. Getting, Keeping and Suing for Jobs Presenters: Adam Stoffel, OSTEM, Milwaukee, WI; Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences Andrew (Drew) Sabelhaus, OSTEM, Berkeley, CA Having a job is often the difference between having a home and security or being homeless or in distress. This Creating Change on Campus: Lever- workshop tackles all aspects of employment, including aging Cross Generational Organizing passing and enforcing non-discrimination laws and poli- College Campus Issues and Organizing cies, getting inclusive labor contracts, connecting trans for LGBT Administrators • All Audiences people to jobs via workforce development training and programs, and elevating transgender people through This workshop will engage participants in open conver- leadership programs and political appointments. Pro- sations on creating change through cross- generational grams throughout the US will be featured. LGBT organizing on college campuses. Participants will learn how to increase students and alumni connections Presenters: Dru Levasseur, Lambda Lega,l New York, to improve the campus climate; increase professional, NY; Kylar Broadus, Trans People of Color Coalition, leadership, and personal development opportunities; Columbia, MO; Danny Kirchoff, Transgender Law expand fundraising; promote volunteerism and advo- Center, San Francisco, CA; Drian Juarez, LA Gay and cacy on and off campus; and expand campus policies Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA; Jaan Williams, The and procedures. Participants will leave with tangible, Victory Institute, Washington, DC; Andy Bowen, DC real-world tools and methods of engaging students and Trans Coalition, Washington, DC alumni across generations.

Making the Invisible Visible: How Presenters: Michael Shutt, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Dohyun Ahn, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Lilly Your Group Can Become Bi Inclusive Correa, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Bisexual Community & Issues • Fundamentals This workshop will help attendees become more familiar Art, Culture, Memory and Black Gay with the bisexual activist community while improving their Men’s Community Organizing existing skills in creating inclusive spaces that welcome Art & Culture • All Audiences bi/pan/fluid/queer individuals. Targeting activists who are ready to boost the “B” in their organizations (whether The goal of this session is to look at the history, pres- they identify as bi or as allies), this workshop will include ent, and future of black gay men’s cultural organizing and recognizing “monosexual privilege,” working on inclusive identify strategies for integrating cultural production in our language and welcoming strategies, and diffusing bipho- community mobilization and political education efforts, bic situations. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas particularly around, but not limited to HIV/AIDS issues. and listings of national and regional bisexual resources. Presenter: Charles Stephens, AIDS United, Washing- Presenters: Ellyn Ruthstrom, Somerville, MA; ton, DC Jennifer Bonardi, Cambridge, MA Cruel Exclusions: The Fight to End Topics in Queer Student Leadership: Health Care Discrimination Against Effective Leadership Transitions, As- Transgender People sessment, and Goal-Driven Planning Transgender Community & Issues • Fundamentals College Campus Issues and Organizing Perhaps no form of discrimination has more devastating for Students • Fundamentals, Intermediate effects on more transgender people than being singled Designed for current queer young adult leaders, this ses- out for denial of life-affirming and medically necessary sion explores techniques for organizational management care under private and public health insurance. This and planning, as applied specifically to student groups. practice remains pervasive even in states with inclusive Through an interactive and participatory workshop, at- nondiscrimination laws. Learn more about this issue; tendees will learn techniques for goal setting, data gath- hear about efforts to achieve health care equality using ering, assessment, and leadership transitioning. Content policy, law, organizing, research, education, and other is taken from the experiences of the leaders of Out in tools; and discuss how this issue is coming up in your Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oS- community and where this fight is headed. TEM) Incorporated, but is adapted for all organizations Presenters: M. Dru Levasseur, Lambda Legal, new

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Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Plenary Session York, NY; Andrew Cray, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC; Masen Davis, Transgender Law Cen- ter, San Francisco, CA; Michelle Enfield, AIDS Project, Los Angeles, CA

A La Familia: Working Within Our Congregations Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Much of the work within congregations that focuses on Rea Carey LGBT issues has emerged from predominantly white The State of the Movement contexts and speaks to predominantly white audiences. 1:30 PM • Grand Ballroom But it is critical that those of us who are LGBT and Latin@ have a space and voice within our religious communi- ties. This session utilizes the A La Familia curriculum to discuss and train on pro- LGBT work that emerges from Academy Session 2 and speaks to, a Latin@ context. 3:00 PM – 6:15 PM

Presenters: Rev. Damaris Ortega; Lourdes Talk Is Action: Rodriguez-Nogues, Dignity USA; Lisbeth Melendez A New Strategy For Creating Change Rivera, Washington, DC Take Action • All Audiences Across the country, community and electoral organizers Creating Welcoming, Gender are using a tool to transform the change work we are do- Inclusive Schools: Lessons Learned ing. People You Know conversations provide a versatile, from Partnerships culturally relevant strategy for change agents to intention- Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 • All Audiences ally and purposefully engage in conversations with their friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and other people This interactive session will highlight lessons learned they know in order to catalyze change. These conversa- from a successful collaboration by Gender Spectrum tions can be deployed to change on many issues: same Welcoming Schools, the Madison Metropolitan School sex marriage, family acceptance, and inclusive schools, District, and local activists and advocates. Most recently and beyond. People You Know conversations are about this collaboration resulted in a 3- day seminar for school discovering shared values, listening deeply to another personnel primarily to support gender fluid and transgen- person’s perspective and unearthing a deeper and more der students. Find out steps taken related to policy, com- authentic level of communication in our relationships. munity engagement and ongoing professional develop- Many conversations happen organically, but in order to ment and support. Participants attending this workshop reach a significant scale, organizers must invest in build- will receive materials used including district policies and ing an effective program to mobilize, train, and support best practices. activists to have these conversations. There are many Presenters: Kim Westheimer, Human Rights reasons why it’s hard to make time to talk to people we Campaign, Jamaica Plain, MA; Joel Baum, Director, know about concerns and issues which we know can be Gender Spectrum, San Leandro, CA; Liz Lusk, GLBTQ difficult, or even divisive. And yet, we know firsthand that Program Support, Madison Metropolitan School District, these conversations have deep impact in many ways – Madison WI personally, socially and politically. In this workshop, we want to review the meaningful pur- Muslim Friday Prayer pose of this strategy, share some lessons learned from (Salaat-al-Jumu’ah) Muslim Congregational Prayer implementing this work in different change settings, and 12:30 PM support participants to think strategically about when Friday Prayer is the weekly congregational prayer of Mus- and why to use this tool. lims, observed annually at Creating Change. The prayer Presenters: Juan Castillo Alvarado, Latino Equality service provides a safe, welcoming, and inclusive spiri- Alliance; Judy Appel, Our Family Coalition; Ali Vander tual space for LGBTQ Muslims and their allies. The Fri- Zanden, Mainers United for Marriage, Equality Maine day sermon and prayer will be led by an LGBTQ Muslim leader. It is open to all.

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Academy Session 2 • 3:00 PM – 6:15 PM Build, Win, Build, Secure: Organizing Presenters: Celia Kutz, Training for Change; Matthew Campaigns to Build a Movement Armstead, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Build Power • All Audiences The Art and Science of Voter Persuasion Campaigns emerge, and in a short period of time, orga- Create Change • All Audiences nize and energize significant number of people and fund- raise vast sums of money. The culture of campaigns is fast How to persuade voters in a ballot measure campaign? paced and laser focused on producing desired election- In few states can we confidently know the majority of like- day result. Over the past two decades, LGBT communi- ly voters support LGBT issues, specifically marriage for ties across the country have worked harder and smarter same-sex couples, and a campaign prepared to have an to build effective campaigns to win or protect our rights. effective persuasion field plan is crucial. What we know However, after election-day, win or lose, the campaigns from several years of research on voter persuasion, as disappear - along with the infrastructure, connections, well as same-sex marriage campaigns in the past year and energy they created. Despite their disappearance, is that voters’ stories matter enormously. Our stories can and regardless of their outcome, campaigns often have matter as well. Digging into these two skills will be the unplanned lasting and meaningful impacts on the states focus of the session. We will focus on what makes an and communities in which they unfold in terms of com- effective personal story, practice developing and telling munity development, coalition building, organizational personal stories and getting feedback, as well as how to stability, and future political possibilities. How do we address voters’ concerns and practicing doing so. For the construct campaigns that intentionally lend themselves latter, we will review the Persuasion Recipe used around to ongoing community development? What does it look the country in 3 out of 4 of the states facing marriage- like to build the LGBT movement through the decisions related ballot measures in 2012, and how it relates to all and choices we make in the heat of a campaign? How concerns that come up with voters. Every voter has real could campaigns best communicate transformative lived experience about marriage and LGBT People, and worldviews, demonstrate values like inclusion and col- when we help them share their stories about this, they are laboration, build leadership and help to reconcile some much more open to persuasion.We have an increasingly of the painful marginalization and inequities within the good idea of what’s coming from the opposition during LGBT movement – while at the same time winning? In a campaign as well as how to have effective persuasion this workshop, we will utilize reflections from recent cam- conversations with voters before these ads are on the air. paigns in Maine and Minnesota to offer participants the The opposition has relied heavily on one particular anti- opportunity to reflect on campaign strategies that most gay argument in ballot measure campaigns since 1977, advance long-term movement building. In addition, we and while their approach often works and can even peel will specifically address building multi-generational teams away our supporters, we know from this past year that and leadership development in a movement context. we are increasingly able to rebut these messages, ef- fectively persuade voters, and win! Explicit Skill that will Presenters: Beth Zemsky, Organizer and Trainer, be taught: Foundational skills necessary in persuasion Minneapolis MN; Evangeline Weiss, National Gay and conversation with voters around LGBT issues, including Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC sharing our own and eliciting voters’ personal stories, as well as addressing voter concerns. Handling Conflict and Using it as Resource for Growth Presenters: Laura Gardine and Steve Deline, LA Gay Create Change • All Audiences and Lesbian Center’s Leadership LAB, Los Angeles, CA Often groups think that if they don’t preserve the feeling Talking Smack of unity, they won’t be strong enough to win or survive, so Outside the Shack they discourage conflict. However, effective groups can Practice Spirit, Do Justice recognize this fear within their organizations and get curi- • All Audiences ous. Every group has conflict. It is natural and one of the most avoided resources for supporting authentic move- Religious conversations outside religious institutions, mov- ment building. Approaches to conflict are influenced by ing justice forward using “A la Familia” and success in the way we were raised and the social identities we hold, working with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, we will ex- and that’s often why people avoid it - it highlights our dif- plore how we can advance the conversation about LGBT ferences. Come practice how to recognize and learn from equality by partnering with non-religious organizations. By conflict so that you can support an environment that’s utilizing the Promotora model and connecting with already honest, accountable, and open to the unseen wisdom.

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Academy Session 2 Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM 3:00 PM – 6:15 PM Health Equity and the LGBT existing programs we can employ programs such “A la Community: What Happened to HIV? Familia” to build the skill set of Promotor@s across the AIDS/HIV • All Audiences country and cement their ability to speak about sexuality, 3 hours: Sessions Three and Four gender identity, faith, religion and spirituality. This model, as tested in LA, supports individuals in their efforts to open HIV continues to ravage a major portion of the gay male conversations to justice and equality in the context of Lat- community – with a new generation seeing increasing in@ culture. Join us for what promises to be an exciting rates of infection that we haven’t seen in decades. This conversation about religion, faith and SEX! workshop is designed to demonstrate the inextricable link between the core LGBT agenda and HIV – that if we Presenters: Laura Vargas, M. A., Planned Parenthood are going to reverse the course of HIV, especially among LA, Los Angeles, CA; Lisbeth Melendez-Rivera, Unid@s, young gay men, we have to address the social, political, Washington, DC; Rosa Manrequez, Call to Action and broader health contexts of how LGBT people live in American society. Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Presenters: Jeffrey Levi, Trust for America’s Health, National Mobilization Meeting Washington, DC; Chris Collins, amfAR, Washington, for LGBTA Participation in DC; Jennifer Kates, Ph.D., Kaiser Family Foundation the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Spit That Truth: Propel the Movement Community Organizing • All Audiences Through Performance 3 hours: Sessions Three and Four Art & Culture • All Audiences Join with the NBJC Bayard Rustin 2013 Commemora- Spit That Truth asks participants to connect their lives tion Project to mobilize and engage LGBTA campuses to a larger community narrative through performance art. and communities to take part in 2013 year-long series First, engaging discussion and games let people share of events nationally and internationally to mark 50th an- their personal stories and develop a bond with other par- niversary year of the historic 1963 March on Washington ticipants. Once camaraderie develops, attendees com- for Jobs & Freedom that was held August 28, 1963 at plete easy theatre exercises that allow them to throw the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and coordinated their new-found bonds and surfaced emotions into art. by black gay activist Bayard Rustin. LGBTA events are Lastly, participants create and perform something they being planned in washington DC to coincide with The can share with the world at large. King Center & National Park Service August 24-28, 2013 Presenters: Bianca Campbell, Spark Jr., Stock- activities at the Lincoln Memorial and MLK Monument. bridge, GA; Amber Thomas, Stockbridge, GA; Cortez Workshop will include 2013 master calendar, strategy/ Wright, Spark Jr., Atlanta, GA; Paris Hatcher, Spark brainstorming sessions, film clips of 1963 March, Bayard Jr., Atlanta, GA Rustin resources list, and organizing kit.

Presenter: Mandy Carter, Durham, NC Breaks in the School-to-Prison- Pipeline: How Queer Youth Can Stop Improving the Quality of Services Bullying and Win Alternative Policy and Supports Offered to Older Adults Solutions to “Zero Tolerance” in LGBT Organizations Legislative/Policy Initiatives • Intermediate Aging and Ageism • All Audiences Supported by “zero tolerance” discipline policies and 3 hours: Sessions Three and Four high- stakes testing, the school-to- prison pipeline Are your services age-friendly? Are you attracting as (STPP) is a phenomenon that, mixed with anti-LGBT many older adults to your programs as you can be? The harassment, creates a dangerous cocktail for LGBT National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is offering its students. This interactive workshop will amplify stories premier 4-hour training to Creating Change attendees. of queer youth, especially queer youth of color, who are This highly interactive workshop seeks to increase your pushed out of schools. Learn how GSAs push back to knowledge and shift your attitudes related to serving stop zero tolerance polices and anti-LGBT bullying, and LGBT older adults. learn about resistance strategies for students without a GSA, educators, and community members. Presenter: Hilary Meyer, SAGE, New York, NY

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Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Presenters: Yvonna Cázares, GSA Network, San Caring for their Transgender Francisco, CA; Laura Valdéz, GSA Network, San Fran- Congregants: What Every cisco, CA; Carolyn Laub, GSA Network, San Francis- Religious Leader Needs to co, CA; Holiday Simmons, Lambda Legal, Atlanta, GA Know about Their Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Members The Artifice of the Nuclear Family: Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Exploring Alternative Family Models Families • All Audiences We will share our insights as Religious leaders to those hoping to work with transgender and gender non-con- A moderated workshop session exploring the presump- forming people in faith communities to be active par- tions of what constitutes a family, not only in the straight ticipants by redefining the landscape of acceptance and world, but within the LGBT community. We will explore inclusion through information (verbal and printed), hands- the notion of family within the queer community and offer on role playing, and discussion. Information presented alternative family models that challenge the hetero-nor- will be helpful to those who are unfamiliar with Pastoral mative concept of family. The alternative family models Care for transgender and gender non-conforming per- include issues of: racial and economic justice, foster par- sons. Although the presenters come out of Christian tra- enting, legal protections under the law, ditions, we encourage dialogue around the applicability and working with straight allies. The objectives of the of the material in other faith communities. workshop are to show several models of effective families and types of parenting that fall outside of nuclear family Presenters: Randi Klein, Light In The Closet, Concord, and to challenge the concept of the usual choices for CA; Angel Collie, New Haven, CT; Yeshua Holiday LGBT parents. We will be showcasing the concept of ex- tended family parenting by using example of positive al- From Buckhead to the Beltway: ternative family models. Each presenter will briefly explain Local and Federal Responses in their alternative family to the session and will include: key the Fight for Immigrant Justice concepts of parenting that include family dynamics and Immigration • All Audiences legal issues/protections. Participants will have the oppor- tunity to ask questions, offer suggestions and participate This session will discuss how LGBTQ activists have in the discussion. fought for justice for immigrants at the local and federal levels. This interactive session will share information and Presenters: Hope Wisneski, Gill Foundation, Denver, resources on local and federal action from LGBT advo- CO; Julie Childs, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, cates around immigration, including (but not limited to): Washington, DC; Trystan Reese, national Gay and queer responses to conservative anti-immigrant legisla- Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Monroe France, tion (eg. Arizona SB 1070 and copycat legislation in other New York, NY; Liebe Gadinsky, Miami Beach, FL states), and LGBT advocacy around federal policy for undocumented youth (i.e. Deferred Action for Childhood Intersex: An Introductory Workshop Arrivals). Gender and Identity • Fundamentals Presenters: Ben de Guzman, NQAPIA, Washington, An estimated 1 in 2,000 children are born with genitals, DC; Lisbeth Melendez-Rivera, Intersecciones Con- chromosomes and/or reproductive organs that obviously sulting, Washington, DC; Paulina Hernandez-Helm, fall outside of the (narrow) medical definition of male or Southerners On New Ground, Atlanta, GA . Unfortunately children born with intersex condi- tions are often surgically mutilated at birth. Even when Marriage at the Ballot Box: Lessons children are able to escape surgery, it is difficult to escape Learned in 2012 and How We Can the stigma, shame and secrecy that come along with a Apply Them in 2013 and Beyond body that doctors and society tell you is “different.” This Elections/Campaigns • Intermediate, Advanced workshop will include a basic introduction to intersex is- sues and activism, including Caitlin’s personal story and a In November 2012, marriage won at the ballot box for the screening of a short documentary on the topic. first time in history. Freedom to Marry and leading organiz- ers from each of the four November 2012 ballot states will Presenter: Caitlin Petrakis Childs, Atlanta, GA lead a discussion about what worked, what didn’t, and where we go from here. Third Way will share the most up- to-date public opinion research and present a case study on how we can replicate these wins in 2013 and beyond.

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Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Presenters: Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, Third Way, spaces for students to exist fully, and how to do our own Washington, DC; Thalia Zepatos, Freedom to Marry, work with our staff and campus on intersecting identi- New York, NY ties. Attendees will leave with practical information to take back to their institution. “Meaningful Work”: Addressing the Issues of the Trans- Presenters: Shannon Jolliff, Mt. Pleasant, MI; Lauren Kellogg, Mt. Pleasant, MI; Jordan Lett, Mt. Pleasant, MI gender Community in the Sex Trade Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate, Social Media, Ethics, and Advanced the LGBT Community This panel will focus on illuminating the experience of trans- Media, Communications, and Messaging gender people that are involved in the sex trade. Panelists • All Audiences will discuss their particular area of expertise and experienc- es to help paint a clearer picture of the intersecting oppres- This workshop will help attendees become familiar with sions, structural violence, demonstrate clear relationships the privacy implications that social media platforms pose between socioeconomic barriers that transgender people for those in the LGBT community. Social media has face and entry to the sex trade. Furthermore, we will focus made it easier for anyone to share anything and every- on the importance of self-determination in the response to thing (photos, comments, links, etc.) but little has been large structural barriers and lack of resources. considered regarding the ethics of behavior on these platforms as it relates to exposing private information of Presenters: Erin Fitzgerald, National Gay and Lesbian those in the LGBT community. Task Force, Washington, DC; Sarah Elspeth Patterson, , Blue State Digital, Brooklyn, Planned Parenthood, New York, NY; Kayley Whalen, Presenters: Leone Kraus National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC NY; Michael Crawford, Freedom to Marry, New York, NY; Sarah Kennedy, Civitas Public Affairs The National Transgender Discrimination Survey Implementing Strategies for Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate LGBT Jewish Movement Building Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Join three of the authors from the Task Force and the Na- tional Center for Transgender Equality for a presentation of LGBT Jewish Movement Building is growing. We asked the key findings of “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the what you want in a movement and what it should stand National Transgender Discrimination Survey.” Compelling for. Hear the answers to these questions and more. Be national data on the breadth of the social and economic ready to work together on building strategies that best marginalization of transgender and gender non-conforming leverage the expertise and energy of our diverse commu- people is finally available. This data has changed the LGBT nities? Let’s finalize the strategy and begin to implement movement. Come hear about it, and what to do about it. our ideas. Join this open conversation to contribute your voice to the future of LGBT Jewish organizing and move- Presenters: Dr. Jaime Grant, Arcus Center for Social ment building. Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, , Hebrew Union College ; Dr. Jody Herman, Williams Institute, UCLA Presenters: Joel L. Kushner and Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA; School of Law, Santa Monica, CA; Jack Harrison, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC Joanna Ware, KESHET, Jamaica Plain, MA

Intersecting Identities: The LGBT Movement of Cuba Today Serving Queer Students While International Issues • Intermediate, All Audiences Looking at Intersectionality We can learn so much about community organizing and College Campus Issues and Organizing “change” from the Cuban socialist/communist experi- for LGBT Administrators • Intermediate ence. Learn about Cuba’s LGBT history, hear about the last six years of the LGBT movement, and preview results This workshop will provide attendees the opportunity to from a qualitative research currently been conducted in talk about intersectionality with queer identity in higher Cuba with the LGT community. Discussion and Q/A. education. Participants will be able to have dialogue around what does intersectionality mean, the need to Presenters: Wilfred W. Labiosa, PhD Candidate, recognize our own identities in serving students, creating Boston, MA

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Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Race and Leadership in you fully integrate transgender people into your orga- Faith-based Organizing nizations mission, power structure, and work. Join the Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate two authors of “Opening the Door to Transgender Inclu- sion: The Nine Keys to Making LGBT Organizations Fully This workshop engages participant in an interactive pro- Trans-Inclusive” for an enlightening run through of what cess to understand the racial and cultural dimensions of to change about your organization to become fully trans- leadership in the context(s) in which their work is located, inclusive. how those dimensions present opportunities and chal- lenges regarding leadership, and the ways in which those Presenter: Lisa Mottet, National Gay and Lesbian dimensions inform their strategies in effective LGBTQ Task Force, Washington, DC leadership development. Sex (Education) is a RIGHT! Presenters: Rev. Elizabeth Leung, United Church of College Campus Issues and Organizing Christ, Cleveland, OH; Rev. Kelly Burd, United Church for Students • Fundamentals, Intermediate of Christ, Cleveland, OH Young people have a right to sex, the understanding that Inspirational LGBTQQIA their sexuality is healthy and the information they need to Organizing protect themselves and their partners. But what happens Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate when a huge part of a generation is misinformed by ab- stinence-only-until- marriage programs? One way to help If leadership is the ability to inspire others, then how do mitigate our nation’s high rates of unintended pregnancy, the leaders draw inspiration for long haul organizing? STIs and unhealthy relationships among young people is In this workshop, we will explore the following through ensuring their access to comprehensive sexual health in- stories, song, and creative movement: meaning and pur- formation. This workshop will provide you the information pose of religion, faith, spirituality; develop a problem tree and skills you need to advocate for real sex education. examining the role of faith and spirituality; re-imagining the role of faith and spirituality for LGBTQQIA. Presenters: Mari Schimmer, Choice USA, Washington, DC; Sarah Audelo, Advocates for Youth, Washington Presenters: Marquez Rhyne, In Christ Ministries, DC; Lydia Dickerson, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta GA Atlanta, GA; Rev. Ingeri, Atlanta, GA Federal Efforts to Achieve Safer Schools Fundraising: Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 • All Audiences Getting Past the Fear of Asking Fundraising • All Audiences This workshop will take an in- depth look at bullying and harassment in K-12 schools nationwide. The workshop “If you are afraid to ask for money, kick yourself out of will focus on various federal administrative and legisla- the way and let the cause talk.” This engaging, interac- tive efforts to address bullying and harassment in schools tive coaching session will help you get past the fear of and why it’s important to address these issues. Partici- fundraising, avoid some common mistakes and give you pants will learn how to become better advocates for ef- specific language for how to make a strong ask based fective, comprehensive anti- bullying policies. on relationships. Learn how to sort through your contacts and build a prospect list based on the 3 Cs of fundraising: Presenter: Nathan Smith, GLSEN, Washington, DC capacity, connection and commitment. Making OUR Invisibility Visible: Presenter: Robbie Samuels, So Just, Boston, MA Building an Active Lesbian of Color Community Organization from Transforming Your LGBT Organization Underground, and Beyond to be Fully Trans-Inclusive Community Organizing • Fundamentals Organizational Development • All Audiences This workshop will give attendees an understanding Most LGB(T) groups have officially embraced transgen- about how to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the pro- der people and issues, but many groups have not really cess of creating and sustaining a grassroots organization done so when it comes to including trans people and that meets the needs of LBTQ women of color in their priorities in their work. Whether your LGB(T) organization communities. The presenters will use a particular event– is an advocacy, faith-based, support, or direct services the Lesbians of Color Symposium–as an example of how organization, there are common principles that can help

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Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM

they listened to the needs of their community, organized a gardless of shape, size, appearance, configuration, gen- group of women, and planned/executed a well-attended der, or ability? Hanne Blank, author of Big Big Love, leads event that directly addressed the needs of LBTQ women this workshop on physical diversity, the foundational prin- of color. By attending this workshop, attendees will leave ciples of body acceptance, and practical ways to create with the tools and strategies to create their own success- body acceptance for ourselves and our communities. ful event/community organization. Presenters: Hanne Blank, The House of Red Doors, Presenters: Shaunya Thomas, Lesbians of Color Leominster, MA Symposium (LOCS), Boston, MA; LaTeisha Johnson, Lesbians of Color Symposium (LOCS), Boston, MA; Asexual Voices Panel Discussion Tikesha R. Morgan, Lesbians of Color Symposium Sexual Freedom • All Audiences (LOCS), Boston, MA This panel discussion will engage different aspects of At the Table and Making Changes: asexuality through a diverse panel of people who iden- Openly LGBT Officials tify on the asexual spectrum. Anyone who self-identifies as asexual in the audience will be invited to share their Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences experiences, too. Attendees will leave with a basic un- To achieve real change any movement needs people derstanding of the asexual spectrum, the difference be- in the streets and people at the table. Come hear from tween romantic and sexual attraction, stories of asexual out LGBTQ elected and appointed officials, staff from in- relationships, and will also have an opportunity to ask side the government and the LGBTQ movement leaders questions to panelists. on how they got there, the work that they do and how change is made from the inside. Presenters: Julie Decker, Tampa, FL; Tristan Miller, Berkeley, CA; Christina Bischoff, Tuscon, AZ; Rin Presenters: Jaan Williams, The Victory Institute, Scholtens, Athens, GA Washington, DC; Samir Luther, The Victory Institute, Washington, DC Putting Faith in Action: Mobilizing Communities of Faith You Say Fetish, I Say Affinity on Politcal Campaigns Sexual Freedom • Intermediate, All Audiences Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences What’s the difference between a fetish and an affinity? This workshop will provide attendees with a toolset for Are fetishes inherently good or bad? Given that our fe- helping their churches be in ministry with and to LGBT tishes emerge in a context of a host of injustices including Christians. The toolset is grounded in discovering our white supremacy, , patriarchy, xenophobia, common ground, regardless of personal perspectives on ableism and classism – to name a few – how do we dis- LGBT inclusion in the life and ministries of the church and tinguish between healthy fetishes and affinities and fetish- on communicating with each other using inclusive lan- es that reinscribe or act out these injustices? Come hear guage. Attendees will gain practical advice and tools for veteran kinksters and other queers with fetishes unpack their own church situations. what it means to play with fetishes associated with race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, nationality, bodies and Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, National Gay and body parts – and interrogate how they impact our move- Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Reverend Candy ments toward justice. Holmes, Metropolitan Community Churches; Macarthur Flornoy, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC; Presenters: Dr. Jaime Grant, Arcus Center for Social Rev. Deborah Peevey, Faith Organizing Consultant Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI; Ignacio Rivera; Hussain Turk; Margot Weiss Ballroom 102 – See You Afterschool, Practice Makes Perfect Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM People of Color • All Audiences There Is No Wrong Way To Have A Body Always a spectator and never a star? Well, here is your Movement Building • All Audiences chance honey, walk for us. A ball usually begins by ac- knowledging STARS, STATEMENTS, LEGENDS and How would our queer lives be better if there were no ICONS and at this workshop we invite such celebrities to wrong way to have a body? How would it improve our honor us with their talents by serving as true role mod- communities if all bodies were valued and respected re- els as we prepare the kids for the Awareness Mini-ball at

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Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM Creating Change. Do you feel soft and cunty? Are you When It’s One of Our Own: Sexual a runway diva? Can you give them realness? Are selling Violence in LGBTQ Communities carta? Well you’ll just have to join us then . . . that’s all. Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • Fundamentals Presenters: Angel Infiniti, New York, NY; Grandfather Angel Infiniti, Miami FL; Miss Penelope, New York NY Sexual Violence is happening in our communities and in our relationships at alarming rates. Yet, sexual violence LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention: remains one of the more taboo subjects within LGBTQ A Public Health and Policy Approach communities. It is difficult to admit that LGBTQ people Youth • All Audiences use coercion, exploitation, and violence to hurt one an- other sexually. Until we are able to actively admit that In this workshop, we will explore LGBTQ youth suicide sexual violence is an issue in our communities, we will and suicide prevention from both a public health and be hard pressed to prevent it or interrupt the culture that public policy perspective in order to provide attendees perpetuates it. This workshop will focus on identifying with tools to advance suicide prevention in their own ways to bring awareness to the issue of sexual violence communities. This workshop will focus on school-based and learning about sexual violence prevention initiatives approaches to suicide prevention. geared towards LGBTQ communities.

Presenters: Alison Gill, The Trevor Project Washing- Presenters: Santiago Vásquez, Kansas City Anti- ton, DC; Nathan Belyeu, The Trevor Project New York, Violence Project; Aida Manduley Sojournerri NY; Nicole Cardarelli, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Washington, D.C. How to Become “Gay for Pay” – Kicking off Your Queer Career Old is not a Four Letter Word: Movement Building • All Audiences Ageism through the Ages Aging and Ageism • All Audiences Are you starting to think about your professional future, and contemplating a career in the LGBT movement? Then Lesbians over age 60 from Old Lesbians Organizing this is the workshop for you! Through practical information for Change will share information, tell personal stories, and tips as well as personal stories of how some of us and circulate ads and birthday cards that illustrate how working in the movement now have gotten here, we’ll help ageism works at many different ages. We will then ask you decide whether a “queer career” is right for you, learn attendees for stories and examples of how they can how to be the best candidate you can be, and begin to de- respond to these. The group will then do role plays to velop a personal action plan for reaching your goals. There practice challenging ageism. will be plenty of time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

Presenters: Jan Griesinger, OLOC, Athens OH; Presenters: Alex Kent, Columbia, MD Mandy Carter, Durham, NC; Ruth Debra, OLOC, Palm Springs CA; Sally Tatnall, Cleveland Heights, OH Points Make A Star: An LGBTQ Center Successful Partnership Turning Media Moments with Four Other Cultural Centers into Winnable Campaigns College Campus Issues and Organizing Media, Communications, and Messaging for LGBT Administrators • All Audiences • Intermediate, Advanced What a difference five cultural centers make! While there What do you do when a public figure makes an offensive are college campuses that are successful with an inter- comment about LGBT people? How can you, as a com- cultural/multicultural center, the multiple cultural centers munications professional or statewide or community or- model can be beneficial in unique ways. Through an inter- ganization, leverage mainstream and social media to not active activity, participants will discuss and learn to navi- only correct these misrepresentations in the media but gate social identity politics, equity, collaboration, collec- also educate the public about the harms of dangerous tive and independent advocacy and institutional history. and inaccurate stereotypes? Find out how your organiza- The five cultural centers remain autonomous, but united tion can build highly visible public education campaigns by having some overlapping approaches and distinctive that create media moments. strategies with staff, center and program developments. Presenter: Daryl Hannah, GLAAD, New York, NY Presenter: Fleurette King, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

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Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM National Politics Panel Youthlink: Creating a National LGBT Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences Youth Policy and Advocacy Agenda Youth • Intermediate, All Audiences The National Politics Panel is comprised of a distinguished panel, which will examine the 2012 LGBT state initiatives This workshop will bring together staff and youth mem- and federal elections and what can be learned from the bers from LGBT youth organizations (e.g. youth centers, wins and losses; what are the regulatory and legislative community centers, community coalitions, national orga- challenges and opportunities; how can we better collabo- nizations) to begin the discussion of priorities for LGBT rate; and what strategy should we employ in advance of youth advocacy and the delivery of health and human the 2014 state initiatives and federal mid-term elections. services. Attendees will leave the session with a frame- work and agenda for an inclusive Network of LGBT Youth Speakers: Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay organizations, representing localities across the nation, and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; R. Clarke that will bring a national voice and policy recommenda- Cooper, Executive Director, Log Cabin Republicans; tions representing the needs and priorities of LGBT youth. Kirk Fordham, Executive Director, Gill Action; Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National Center for Trans- Presenters: Terry Stone, CenterLink; Grace Sterling gender Equality; Sharon Lettman-Hicks, Executive Stowell, BAGLY, Boston, MA; David Kilmnick, The Director, National Black Justice Coalition; moderator: Long Island GLBT Community Center, Long Island, NY Malcolm Lazin, Executive Director, Equality Forum, Philadelphia, PA Fear of a Brown Planet: Race, the Right, and the Queer Community Mapping Power: LGBTQ AAPI Racial/Economic Justice • Intermediate Organizing for Social Change People of Color • All Audiences Backlash against Civil Rights has been a staple of right wing politics in the U.S. for more than 40 years. Now, Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pa- growing white unease with the rapidly changing racial de- cific Islander (AAPI) LGBTQs are organizing like never mographics of the U.S. and the world is driving the right before. This workshop will give an overview of the na- wing agenda, drawing us into a battle over economic, tion’s LGBTQ AAPI groups, and will provide compara- political and cultural dominance that will be waged across tive information about their infrastructure, capacity, and the color line. Which side of the color line will the queer challenges. Presenters will showcase local multilingual movement choose? education campaigns to counter anti-gay bias and or- ganizing campaigns for immigrants’ rights and marriage Presenters: Scot Nakagawa, Change Lab, Brooklyn, equality. Representatives of some of the nation’s leading NY; Eric Ward, Atlantic Philanthropies, Brooklyn, NY; LGBTQ AAPI organizations will provide current informa- Suzanne Pharr, Knoxville, TN; Tarso Ramos, Public tion and on-the-ground analysis of their work. Eye, Somerville, MA Presenters: Glenn D. Magpantay, National Queer Transgender Muslims: Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance, New York, NY; Alice How Orthodox Islam Gets It Y. Hom, Asian Americans/Pacific Islander San Francis- Right (And Yet So Wrong) co; Nicholas Sakurai, Rainbow Dragon Fund, College Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Park, MD; Madhuri Anji, Trikone; DesiQ, Oakland, VA In a reversal of the usual pattern of expanding lesbian Applying for a Queer Youth Fund Grant and gay affirming religious policies to include transgen- Youth • Intermediate der, the Islamic world has seen orthodox religious lead-

Queer Youth Fund has granted $4.4 million since 2003 to ers affirm transgender while leaving LGB Muslims out in US organizations empowering queer youth. The session the cold. This presentation will inform participants about will provide background information on QYF from foun- the unique religious support for transgender Muslims, the dation staff, a funder, a grants committee member and at hope and benefits it offers, and why it is not a simple suc- least one grantee. Q&A will follow. cess story for the LGBTQ Muslim community, or even for all transgender Muslims. Presenters: Weston Milliken, Johnson Family Founda- tion; Carol Lee, Liberty Hill Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Presenter: Tynan Power

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Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM The Trans Agenda – Transforming Congregations of The FAST Version – With Wheels! Color from the Inside Out Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Join an assortment of trans movement leaders who will Attendees will gain practical information on how to begin zoom through the transgender agenda and provide you the conversation on helping congregations of color be- with the information you need about what toolkits, re- come more inclusive of their LGBTQ family and church sources, and policies exist out there that you can use, so members by engaging them in theologically sound cur- you don’t have to reinvent the wheel! We will cover health riculums that have cultural resonance for African-Amer- care, sex-segregated facilities, non-discrimination, cam- ican, Latino/a and Asian Pacific Island Christians. This pus, K-12 safe schools, transition policies, employment panel discussion includes the theologians who conduct campaigns, and more! this work in their various communities.

Presenters: Lisa Mottet, National Gay and Lesbian Presenters: Rev. Gwen Thomas, CLGS, Berke- Task Force, Washington, DC; Pooja Gehi, Sylvia Rivera ley, CA; Jess Delegencia, CLGS, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Law Project, Washington, DC; Mara Keisling, National Orlando Espin, CLGS, Berkeley, CA; Rev. Roland Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC; Stringfellow, CLGS, Berkeley, CA Dru Levasseur, Lambda Lega,l New York, NY Jewish Rituals to Celebrate #Winning Your Campus Campaign LGBTQ People’s Lives College Campus Issues and Organizing Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences for Students • All Audiences What existing rituals within Jewish tradition can be adopt- Sometimes it can be tough out there trying to organize ed to celebrate and affirm trans experiences and lives? LGBTQ folks on campus or in your community, but you How can we reimagine and create new rituals to reflect can come to this workshop and learn how fix it! #Win- and embrace trans experiences? Join us to learn about ning Your Campus Campaigns will teach you how to fully existing rituals designed to embrace trans experiences, integrate organizing tactics using storytelling, traditional and to vision, imagine, and create new rituals together. media, social media, and strategy. The best part is, you will leave your very own campus campaign plan to win! Presenter: Joanna Ware, KESHET, Jamaica Plain, MA Join us and learn how to #CreateChange! Drum Yourself Whole Presenters: Ryane Ridenour, Generational Alliance, Health • All Audiences Washington, DC; Vincent Paolo Villiano, National Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC This will be a guided interactive discussion including fun- damentals, cultural contexts and practical hands on work If You Want an Ally, Be an Ally: The with drumming across and beyond boundaries of culture, Importance of Coalition Building in faith, and identity. the Progression of LGBT Civil Rights Presenters: Lynn Young Walkerton, Indiana; Pastor Movement Building • Fundamentals MAK Kneebone, Culver, Indiana This workshop will explore how the LGBT community can better support other oppressed communities. At- Because You’re Brown Honey Gurl!: tendees will be presented with information regarding the A Dialogue about Race & Desire importance of reaching across oppressed communities Sexual Freedom • Intermediate to establish social justice networks. Participants will re- This workshop is for POC-identified queers, a space for flect on the need for coalition building and barriers to co- us to gather and discuss how we desire and are desired alition building. Participants will increase their awareness in white supremacist realities. Some of us have chosen on potential community partners. Participants will leave romantic separatism as a result of racist trauma, personal- with the understanding that being an ally is essential to political enactments, or both. Others of us find ourselves fe- forward progress in the LGBT Civil Rights Movement. tishized. Still others find ourselves falling always for the white Presenter: Erica “Ricky” Roberts, Athens, GA queers, wishing we could have more agency in the process, be more intentional about who we desire and how.

Presenters: Alok Vaid-Menon; Janani Balasubramanian

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Caucus Session 1 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Inspiring Brown Bois in Student Affairs Atheist/Agnostic/Non-believer College Campus Issues and Organizing Caucus for Administrators • Intermediate Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Come to this session to learn about the Brown Boi Atheists are still considered the least-trusted minority Project and how to support masculine queer people of group in the US. This caucus will be an opportunity to color on college campuses. If you are interested in the discuss the challenge of carrying both a nonbelieving messiness of LGBT work at colleges and universities, and LGBT identity. We will connect with each other and then this presentation is for you! strategize how to better recruit allies from the nonbeliev- ing community and create visibility for them in coalition Presenter: Van Bailey E.D., Harvard University, work. Anyone who is curious about these worldviews is Cambridge, MA welcome to join the discussion. Asexy & Allies Caucus Presenter: Zack Ford Sexual Freedom • All Audiences Intergenerational LGBTSQ This caucus is for all asexual spectrum people and their Black Caucus allies to get together during this year’s Creating Change. People of Color • All Audiences We will discuss recent events in the asexual community including WorldPride, recent campaign victories, and up- This interactive caucus will provide an opportunity for at- coming summer Pride plans. Join together with asexual, tendees of all ages from across the nation, to engage to aromantic, demisexual, grey-asexual, and allied people in a communal dialogue focused on the experiences of for great conversation – and cake! black identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, , queer and questioning (LGBTSQ) folks. In Presenters: Sara Beth Brooks, Asexual Awareness addition to the dialogue this session will include an op- Week; David Jay portunity to create of an action plan for continuing such dialogues back in your local communities. Putting Faith in Action: Mobilizing Communities of Faith Presenters: Monroe France, New York University, New on Politcal Campaigns York, NY; Mandy Carter, Durham, NC; Francesca E. Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences Walker, New York University, New York, NY

Faith coalitions, sermons, and religious commentary Caucus on Women’s Colleges support, question, and refute who should have access College Campus Issues and Organizing to marriage. Faith and race play a pivotal role in this dis- for LGBT Administrators • All Audiences course. In this session, key faith leaders and organizers will share their perspectives on developing toolsets when LGBTQ individuals and allies who work at women’s facing the implications of faith and race. Attendees will colleges know that we have some unique or accentu- gain insight and creativity in understanding how faith and ated challenges compared to co-ed institutions. Some race can present challenges leading to enlightened advo- of these may include the institution’s fear of being labeled cacy skills toward effecting change. as a “lesbian college” and the confusion around “what to do” about gender variant and transgender applicants and Presenter: Kathleen Campisano, National Gay and students. Come to compare issues and strategies that Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC may help create change and to explore potential interest for future organized networking. Unid@s: Estamos Presente! Movement Building • All Audiences Presenter: Leah M. Fygetakis, Wellesley College Wellesley, MA This Latino LGBT caucus – Unid@s: Estamos Presente! – will allow activists from around the country to connect, Lesbians 60 and Over network, hear and share the status of the Latino LGBT Lesbian Community & Issues • All Audiences movement in the U.S.A. and Puerto Rico. Join us to dis- cuss the state of the Latino LGBT movement and where Lesbians 60 and over are invited to share experiences it’s headed. and reflect on the intersectionality of race, class, age, and nationality and reflect on our experiences at Creating Presenters: Jorge Cestou, Unid@s, Chicago, IL Change.

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Caucus Session 1 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Presenters: Jan Griesinger, OLOC, Athens OH; Alix seeking guidance on how to respond when a daughter or Dobkin, Woodstock, NY son comes out. Dr. Johnston will introduce and discuss his book. Pre-K-12 Educators Caucus , Jamaica Plain, MA Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 Presenter: Mark Johnston • All Audiences Sexual Liberators Caucus LGBTQ school faculty and staff members rarely have Sexual Freedom • All Audiences an opportunity to network around issues personally and professionally relevant to them. This caucus will allow Calling all sexual liberators! Is your passion helping to pre-K-12 educators,whether implicitly or explicitly out or teach, train, counsel, coach, or write about sexual lib- closeted all together, an opportunity to discuss personal eration? Together we will provide space for personal and and professional challenges as they pertain to their own professional support for those working to help people situation within the school setting and to the situations of to fulfill their sexual desires. This caucus is a supportive LGBTQ students, parents, and care givers and their allies. place to serve as a sounding board, get advice, identify challenges and solutions. There will also be an opportu- Presenter: Jason Heisserer, Webster Groves, MO nity to join a co-coaching circle for ongoing support and conversation. Conversion Therapy: The Psychological and Social Damage Caused By Efforts Presenter: Asha Leong, Atlanta, GA to “Cure” LGBTQ People China’s Emerging Leaders: Gender and Identity • Fundamentals An Innovative China/US Collaborative LGBTQ people have historically faced extensive patholo- International Issues • All Audiences gization from the medical community, including attempts by mental health providers to “convert” them through Nearly five years ago, a representative from a Chinese therapy. This workshop will share information concerning LGBT organization approached the LA Gay & Lesbian the practice of conversion therapy. Advances in recent Center to propose a collaboration designed to inspire years have changed the approach of anti-gay mental and prepare young emerging leaders for their future roles health providers away from explicit mention of attempts as leaders of the world’s largest LGBT community. To to “cure” LGBTQ people and instead toward a more date, 30 people have graduated from this program and subtle, and perhaps more socially damaging, message many have assumed key movement leadership positions of “authentic gender” and corresponding heterosexuality. in China. During this session, these leaders will explain Participants in this workshop will learn about the con- this unique program and its role in the often risky yet in- version therapy movement, its impact on our commu- spiring Chinese LGBT community and movement. nities, particularly on youth and its history in relation to Presenters: Rebecca Levison, LA Gay and Lesbian the mainstream medical community. Participants will also Center, Los Angeles, CA; David Li, AIBAI and Center engage in discussion around messaging and community Staff, , China; Ting Ting Wei, Beijing Gender involvement as LGBTQ advocates seek to create a world Health Institute, Beijing, China; Doudou Chen, Gay and in which authenticity is not equated with heterosexuality. Lesbian Campus Association, Xingangxilu, Guangzhou; , PFLAG China, Guangzhou Presenters: Alesdair Ittelson, Southern Poverty Law Aqiang Hu Center; Sam Wolfe, Southern Poverty Law Center; Kristine Medea, MA, LPC, BCETS, Thriving Heart The First Annual LGBTQ Therapy International Documentary Challenge Art & Culture • All Audiences Introducing: “What Do I Do LGBTQ lives have often been lived in a world of shadows, Now: When a Child Comes Out of margins, of don’t ask, don’t tell. This workshop inspires as Lesbian or Gay” participants to share our community’s stories by making Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Fundamentals short documentaries in conjunction with the First Annual LGBTQ International Documentary Challenge. This timed Rev. Dr. Mark Johnston has recently published a short filmmaking competition invites professional and amateur e-book with Chalice Press entitled What Do I Do Now? filmmakers to make short non- fiction films (4-7 minutes) When a Child Comes Out as Lesbian or Gay. This book is in 5 days or less on a variety of LGBTQ themes. written for parents with a Christian background who are

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Caucus Session 1 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Presenters: Steven M. Ley, KDHX Community Media, First Nations Two Spirit Caucus St. Louis, MO; Ken Haller, St. Louis, MO; Courtney People of Color • Intermediate Hermann, The Art Institute of Portland, Portland, OR This is an internal dialogue for self-identified First Nations Queer Arab and SWANA Caucus folks to build community and connect Two Spirit organiz- People of Color • All Audiences ing occurring across North and South America. As part of this dialogue, we will share the ongoing work of the First Queer Arabs and/or SouthWest Asian and North Africans Nations Two Spirit Collective and discuss the next steps (SWANA) are organizing and mobilizing across the nation as we struggle for inclusion in the overall movement for in their local communities. Join Queer Arab and SWANA liberation. This is a closed session for First Nations/Two voices to share stories and learn from each other’s expe- Spirit/Indigenous - identified people only. riences as well as share ideas for moving forward. Sawa lets build SWANA = Together lets build each other. Presenters: Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Southen- ers On New Ground, Atlanta, GA; Melissa Hoskins, Presenters: Bashar Makhay, AQC; Hilal Khalil, AQC Southerners on New Ground, Atlanta, GA; Melissa L. Pope, Troy, MI; Angel Fabian, New York, NY; Extension of Cultural Competency Robert-John Hinojosa, West Columbia, SC Training on Aging Issues Aging and Ageism • All Audiences Conditional Love: Confronting Issues When Coming Out to Your Family Are your services age-friendly? Are you attracting as Families • All Audiences many older adults to your programs as you can be? The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is offering its Coming out to your family is a very difficult process; you premier 4-hour training to Creating Change attendees. are sharing something very personal with people you This highly interactive workshop seeks to increase your love. This makes it a time when you could become closer knowledge and shift your attitudes related to serving and more attached, but it also carries the risk of rejection LGBT older adults. and pain. Although times are modern and advances have been made, people still have to face adversity everyday. Presenter: Hilary Meyer, SAGE, New York, NY Through discussion and strategies based on sharing and listening to personal experiences, we can make this pro- The Gender Dance: Smashing Gender cess a little easier for everyone. Stereotypes in Children’s Literature Families • All Audiences Presenters: Regina Lutskiy, Emerson College, Dorchester MA; Samantha Malnekof, Emerson Col- As the author of the children’s classic, Heather Has Two lege, Cambridge, MA Mommies, Lesléa Newman knows how crucial it is for chil- dren to see themselves and families like theirs portrayed Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Caucus in literature in order to build self- esteem. In this lively dis- Bisexual Community & Issues • Fundamentals cussion, she presents groundbreaking books that offer children a wide range of examples of gender expression, Wondering where the bi/pan/fluid/queer activists are at including The Story Of Ferdinand, William’s Doll, Princess the conference? We’ll swap information about what’s go- Smartypants, King & King, 10,000 Dresses and others. ing on at the conference for the non-monosexuals and offer opportunities for activists to network with others Presenter: Lesléa Newman, Author, Northampton, MA from around the country. You’ll also find real information about connecting to national and local bi organizations Building Your Donor Base and individuals. Fundraising • All Audiences Presenter: Ellyn Ruthstrom, Somerville, MA Share strategies, success, challenges and opportuni- ties for building your donor base. We’ll cover strategies Saving Our Selves: Transgender including annual appeal strategies, LGBTQ-specific and Suicide Prevention and Intervention mainstream foundations, major donor cultivation, and Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences Give OUT Day (a new annual, national LGBTQ giving day launching on May 9, 2013). A trans-led facilitated community discussion about the impact of suicide on transgender communities and what Presenter: Noris Chavarria, Bolder Giving, New York, NY support/resources is needed and/or happening for peers

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Caucus Session 1 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

assisting with prevention and intervention efforts for Presenters: Melissa Moore, We Are Family, Charles- transgender friends, partners, and/or family members. ton, SC; Ryan Wilson, Harriet Hancock LGBT Center, Facilitators will provide transgender community members Columbia, SC with an opportunity to examine ways suicide impacts lo- cal transgender communities, understanding the risk fac- SAGENet Caucus: Emerging Trends, tors and warning signs of suicide, and overview of suicide Best Practices, Model Programs prevention/intervention tools and resources that currently Aging and Ageism • All Audiences exist. In this caucus session, LGBT older adults and providers Presenters: Gunner Scott, Massachusetts Transgen- will work together with SAGENet affiliate members to cre- der Political Coalition Boston, MA; Alison Gill, Esq., ate a snapshot of important LGBT older adult advocacy Trevor Project, Washington, DC; Tharyn Grant, Boston and service initiatives occurring throughout the country. GLASS, Boston, MA Everyone in the room will have the opportunity to partici- pate by sharing their knowledge of new and established Families Who Love So Much programs and advocacy initiatives. Families • All Audiences Presenter: Serena Worthington, SAGE, Chicago, IL What differences are there between those families who “come out” with their gay, lesbian, trans, bisexual, inter- Exploring Hmoob-American Culture & sex, queer, or questioning members and those who do Identity not? How might we determine what combination of fac- Gender and Identity • Fundamentals, Intermediate tors improves an LGBTIQ person’s chances of securing family support regarding their queer identity? This ses- Few studies have explored identity issues facing gay, les- sion will ask supported LGBTIQ’s and/or family members bian, and bisexual Hmong-Americans today. Since 1975, what strategies help garner support for and from ambiva- changes can be seen in Hmong culture, language, and lent or rejecting families. life choices as a result of acculturation. Hmong-Ameri- cans have encountered challenges balancing dual identi- Presenter: Cole Thomas, Ed.S., Atlanta, GA ties due to cultural norms in the United States. Come learn about a particular study exploring the challenges Queer African Caucus these individuals face today when there is a clash be- Movement Building • All Audiences tween culture and the formation of !

The Queer African caucus will be a space for 1st and 2nd Presenter: G Lee Xiong generation LGBT-identified African folks to build commu- nity in a space we rarely get. We will take time to get to In Memory of Brandon know one another, share our stories and think about how Movement Building • All Audiences we can support each other. A gathering for friends and family of william Brandon Presenter: Terna Tilley-Gyado, New York, NY Lacey Campos, 35, lost to us on november 9, 2012. Share your thoughts and reflections about the remark- Real G.R.I.T.S. (Gays Raised In able man, Brandon, and his remarkable life. He loved The South): Recipes for engaging Creating Change and his conference family with a tough Southern LGBTQI youth and tender embrace. Youth • All Audiences Facilitators: Beth Zemsky, Organizer and Trainer, Organizations that serve LGBTQI youth in southern and Minneapolis MN rural areas often encounter similar pitfalls that hinder their ability to achieve successful outcomes. This caucus will Why Have 87 LGBTQ Activists provide the opportunity for youth and adults who sup- Been Killed in Honduras? port youth-centered programs to come together and International Issues • All Audiences strategize practical solutions to overcome the barriers to success in working with LGBTQI youth. Topics discussed Since the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras, will include overcoming racial divides, engaging youth in 87 LGBTQ Hondurans – including key leaders – have leadership roles, emergency shelter services, transgen- been murdered in a systematic campaign of hate crimes der inclusion, and more. and political assassination. Honduran LGBTQ activist Jose “Pepe” Palacios of the Movement of Diversity in Re-

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Caucus Session 1 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM sistance will explain how for the first time in Latin Ameri- CAUCUS: Femme can history, LGBTQ organizations have joined indigenous Sexual Freedom • Fundamentals peoples, African descendants, farmers, women, stu- dents, and trade unionists in non-violent resistance to the Join Femmes of All Genders coup in order to build a fully inclusive society – and what Presenter: Asha Leong you can do to help.

Presenters: Jose Palacios, Movement of Diversity in SexPositive POC Resistance, Honduras; Andy Thayer, Chicago Libera- Sexual Freedom • Fundamentals, All Audiences tion Network, Chicago IL Gathering for all people of color who are sex-positive.

Presenters: Jack Harrison, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Asha Leong

Friday Evening Events Shabbat Services pact. And we’ll talk about where to go next. All youth advo- Gather in Lobby at 6:30 PM; Services 7:00 PM. cates welcome. Hosted by the Safe Spaces Project.

Open to all Creating Change participants. This year’s SONG @ 20! Shabbat will be held at Congregation Bet Haverim, 2676 8:30 PM Clairmont Rd NE, Atlanta, as part of their Shabbat Shirah Fest 2013. This celebration of liberation is entitled Between Join us to celebrate Southerners On New Ground (SONG)’s Two Worlds and begins at 7:00 PM. Free buses will be 20 years of work. Since 1993, SONG has worked in hostile available to take participants to the synagogue. Those in- conditions to build LGBTQ organizing in our region across terested should meet in the lobby of the Hilton at 6:30 PM. race, class, culture, gender and sexuality. We center the soul of the LGBTQ movement in how we honor legacy, 12 Step/Recovery Meeting build resiliency, and bring together LGBTQ people for the 7:30 PM dream of liberation. New to SONG? Come anyway. Fea- turing SONG Elders, Leaders and Friends. Keep your recovery going at Creating Change! Pretty in PPink: Continuing the Conversation: Build- Sex, Planned Parenthood, and Cocktails ing Bridges Between the LGBTQ & 8:30 PM Reproductive Justice Movements 8:30 PM Team PPink invites you to celebrate LGBT activism and organizing at Creating Change 2013. Join us for food and This reception will continue the important dialoguing and cocktails as we discuss the intersections between LGBT work that occurred in August at the Building Bridges LG- and reproductive health issues and justice. And just like BTQ & RJ Summit hosted by the National Latina Institute all Planned Parenthood parties, it’s not complete without for Reproductive Health. During this time, we will briefly swag and designer condoms. Bring your business cards talk about the possibility of working in coalition together and your buddies. to resolve the pressing issues our communities face be- fore enjoying each other’s company. Light refreshments PPink Sponsor and snacks will be served.

LGTBQ Youth Network Reception Pipeline Project Reception: 2012-13 8:30 PM 21st Century Fellows Cohort 8:30 PM Come and mingle with other youth advocates. We’ll share some fascinating results of work to identify, map, and sup- A reception in honor of the Pipeline Project’s 2012-13 21st port networks of LGBTQ youth-serving and youth-em- Century Fellows Cohort, acknowledging Program alumni powering organizations. While enjoying light refreshments, and our Next Wave Interns, some of whom will be present. you can contribute your knowledge to the maps and learn The reception is open, but space will be limited and RSVPs how a network approach can help you deepen your im- are strongly encouraged. RSVP to: [email protected].

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Friday Evening Events Task Force Academy Reception know each other, the better equipped we’ll be to create 8:30 PM change! Aspiring Profo Homos welcome. profohomos. org. Sponsored by Out & Equal, Renna Communica- Come connect with old friends, meet new ones, and cel- tions, CenterLink, Strength in Numbers Consulting, and ebrate the past year’s accomplishments! This is the per- the Long Island GLBT Services Network. fect place for organizers to meet, mingle and mull over all that is on our plates this coming year. Across the move- Northern California Reception ment organizers in faith communities, on campaigns and 8:30 PM in our organizations made huge strides forward in 2012. As always, there is more to do, so come join us as we Conference attendees from Northern California (and their re-fuel together! guests) are invited to a norCal reception. Come by to meet Task Force Executive Director, Rea Carey, and the R u UU? Board of Directors that make up the northern Califor- 8:30 PM nia “pod”. This is the perfect opportunity to build con- nections with other Task Force members and Creating Come Join a Gathering of Unitarian Universalists spon- Change attendees from Northern California. Light snacks sored by Interweave Continental and UUA LGBTQ and will be provided. Cash bar available. Multicultural Ministries! Meet Annette Marquis of the UUA and Maryka Bhattacharyya and Nisco Junkins of Inter- Blogger Reception weave Continental. Enjoy light refreshments and cama- 8:30 PM raderie. Learn what Interweave and LGBTQ Ministries are doing and how you and your congregation can get Come mix and mingle with some of your favorite bloggers, involved. We look forward to seeing you there! social media mavens, and online personalities. whether you have your own site or lurk on other blogs, you’re wel- Equality Federation come to attend the blogger reception and meet the people 8:30 PM behind your computer screen. Strong opinions and #cc13 tweets encouraged. Cash bar available. Sponsored by the Join Equality Federation staff and representatives from National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. its state LGBT member organizations for drinks and light hors d’oeuvres. Find out what’s going on in your state and HOTlanta Awareness celebrate 2012 achievements. We look forward to having Mini-Ball and Dance great conversations and a lot of fun! See you there. Grand Ballroom Doors Open: 9:00 PM; SSL Promptly at 10:00 PM Michigan Creating Change 2013 Reception Get your Vogue on, Children! Grandfather Angel Infiniti, 8:30 PM Angel Infiniti and Miss Penelope host the fabulousness of our Creating Change runway. You know you want it! Join Creating Changers from around Michigan for a re- $10 donation at the door; no one turned away for lack of ception celebrating the 2012 LGBT victories in Michigan funds. DJ Angel X pumps beats and you walk! and reflecting on the work ahead. Leaders from and members of the Unity Michigan Coalition will be present to share updates and discuss plans for 2013 and beyond. All Creating Change attendees from Michigan, and supporters of Michigan’s LGBT work, are invited and encouraged to attend! This reception is spon- sored by the Unity Michigan Coalition with support from Arcus Foundation.

5th Annual Profo Homo Reception 8:30 PM Join us as we celebrate five years of professional net- working for folks working in the LGBTQ… movement. Find a job, start a collaboration, make new friends who understand this crazy, wonderful field. The better we

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Schedule of Events • Saturday, January 26, 2013 Please check the grid schedule for room locations. Art Studio Space - CC13 Salon C, Second Level 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Creating Change is thrilled to bring back Art Studio Space - Creating Change. Through our creative, artistic, brilliant selves, we seek ways of expressing our fierce desires, love and passion, and our commitment to creating a world in which we want to live. The Arts have been a vital and historic component of our LGBTQ culture. Our creative expres- sions foster and reflect individual visions within our communities, through the banners we carry, the logos we brand for our organizations and the art we hang on our walls. Art Studio Space - CC13 is a collaborative space in which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own personal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The Art Studio is for participants to express their creative and individual hopes, compassion and desires with glitter, markers, cloth and paint. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC13 Banner, weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! Hope to see you there!

Academy Session 3 • 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Organizing our Allies Market, TN; Zilphia Horton, Highlander Center, New and Interlocking Our Movements Market, TN Build Power • All Audiences Marrying Racial Justice All too often, LGBT organizations find themselves cam- and LGBT Rights paigning for a single issue, which can isolate and mini- Build Power • All Audiences mize their capacity. This has been successful in pursu- ing certain human rights, but what if we want more? In Marriage for gay and lesbian couples is a huge focus of the the larger movement towards justice, we need skills to LGBT movement. And we know that to win at the ballot, maintain collaborative alliances within the field of system- we need to mobilize a wide range of supporters – including ic inequality. Come learn tools that promote sustainable people of color. After the 2012 campaigns in Washington, movement building within your work and see what ‘more’ Maryland, Minnesota, north Carolina, and Maine, what can look like. have we learned about engaging with communities of color? Come to this session to hear about groundbreaking Presenters: Celia Kutz, Training for Change Trainer work done in Washington to educate and mobilize com- and Co-Director; Matthew Armstead, Training for munities of color. For three months, the Western States Change Facilitator and Program Coordinator, Princeton Center hired organizers to work in the African American, University LGBT Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and Native American com- munities – talking to grasstops leaders, mobilizing orga- Popular Education and nizations, and raising the visibility and voices of queer and Organizing for LGBTQ Liberation trans folks of color. What did we learn and what’s next? Take Action • All Audiences Come to this session to learn more. This workshop de- velops both skills and analysis. Using examples from the This session will give the basics in popular education as campaign run by Western States Center, presenters will linked to organizing. Objectives include understanding support the participants in developing skills for talking the basics of popular education as a methodology; the about marriage within communities of color, as well as how difference between training and popular education; how to use the fight for marriage to open larger conversations popular education is tied to action and organizing; and an about acceptance and inclusion of QTPOC. opportunity to explore applications of popular education in their local organizing work. The Highlander Research Presenters: Jen Lleras, Western States Center; and Education Center is known for its popular educa- Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Western States Center tion praxis, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year as a world renowned beacon for progressive organizing and The Erotic, The Sacred & a widely acclaimed leadership development center for The Spirit: Just Sex on Fire grassroots activists across race and generations. Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Presenters: Pam McMichael, Highlander Center, New Embodied as flesh, spirit, and soul, we can enjoy our pas- Market, TN; Marquez Rhyne, Highlander Center, New sions, actualize our visions, and create experiences that

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Academy Session 3 Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Mapping Our Desires fully express our spiritual/sexual lives without contradiction Sexual Freedom • All Audiences or compartmentalization. But structural inequality and op- Workshop Sessions 5 and 6, 3 hours pression can often repress our erotic power, disrupting our integrated Selves, desensitizing us to Life, and undermin- Desire Matters. Claiming and Acting on our desires cre- ing our relationships with Nature. As LGBTQSGL people, ates a more healthy, sustainable life path for all of us. many of us have become acutely aware of how these sys- Fully embodying our desires gives us an integrity amd tems of oppression condition us to cloak or hide passions fierceness that we take into our families, our communi- or to feel shame in our desires. Erotic liberation, decolo- ties, and our work for justice. The key treasure trove of nization, and empowerment need to be daily practices if information concerning what turns you on, what keeps we are to ultimately be both the “change we want to see you interested, and what touches you most deeply lies in in the world” and the orgasm we want to experience with your unique sex story. This workshop will provide an in- the world. Using Theater of the Oppressed, erotic breath troduction to finding your story through Desire Mapping, and trance work, and thoughtful reflection, this workshop a tool for your life-long journey toward sexual empower- introduces you to an integrated body/mind spirituality if ment and a more just world. you’ve never embraced it before, and/or nourishes your Presenters: Amelie Zurn, Queer Health Activist erotic spirit if you’ve already begun the journey. and Psychotherapist, Silver Spring, MD; Monique Presenters: M’Kali Hashiki; Herekuti Meadows; Jack Harrison, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC Calling ALL Brown Bois: Building Infrastructure for Change! Family Building for Create Change • All Audiences Community Organizers Families • Fundamentals In this workshop we will share tools for organizing, build- ing leadership, and community with young masculine As a leader and organizer in your community we under- of center people of color. Through case studies we will stand your unique needs in regards to time and family explore some of the ways that MoC folks are reshaping building. This session aims to provide you with detailed masculinity and gender around the country. Participants information and shared experiences about the many op- will also have the opportunity to win a copy of our health tions and the affordability of building a family. guide—Freeing Ourselves. This workshop is specifically Presenters: Liz Kelley, EMD Serono; David Alexan- for leaders of color. der, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, New York, Presenters: B. Cole, Brown Boi Project; NY; Laurie Young, National Gay and Lesbian Task Erica Woodland, Brown Boi Project Force, Washington, DC; Gilbert Mottla, MD, Shady Grove Fertility Centers, Annapolis, MD Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Reshaping State Aging Policy: Exploring Art and Activism Collaborations that Focus or Exploring Activism Through Art the Lens on LGBT Older Adults Art Studio Space • Salon C Second Level Aging and Ageism • Intermediate Art and Culture • All Audiences This session will look at examples of collaborations be- Come explore activism and what it means to create tween LGBT groups and mainstream aging agencies that change through a dynamic, interactive art workshop! Art is have helped shift policy and programs to incorporate the a wonderful way to deepen self-awareness, facilitate use- needs of LGBT older adults. Participants will learn cre- ful dialogue, foster better understanding of one another ative advocacy and relationship-building strategies and as activists and members of the queer movement. Abso- develop strategies for introducing and strengthening the lutely no art experience or skill necessary (there’s no wrong focus on LGBT aging issues in their states and localities. way to do it!) just bring yourselves and an open mind. Presenters: Allison Auldridge, SAGE, New York, NY; Facilitator: Tamara Weiner Doug Carl, Atlanta, GA; Linda Ellis, SAGE Atlanta & The Health Initiative, Atlanta, GA

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Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM UndocuQueer: Intersecting Identities: Transforming Schools: Through Youth Activism Safe School Organizing for Trans• Immigration • All Audiences and Gender Non-Conforming People Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 There are great challenges faced by LGBTIQ people and • All Audiences those who are undocumented. UndocuQueer: Intersect- ing Identities Through Youth Activism will focus on the Calling all trans• and gender nonconforming K-12 stu- presence of undocumented queer youth in the DREAM dents and adults! Come and share your experiences and Act movement. Along with sharing their stories the pan- knowledge on safe schools issues, while exploring how elist will encourage a conversation about the oppression interpersonal actions, institutional structures, and policies that exists within the two communities in an effort to fos- impact the education of trans• and gender nonconform- ter collaboration and unity between both groups. ing students. Participants will leave with best practices, tools, and resources for creating school policy and cul- , CA; Presenters: Javier Hernandez Fernanda ture change, in addition to a stronger connection to other , PA; , NY; , IL Marroquin Felipe Baeza Reyna Wences trans• and gender nonconforming safe schools advo- cates. This is open only to people who identify as trans• Design the Change: How Millennials and/or gender nonconforming. Can Amplify their Voice and Impact the Policymaking Process Presenters: Kiwi Grady, GLSEN, New York, NY; College Campus Issues and Organizing T. Aaron Hans, M.Ed., RISE Consulting; Loan Tran, for Students • All Audiences Student Organizer This workshop will prepare Millennials to be a potent force Congress - outside of the electoral cycle by training them on how to Where’s Our Federal Legislation? directly engage with and impact the policymaking pro- Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences cess. By guiding participants on how to craft a creative policy solution and engage meaningfully in policy discus- A new Congressional session is starting and Inauguration sions, the workshop will provide participants invested in Day is behind us. In the last Congress we achieved Hate LGBT equality and the broader progressive agenda with Crimes passage and repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But a clear process and toolkit for how young people can let’s review the status of other legislative priorities - em- uniquely drive policy change. ployment protections, housing, education, health care, to name just a few. Come hear from national advocates on Presenter: Lydia Bowers, Roosevelt Campus what legislation they’re working on and where it stands Network, New York, NY in Congress. HIV/AIDS & Islamic Ethics Presenters: Stacey Long, National Gay and Lesbian AIDS/HIV • All Audiences Task Force, Washington, DC; Mara Keisling, National Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC; Religion is a source of strength for many living with HIV/ Michael Brewer, National Black Justice Coalition, AIDS. Yet sometimes religion is a challenge itself (e.g., used Washington, DC; Shawn Gaylord, GLSEN, Washing- to condemn HIV+ people as “sinners”). This workshop will ton, DC; Brian Moulton, Human Rights Campaign, explore a broader range of ethical issues that HIV/AIDS Washington, DC can evoke in Islam and other religions. It will be interactive (not a lecture). Participants unfamiliar with Islam are wel- Deepening the Roots of Our Move- come to share about their faith tradition or ethical guide- ment; Organizing to Prevent and lines, when thinking about faith, ethics, and HIV/AIDS. Reduce Police Violence and Miscon- Presenters: Kamal Fizazi, New York, NY; Hussain duct Against LGBTQ Communities Turk, Kalamazoo, MI Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • Fundamentals Since the , LGBTQ movements have a long history in organizing against police violence. This workshop will present national data on LGBTQ police vi- olence, concrete organizing strategies, and wins against police violence in new Orleans, washington, DC, and

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Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM New York City. In this workshop participants will learn Queer Like Me: Supporting Commu- models for organizing against police violence and other nity Formation for LGBTQA Students forms of misconduct, participate in interactive breakout of Color with Limited Mirrors sessions, and dialogue with presenters. College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBT Presenters: Ejeris Dixon, Anti-Violence Project, New Administrators • All Audiences York, NY; Wes Ware, Youth Break Out, New Orleans As social justice educators, we know students tend to LA; Beverly Tillery, Lambda Legal, New York, NY; seek support from those who mirror and reflect parts of Holiday Simmons, Lambda Legal, Atlanta, GA their most salient identities. We also know that there are over 150 college-based LGBTQ centers, but that a rela- Evaluating Advocacy & tively small percentage of those centers are staffed by Policy Change – Untangling the Mess people of color. This session will provide examples, strat- Organizational Development • Advanced egies, and reflections on intentional collaboration, provid- ing resources, and programming for supporting LGBTQ Advocacy groups rarely evaluate policy change efforts. students of color from an allied position. Success will be evident when Bill XYZ becomes law. But short of the big win, more advocates are beginning to Presenters: Jennifer Kurtz, Rutgers University; Ji Lee, wonder: Are we on the right track? Are we enhancing Rutgers University; Anna Phung, Rutgers University skills? Can we adapt to new opportunities or setbacks? Through discussion and exercises, participants will learn Secrets to Engaging about emerging approaches in evaluating policy change, Conservative Christians plus new ways to measure those changes. Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Presenters: Robin Kane, RK Evaluation & Strategies Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians LLC, Washington DC produce the lion’s share of religion-based homophobia in America. Now, learn the simple techniques to reach Queer Activism in Spanish Workshop these Christians with a pro-LGBTQ message... and actu- Disability and Accessibility • All Audiences ally get results. Learn what two questions most affect conservative Christian attitudes and voting behavior, In most Queer Latino activist efforts, English is the default discover shocking new statistics about today’s Chris- language that is used. However, many Latino community tian youth, and practice the techniques you can use to members are Spanish-dominant and prefer to engage change the minds of some of the LGBTQ community’s civic and cultural issues in Spanish. This workshop is de- most determined opponents. signed as a Spanish-language LGBT activist training. We will share resources, best practices and confer around Presenter: Justin Lee the needs of LGBT activism in Spanish. En español: En el activismo LGBT Latino el inglés es el China’s Queer Movement: lenguaje predominante. Sin embargo, muchos miembros Overcoming Obstacles Including de la comunidad Latina dominamos el español mejor y the One Child Policy, Family preferimos discutir temas civicos y culturales en español. Pressure, and the Police Este taller es diseñado como un entrenamiento de activ- International Issues • All Audiences ismo LGBT en español. Compartiremos recursos, mejo- In China, tremendous family pressure results in 90% of res practicas y intentar a crear consenso alrededor de las gay men entering into heterosexual marriages after age necesidades del activismo LGBT en español. 30. This, combined with pressure from police who have Presenters: Francisco Dueñas, Lambda Legal Los shut down Pride marches, queer bars and film screen- Angeles, CA; Monica Trasandes, GLAAD; Sara Train, ings create unique challenges for emerging Chinese Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA LGBT communities. Participants will learn some of the most successful strategies recently developed to over- come these obstacles.

Presenters: Rebecca Levison, LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA; Alex Jiang, Aibai Culture and Education Center, Beijing, China; Ziyang Guo, Beijing Zuoyou Health Counseling Center, Beijing, China;

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Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Ripley Wang, LesTalk Web Radio, Beijing, China; Bei- Organizing for Economic Justice & Bei Ye, Chiheng Guangzhou LGBT Center, Guangzhou Transgender-Inclusive Benefits Labor • All Audiences Complexities: Cross-Issue Movement Initiative Building on College Campuses As LGBTQ activists, we must remember victims of hate College Campus Issues and Organizing crime violence in our community, those who died, the for Students • All Audiences survivors, and the impact on all of us. Join Pride at Work in organizing in the spirit of labor’s motto, “An injury to In this presentation, participants will explore effective ways one is an injury to all.” Together we will discuss strategies of doing LGBTQ and student of color work on college to fight employment discrimination and organize for good campuses. By using multi-issue, cross-sectional, cross- jobs with inclusive benefits such as transgender-inclusive movement frameworks, based in social justice, LGBT health benefits. Campus Centers and racial /ethnic centers can model ac- tive campus partnerships that meet the complex needs of Presenters: Darren Phelps, Pride At Work, Wash- students at the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender ington, DC; Gabriel Haaland - SEIU Pride at Work, identity/gender expression and sexual orientation. Washington DC; Whit Kathner, SEIU, Washington, DC; Amy Donahue, Pride at Work, Washington DC; Presenters: Sheltreese McCoy, Madison, Wisconsin; Rene Rathjen, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Gabe Javier, Madison, Wisconsin; D. Nebi Hilliard, Washington, DC Madison, WI Unlimiting Blackness Beyond Binaries: Identity, People of Color • All Audiences Sexuality and Movement Building Movement Building • All Audiences The workshop will introduce participants to the concept of post- blackness. Post-blackness is a construction that How diverse are we, anyway? Come find out. In this inter- posits, “If there are forty million Black Americans, then active workshop we will conduct an anonymous survey of there are forty millions ways to be Black.” It means that those present, and we will look at the data. Where do we there is no specific way of demonstrating Black identity; fall on the sexuality continuum? How do we label? How Blackness is inherent in those born from it. The core of gender [non]conforming are we? How kinky? How mo- this workshop is the book Who’s Afraid of Post- Black- nogamous? How sexually [in]experienced? And how can ness: What it Means to be Black Now by Touré. Attend- we use this information to become more effective activists? ees will learn about post-blackness through sharing per- sonal stories, constructing visualizations of our personal Presenter: Robyn Ochs, Boston, MA identity journeys, and role playing amongst the group. Exploring Disability’s Intersectional Presenters: Nathaniel Phillipps, Las Vegas, NV; Space in LGBTI Rights Verise Johnson, North Las Vegas, NV; Malyssa Disability and Accessibility • All Audiences Essex, Las Vegas, NV Outreach, organizing, and advocacy efforts to secure rights Building Movement Within for LGBTI people are often made at the expense of people Movements: TransFaith In Color with disabilities, either by ignoring them or perpetuating able- Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences ism. Not only does this impact the struggle of the disability- rights movement, but also obscures ripe possibilities for This session will unveil the research results of The Free- intersectional and collaborative efforts. This session seeks dom Center for Social Justice’s TransFaith In Color Con- to deconstruct ableism in the LGBTI-rights movement and ference 2012 and 2013 reports as well as the movement- explore the commonalities between the two movements in building outcomes that came from this effort. Participants hopes of starting a cross-movement dialogue. will have an opportunity to explore this model of transgen- der people of color work as a possible launch into broad- Presenters: Asaf Orr, National Center for Lesbian er movement-building and action networks throughout Rights, San Francisco CA; Bethany Stevens, Georgia the US and abroad. State University Institute of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; Claudia Center, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Presenters: Bishop Tonyia M. Rawls, The FCSJ, Uni- Center, San Francisco, CA; Caitlin Childs, Intersex ty Fellowship Church Charlotte and House of Bishops Community Organizer, Atlanta, GA of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, Charlotte,

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Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

NC; Charlene Arcilla, The Philadelphia AIDS Consor- landers For Marriage Equality & HRC Religion and Faith tium and Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference, Program, Washington, DC; Sue Gabrielson, Mainers Philadelphia, PA for Marriage; Debra Peevey, Washington United for Marriage, Seattle, WA; Javen Swanson, OutFront Min- Activating People to Take Action nesota, Minneapolis, MN on Transgender Rights Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences Moving from the Land of Misfits to a Place of Inclusion Mobilizing transgender people and allies is almost always Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Fundamentals a critical part of succeeding to win transgender rights – or win public education. Recruiting a diverse set of core team This interactive workshop will serve as a collaborative fo- members, as well as volunteers, is easier when you have rum to allow participants to dig deeper and explore spiri- the basic framework and skills, and go through a conscious tuality and sexuality as an integrative process by moving process to build your team. Reaching out to allies who have past obscure and misquoted passages found in the Bible connections and power is often the difference between to discovering an authentic relationship with God. Partici- winning and losing. Learn from community organizers pants will be challenged to counter HIV/AIDS related stig- throughout the country about their methods for success. ma and discrimination with a charge of direct social action.

Presenters: Trystan Reese, National Gay and Lesbian Presenter: Rev. Anthony W. Sullivan, University Park, IL Task Force, Los Angeles, CA; Marisa Richmond, Ten- nessee Transgender Political Coalition; Andy Bowen, Passing the Torch: A U.S. Model for DC Trans Coalition, Washington, DC; Jane Heenan, Engaging and Mobilizing Young Black Gender Justice Nevada Las Vegas, NV Gay Men to End the HIV Epidemic Gay Male Community & Issues • All Audiences Staying Strong as Individuals and Com- munities: Surviving Anti-LGBTQ Politics The purpose of this workshop is to share the findings Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences from these unique meetings, providing participants with best practices and recommendations for engaging and This workshop offers concrete information for surviving mobilizing young Black gay men. In order to best tackle anti-LGBTQ politics. It will help you make sense of the the epidemic occurring among YBMSM, active engage- psychological toll of such actions. Information from this ment and community mobilization must occur as it re- workshop has helped people who have been impacted lates to the issues of HIV/AIDS policy, prevention and the by anti-gay rhetoric, and it offers others new skills to continuum of care. protect themselves in the face of current (including in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington) or future Presenter: Christopher Chauncey Watson, George campaigns. Not only can we survive these campaigns, Washington University Department of Epidemiology and we can use them to become stronger as individuals, as Biostatistics, Young Black Gay Men’s Leadership Initia- activists, and as communities. tive, Washington, DC Presenter: Glenda M. Russell, University of Colorado, Two Ways to Get an Audience Thinking! Boulder, CO College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences Winning with Faith Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Come learn two new exercises that will help you have challenging conversations about the issues facing the LG- Faith organizers in some of the recent marriage equality BTQ communities and what it means to be an ally. In the campaigns will share their experience and insights about first exercise the audience will learn how to use Maslow’s what was effective in moving faith communities into greater Hierarchy of Needs as a way to talk about the issues facing involvement. Come engage with the panelists about what the LGBTQ communities. In the second exercise the audi- worked, where the pitfalls and challenges were and how ence will learn how to use the Continuum of Attitudes and they worked to overcome them. we’ll explore together Beliefs. This exercise helps participants think through the what we need to have learned from the faith efforts in this difference in actions of Haters – Tolerance – Acceptance – election for our opportunities going forward. Ally – Advocate/Activist in a fun and interactive way.

Presenters: Mike Schuenemeyer, United Church of Presenter: Shane Whalley, The University of Texas at Christ, Cleveland, OH; MacArthur Flournoy, Mary- Austin, Austin, TX

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Workshop Session 6 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 AM Keeping Families Connected . . . . cates, San Francisco, CA; Jon Munoz, Hilton World- One Heart at a Time wide; Michael Allison, Office Depot Families • All Audiences Making Obamacare Work A mother and her transgender son share their personal for Our Communities journeys, focusing on keeping families connected. These Health • Intermediate presenters offer insights into the heart and mind of a moth- er and child, which bring awareness to areas often not In this interactive workshop, participants will learn from recognized or spoken about. Participants will leave with leading national and state experts about models and best a mini-action plan to foster dialogue with their own fami- practices to ensure the state-based health exchanges lies. We believe that everyone will walk away with a deeper established under the Affordable Care Act are maximally understanding on how to develop and nurture better com- inclusive, accessible, and useful for lesbian, gay, bisexual, munications and connections with those they love. and transgender people and their families.

Presenters: Marsha Aizumi, PFLAG National Board Presenters: Kellan Baker, Center for American of Directors; Aiden T. Aizumi, PFLAG National TGNC Progress, Washington, DC; Brad Clark, One-Colorado; Advisory Council AJ Pearlman, US Department of Health and Human Services; Emily Polak, Community Catalyst We Dream a World in Which All are Free Our Turn to Serve: Supporting Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences the LGBT Military Community Military & Veterans Issues • Fundamentals, “We Dream a World in Which All are Free” explores the Intermediate role of intersectional organizing for justice that is queer to its core and committed to envisioning in community long- Over a year after the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell term movement strategy. The workshop grows out of a (DADT) policy took effect, what are the challenges that convening at Netroots Nation last June at which diverse the LGBT military community still face? This workshop members of the LGBT justice movement, particularly will help attendees gain an understanding of how DADT those working in and with faith communities who are com- has affected the partners and families of LGB service mitted to intersectional organizing, met with pro-LGBT members and will discuss the resources and support justice organizers from other movements who are equally networks that have arisen as a result of these challenges. committed to intersectional organizing. Because all the Special attention will be paid to the preliminary results of organizers had a respect for and background in working the first-ever community study on the health needs of the with faith communities, all who gathered understood that LGBT military population and how we can use the tools the justice-minded mandates in every major faith tradition that we already have within our communities to give back call for intersectionalism and for envisioning a better world to those who have given so much for our country. not just in the short term, but “for the seventh generation.” Presenters: Ariana Bostian-Kentes, Military Partners Presenters: Beth Zemsky, Organizer and Trainer, Min- and Families Coalition neapolis MN; Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Minneapolis, MN Unleashing Your Power Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Taking the Leap: Becoming Corporate! Workplace • Fundamentals To be a more effective activist and agent of change, are you ready to peel back the barriers that prevent you from You just finished school and have been on the front lines stepping fully into your personal power? The times de- of human rights struggles for years. You decide to get mand a fresh approach and new way of expressing and that first corporate job. What should you know and what relating to power. no longer can we afford to lead by will your career look like? Join this interactive workshop force, control and manipulation, or to shrink away from to explore what to consider when looking at companies, our power. Come rediscover, redefine and unleash your hear directly from LGBT business leaders about sugges- authentic relationship to power. tions for applying, using your community leadership ex- perience and learn about current job opportunities. Presenter: Christian de la Huerta, Miami Shores, FL

Presenters: Q Wilson, Out & Equal Workplace Advo-

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Workshop Session 6 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 AM Coming Out – “A Family Affair” develop a Youth Council/Youth Advisory Board. A Latino Perspective Presenter: Gabriel “Gaby” Garcia-Vera, Pridelines People of Color • Intermediate Youth Services, Miami Beach, FL This workshop will explore the coming out experience shared by Latino LGBT individuals and their families and How I Became An Icon how cultural beliefs and values impact their coming out and Saved Our Stories experience. We will facilitate a dialogue that explores how Community Organizing • All Audiences the coming out process needs to be re-conceptualized as a family experience versus an individual process in or- Legends and pioneers speak truth to power about creat- der to create a healthier coming out experience. ing the LGBT community we enjoy today. Each icon will testify to the history they helped make, and their efforts Presenters: Jorge Diaz, MSW, Benestar, CA; Fausto to preserve our stories through a variety of LGBT history Reyes, Bienestar, Los Angeles CA; Jason Perez, Bien- projects. estar, Long Beach CA Presenters: Lorraine Fontana; Dr. Jesse Peel; The Holy Grail of Changing Elizabeth Knowlton; Winston Johnson Hearts & Minds on LGBT Equality: Defending Family Values: Why Can’t We Use It? Movement Building • All Audiences How the US Religious Right is Inciting Homophobia Across the Globe LGBT people talking to people in their lives about equal International Issues • All Audiences rights issues - from marriage to safer schools - is the most effective and efficient way to change hearts and Engage with international investigative researchers and minds to support LGBT equality. In fact, non-LGBT peo- lawyer to learn about how the US Christian Right con- ple who have actually talked to one of us about equality nects with leaders of nations in order to make political are 31% more supportive than people who haven’t. In inroads to insert their homophobic agenda and impact other words, coming out is great but it’s not enough. Yet, the rights of people of other nations. repeated efforts to get more of us to have these talks Presenters: Jandira Queiroz; Pam Spees, Center have fallen flat. Over the last year, a coalition of 15 groups for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY; Rimvydas across California worked to implement a sophisticated $1 Baltaduonis (Rim), Gettysburg College, PA; Caleb million project to understand what is standing in the way Orozc; Jeremy Rye, Center for Constitutional Rights, and uncover ways to overcome the obstacles, including New York, NY systematically tracking hundreds of conversations with family and friends,. Participants will learn what works, Serving Students at their what doesn’t and how this project is being expanded to Intersections: Reorganizing other parts of the country. Academic and Student Services Presenters: Toni Broaddus, Richmond, CA; Cynthia to Meet the Complex Identity Needs Scheiderer, Lightbox Collaborative, San Francisco, CA; of the Contempory College Student Amy Simon, Oakland, CA College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBT Administrators • Intermediate The Importance of Youth in the Movement A number of rising cultural, political, and economic fac- tors call for solidarity among historically marginalized Youth • Fundamentals, All Audiences groups to share in their vision, process, and resources This workshop will give attendees the tools to develop for change. As students call louder for comprehensive youth leadership within their respective local and re- services which address the unique intersections of their gional areas by understanding the dynamics of engag- identity, institutions are deliberating how to transform their ing their peers and creating Youth Councils/Youth Advi- monolithic services. Amidst the complexity of conceptu- sory Boards. Participants will look at basic structures of alizing institutional reorganization, administrators taking leadership, power dynamics in larger groups, and have on this process of change find their paths wrought with a chance to exchange ideas on what youth representa- territorialism, oppressive institutional policies, cultural mi- tives mean and stand for. Attendees will leave with a firm cro aggressions, and apathy. Through interactive case understanding and will acquire a foundation on how to study and group processing, participants will consider

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the urgency of solidarity across identity based functional The William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, units in institutions of higher education, review organiza- PA tional structures which impede collaboration, theoretically reconsider participants’ home institutions, as well as col- Cutting Edge Issues in Trans Rights: lect additional resources and contacts. ID documents, Jails and Prisons, Presenters: Jeff Kenney, Oregon State University, and Police Mistreatment Portland, OR; Kiah McConnel, Oregon State Universi- Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences ty, Portland, OR; Jarod Sleet, Oregon State University, Work with police, as well as in jails and prisons, has been Portland OR spurred by implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. There is much that can now be done on the local Or: The Second Closet: The Pros and state level. Driver’s licenses and especially birth cer- and Cons to Living Openly with HIV tificate policies are hot topics – and there is tremendous AIDS/HIV • All Audiences potential for positive changes to get rid of surgical and other onerous requirements. Folks who are working on This workshop will explore both the individual and group these policies in their states and jurisdictions, as well as benefits of living openly with HIV, as well as the persis- the national level, will share their experiences, challenges, tent stigma, legal protections and pitfalls surrounding HIV and the keys to their success! disclosure in various contexts. In particular, the group will consider the parallels and contrasts that may be drawn Presenters: Lisa Mottet, National Gay and Lesbian to the LGBT experience of “coming out,” as well as what Task Force, Washington, DC; Pooja Gehi, Sylvia Rivera lessons may be drawn from that experience. Law Project, Washington, DC; Harper Jean Tobin, National Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, , Lambda Legal, Dallas, Texas Presenter: Omar Narvaéz DC; Drian Juarez, LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA; Andy Bowen, DC Trans Coalition, Wash- All Children Matter: ington, DC; Christopher Argyros, Empire State Pride LGBT Families of Color Agenda, New York, NY Research and Policy Analysis • Intermediate LGBT families of color are raising children at much higher LGBTQ Groups Come OUT rates than their white peers, but are more likely to be liv- against S-Comm ing in poverty. This workshop will outline the findings of Immigration • Intermediate the All Children Matter reports and the work of the Strong Despite successful campaigns to have states and mu- Families initiative to explore how research, policy and nicipalities opt out of the Secure Communities (S-Comm) movement building can come together and be leveraged program, over the past year the federal government has to support families. forced implementation and increased collaboration be- Presenters: Dana Ginn Paredes, Forward Together, tween police and immigration authorities, dramatically Oakland CA; Heron Greenesmith, Family Equality increasing the potential consequences of profiling and Council, Boston, MA; Naomi Goldberg, Movement discriminatory policing of LGBTQ immigrants of color. Advancement Project, Chicago IL Let’s share examples of local, state and national LGBTQ organizing against S-Comm and identify strategies to The Prosperous Board build toward safety and security for LGBTQ immigrants! Fundraising • Fundamentals, All Audiences Presenter: Ileana Mendez-Penate, Streetwise and Safe According to a June 2011 article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, “The average nonprofit organization with Innovative Approaches for Addressing a budget of $500,000 - $999,999 receives 46% of its Poverty in LGBT Communities financial support either directly or indirectly from its gov- Racial/Economic Justice • All Audiences erning board.” Is this true of your organization? If the an- LGBT people, especially LGBT people of color, are more swer is no, this session is for you. Learn creative ways likely to live in poverty, particularly LGBT people living in to energize your board, provide them with tools to be ef- rural areas. But many LGBT services and advocacy are fective fundraisers, and motivate them to make the asks. not focused on issues that low-income LGBT people Presenters: Michael Pomante, The William Way face. This workshop will highlight the issues that low- LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA; Paul Blore, income LGBT individuals face, discuss successful col-

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laborative efforts to address poverty and serve rural com- and address them when creating a safe space for your munities, and how activists can be involved in addressing collaborators, along with providing the know-how to ex- the needs of low-income LGBT people. plain why they’re important.

Presenters: Cathy Sakimura, National Center for Les- Presenters: Chris Tanaka, Stonybrook University, bian Rights, San Francisco, CA; Dan Torres, LGBT Ad- Stony Brook, NY; MJ Okma; Colleen O’Connor; vocacy California, San Francisco, CA; Terra Slavin, L.A. John T. Martin Gay & Lesbian Center McDonald/Wright, Los Angeles, CA; Cole Thaler, Georgia Legal Services, Atlanta, GA Good Psychology: Using it Wisely for Messaging and Beyond A Conversation with Elections/Campaigns • Intermediate Bishop Gene Robinson Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Are there specific understandings from psychology and affective neuroscience that can help to leverage advo- This conversation with Bishop Gene Robinson will al- cates’ abilities to influence voters and the public? You bet, low Creating Change participants the opportunity hear and we can and should be using them. This workshop and respond to one of the most visible clerics in the U.S. will: 1) Introduce key concepts to deepen understanding whose life as a gay religious leader and his courageous of the psychological dynamics at work for conflicteds, 2) work for LGBT equality has been acclaimed and award- Provide hands on activities for putting them into action. ed across the country. Participants will leave with methods for retooling their ap- proach to conflicted voters and beyond. Speaker: The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, The Episcopal Church in the Presenter: Phyllis Watts, Ph.D., Wild Swan Resourc- United States, Concord, NH es Sacramento, CA

Mobilizing Catholics for Beyond 2012: Crafting an Agenda Marriage Freedom: Ingredients for the Black LGBT Community for a Grassroots Movement Research and Policy Analysis • All Audiences with Long-term Effect The first four years of President Obama’s Administration Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate provided for several historic accomplishments in advanc- This workshop will offer non- Catholic and Catholic attend- ing equality for LGBT people in our nation, from the re- ees the tools to be effective organizers with Catholics by: peal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the signing of the Afford- providing strategies to empower and mobilize pro-equality able Care Act, to the President publically expressing his Catholics when official avenues are forbidden; stressing support for marriage equality last May. As we enter the collaborative tactics with main campaign organizations; President’s second term and a new congressional ses- practicing messaging specific to Catholics; viewing the sion, we must reassess the needs of the Black LGBT work within context of deeper movement building and community in identifying our new political goals. This ses- baptismal empowerment. Attendees will practice respect- sion will examine how we can optimize and leverage the ful conversations, brainstorm strategies of inreach and re- political gains of the last administration, including what cruitment, and leave with templates for action. adjustments (if any) need to be made to our collective advocacy efforts and messaging, to achieve our new po- Presenters: Jim Smith, Dignity USA, Minneapolis, MN; litical and policy imperatives. Marianne Duddy-Burke, DignityUSA, Medford, MA Presenters: Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, Executive Establishing Inclusivity in Director/CEO, National Black Justice Coalition, Wash- Campus Organizing ington, DC; Aisha Moodie-Mills, Center for American College Campus Issues and Organizing Progress, Washington, DC; Stacey Long, National for Students • Intermediate Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Kylar Broadus, Trans People Of Color Coalition, Columbia, This workshop will work with its attendees in order to talk MO; Curtis Lipscomb, Executive Director, KICK – The about safe spaces, and how to establish them when col- Agency for LGBT African Americans, Washington, DC laborating with other campus groups. A basic knowledge of social justice terminology and issues are suggested. Topics will include privileges, phobias, and how to identify

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Workshop Session 6 • 10:45 AM – 12:15 AM Plenary Session Whose Conscience? Making the Connections Between Treatment Refusals for Abortion/Contraception and LGBT Persons Health • All Audiences Dignity and the resources and supports to make mean- ingful decisions are central tenets in both LGBTQ and reproductive justice movements. Both these tenets are challenged by the wave of conscience clause legislation targeting contraception and abortion care. This workshop Jose Antonio Vargas will focus on drawing out the connections and overlaps with DREAMer Activists between treatment refusals for contraception and abortion 1:30 PM • Grand Ballroom care and the relationship of such refusals to the history of the LGBT rights movement. The workshop will place spe- Pizza and Soda for All • 1:00 PM cial emphasis on the health impacts of such refusals and how to reclaim conscience in service provision for abor- Plenary tion/contraceptive care and care for LGBT persons. Sponsor

Presenters: Laura Nixon, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Washington DC; Ashland Johnson, National Cen- ter for Lesbian Rights, Washington DC; Samantha Ames, Academy Session 4 National Center for Lesbian Rights, Washington DC 3:00 PM – 6:15 PM

yOUTh on the Inside: Juvenile Justice Organizing Lessons Learned Reform for LGBTQ Youth in the U.S. from the Black Panther Party Build Power • All Audiences Youth • All Audiences Members of the Black Panther Party were incredibly ef- This workshop will provide participants with the knowl- fective community organizers for nearly two decades in edge and tools to advocate for the protection of incar- the U.S. They used a volunteer infrastructure to oper- cerated LGBTQ youth. Participants will hear the stories ate complex programs at an unprecedented scale that of incarcerated LGBTQ youth in Louisiana, and learn stands out to this day. In this session we bust myths as about model anti-discrimination policies in Louisiana and well as spend time together digging into what made their New York juvenile justice systems, and reform efforts in organizing so effective. We’ll end by drawing clear con- North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and other parts of the nections to how the Panther’s organizing treatise and South. Participants will learn effective policy making and strategies are applicable in modern time. oversight principles, and create their own region based advocacy strategies. Presenters: Trystan Reese, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los Angeles, CA; Malcolm Shanks, Na- Presenters: Wesley Ware, BreakOUT! New Orleans, tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los Angeles, CA LA; Judy Yu, Associate Director, LGBTQ Youth Issues, Juvenile Justice Project of The Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY; Somjen Frazer, Strength Engaging the Dynamics of Power & In Numbers Consulting Group, Brooklyn, NY Privilege as Facilitators of Social Justice Work Create Change • All Audiences Let’s teach about power without shaming learners. Let’s encourage all people to be thoughtful and accountable about the dynamics of power, privilege and oppression in ways which move us to greater community building, indi- vidual authenticity, and institutional accountability. Facili- tating anti-oppression workshops is incredibly liberating and rewarding work – we can both embody and encour- age others to hold the paradox of margin and main-

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Academy Session 4 • 3:00 PM – 6:15 PM stream identities. And yet, this work can also be deeply velopment and other faith work that is open to working challenging – we seek to interrupt the status quo, disrupt around LGBTQ issues. patterns of privilege, and show up with compassion and grace. In addition to our knowledge and attitudes about Presenters: Pastor Joseph Tolton; Rev. Mike anti-oppression history and work, we cultivate a garden Schuenemeyer; Rev. Dr. Derrick Spiva; Rev. Ande of skills and activities that move participants further along Emmanuel in their journey of self-exploration and accountability. This facilitator development workshop explores powerful tools “I Never Thought About it That Way”: for teaching about power, privilege and oppression using The Media as a Tool for Advocacy and interactive activities that involve participant self-reflection Public Education and dialogue, as well as small group activities. Take Action • All Audiences

Presenters: Evangeline Weiss, National Gay and In this academy session, you will get an overview of the Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Rev. Dr. Jamie many aspects of using media relations and media ac- Washington, Washington Consulting Group tivism to advance LGBTQ and allied issues. Topics will include the basic tools, strategies and tactics for getting Anti-Racist Practices for White LGBT media visibility in a rapidly changing and highly competi- Professionals in Higher Education tive multi-media environment. From the basics: building Create Change • All Audiences relationships with all kinds of media professionals to mes- sage development strategies, launching strategic media As colleges and universities have established LGBT Cen- plans, dealing with controversy and crisis and building ters throughout the country, the irrefutable trend has been communications capacity for organizations or position- to hire white LGBT professionals to lead these organiza- ing yourself as a though-leader on issues, this Academy tions. while many of these professionals have strong will give you a practical roadmap no matter what your commitments to anti-racist practice, knowledge-sharing level of experience, Other topics will include “DIY” media and strategizing around anti-racist practice is rare. Lead- (blogging and use of social media) in the competitive and ers in college LGBT Centers must have a strong skill often imbalanced world of LGBT issues coverage and in- set around anti-racist practice to truly move forward an terview tips and techniques. Many aspects will be done inclusive agenda of liberation, access and sovereignty through the use of case studies and examples and par- for diverse people of all sexual and gender orientations, ticipants will leave the session with resources to continue identities and backgrounds. In assisting current students this work well after they leave the session and the con- in their leadership and advocacy within the LGBT move- ference. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ment, as well as preparing younger students to lead the experiences to the session as case studies for the more LGBT movement, anti-racist practice must be at the fore- interactive portions of the session. front of the conversation. Presenters: Cathy Renna, Renna Communications; Presenters: Shaun Travers, University of California- Nathan Tabak, Renna Communications San Diego, San Diego, CA; Robin Nussbaum, Univer- sity of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Queering Religious Partnership Transcending Borders: Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Two Spirit People, Sovereignty As the US-based LGBTQ movement experiences some and the Struggle for Liberation successes—both within religious communities and in People of Color • Intermediate secular society—much of the Radical Religious Right has Workshop Session 7 and 8; 3 Hours shifted its focus to the exportation of hate around the This session is geared for collective learning about sover- globe. The results are often deadly—especially for those eignty, Two Spirit people, our shared legacy, and the on- living in the Global South. But important and exciting going impact of colonization on our sovereignty, traditions, models are emerging—that take intersectional, religious borders and people. Some of our discussion will revolve organizing seriously and that recognize the interconnec- around what Two Spirit people’s inclusion in the LGBTIGNC tion between LGBTQ people, economic development movement has to offer, how the larger movement can align and theological reconciliation. This Academy Session will itself to issues of sovereignty, and how a movement inclu- focus on models within Christianity to partner US-based sive of Two Spirit leadership, issues and their intersections pro-LGBTQ justice work with HIV/AIDS, economic de- would contribute to the liberation of us all. Included in this

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Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM workshop will be an examination of the impact of coloni- Intersections of Islamophobia zation on the sovereign status of First Nations and on the and Homophobia people and Nations divided by imposed borders. Join us Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences as we take a collective journey to identify common ground that respects the intersection of our histories, shared lega- The conversation will start with a lexiconal review of ter- cies and strategies in an effort to transcend borders for an minology and the discussion of theological, political and inclusive movement for liberation. This workshop is open societal uses of the terminology. Imam Daayiee Abdul- to First Nations/Two Spirit/Indigenous Folks and allies. lah, Director of LGBT Outreach for Muslims for Progres- sive Values and a noted Imam and scholar of Islam from Presenters: Melissa L. Pope, Troy, MI; Paulina the greater DC area, will start the conversation discussing Helm-Hernandez, Southerners on New Ground, issues of representation of Islamophobia and Homopho- Atlanta, GA; Robert-John Hinojosa, West Columbia, bia in the USA, and the US Media. Aziz, a Pakistani inter- SC; Angel Fabian, New York, NY; Melissa Hoskins national student at Brandeis university, and counselor at New York, NY Queer Resource Center at Brandeis/coordinator of Queer People of Color coalition will then discuss his experiences Southern-Style Cultural Organizing at home and in the USA as a student and a youth or- Art & Culture • Intermediate, All Audiences ganizer. Both speakers will also touch on the advances Workshop Session 7 and 8; 3 Hours made through outreach and work in the larger, more or- thodox Muslim community. For example Aziz is also cu- In this workshop, we shall facilitate conversations and rator at American Islamic Congress and has been work- learning exchanges among workshop participants using ing the organization on holding potential LGBTQ events popular education and organizing spiral as a way to struc- and LGBTQ outreach, and Imam Daayiee’s fundraising ture the process. We shall introduce Highlander’s Zilphia efforts to build inclusive sacred prayer spaces in the US. Horton Cultural Organizing Project, Fahari Arts Institute’s cultural organizing work, and working definitions of cul- Presenters: Imam Daayiee Abdullah, LGBT Out- tural organizing. We shall mine the people power in the reach Muslims for Progressive Values-DC Chapter room to get answers to some of our pressing questions Washington, DC; Aziz Sohail Wien, Brandeis University related to cultural work and cultural organizing. Through- out the process we will build community while exploring Economics and Equality: Economic art and culture as tools for inspiration and movement- Development for the LGBT Movement building, including the use of breath, motion and sound Workplace • Fundamentals through video, song, stories, and visual art. Economic development is a critical component of the Presenters: Marquez Rhyne, Highlander Center, LGBT movement. By directly supporting LGBT busi- New Market, TN; Harold Steward, Fahari Arts Institute, nesses with our dollars and by supporting supply chain Dallas, TX inclusion, business certification and access to federal, state and municipal procurement, we assist in moving LGBTQ SURJ: White Queers equality forward. While we continue to push for important Showing Up for Racial Justice protections against discrimination in the workplace we Racial/Economic Justice • Intermediate also strengthen the LGBT community by strengthening Workshop Session 7 and 8; 3 Hours the LGBT business community. This session will discuss the various ways to advance LGBT equality through eco- More white LGBTQ people showing up racial justice can nomic development. strengthen the work for justice. Workshop attendees will learn concrete ways to engage white LGBTQ people in Presenters: Victoria Fulkerson, NGLCC; Frantz- racial justice. Through story telling and role plays based Tiffeau, Office Depot; Suzanne Baugh, Q&A Events on real challenges in the trenches, participants will leave understanding how to grow the base of white queers for Amplifying Voices of Faith for racial justice in their LGBTQ organizing. LGBT Equality - Yours! Presenters: Carla F Wallace, Louisville Showing Up Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences for Racial Justice, Louisville, KY; Terry Keleher, Applied Despite acceptance of LGBT people growing across faith Research Center, Chicago, IL; Pam McMichael, High- traditions, 3/4 of religious messages in mainstream me- lander Education and Research Center, New Market, dia come from anti-LGBT perspectives. We need strong TN; Dara Silverman, Beacon, NY voices to articulate a message of LGBT equality in faithful,

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Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM theological, and scriptural terms. In this interactive ses- Queering Hip Hop: Using the Social sion, attendees will examine the status of faithful LGBT Message of Rap’s Storytelling voices in the media, look at why inclusive voices of faith to Shift Media Perspectives are so important to lasting change and learn how they and Create Alternative Spaces can help amplify pro-LGBT faith messaging at home, on- Media, Communications, and Messaging line and in the media. • Fundamentals, Intermediate Presenters: Joseph Ward, Believe Out Loud, Wash- This workshop is geared towards bridging the gap with ington, DC; Gwen Ashby, Believe Out Loud, Dayton, unconventional media outlets. By using Hip Hop’s cultur- OH; Ross Murray, GLAAD, New York, NY al history and space of resistance, attendees will discuss how Hip Hop as a cultural tool can create social change Making the Case for Reproductive within LGBT communities, thus highlighting that the two Justice as an LGBTQ Issue are not mutually exclusive. Attendees will leave with an Health • All Audiences understanding of using oppositional space as a place in the media to counteract anti-gay rhetoric by inserting al- Bodily autonomy and sexual freedom are central tenets ternative images into media narratives. in both LGBTQ and reproductive justice movements. So why do these movements so often operate outside of Presenter: Marcus Brock, New York, NY each other? The truth is that reproductive health and jus- tice issues intersect with issues faced by LGBTQ com- Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101 munities in many ways, and working together has the People of Color • All Audiences potential to strengthen and build both movements. In this workshop, participants will learn about the reproductive In the past ten years, the US Latino population has both justice framework and learn some ways in which both grown, as well as migrated to states that had not pre- reproductive justice and LGBTQ organizations are using viously seen Latino communities. This workshop is de- it to do advocacy work that merges the two while re- signed to help LGBT activist and organizations begin maining within their missions. Participants will also work and/or strengthen their Latino outreach efforts. Let’s in- on messaging tools to take back to their organizations, crease your capacity to both meet the needs of LGBT funders, and bases that will clarify why reproductive jus- Latinos, as well as, collaborate and build relationships tice is a critical aspect of LGBTQ liberation. with your larger Latino communities.

Presenters: Laura Nixon, National Center for Lesbian Presenter: Francisco Dueñas, Lambda Legal, Los Rights, Washington, DC; Mari Schimmer, Choice USA, Angeles, CA Washington, DC Community-Based Surveys: Trans Women of Color: The Sisterhood Collecting and Using Data to People of Color • Intermediate Secure Protections for LGBT People Research and Policy Analysis • Intermediate Trans women of color are targets for hate violence and murder on the streets in this country. While the violence Policymakers and the public often want to know just how happens worldwide the focus will be on the hate experi- common our needs and problems are, but community enced in the United States. What can we do to prevent groups aren’t always able to produce data. This session these hate attacks and murders? Please join us as we will give you the tools you need to conduct a community- work together to come up with solutions and share ideas based survey and an opportunity to strategize with ex- to prevent the hate violence within and from outside of perts and advocates on how best to use survey data to the community. accomplish your goals.

Presenters: Danielle King, National Aurora Campaign, Presenters: Jody Herman, The Williams Institute Inc.; Cecilia Chung, Health Commissioner City of UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA; Masen Davis, San Francisco; Ruby Corado, Casa Ruby; Michelle Transgender Law Center, San Francisco, CA Enfield, Red Circle Project, AIDS Project Los Angeles; Kylar Broadus, Transgender People of Color Coalition, Columbia, MO

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Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Beyond Outreach: Building Bridges Presenters: Carolyn Laub, Gay-Straight Alliance with Queer Students of Color Network; Amy Simon, Goodwin Simon Strategic Re- College Campus Issues and Organizing search; Judy Appel, Our Family Coalition for Students • Intermediate Electing Champions: What are the What happens when queer people of color do not con- Models and Measures for Building nect to the campus resources for LGBTQ students? After an Impactful Elections Program? outreach, what steps can be taken to build and sustain Elections/Campaigns • Intermediate connections so that all LGBTQ students see themselves in resources and services offered? This workshop will The election is finally over, right!? Not quite! A strong elec- share best practices, encourage dialogue, and help at- tions program is an essential and ongoing component tendees take action to improve the connections within of making sure LGBTQ voices are heard. This session intersecting LGBTQ identities. explores different models of elections work, with a focus on electing champions. We will explore how to identify Presenters: Molly Holmes, Northern Illinois University, and develop candidates who are champions for LGBTQ DeKalb, IL; Romeo Jackson, Northern Illinois Universi- issues as well as other models for setting up an elec- ty, Dekalb, IL; Ryan Mishler, Northern Illinois University, tions program that is always focused on electing the next DeKalb, IL champion for the LGBTQ movement. Feisty Bis: Building Community Presenters: Wes Ritchie, MassEquality, Boston, MA; & Resisting Biphobia Carly Burton, MassEquality, Boston, MA Bisexual Community & Issues • All Audiences Low-Income LGBT Families: Join us to celebrate and appreciate nonmonosexual Know Your Rights identities! This workshop is: a way to affirm our biness; Families • All Audiences a place to celebrate the intersection of identities and ac- knowledge that we have a range of experiences around LGBT families, and especially families of color, have low- our nonmonosexual and other identities; a dialogue er average incomes and are more likely to face poverty. among bi folks to develop a vision of bi community that’s LGBT families face unique challenges in applying for gov- empowering for each of us. Part of this workshop will ernment benefits and protecting their family relationships. offer separate space for nonmonosexual, bi, or pan iden- Come learn about your rights in applying for government tified and questioning folks to participate in community benefits like Medicaid, welfare, public housing, Social Se- building while an allies group learns about confronting curity and more, and what you can do to best protect biphobia and becoming an ally to nonmonsexual people. your family.

Presenters: Laura Amalija Mitchell, Stanford, CA; Presenters: Cathy Sakimura, National Center for Kim Westrick, Oakland CA Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA; Dan Torres, LGBT Advocacy California, San Francisco, CA; Cole Thaler, Talking about Schools and LGBT Georgia Legal Services Program, Atlanta, GA; Maya Equality: How to Frame the Debate Rupert, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Washing- About LGBT-Inclusive Schools and Win ton, DC Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences Moving Forward Together: Immigra- tion & LGBT Messaging That Works Want to stop anti-LGBT rhetoric about schools and kids Immigration • All Audiences from derailing everything from non- discrimination policies to marriage? This workshop will explore how proactively This workshop will engage attendees with a values organizing in school communities can play a key role in based model for creating effective messages that build changing the debate. Along the way, you’ll learn how on their communications skills around immigration and to move your community toward policies that decrease LGBT issues. Participants will be exposed to public anti-LGBT bullying and increase positive perceptions of opinion research, discuss current images of LGBT im- LGBT people and get access to new, tested strategies migrants represented in the media and beyond, and and messages for reframing the discussion about LGBT practice creating messages for their own advocacy people and schools that can help you overcome push- situations. back in whatever you fight for.

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Presenters: Chuy Sanchez, The Opportunity Agenda, Pages. You’ll walk away with: a sense of what your cam- New York, NY; Monica Trasandes, GLAAD, Los Angeles, paigns are capable of and how to achieve it. CA; Rachel Tiven, Immigration Equality, New York, NY Presenters: Michael Crawford, Freedom to Marry; New Wine in Old Skins - the Cameron Tolle, Freedom to Marry Role of Faith in Lives of Old LGBT Persons Turn up the HEAT! Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences (HIV Education Activities Toolkit) AIDS/HIV • All Audiences A session to explore the role of faith in the lives of old LGBT people and how to engage and enable faith settings to ad- HIV prevention programs for youth can be ineffective if dress these issues in their spiritual communities. they are made of up dry lectures that are too clinical in nature. YEAH! – Youth Empowered against HIV! uses Presenters: Barbara Satin, National Gay and Lesbian several hands-on activities to make our HIV education Task Force Minneapolis, MN; Rev. Roland Stringfel- trainings fun, interactive, easy to understand, and ap- low, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and pealing to youth in 2013. This session will introduce the Ministry, Berkeley, CA; Amber Hollibaugh, Queers For audience to several of the YEAH! activities as part of a Economic Justice, New York, NY toolkit that can be adapted for HIV prevention programs in any community. Exploring the Experiences of Presenters: Shehan V. Welihindha, M.Ed., Univer- LGBQ College Students of Color sity of South Carolina Columbia, SC; Ryan C. Wilson, in their Search for Meaning M.Ed., South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen College Campus Issues and Organizing Pregnancy, Columbia, SC; Jason D. Coleman, Ph.D., for LGBT Administrators • All Audiences University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; S. Melinda Spen- In this session, the presenters draw upon findings from cer, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia SC their qualitative studies of LGBQ students of color, cover- ing a broad range of areas including racial/ethnic iden- Improving the Lives of tity, family support, peer relations, and the role of religion Transgender Older Adults and/or spirituality. Findings have significant implications Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences for future educational policy, practice, and research. Pre- Transgender older adults are affected by a range of fed- senters also will share practical handouts that summarize eral, state and local policy and program inequities, in- themes across their various studies, resources related to cluding lack of inclusion in federal data collection, lack the primary topic, and a list of “promising practices” for of recognition in the Older Americans Act, lack of public working effectively with LGBQ students of color and their funding for services and programs, discrimination, and other multiple identities. Participants may use this infor- more. This interactive worship will highlight the existing mation to build community on college campuses, foster policy barriers to successful aging for transgender older inclusion in LGBQ student centers, respond to the needs adults and the current efforts to implement transgender- of such students, and promote justice and equality in inclusive aging policies at the federal level. higher education. Presenters: Serena Worthington, SAGE, New York, Presenters: Chris Woods, The Ohio State University; NY; Loree Cook-Daniels, Transgender Aging Network/ Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn, The Ohio State University FORGE, Glendale, WI; Barbara Satin, GLBT Gen- erations Founder and National Gay and Lesbian Task Engaging Supporters Online: Using Force, N. Brooklyn Park, MN; Harper Jean Tobin, Na- Digital Tools to Win Campaigns tional Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC Media, Communications, and Messaging • Intermediate Sexual Liberation: How will social media help pass an important piece of leg- A 40th Anniversary Conversation islation? Will online tools turn out voters on Election Day? Sexual Freedom • All Audiences How do I know if my online campaign was effective? We’ll When the Task Force was founded in 1973, “homosexual- tell you why and how, using three case studies. This panel ity” was illegal and diseased. Groups like the Daughters is intended for Intermediate levels--folks who are familiar of Bilitis, Front and Stonewall Transgender with hashtags, sending member emails, and Facebook

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Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Workshop Session 8 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM Action were in the streets, taking care of business and Moralism vs Pluralism – defining new feminist, gay and trans liberation strategies Changing the Conversation that confronted anti-sex, homophobic and transphobic around Sexuality and Religious aggression and state violence through multiple strategies. Freedom to Liberate Our Bodies Fast forward to 2013: what are our liberation strategies to- Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Fundamentals day? Where is the SEX in homo- and trans-SEXual these days? Come here movement historians and veteran activ- The LGBT and reproductive justice communities are fac- ists discuss sexual liberation as a driving force in changing ing a battle of moralism over pluralism and God is calling the queer world of possibility over the past 40 years. us to create a new faithful movement for human dignity, sexual liberation, understanding and [religious] freedom. Presenters: Amber Hollibaugh, Queers for Economic Through this interactive workshop we will explore the Justice, New York, NY; Kenyon Farrow, Queers for texts, talking points and relational strategies that can ad- Economic Justice, New Orleans, LA vance healthy, faith-based, intersectional conversations about sexuality, reproductive justice and relationships in Passing Legislation to Ban Efforts our spiritual communities and society more broadly. to Convert Minors Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression Presenters: Rev. Harry Knox, Religious Coalition for Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences Reproductive Choice, Washington, DC; Lisa Weiner- Mahfuz, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, This workshop will provide an overview of conversion ef- Washington, DC; Sen. Nan Orrock, Georgia State forts and the harm they cause. Participants will hear from Senator, Atlanta, GA someone who was subjected to these “treatments” and from activists who worked to pass the first law banning You Can’t Change What We Never licensed therapists from engaging in these “treatments” Chose: Conversion Therapy Action on minors. Participants will also be provided with infor- Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences mation on how they can work to pass similar legislation where they live, including messaging strategies, sample With the passing of California’s Bill SB 1172, conversion action alerts, press releases, and tool kits. therapy for minors has finally been recognized for what it is: torture. This session will discuss the history, current Presenters: Erik Olvera, National Center for Lesbian status, and future of conversion therapy efforts and the Rights, San Francisco, CA; Shannon Minter, National work to eliminate it. From stories of a survivor to steps we Center for Lesbian Rights, Washington, DC; Steven can take to end the practice of reparative therapy, this is Goldstein, Garden State Equality, NJ; Alice Kessler, a session for anyone interested in the concept of forced DiMare, Van Vleck & Brown LLC, San Fran- “change” of one’s sexual orientation. cisco, CA Presenters: Samuel Brinton, Massachusetts Institute Safe Space and Anti-Bullying of Technology, Boston, MA; Blair Mishleau Programs in Faith-Based Settings Practice Spirit, Do Justice Allies Take Risks to Support Us • Fundamentals, Intermediate and We Have their Backs! Movement Building • Fundamentals This workshop will share information, ideas and resourc- es that support the creation of safe spaces and anti- This year, we have seen social justice organizations bullying efforts in faith communities, including education, LOSE their funding from the Catholic Campaign for Hu- pastoral care, youth programming (such as GSA Clubs) man Development just because they worked with LGBT and advocacy. organizations or supported LGBT issues. In one case, we even saw an organization reject funding just to ensure Presenters: Rev. Kelly Burd, UCC Justice, Cleveland that they would be able to serve all their members, even OH; Karen Taylor, Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, those who happen to be LGBT. Come hear the story of Bay Shore, NY these organizations and how LGBT rights organizations and funders are responding.

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Workshop Session 8 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM Exploring the Intersection of Debunking Anti-LGBTIQ “Research” Art and Politics Research and Policy Analysis • All Audiences Art & Culture • All Audiences Anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric has become skilled at justifying A four-person panel will be contemplating collaboratively unfounded claims with “research” that looks legit at first the relationship between art and politics through a casual glance. In this session we will learn to critique that re- panel discussion told in a story-telling context in line with search from statistical and scientific standpoints and ap- southern culture. This panel discussion with activists and ply the process to two high-profile, highly flawed studies. an artist will be reviewing the historical intersections of Participants will leave with a basic understanding of the art and politics--the ways that political practices trans- process so they can continue debunking studies on their form creative expression and the ways that artistic drive own and discuss their flaws confidently. shapes political work. How does political work shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of Presenter: Michele DiPietro, Kennesaw State Univer- artists influence political work in anyway? Art and activ- sity, Kennesaw, GA ism in our movements ideally have the same origin points in the spirit of work in our community and the legacy of The Love is Always Right Project our work. In the best of our work, we are telling stories, Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences asking important questions, building resiliency and mak- This workshop will support attendees in exploring ways ing change all at once. The panel discussion will include to unleash their creative power while spreading the mes- discussion of LGBT issues and that of a larger progres- sages of inclusion, compassion and unconditional love sive scope and examples of powerful impact of art and that the LGBTQ community longs for. Participants will ex- activism working together collaboratively. we will also perience examples of how spirituality and creativity united discuss the future partnership of art and activism to lift up can produce content and products that nurture our souls important social and political issues in a collective way. and help us express our personal and collective truth. Presenters: Hope Wisneski, Gill Foundation, Den- Attendees will leave feeling empowered and motivated ver, CO; Julie Childs, National Gay and Lesbian Task to continue creating change through the combination of Force, Washington, DC; Paulina Helm-Hernandez, spirituality and creativity. Southerners on New Ground, Atlanta, GA; Caitlin Breedlove, Southerners on New Ground, Atlanta, GA; Presenters: Rev. Sonia Echezuria, M. A. A., M. Div., Amy Ray, Artist, Indigo Girls Bay Harbor Islands, FL

Whose Conscience? Religious Austin Unbound: Refusal Policies and the Impact Deaf, Trans, Disabled? They Have on the LGBT Community Disability and Accessibility • All Audiences Research and Policy Analysis • Intermediate, In this session participants will learn about the experi- Advanced ences of Deaf LGBTQ people through a showing of the documentary, Austin Unbound, and a discussion led by Debates over religious refusal policies have proliferated LGBTQ individuals from the Deaf community. Participants in the last two years with increasingly extreme policies will gain advocacy tools and suggestions for how to be that threaten to undercut individuals’ ability to make inclusive of the Deaf community in their work. Crossovers healthcare and other personal decisions for themselves. in disability justice activism will be deeply explored. Although many of these debates have focused on repro- ductive health, such policies have a particular harm and Presenters: Connor Gillis, Atlanta, GA; Eliza Green- threat for the LGBTQ community. This session will identify wood, Portland, OR; Ellen Hibbard, Brampton, ON; the landscape of religious refusal policies, the impact on Abbey (AJ) Woodall, Atlanta, GA LGBTQ rights and identify possible targets and strategies for tackling these issues at the local and national level Towards a More Responsive going forward. Philanthropy: Grantmaking for Presenters: Chloe Cooney, Planned Parenthood Racial Equity and LGBTQ Justice Federation of America, Washington, DC; Vanessa Fundraising • All Audiences Brocato, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, LGBTQ grantmaking has played a significant role in ad- Washington, DC; Gretchen Borchelt, National Wom- vancing the LGBTQ movement. Funders for LGBTQ en’s Law Center, Washington, DC Issues works to ensure that these resources reach the

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breadth of our community. In 2007, we launched a Racial the same communities, but for some reason don’t make Equity Campaign to strengthen LGBTQ philanthropy’s a connection. During this session we will discuss com- commitment to people of color communities. In this munity building between college campuses, and GLBTQ workshop you will hear some of the stories and lessons community local resources. How can we build mentor learned from grantmakers and grantees who’ve been programs, share events/programming/networking/unify working at this critical intersection. & conquer?! How can we make our puzzle pieces fit?

Presenters: Bryan E. Glover, Funders for LGBTQ Presenters: Tikesha R. Morgan, Emerson College, Issues, New York, NY; Ben Francisco Maulbeck, Boston MA Funders for LGBTQ Issues, New York, NY Rural Organizing: I’m Ready to Evaluate, But Now What? Queering Small Spaces Practical Program Evaluation 201 Rural/Small Town Organizing • All Audiences Organizational Development • Intermediate SONG staff will lead this workshop for queers who stay Do you want to evaluate your program, but aren’t sure home in rural places, those who leave but keep one foot where to start? Designed for those who already have a in their rural home, and those who want to return home. solid understanding of their program’s objectives, this Participants will share the work currently being done in workshop provides next step strategies for evaluating rural areas and small towns to create places where we your work. We will examine the pros and cons of work- can live as whole people; share best practices and suc- ing with an outside consultant and explore methods for cesses; and develop a useful system to connect and in- collecting data and sharing results. Participants will learn crease queer work in rural communities. how to access evaluation resources and begin to devel- op their own evaluation plan. Presenters: Suzanne Pharr, Southerners on New Ground, Knoxville, TN; Hermelinda Cortes, South- Presenters: Emily Greytak, GLSEN, New York, NY; erners on New Ground, Bridgewater, VA; Ada Smith Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN, New York, NY; Kari Greene, Mayking, KY; Mary Hooks, Southerners on New Oregon Public Health Division, Portland, OR Ground, Atlanta, GA

Bro-Choice?! Engaging Men, Youth-Led Grassroots “Fun”-raising! Challenging Masculinity, and Queering Youth • All Audiences the Reproductive Justice Movement Attention young people! Does fundraising baffle you? Movement Building • Intermediate Scare you? If you’ve answered yes, then perhaps this This workshop will address the various ways in which workshop will help. In this workshop FIERCE will lead par- traditional representations of masculinity and manhood ticipants in an interactive workshop on youth-led grass- play a central role in sexual and reproductive oppres- roots “fun”-raising. We’ll help you take steps to overcome sion. In addition to offering participants critical analysis fundraising challenges by sharing with you how grassroots and movement building strategies, presenters will also fundraising can support your organizing work while also provide participants with strategic tools for engaging and empower you to raise money for your organization. We’ll mobilizing a wide range of diverse male identified folks to share how FIERCE integrated member led fundraising into fight for sexual freedom and reproductive justice. our organizational culture . This workshop would also great for you if your not so scared by fundraising but want to Presenter: Andrew Jenkins, Choice USA, Washing- learn how to incorporate youth led grassroots fundraising ton, DC into your organization and explore the importance of youth led grassroots fundraising has not only for our organiza- Do Our Puzzle Pieces Fit?! tions but also for our constituents and ally communities. Creating the Connection between College Campuses & LGBTQ Presenters: Krystal Portalatin, FIERCE NYC, New Community Resource Centers York, NY; Naa Hammond, FIERCE NYC, New York, NY to Work Together for Success College Campus Issues and Organizing for Administrators • All Audiences

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Workshop Session 8 • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM Trading Sex for Survival: Developing from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR help save a Progressive LGBT Response thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and and Domestic Violence • Intermediate how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying Current approaches to youth involvement in the sex trades “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or often fail to address the experiences of homeless LGBTQ neighbor. In this session, we’ll learn QPR skills and talk youth and youth of color. This workshop will share pre- about how they can be applied specifically to the Trans- liminary results of unique research on the perspectives and gender and Faith communities. needs of LGBTQ youth, highlight organizing efforts being led by this constituency, and build on previous Creating Presenters: Rachel Ammirati, Emory University, Change conversations deepening our collective knowl- Atlanta, GA edge of the issue and building a progressive response to LGBTQ youth involvement in the sex trades. National Strategy For Black Gay Youth In America Presenters: Andrea Ritchie, Streetwise and Safe People of Color • All Audiences (SAS); SAS Youth Researchers This youth-led workshop will provide attendees with or- HIV Prevention, Queer Liberation, ganizing techniques and methods used on the largest and Intersectional Organizing grassroots community based project for youth of color, AIDS/HIV • All Audiences the National Strategy For Black Gay Youth In America. More than 9,000 black gay youth from across the country An interactive workshop on intersectional movement participated in a first of its kind national needs assess- building, across queer liberation, reproductive justice, ment, detailing what it is like to grow up black and gay in drug policy reform, and economic and racial justice, with America from every region of the country. a focus on HIV prevention. Share stories, meet new allies, learn from others, and strengthen your skills. Presenters: Frank Walker, Youth Pride Center, Chicago, IL; Joshua Gale, Memphis, TN; Daniel Hill, Presenters: Julie Davids, HIV Prevention Justice Alli- Orlando, FL; Roman Caesar, Brooklyn, NY ance, Chicaco, IL; Kenyon Farrow, Praxis Project; Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance How to Lobby/ Advocate on LGBT Issues Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences Putting the “T” Back in LGBT Campus Organizations The workshop will help attendees become familiar with College Campus Issues and Organizing or improve their existing advocacy skills around LGBT for Students • All Audiences issues. Participants will learn how to create their own advocacy strategies and how to interact with all types of This session focuses on the ways students can help make legislators, Conservative, Progressive or Moderate. At- their LGBTQ campus groups more trans* inclusive. We will tendees will practice their advocacy skills and will leave discuss trans* inclusion in groups that serve the LGBTQ with practical advice and skills for their own advocacy community but are unsure of how to include trans* issues situations. Lobbying Guide will be provided. into their discussions, activities or actions. Participate in a session that will leave you with a greater understanding Presenters: Jeff Willard, Alpharetta, GA of the importance of trans* inclusion and realistic ways to improve trans* inclusion in your campus organizations. Conversaciones de Fe – A Dialogue Amongst Latin@ Presenters: Tyler Thompson, Cincinnati, OH; Owen and Secular Faith Leaders Riley, Cincinnati, OH; Emma Smith, Cincinnati, OH Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Transgender Suicide Preven- A Dialogue amongst Latin@ Faith and Secular Leaders at tion – A Faithful Response the Intersections of Sexuality, Gender Identity, Faith, Re- Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences ligion and Spirituality. An interactive fishbowl experience with members of the clergy and secular leaders working to This workshop utilizes the skills taught in the QPR pro- increase the visibility of Latin@s in the fight for LGBT equal- cess. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer -- 3 ity. Come prepared to challenge the myth around Latin@s simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life and homophobia. Today’s research states Latin@s sup-

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port LGBT relationship recognition at higher numbers than networking and resource sharing. Activities include: cap- any other distinct population in the country and yet, we turing a snapshot of the local transgender advocacy work are told over and over that religion is the number one rea- being done in communities across the country, identifying son we reject our LGBT brothers and sisters. Through this areas for growth within the movement, and small group interactive, participant lead fishbowl we will debunk this discussions based on policy areas in order to share strat- myth and explore strategies to bringing the discourse out egies, resources, and skills with fellow participants. of Creating Change and into the streets. Presenters: Marisa Richmond, Tennessee Transgen- Presenters: Nicole Sotelo, Call to Action USA, Chicago, der Political Coalition, TN; Masen Davis, Transgender IL; Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Chicago, IL; Modera- Law Center, San Francisco, CA; Jesse Begenyi, Trans tor: Lisbeth Melendez-Rivera, Silver Spring, MD Advocacy Network, Boston, MA

The End of Romance? College Student Caucus Sexual Freedom • All Audiences College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • Fundamentals, All Audiences While feminists have long interrogated pornography as a potential site of exploitation and disempowerment for This caucus, which is geared specifically for current col- women, romantic love has largely escaped this level of lege students and recent graduates, provides space for scrutiny. How do romantic notions of happily-ever-after LGBT students to discuss salient issues encountered on impact queer relationships, mental health, our collective campuses. These issues include gender-neutral housing well-being and our activism? Are romance and desire the and bathrooms, lack of campus visibility, and same things? Has the rush to the queer altar been engi- prevention and safety. While suggestions on topics are neered by a romantic-industrial complex? offered, students are encouraged to discuss what they feel needs to be discussed. Participants will walk away Presenters: Dr. Jaime Grant, Arcus Center for Social with a new network and ideas to bring back to their col- Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, lege campuses. Michigan; Ignacio Rivera Presenters: Ricky Carter, Los Angeles, CA; Adrian Caucus Session 2 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Ogle, New York, NY; Bridget Siegel, Gainesville, FL Where do We Belong? A Space for Queering Modern Retention Efforts – Trans Folks and Their Partners Mentoring Programs Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBT Administrators • Fundamentals, Intermediate This session is a space for trans people and their part- ners to share their experiences in finding acceptance in Though much has been written on retention in higher both the LGBT and straight communities. As trans peo- education, there still remains a dearth of literature on ple along with our partners we are not fully accepted into LGBTQ+ student retention. This presentation encour- the new communities we identify with. This space is for ages offices to begin thinking beyond programs that us to share the tips and tricks we have learned as well focus on singular identities and to think outside of the as to brainstorm new ideas to help educated and create box to include multiple identities in their programs. Many more acceptance. institutions struggle to fund new initiatives and this pro- gram will inspire participants to reformat programs that Presenters: Aiden Aizumi, Pasadena, CA; Mary are already in existence to support LGBTQ+ students. Manzo, Pasadena, CA; Jayden Thai, Louisville, KY Presenters: Nicolas K. Daily, Oregon State University, Caucus for State and/or Local Portland, OR; Jeff Kenney, Oregon State University, Transgender Advocacy, Legal, and/or Portland, OR Political Organizations/Activists Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences This caucus is for transgender activists working on the state/local level advancing transgender equality. Facili- tated by members of the Trans Advocacy Network who work to bring together transgender led organizations for

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Caucus Session 2 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Building Our QAPI Movement: Jewish Queer Caucus A Caucus for Asian Americans, Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences South Asians, Southeast Asians, This caucus will start a conversation on where and Pacific Islanders Judaism and queer identities collide. At this caucus, we People of Color • All Audiences will discuss a broad range of topics that involve this in- What does a Queer AAPI movement mean to you? Join tersectionallity. Discussion can range from Israeli gay other LGBTQ Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast culture, politics, religious acceptance, religious practice, Asians and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to share and listen queer Jewish organizations, popular videos and films, about information on our communities, our organizations personal stories, or whatever the participants are eager and our strategies. Take action and help build a larger to discuss. By keeping the GLBTA Jews connected, we movement of, by, and for Queer AAPIs. can better help serve our own local Jewish community.

Presenters: Alison Lin, National Queer Asian and Pa- Presenters: Shaily Hakimian, University of Indiana cific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), New York, NY; Vanessa Coe, API Equality- Northern California and National Getting Through, Not Around, Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA); Aya the Ex-Gay Movement Tasaki, NQAPIA Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Fundamentals

Lift Every Voice: As long as self-affirming queers and patriarchal religion ex- ist alongside each other, there will be the Ex-Gay Move- Black LGBTQ Experiences ment. Learn how to name Ex-Gay ideology from a mile Racial/Economic Justice • All Audiences away and be prepared to directly confront it through short PFLAG Portland Black Chapter, the first African American responses that unsettle and imbalance the adversary to in- specific chapter in the country, partnered with the Urban depth dialogue on its broken fundamentals. We come to League of Portland on Lift Every Voice: a ground break- this session with the understanding that the Ex-Gay Move- ing report that highlights Black LGBTQ experiences in ment targets young folks. Let’s provide an alternative! Oregon and across the country. Learn about this incred- ible collaboration, the issues around housing, commu- Presenters: Haven Herrin, Soul Force, Minneapo- nity, education and other issues and how they uniquely lis, MN; J. Mason, Philadelphia, PA; Jason Conner, impact LGBTQ Black families, and learn about how Black Philadelphia, PA PFLAG is redefining the PFLAG model. Miles to March for Military Equality Presenter: Khalil Edwards Military & Veterans Issues • Fundamentals Austin Unbound: What issues still confront LGBT Americans in finding Deaf, Trans, Disabled? equality while serving in the US military? What is the sta- Disability and Accessibility • All Audiences tus of Transgender service? How can veterans get their discharges upgraded in order to access VA benefits? In this session participants will learn about the experi- How can the issue of same-gender military families help ences of Deaf LGBTQ people through a showing of the bring about full marriage equality? Join the discussion in documentary, Austin Unbound, and a discussion led by where we’ve been and where we need to go in holding LGBTQ individuals from the Deaf community. Participants the military accountable and pursuing future changes. will gain advocacy tools and suggestions for how to be inclusive of the Deaf community in their work. Crossovers Presenter: Danny Ingram, American Veterans For in disability justice activism will be deeply explored. Equal Rights, Atlanta, GA Presenters: Connor Gillis, Atlanta, GA; Eliza Green- Addressing LGBT Youth wood, Portland, OR; Ellen Hibbard, Brampton ON; Homelessness in Your Community; Abbey (AJ) Woodall, Atlanta, GA the Lost-n-Found Model Youth • All Audiences This caucus will expose attendees to the world of homeless and at-risk LGBT youth. We will discuss the causes, lives, and tragic results of youth homelessness,

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specifically speaking to our experience in the South- ticipants will also develop an action plan to work toward east. We will then introduce Lost-n-Found Youth, our more inclusive communities. creation, mission, and program. Participants will then be given tools and encourage to duplicate our unique Presenters: K.D. Miller, Cincinnati, OH; T.N. Vaught, model in their communities. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Presenters: Art Izzard, Lost-n-Found, Atlanta, GA; Beyond Uganda: the Death Penalty Rick Westbrook, Lost-n-Found, Atlanta, GA; Allen and Global LGBT Criminalization Peebles, Lost-n-Found, Atlanta, GA; Paul Swicord, International Issues • All Audiences Lost-n-Found, Atlanta, GA There are 76 countries that still criminalize homosexuality National LGBTQ Youth Roundtable and 10 countries where the punishment is life in prison Youth • All Audiences or death. Attendees will get an overview of the global hot spots where activists are risking their lives for equality. The time has come for LGBTQ youth to unite and form Attendees will learn how they can help achieve equality, a clear national agenda. All LGBTQ youth community everywhere by engaging with online organizing. leaders are invited to connect and organize a meaningful youth-led framework within the equality movement. As a Presenters: Andre Banks, All Out, New York, NY; Joe generation of young people, our activism is often isolated Mirabella, All Out, Seattle, WA and met with adultism. Please come prepared to speak on behalf of your communities and bring innovative ideas Sharing Stories of the Ex-Gay in order to build an empowered youth advocacy com- Movement and its Continued Effect munity together. Gender and Identity • All Audiences Presenters: Jason Landau Goodman, The University There is not enough discussion on the ex-gay movement of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA; Nichole Mahoney, and those it affects. To heal wounds and move towards The Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition, The Uni- equality, there must be greater awareness and under- versity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA standing of ex-gay therapy and ministries. Questions we’ll cover: Why is this an issue so often ignored? How Finding the Tools You Need From has such therapy remained active despite its noted inef- the National Resource Center on fectiveness? How should affirming gay people treat ex- LGBT Aging gays? All are welcome to attend this caucus as we delve Aging and Ageism • All Audiences into these discussions in volunteer-based discussion in a welcoming, affirming environment. We are all getting older. As LGBT people, we have unique needs and concerns that heterosexual and non-transgen- Presenters: Blair Mishleau; Samuel Brinton der people don’t have. That’s why the U.S. government, through the Department of Health & Human Services, pro- He Continues to Make a Difference: vided a federal grant to establish the National Resource The Story of Matthew Shepard Center on LGBT Aging, a project led by SAGE, with 14 Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault national partners. Come learn about all of the resources and Domestic Violence • All Audiences related to LGBT aging that are available at your fingertips! In 1998, gay college student Matthew Shepard was kid- Presenters: Hilary Meyer, SAGE, New York, NY napped, robbed, beaten, tied to a fence and abandoned. It was the start of Gay Awareness Week at the University Transgender 101 of Wyoming. Keynote Speaker Lesléa Newman arrived Transgender Community & Issues • Fundamentals on campus the day Matt died. In this presentation, New- man uses poetry, photography, and guided visualization What does transgender mean? What is the appropriate to explore the impact of Matt’s murder and inspire audi- language to use when discussing people who are trans- ence members to make a difference and take a stand gender? How does being transgender affect the way a against hate crimes. person is viewed and treated in society? This introductory session will cover the basic topics of the term “transgen- Presenter: Lesléa Newman, Author, Northampton, MA der,” the meaning, a brief history, and the appropriate lan- guage to use when discussing transgender issues. Par-

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Caucus Session 2 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus Stepping into the Rainbow: Sexual Freedom • All Audiences Oppression, Coming out, and the African American Community The Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus provides an impor- People of Color • All Audiences tant affinity group for those who aren’t monogamous. The session provides a safe, non-judgmental space for folks to Come and share perspectives affecting the African Ameri- meet, network with others, ask questions, and share ideas. can community, specifically the gay male. The open and supportive dialogue will encourage: A platform to identify Presenters: Robin Nussbaum, Philadelphia, PA; Dau- issues to increase awareness of issues such as internal and nasia Yancey, Boston, MA external oppressive systems; assist in reducing stigmas and stereotypes that hinder the African American gay male Labor Caucus within his coming out process; and engage attendees by Labor • All Audiences increasing cognitive awareness of risk factors that continue Union members are invited to join a discussion on LGBT/ to oppress the African American gay male’s identity. Labor priorities for the next three years. P@W leaders will Presenters: Rufus Tony Spann, M.S., Silver Spring, share resolutions out of the 2012 convention including is- MD; Antonio Cooper, Hyattsville, MD sues such as transgender inclusive health insurance, HIV/ AIDS, hate crime violence, “buy union,” and other strate- United Church of Christ Caucus gies for social and economic justice. Union members will Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences have the opportunity to discuss challenges and strategies for building power for working (and jobless) LGBT families. This Caucus will gather members and friends of the Unit- ed Church of Christ for the purpose of networking, build- Presenters: Darren Phelps, Pride At Work, Washington, ing relationships, sharing experiences, ideas, collabora- DC; Bess Watts, AFSCME Pride at Work, Washington tion opportunities and ways to become involved in the DC; Shane Larson, CWA Pride at Work, Washington DC LGBTQ work of denomination and the UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns. Strategic Partnerships: Building a Movement Across Lines of Difference Presenters: Mike Schuenemeyer, United Church of Movement Building • All Audiences Christ; Andy Lang, UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns

Teach For America, which recruits future leaders to Understanding the Court’s Opinion teach for two years in low-income communities across in Recent Cases Involving GLBT the country, has partnered with The Trevor Project and GLSEN to help ensure that all students feel safe and sup- Discrimination ported at school. We will use this dynamic partnership as Research and Policy Analysis • All Audiences a case study to show how LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ or- In this session, the presenter introduces the legal con- ganizations can partner with one another to expand their cept of discrimination, forms of discrimination including impact and build a more inclusive movement together. sexual orientation, and reviews recent case law to dem- onstrate the Court’s general opinion and ways campus Presenters: Joe Picini, Teach For America, Washington, administrators, GLBT students and community members DC; Nathan Belyeu, The Trevor Project, New York, NY can marshal evidence to support claims of sexual orien- Queer Muslim Caucus tation discrimination. Handouts will include legal notes about GLBT discrimination. Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Presenters: Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH This caucus will offer LGBT Muslim and allied activists and others an opportunity to identify each other and spend time discussing issues important to the queer A Cry for Help: The Role Muslim community. we will discuss the landscape for of Religion in Homophobic LGBT Muslims and how individuals can get involved in Rape, Violence and Murder building a national movement. of LGBTQI People of Color Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences Presenter: Tyan Power There are horrific and brutal crimes being commited on a

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Caucus Session 2 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM daily basis against LGBTQI people of color. This is more Butch/Femme: A Conversation so obvious in Africa and Latin America but the western Sexual Freedom • All Audiences world is not without its dose of homophobic/transpho- bic violence. The question that must be asked is, “Does This session will be a conversation about butch/ femme religion play a role in any of this?” and the sad but true and the evolution of those identities and their place in les- answer is that religion not only plays a role but the role bian culture. Also we will discuss how sexual and gender it plays is of huge and deadly proportions. Since it’s ori- identity self determination represents the democratization gins, religion-based homophobia has risen worldwide of intimate identities in our culture, not just in queer culture and added to the stigma and hatred that people feel to- but the broader culture as well. A Femme and A Butch wards the LGBTQI community. The reasoning is that if will share their experience of how butch/femme conforms God hates “these people” then “we can also hate these to and defies the stereotypes and how it has shaped the people.” Attendees will be learn about the harm caused content of their erotic lives. Following the conversation, by religion based homophobia and will leave re-ignited the session will be open to Q/A and commentary. and determined to “be the change” and advocate for a Presenters: Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, spritual revolution that calls for religious inclusion of all Lisbeth Melendez-Rivera people-LGBTQI included.

Presenter: Rizi Timane, Rizi Timane Ministries, Caucus: Kink/Leather Burbank, California Sexual Freedom • All Audiences Gathering of Leather Community and Kink Folks. National LGBT Aging Roundtable Caucus Aging and Ageism • All Audiences Presenters: Ignacio Rivera In this caucus session, members of the National Round- table on LGBT Aging will report on advocacy and service Saturday Evening Events initiatives occurring throughout the country. Everyone in the room will have the opportunity to participate by shar- CC13 Art Studio Gallery Salon C Second Level • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM ing their knowledge, asking questions and networking. Saturday evening, Art Studio Space - CC13 transforms to Presenter: Serena Worthington, SAGE, New York, NY CC13 Art Studio Gallery, a venue in which artists will have the opportunity to display and celebrate the work created Call Me William: over the course of the conference. Come check out the The Life and Loves of Willa Cather magic that has been spun during Creating Change! Art & Culture • Fundamentals Prudence Wright Holmes performs her solo show about 12 Step/Recovery Meeting lesbian author Willa Cather. She dared to dress as a man 7:30 PM in the 1890’s in Nebraska and later became the second Keep your recovery going at Creating Change! woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature. She was a trailblazer in the areas of LGBT and women’s rights.

Performer: Prudence Wright Holmes, New York, NY

Lesbian Caucus Lesbian Community & Issues • Intermediate A time for all lesbian-identified attendees to consider political and social issues affecting lesbians; to strategize to take action; and to network.

Facilitators: Laurie Young, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington DC; Darlene Nipper, National MasQUEERade Ball Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington DC & Amateur Drag Show 8:00 PM – Midnight A special YOUTH PARTY for those 24 and under. Kings,

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Saturday Evening Events

Queens, and Drag Enthusiasts, this is your moment to strut in the drag contest. Email Ryan@GenerationalAl- liance.org to enter the drag competition. And dragging or not, come on in for fun, refreshments and dancing. No drugs or alcohol permitted. Organized by Generational Alliance; sponsored by Generational Alliance and the Na- tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Radical Faerie Heart Circle 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Yoooohooooo!!! This call is for a Radical Faerie “Heart Circle” that is open to faeries and those interested in fa- erie traditions. Heart Circles are a tradition of the Radi- cal Faerie community where we speak and listen in heart centered space. A talisman is passed from person to per- son and you are invited to speak from your heart about your feelings/thoughts/experiences while others listen. At Creating Change we offer this quiet space for expres- sion and reflection. The process is warm, welcoming and simple. A challenging part may be turning off your cell phones for the duration of the circle.

LGBT Elders 50+ and Allies Dance 8:30 PM - Midnight The Task Force and SAGE proudly presents our second annual LGBT Elders 50+ and Allies Dance. Yup, we bring back the smashing success from Creating Change 2012. Our Atlanta DJ is Ree De La Vega, who will keep you on the dance floor moving to discs from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Whether you want to shake it down, shake it down now, get boogie fever, or just get into the groove, our dance party will make you feel mighty real! This event is free so y’all come. This year we debut a Disco Ball for fun and frolic and many other surprises. We old, but we ain’t done yet.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Schedule of Events • Sunday, January 27, 2013 Please check the grid schedule for room locations.

Engaging the Spirit: An Interfaith Gathering. All Welcome 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM The intent of the interfaith worship is to celebrate the human spirit and honor various traditions and practices of hon- oring the Divine. Speakers will represent a from a diverse group of faith communities that embrace and celebrate the LGBTQ community. All are welcome.

Workshop Session 9 • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Creating a Safe Space Program From Trauma to Triumph: for Students Making Good Meanings College Campus Issues and Organizing Community Organizing • All Audiences for Students • Intermediate Our community experiences trauma in a myriad of ways, This year, Kennesaw State University rolled out its first from higher child abuse rates to hate crimes, from having Safe Space program designed by and for students. This others vote away our rights to microaggressions. we’ll program seeks to educate students on multiple identities talk about how this trauma hampers organizing both in- in the LGBTIQ community, create advocates for change dividually and collectively, causing mental, physical, and on campus and beyond, and engage students in an in- interpersonal problems and creating cynicism, blaming, teractive learning environment. Come learn about how and powerlessness. we’ll then experience a new ap- our university in Greater Atlanta is making an impact! proach that turns our typical way of “making sense of trauma” into a powerful driver of creative, positive action. Presenters: Gaius Augustus, Kennesaw State Uni- versity, Kennesaw, GA; Jillian Ford, Kennesaw State Presenter: Loree Cook-Daniels, FORGE Milwaukee, WI University, Kennesaw, GA Hallelujah Our Heroes: Achieving Safer Schools Tales of Activism Against AIDS One District at a Time AIDS/HIV • All Audiences Schools and Education, Grades K – 12 Hallelujah Our Heroes: Stories of Activism Against AIDS • Intermediate salutes the people who were at ground zero of the AIDS Come talk about how to understand and implement safe epidemic, and who lead the fight against AIDS and for school policies into your local school district. The Texas, our brothers and sisters in combating this epedemic. Georgia, Michigan and Tennessee LGBT communities They will also share about their efforts today. have had some recent victories including the enactment Presenters: Charles Stephens, AIDS United, Atlanta, of LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination and anti-bullying po- GA; William Simson; Dr. Jesse Peel; Uri Vaknin; lices in local school districts. Presenters from local, state, Dave Hayward and regional advocacy groups will discuss their own ex- periences and strategic targeting and tactics to pass safe I’m Online: LGBT Identity Develop- school policies from the state house to the school house. ment in a Social Media Context Attendees will discuss the pros and cons of tackling safe College Campus Issues and Organizing schools organizing at the school district and state level for LGBT Administrators • Intermediate and identify ways to use these strategies in respective their communities even if you have with little or no state- Many texts that describe identity development for LG- wide protections. BTQ people were authored before 140-character limits, Facebook and YouTube. Today, access to and interaction Presenters: Denise Brogan-Kator, Family Equality with new media avenues have broad and deep effects Council, MI; Em Elliott, Georgia Equality, Atlanta, GA; on an LGBTQ individuals’ journey of self-authorship. This Omar Narvaéz, Lambda Legal, Dallas TX presentation will explore the potential and actual effects of social media on the developmental arc of LGBTQ people. Participants will also be able to examine ways to model the healthy management of a digital identity.

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Workshop Session 9 • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Presenters: Gabriel C Javier, University of Wisconsin, Hung? Madison WI; Warren Scherer, University of Wisconsin- Gay Male Community & Issues • Fundamentals Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; Matt Bruno, American University, Washington, DC No matter how flirtatious the first text, what he really wants to know is “how hung?” Explore and deconstruct Guerrilla Projection: the images and perceptions that play a part in our collec- Make Your Own Advocacy Bat Signal! tive thoughts on penis size and its impact in the gay male Media, Communications, and Messaging community. From sexual positions, to STD transmission, • All Audiences and self image, we will explore why we measure the qual- ity of the person in inches. Used most famously in this country during the 11/17/11 Occupy Wall Street march in New York City (with a pro- Presenter: Matt LeBlanc, , jection on the Verizon building) and later by the same Washington, DC folks at The Illuminator, (http://theilluminator.org) guerrilla projection has been used for activist messaging in other Interpersonal Violence (IPV) countries for years. Guerrilla projection enables activ- Programs for LGBTQ-H Communities: ists to disseminate basic information to the public, put Increasing Services in the Pacific those in authority on notice and lead chants for gathered Northwest & Stretching the Dollar crowds—all while leaving spectators open-mouthed in to Build in the South wonder. The necessary technology and rental equipment Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault are more accessible than ever so please join the artist/ and Domestic Violence • All Audiences filmmaker and team leader responsible for the linked adaptation 11/17/11 projection (as shown on 12/31/11 Does Interpersonal Violence (IPV) really occur in LGBTQ- in Boston’s Copley Square): http://www.youtube.com/ H relationships? Research indicates IPV occurs at the watch?v=iaW8L02LQOY for a practical, hands-on guide same rate in LGBTQ relationships as in heterosexual rela- to all the facets that make up the planning, creation and tionships. Often, this health concern is invisible and kept successful execution of a guerrilla projection. Attendees a hidden secret in our community. This session will pro- may, if they like, bring a laptop loaded with Final Cut Pro vide an overview for the need, as well as concrete steps and ideas about messages they want to project. But on how to bring together community agencies to work please note the workshop is open to all and guidelines with the LGBTQ-H community to organize comprehen- and files for download will be available online after the sive programs and services to address IPV. Models from workshop for all those attending as well. the Pacific Northwest in Portland and Columbia, SC in the South will be provided. Presenter: Ren Jender, Boston, MA Presenters: Tricia Phaup, University of South Caroli- The Perfect Storm: na, Columbia, SC; Alex Karydi, SC DJJ, Columbia, SC; Rural Organizations Empowering Amy Meldau, LMSW, Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands, Columbia, SC; Kirsten Keith, Portland State Youth with National Frame University Queer Resource Center, Portland, OR Youth • All Audiences LGBTQ Youth issues often become part of a national 69 Ways to Use Saran Wrap: Queering framework. That framework, however, does not always your Campus’ Safer Sex Education support youth leadership nor take into account rural is- College Campus Issues and Organizing sues. In this facilitated and interactive discussion , Missis- for Students • All Audiences sippi Safe Schools Coalition and Missouri GSA Network will lead conversations on building a connectivity between Could your campus’ safer sex education use a little rural, urban and national frames for the LGBTQ Youth queerness? This workshop will model different methods movement. The discussion will wrap up with building tools for incorporating queer elements into your campus’ saf- and next steps on ways to organize in rural areas. er sex curriculum, peer education initiatives, or LGBTQ programming. We will provide STI info that goes beyond Presenters: Morgan Keenan, Missouri GSA Net- prevention, alternative and fun protection options, and work, St. Louis, MO; Anna C. Davis, Mississippi Safe non- traditional bedroom fun! Join us for small group Schools Coalition discussions, consensus building around the risks of our actual sexual practices, and advice on how we can better educate our communities.

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Workshop Session 9 • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Presenters: Zaneta Marie Rago, Rutgers University, The Poetics of Communicating Piscawtay, NJ; Dr. Celiany Rivera-Velázquez, New Desire; Epistles, Email & Sexting York University, New York, NY; Aasha Foster, Columbia Art & Culture • Intermediate, All Audiences University, New York, NY In this workshop we will learn about resources for com- Gay Men, HIV/AIDS, and municating across difference, distance and desire. Engag- the Future of Advocacy ing Black Feminist love letters, poems and songs, we will AIDS/HIV • All Audiences learn how to communicate desire in liberative and non- oppressive ways using analog and digital technologies. By Gay and bisexual men, particularly gay and bisexual men creating our own letters, draft emails, texts, tweets, poems of color, are disproportionately impacted by the HIV/AIDS and song dedications we will tap into our desire and self epidemic. During the course of this session, we will un- expression, leaving with the tools to communicate our de- pack the social drivers of HIV/AIDS among gay and bi- sire passionately, purposefully and poetically. sexual men in the in the U.S, then collectively strategize around how to respond to these challenges. Presenters: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mobile Homecoming and Black Feminist Film School, Durham, Presenter: Charles Stephens, AIDS United, NC; Julia Wallace, Mobile Homecoming and Black Washington, DC Feminist Film School, Durham, NC

It’s a wrap. Feedback Session Closing Plenary Session with Conference Managers with brunch 2:00 PM • Grand Ballroom We Love Your Feedback! Our annual Creating Change Conference offers a rich and rigorous program of work- shops, trainings, film screenings, caucuses and network- ing sessions, meetings and social and spiritual gatherings. For attendees who want to participate in a face-to-face conversation about your experience of Creating Change 2013, the Conference Director conducts a Feedback Session on Sunday following the closing plenary in the Grand Ballroom. Frenchie Davis 11:30 AM • Grand Ballroom

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To the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,

Congratulations on 40 years of Making History and 25 years of the Creating Change Conference.

Wishing you many more years of success – and victory!

Your friends at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

My Notes

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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 141 We extend a heartfelt thanks to Ambassador’s Circle Miami-Dade County Department Ronna Stamm & Paul Lehman our Leadership Council members $10,000 to $24,999 of Cultural Affairs Gene Sulzberger for their continued support of the American Federation of State, Chance Mitchell James T. Timmons & Keith Silvestri Task Force Foundation and the County and Municipal Employees Paul F. Oostenbrug, M.D. & Andrew Tobias Task Force Action Fund. Lead- Dr. L. Diane Bernard Jeremiah Kelly Luis Tollinche ership Council members make Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Loren S. Ostrow & Brian Newkirk The Trevor Project, Inc. an annual gift of $1,500 or more Axelrod LLP Planned Parenthood Federation Charles D. Urstadt & David Bernard and give the Task Force the flex- Suman Chakraborty of America Gordon VeneKlasen ibility to build grassroots lesbian, Comcast Rocky Mountain Court System, Inc Beth Zemsky gay, bisexual and transgender Communications Workers of Lee Rubin & Jim Walker political power across the nation. America Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Delegate’s Circle If we have inadvertently omitted EMD Serono Joan Schaeffer $1,500 to $2,499 David R. Alexander or incorrectly listed your name, Kevin Gonzalez Elliott R. Sernel & Larry Falconio Jeff & Kate Haas Christopher Andrew & please contact Sue Lee K. Trout- Andrew I. Shore Gabriel Bedoya Mary E. Harper & Marigene Arnold man, Director of Individual Giving, Jeffrey Z. Slavin Avalon Consulting at 646.358.1477. Current Leadership Heller-Bernard Fund of the SOBE Miami LLC Palace Gary Baker & Amin Ghaziani Council donors as of December 15, 2012. Funding Exchange James O. Stepp & Peter K. Zimmer Juan J. Battle & Michael D. Bennett Here Media Kenneth Thompson & Otts Bolisay Robin Bergen & Janine Hackett President’s Circle Craig G. Hoffman, Jr. & Time Warner David A. Bjork & Jeff Bengtson $100,000 and up Albert Lauber Marsha C. Botzer Anonymous (2) James C. Hormel Advocate’s Circle Mel Braman Andrew W. Solomon & Jody Laine & Shad Reinstein $2,500 to $4,999 A. Hugh Broadus John Habich Las Vegas Convention and John M. Allen & Stephen P. Orlando Juan Buono-Alcaraz & Howard Solomon Visitors Authority Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Alfredo Irrizary-Arroyo Gina Calvelli & Lorri L. Jean Merrill Lynch Wealth Management C. D. Bedford Vice President’s Circle Frank Benedetti & Gary Trowbridge Julie A. Childs & Sara Speargas The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation William Cornelius $50,000 to $99,999 Michael H. Morris & David Bolger & Mark Lancaster Henry van Ameringen & Lisa Corrin Richard Blinkal Gregory N. Brown & Linton Stables Wayne Cypen & Nicole Cypen Eric Galloway Northern Trust, NA Lynne J. Brown & Shannon Rodes Tim Dang & Darrel Cummings Bacardi U.S.A., Inc. James G. Pepper Center for American Progress Steven Deggendorf & Brinker International Daniel Renberg & Jerry S. Chasen & Mark Kirby Dennis McClellan Showtime Networks Inc. Eugene Kapaloski Choice USA John D’Emilio & Jim Oleson Southwest Airlines Allen A. Schuh City Of Miami Beach Veronica M. Diaz Jim Tyrrell, Jay Richard DiBiaso & Edward W. Snowdon, Jr. Kate Clinton & Urvashi Vaid John R. Dreyer & Jonathan Cutler Irwin Drucker Roger Thomson Peg Yorkin Bobbi Dalley Washington Blade George J. DeBolt Brian K. Esser & Kevin O’Leary Kevin J. Farrelly & Stephen Klein Wells Fargo William Dollaway & Glenn Barcheski Director’s Circle Dwight Foley $5,000 to $9,999 Ruth E. Eisenberg & Letitia A. Gomez Barbara Frank & AARP Executive’s Circle Joseph Evall & Richard Lynn Veronica McCaffrey $25,000 to $49,999 Akerman Joseph Falk & Mark Scott Mark Gilbert & Alan Demovsky The Amy Mandel and Anonymous (1) Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Ruben J. Gonzales & Katina Rodis Fund Ralph Alpert Eisenberg, LLP Joaquin J. Tamayo William Forrest & Mark A. Smithe Susan E. Anderson & Jo Ziemet Jason Heffner & John Davis Debra Gray & Marie Valenzuela Liebe Gadinsky & Seth Gadinsky Alberto A. Arias & Wood Kinnard Avra Jain E. Monique Hall Hilton Worldwide AT&T Jeff Kerzman Jeff Hawkins & Janet Strauss Steven Holley Alan Bernstein Stephen Littell & Kevin F. Foley Jonathan A. Herz & Steven C. Hill John E. Hodgins & Barry Zerby Amy C. Mandel & Katina Rodis Brownies for Good James D. Marks & Mark Scott Miami Beach Visitor & Margaret A. Burd & Darren Hoerner & John Bredeson Eric Meyer Jim Hooker Convention Authority Rebecca Brinkman Microsoft Weston F. Milliken Ernest C. Hopkins Rea Carey & Margaret Conway Tim Nardi & Charles Million Sue Hyde & Jade P. McGleughlin Stanley Newman & Brian Rosenthal Bradley Carlson & Austin Allan Pamela Newman & Rosany Scaff Yosbel A. Ibarra & Roger Stoudt Office Depot David W. Carlson John Peters Harold L. Ivey Emily Rosenberg & Pamela H. David & Cheryl Lazar PG&E Kent J. Johnson & Cody Blomberg Darlene deManicor Robert P. Denny David A. Phillips & Stephen Busto Kierra Johnson & Parry Arvette Mark M. Sexton & W. Kirk Wallace Doyle Printing Nancy D. Polikoff & Cheryl Jeffrey Jordan & Scott Gillies The Shore Club The Honorable Stephen P. Driscoll Swannack Timothy Kasunic & Paul Jednak Mark T. King & Jonathan D. Lubin Southern California Edison & Mr. Robert Tocci Dr. Hope Prados-Wine & Stonewall Community Foundation Matthew Foreman & Michael Koetting & Mary Prados-Wine Stephan Saletan Sara Whitman Francisco de León David J. Price & Two Sisters and a Wife Foundation Robert W. Kuhn & Steve Geyer Phyllis Friedman Juan Carlos Rodriguez Randall Laroche & David Laudon Ron Ginsburg Russell David Roybal Thomas A. Lehrer Tim Hosking & Audrey Sokoloff Robert Salem & Mark Mockensturm Michael LeMasters & Lawrence R. Hyer Robert J. Smolin Matthew F. Thorn

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Mark Leondires & Greg Zola David M. Waterbury & Legacy Circle Bequest Circle Lesbian Equity Fund Ruth Waterbury The Task Force thanks the fol- Bequest Circle donors made a Franklin Levine Gerald Wentland lowing people for naming the gift to The Task Force through Kathy Levinson & Naomi Fine David M. Wertheimer & Task Force as a beneficiary in their estate planning. Jani Lopez Paul Beaudet their estate planning. Richard Lynch Steve Wetzler $1 Million and up Stephen Macias Rosemary B. Wilder & David I. Abramson Clarence E Anderson Living Trust Tish Maes & Rachel Chaparro Karen Costello Michael Bath Estate of Ric Weiland Hermes Mallea & Carey Maloney Vince Wong David A. Bjork & Jeff Bengtson Donna Marburger Michael R. Wrenn & Demetris Allen Marsha C. Botzer James McAnally Laura Young & Marikay Crangle Thomas Boyd $150,000 to $999,999 Virginia Mcculloh & Barbara Brown & Sandra De Legal Estate of Fleet E. Nuttall Nancy Kohlreiter The Task Force Thanks Jennifer M. Buchwald Estate of John P. Fludas Mark McDermott the Following Supporters Margaret A. Burd & Estate of LeClair Bissell Barbara J. Meislin for Their Generous Contri- Rebecca Brinkman Estate of William Zilko Naomi Metz & Jennifer Foley butions in Honor of Creating Julie A. Childs & Sara Speargas Robert F. Miailovich Change’s 25th Anniversary Craig M. Desoer & Dmitry Kitsov $25,000 to $149,999 Charles R. Middleton, Ph.D. & Ross Draegert Estate of Alice Dyer John S. Geary Care2 Bert Easter & Ed Madden Estate of Bertram H. Behrens Karin Mitchell & Joanne Roberts Jaime Grant Richard Fremont-Smith Estate of Donald E. Watson Rick Mohn & Steven J. Baines Jon Hoadley Stephen A. Glassman Estate of George Nemeth Diane Mosbacher, Ph.D. & Joe Goenaga Laurie Mirman Estate of James B. Wozniak Nanette Gartrell, M.D. Mary E. Harper & Marigene Arnold Russell David Roybal Estate of John O’Leary Sandra Nathan, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Z. Slavin Daniel A. Harris & Jane Buttars Glenda Dunmore John Hubschmitt Estate of Julia Lorillard Pell National Stonewall Democrats Estate of Lee S Ross FOUNDATIONS Rachel Hurst Reverend Darlene Nipper, Niki J. Kent Johnson & Cody Blomberg Estate of Robert L. Kehoe Davis & Andrea Jones $1,000,000 and above Dr. Ronald Kendall & Estate of Robert S. White Phil Oxman & Harvey Zuckman Anonymous Harold Kendall Catherine Pareto & Karla Arguello Linda Ketner $5,000 to $24,999 Dr. Mark Parker & Eric Johnson $500,000 to $999,999 Harold D. Kooden, Ph.D. Estate of Craig H. Lindhurst Shilpen Patel, M.D. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Marilyn Lamkay Estate of Harry Seagal Ana C. Perez & Karen Elliot Ed Madden & Bert Easter Estate of James A. Davidson Michael Piore $100,000 to $499,999 Donna Marburger Estate of Jaroslav E. Zivney Mona Pittenger Arcus Foundation Sean Melton Estate of John R. Hoffman Marjorie Press Board of Directors of the Naomi Metz & Jennifer Foley Estate of Josef Van Der Kar Purple Lady Fund of the Astraea Calamus Foundation John H. Moe Estate of Kenneth E. Kesselring Foundation Ford Foundation John Perez Estate of Lawrence J. Messenger Sarah E. Reece & Gill Foundation Charles W. Robbins & Estate of Luke F. Farrell Kathleen Campisano Damon Romine Open Society Foundations Estate of Marc A. Triebwasser Erik Richard & Pride Foundation Anthony Rominske Estate of Orton L. Ehrlinger Joseph De Santis-Richard Wells Fargo Foundation Russell David Roybal Erick Rivero Fred B. Schaefer Estate of Stephen D. Clover Elias Rojas Marianne G. C. Seggerman Estate of Steven D. Kaeser $50,000 to $99,999 Estate of William A.K. Ryan John Eric Rolfstad David Bohnett Foundation Michael Staeb Estate of William Bebermeyer Christopher A. Russell & E. Rhodes and Leona B. William J. Stein Mario Acosta, Jr. Carpenter Foundation David J. Thomas Elizabeth F. Schwartz & Loet VanDerveen $4,999 and under Lydia Martin Harry K. Willwater & Hal L. Barker Estate of Craig J. Witt Marianne G. C. Seggerman $25,000 to $49,999 Kicking Assets Fund of the Edith S. Windsor Estate of Dale Norris Shaw Francois Simard & Douglas Wingo & Timothy Legg Estate of Earle Raymond Hopkins Richard Dupont Tides Foundation The Moriah Fund Harvey Zuckman & Philip Oxman Estate of Em Olivia Bevis Adam Slone Estate of James L. Tanner Snagfilms LLC NATIONAL CORPORATE Estate of John L. Chamness, Jr. Michelle Stecker & $10,000 to $24,999 Estate of Morgan Young Carol Bresnahan Anderson Prize Foundation PARTNERS Estate of Richard Homan Mark Steinberg & The David Geffen Foundation We extend our thanks to the Dennis Edwards John S. and James L. Knight following Task Force national Estate of Rita A. McGaughey Frank J. Stiriti Foundation corporate partners for their Estate of Roy Glenn Wood Aaron Strauss The Miami Foundation generous support: Estate of Wayne McCaughan Linda Swartz & Jessica Seaton The Minneapolis Foundation Estate of Winifred Cottrel Robert Taylor Social Security Works Eric F. Thom & Michael Curtis If you intend to name the Task Janice E. Thom & Mary Ann Moran $5,000 to $9,999 Force in your estate plans or Samuel Thoron & Julia Thoron B.W. Bastian Foundation would like to learn more about United Food & Commercial Workers Fannie and Stephen Kahn planned giving options, please Leonie A. Walker & Charitable Foundation contact Sue Lee Troutman at Katherine A. O’Hanlan Ryder Charitable Foundation 646.358.1477 Richard Wall & William Wilson

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www.theTaskForce.org Los Angeles, CA The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the power of the lesbian, gay, Washington, DC bisexual and transgender community from the ground up. The Task Force is Cambridge, MA the country’s premier social justice organization fighting to improve the lives of New York, NY LGBT people, and working to create positive, lasting change and opportunity Miami Beach, FL for all. Founded 1973 Minneapolis, MN

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation Board of Directors Action Fund Board Liebe Gadinsky Alan Bernstein • Sandra Nathan Mark Sexton•• Co-Chair West Hollywood, CA Sausalito, CA Chair Miami Beach, FL New York, NY Marsha Botzer • Ana Perez William Forrest Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA Bradley Carlson •• Co-Chair Secretary Treasurer Chicago, IL Mario Guerrero David J. Price Miami Beach, FL Sacramento, CA Miami Beach, FL Shilpen Patel, MD Alan Bernstein • Mary Harper Lee Rubin • West Hollywood, CA Secretary Kalamazoo, MI Fort Lauderdale, FL Seattle, WA Marsha Botzer • Kierra Johnson Robert Salem Seattle, WA Roger Thomson Washington, DC Toledo, OH Treasurer Miami Beach, FL Monique Hall •• Jeff Kerzman Andrew Solomon Arlington, VA (aka Sydney Andrews) New York, NY • Serves on the National Gay and Denver, Colorado Lesbian Task Force and theTask Ken Thompson Hans Johnson •• Force Action Fund boards Los Angeles, CA Naomi Metz Seattle, WA Santa Rosa, CA •• Serves on the Task Force Lee Rubin • Action Fund board only Vince Wong Fort Lauderdale, FL Los Angeles, CA

Staff Academy for Lead- Communications Public Policy and Development Executive Office ership and Action Inga Sarda-Sorensen Government Affairs David Alexander Rea Carey Sarah E. Reece Director Stacey R. Long Acting Director Executive Director Director Director Kathy Plate Michael Bath Darlene Nipper Bex Ahuja Interactive Media Coordinator Brad Jacklin Events Director - Miami Deputy Executive Director Senior Field Organizer Project Director Pedro Julio Serrano Alex Breitman Russell Roybal Kathleen Campisano Communications Manager Lisa Mottet Marketing and Events Manager Deputy Executive Director of Faith Organizing Manager Transgender Civil Rights External Relations Jorge Taveras Project Director David Lohman Communications Coordinator Dave Cook Cliffie Bailey IWR and Faith Work Coordinator Patrick Paschall Development Coordinator Executive Assistant to Deputy Finance and Policy Counsel Executive Director Moof Mayeda Administration Anabel Evora Major Gifts Officer Senior Field Organizer Brian A. Johnson Laurie Young Aging and Economic Security Julie Childs Chief Financial Officer Executive Assistant to the Trina Olson Director Colin Lovell Database Administrator Executive Director Senior Training Manager Mike Lloyd Accounting Manager Policy Institute Adam Wexelbaum Renee Rathjen Jack Harrison-Quintana Lisa Mercado Executive Assistant to the Organizing Fellow Policy Institute Manager Special Events Coordinator Deputy Executive Director of Charles E. Matiella Senior Technology Manager External Relations Trystan Reese Erin Fitzgerald Mardi Moore Senior Field Organizer Vaid Research Fellow Associate Director Kayley Whalen Rick Mohn of Individual Giving Executive Office Board Liaison Senior Finance and Adminis- Barbara Satin trative Services Manager Creating Change IWR and Faith Work Associate Janice Thom Sue Hyde Director of Operations Barney Thomas Director for Development Rev. Rebecca Voelkel Finance Associate IWR and Faith Work Director Daniel Pino Sue Lee Troutman Conference and Meetings Director of Individual Giving Evangeline Weiss Manager Leadership Programs Director Dorrit Tulane Walsh Causten Wollerman Senior Marketing Manager Field Organizer

144 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 In Memoriam

Rev. Mark Bidwell Dr. Richard A. Isay Keith Griffith Tim Ribar January June September November Longtime pastor of the Detroit Gay psychiatrist, psychoanalyst Launched and developed Cruis- Photographer and a longtime Metropolitan Community Church and gay-rights advocate who ingForSex.com, a portal to help generous volunteer for both did not admit to himself that he men find each other Winter Party and the Miami Rec- Olga Vives was gay until he was 40; lead ognition Dinner, both produced March efforts to convince the American Elinor Grace Kirby Lewallen by the National Gay and Lesbian National Organization for Women Psychoanalytic Association to September Task Force Action Vice President 2001 – stop treating homosexuality as Parents, Families and Friends 2005; Plenary speaker at 2006 an illness of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Gustavo Archilla Creating Change Conference; National President; Denver November Lesbian mother, immigrant and Sandra Y. Battle Greene PFLAG activist and leader; win- Married Elmer Lokkins in Canada proud LGBT ally July ner Lifetime Peacemaker Award, in 2003 after almost six decades Eleven-year staffer at the Rocky Mountain Conference of of a quiet, committed and largely Alexis Rivera National Gay and Lesbian Task the United Methodist Church secret relationship; Inspired sup- March Force, steering the finance and porters of same-sex marriage Policy Advocate at Transgender administrative team; beloved Bettye Lane Law Center, working to amplify greeter of all at Creating Change September Rev. William Richard (Bill) voices of trans• people and to Conferences; friend and staunch Photojournalist of Stonewall Voelkel secure affordable trans• health ally to LGBT people; generous, Riots, the first Women’s Strike for December care in California kind, and caring colleague Equality, “the official photogra- Father of Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, pher for the women’s movement” father-in-law of Maggie George, Adrienne Rich Willis Edwards grandfather of Shannon MacK- March July Donald Suggs enzie Voelkel Poet, thinker, lesbian theorist and Openly gay, openly HIV-positive October mother, she dreamed and de- longtime president of the Beverly Senior editor at The Village Voice; Laura McPherson scribed “the creation of a society Hills/Hollywood (CA) branch of former associate director of the the NAACP; a key figure in the Semelsberger without domination” Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against December NAACP’s historic 2012 resolution Defamation; Grassroots Leader- to support marriage equality Mother of Julie Childs, mother-in- Bettie Naylor ship’s media consultant law of Sara Speargas, grand- April mother of Dayton Lobel Childs Lesbian lobbyist and Texas activ- Gore Vidal Vera Martin and Saunder Drew Childs ist; founding member National July October Women’s Political Caucus Iconoclastic and acerbic political Founder, Old Lesbians Organiz- critic, two-time candidate for Spencer Cox ing for Change (OLOC); fierce December D’Chanta Kimberly Bolden office, author of The City and civil rights activist for African- the Pillar (1948), among first Spokesman for ACT UP during April Americans, LGBT people and its zenith; member of Treatment Daughter of Cliffie Bailey and American novels to address all of us; plenary speaker 1999 homosexuality, and Myra Breck- & Data committee; later co- Gilbert Washington, sister of Creating Change Conference founded the Treatment Action Quentyn Patrick inridge (1968) which challenged and a perennial attendee of traditional gender norms Group; became a “citizen scien- Creating Change tist” about AIDS and HIV Maurice Sendak May Pete Fisher Lou Rispoli August Richard Adams Author and illustrator of Where October December the Wild Things Are and In the With his late partner Marc The heart and soul of the LGBT Rubin and comrades in the Gay One half of the first couple to Night Kitchen, among many community in Sunnyside, file a marriage equality lawsuit other children’s books Activists Alliance (GAA) militantly Queens New York challenged anti-gay bigotry in the against the federal government, early 1970s; Author of The Gay Adams v. Howerton, following Dudley Clendinen Christopher John Daigle their 1975 marriage by a Boulder Mystique October May CO city clerk; Adams petitioned Reporter, editor and co-author Former Chair of Louisiana to make his husband a perma- of Out for Good: The Struggle to Lena Sorensen Lesbian and Gay Political Action nent resident as a spouse of a Build a Gay Rights Movement in August Caucus (LAGPAC) U.S. citizen; the couple received America Founding Board Member, Fen- a letter from the Immigration and way Community Health; Lesbian William Brandon Lacy Naturalization Service on No- Activist; Health Care Innovator vember 24, 1975 that read, “You Gad Beck Campos June November have failed to establish that a Last known gay Jewish survivor Lew Todd Proudly queer and HIV-positive bona fide marital relationship can of the Holocaust; an anti-Nazi September activist, artist, writer and poet. exist between two faggots.” Zionist resistance fighter; at- Navy Veteran, Founding Member Wrote widely and fiercely about tempted to rescue his lover of Stonewall Democratic Club race, sexuality and living with Manfred Lewin from a deporta- and the Gay Activists Alliance HIV. Attended Creating Change tion center, but Lewin refused to Conferences from 1999 – 2012 leave his family, all of whom were deported to Auschwitz and were murdered there.

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