FRIDAY SESSIONS
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WORKSHOP SESSION 1
Friday, February 5 • 9:00AM –10:30AM
“When Under Your Wing Smells Like Under Your Armpit”:
A Youth Centered Guide To Navigating Ageism In Today’s Presenters: Ryan Kroening, MN; Anne Phibbs, Systemwide
Social Revolutions Director, GLBT Programs Office, University of Minnesota, Minne-
Youth • Fundamentals
This session will introduce participants to the concept and prac-
tical application of an equitable youth-adult partnership model.
Participants will be able to explore the need for and benefit of
these partnerships as it relates to today’s advocacy work involving
youth. Session participants will able to learn and discuss practical
applications of this model of partnership for today’s social and po-
litical movements and gain some useful tools overcome perceived
institutional barriers.
Presenters: Ernesto Dominguez
“Would Jesus Discriminate?”
Shifting the Discourse on Faith-Based Prejudice
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
In 2009, billboards in Dallas generated media and international
internet conversations. Rather than addressing the clobber pas-
sages from a defensive position, we will explore techniques used
to shift the discourse to impact the moveable middle. Participants
will practice tips for moving beyond personal reactions to advanc-
ing a positive, loving, thought-provoking message through media
or with individuals such that people will re-examine faith-based
prejudice. Participants will leave with tools to respond more ef-
fectively to faith-based prejudice.
Presenters: Rev. Colleen Darraugh, Would Jesus Discriminate?
Campaign / Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Dallas,
Dallas, TX
Advancing Equality for LGBT Elders
Aging • All Audiences
This workshop starts with an overview of America’s elders and
the key issues they face today, examines how these issues are
different for LGBT elders, and then delves into how we, as a com-
munity, can undertake political and community action to make a
difference. Attendees will break into working groups to discuss
actions they can take in their organization or community.
Presenters: Ineke Mushovic, Movement Advancement Project;
Catherine Thurston, SAGE
Ally Training
Campus • All Audiences
Ally Training aims to give participants the tools, resources, and
skills needed to be intentional allies to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender individuals and communities. Participants will discuss
GLBT and ally history and culture, myths and stereotypes, sys-
tems of gender and sexuality, heterosexual and gender conform-
ing privilege, strategies of being an ally, and ways in which we can
all confront GLBT oppression. This session is presented by the
Minnesota GLBTA Campus Alliance.
apolis, MN; Alfonso Wenker, PFUND Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Building Your Online Presence
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
This session gives an overview of the new media ecosystem that
we find ourselves in, and how organizations can make the best
use of new tools, reach out to new supporters, and move their
work forward. This is an introduction to how your organization or
your cause can benefit from using new media such as blogs and
social networks, and will cover an overview of online organizing
tools and strategies.
Presenters: Jerame Davis, The Bilerico Project, Indianapolis, IN;
Heather Cronk, New Organizing Institute, Washington, DC
Can You Believe It?
Three Tools for Reducing Drama in the Workplace
Organizational Development • Intermediate
Okay, so drama is not all it’s cracked up to be and sometimes,
we just want to get through the day unscathed. With so many
personalities and needs, how can we transform teamwork from a
haphazard free-for-all to more intentional practice where all voic-
es can be heard, decisions are made efficiently, and feedback is
actively sought out rather than avoided? Join us and learn three
concrete tools for breakthrough teamwork.
Presenters: Evangeline Weiss, OpenSource Leadership
Strategies, Durham, NC
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Class Matters
Racial Justice • Intermediate
Using Story Circles as a method for self exploration and dialogue,
we will consider how class differences can make organizing in the
LGBT community challenging. By addressing the issue of class
on an individual level and engaging in cross-class dialogue, par-
ticipants will be able to do their part to build stronger social justice
movements.
Presenters: Gabriel Atchison, College Park, MD
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Why We Need All
of It and How To Make Sure It Is LGBT-Inclusive
Immigration • All Audiences
Is the fight for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) important
to the LGBT community? Yes! CIR has to potential to directly im-
prove the lives of thousands of LGBT families and individuals in
many ways, from the undocumented to LGBT immigrant youth
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to mixed status families to transgender immigrants mistreated in
ICE detention. As a nation of immigrants, we are all affected by
how we ensure protections for everyone, regardless of genera-
tions in the country. However, ensuring LGBT binational families
and Uniting American Families Act are included in the immigra-
tion legislation currently under debate in the Congress will require
work by advocates all over the country. This interactive workshop
will familiarize activists with the importance of LGBT advocacy for
CIR, as well as equipping them with successful strategies for lob-
bying Congress, raising awareness, and building coalitions with
other immigration advocates.
Presenters: Ben de Guzman, Co-Director for Programs, National
Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC; Jesse
Garcia, President, LULAC 4871 - The Dallas Rainbow Council,
Dallas , TX; Julie Kruse, Immigration Equality, Thomas Saenz,
President, MALDEF
Creating Communities of Resistance/Change through
Innovative Sex Organizations and Businesses
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Innovative sex businesses are popping up all over. Cutting-edge
sex educators and retailers are changing the face, offerings and
quality of sex commerce. Come meet sex entrepreneurs and learn
about how sex-positive businesses are on the forefront of creating
resistance to right wing repression in their communities, and im-
portantly, are helping us embody a healthier, more vibrant sexuality.
Presenters: Tristan Taormino, Sex Educator, Author, Entrepre-
neur; I.G. Rivera, Sex Educator, Principal, Poly Patao Productions
Health as a Tool for Social Justice Organizing
Health • Intermediate
This interactive workshop will explore how good health and ac-
cess to high-quality healthcare that values and promotes our over-
all well-being are issues that cut across multiple diverse identities
and affect all members of the LGBT community. After discussing
some of the many facets of health and healthcare, participants
will brainstorm strategies for addressing health issues facing the
LGBT community by mobilizing the community around these is-
sues in pursuit of health equity and social justice.
Presenters: Kellan E. Baker, Policy Associate, National Coali-
tion for LGBT Health, Washington, DC; Rebecca Fox, Executive
Director, National Coalition for LGBT Health, Washington, DC
Immigration and Indigenous Borders
People of Color • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
Some immigration activists call for the dissolution of all national
borders. But what does this mean for current sovereignty strug-
gles of Indigenous nations? How do First Nation peoples who
have been colonized by immigrants and some who have had their
nations divided by colonial borders (e.g. US-Mexico) view the cur-
rent forces of imperialism that have created a global population of
migrant workers? Join us as we take a collective journey to iden-
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tify common ground that respects the intersection of our histories,
shared legacies and strategies in an effort to transcend borders
for an inclusive movement for liberation. This is an open session
for First Nations / Two Spirit / Indigenous folks & allies.
Presenters: Coya Artichoker, First Nations Collective,
Minneapolis, MN; Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Audre Lorde Project,
Brooklyn, NY; Paulina Hernandez, Co-Director, Southerners on
New Ground, New Market, TN; Melissa Hoskins, First Nations
Collective
Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101
People of Color • All Audiences
In the past ten years, the US Latino population has both grown,
as well as migrated to states that had not previously seen Latino
communities. This workshop is designed to help LGBT activists
and organizations begin and/or strengthen their Latino outreach
efforts. Let’s increase your capacity to both meet the needs of
LGBT Latinos, as well as, collaborate and build relationships with
your larger Latino communities. Note: Workshop not intended for
Latino/a LGBT activists.
Presenters: Francisco Dueñas, Proyecto Igualdad Coordinator,
Lambda Legal, Los Angeles, CA
No Retreat
Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences
Transgendered people have no place to retreat. Society literally
funnels them into the bottom of the prison system. The struggle
for transgendered equality is only beginning and the last great Civil
Rights struggle remaining to be fought in the Land of the Free.
Learn how to become involved in this struggle and ways that you
can be an effective ally to trans people in your community. Help to
create a nurturing society where we can all be healed and grow
and fulfill our potentials.
Presenters: Dani Williams, T.G.I.Justice Project, San Francisco, CA
Recruiting, Retention & Succession Planning;
Building Sustainable Leadership Teams
Organizational Development • All Audiences
This workshop will provide information and implementable tools
for attendees around the critical organizational areas of recruit-
ing, retention and succession planning. The session will feature a
panel of experts in a moderated discussion and allow attendees
to pose questions specific to their organizations and to share best
practices. Participants will gain exposure to market-leading think-
ing from the expert panel and engage in a robust exchange of
practical experience with their peers in the movement.
Presenters: Eliza Byard, Executive Director, GLSEN, New York,
NY; Kevin Chase, McCormack & Associates, Toluca Lake, CA;
Joe McCormack, McCormack & Associates, Toluca Lake, CA;
Gregg Passin, Principal Mercer Consulting, New York, NY
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Responding to Bias in Our Communities:
Strategies Adopted from A Guide to
Community Rapid Incident Response
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
LGBT communities are far too often the targets of hate- or bias-
motivated violence incidents. How can we, as activists and advo-
cates effectively develop responses to violence that bring healing,
justice, and public awareness? We will utilize tips and strategies
from A Guide to Community Rapid Incident Response developed
by the NYC Anti-Violence Project in coalition with NCAVP mem-
bers, while building upon the collective knowledge of participants.
This interactive workshop will empower and encourage activists
to take action against bias violence wherever it may occur.
Presenters: Maryse Mitchell-Brody, National Coalition of
Anti-Violence Programs/NYC AVP, New York, NY; Rebecca
Waggoner-Kloek , Minneapolis, MN
Supporting Local Schools and GSAs Through
Community/University/ School Partnerships
School Issues • All Audiences
This interactive workshop will present and explore ways in which
innovative collaborations between community organizations, col-
leges/universities and local schools can enhance the develop-
ment, effectiveness and sustainability of gay/straight alliances and
similar secondary school-based programs geared towards sup-
porting LGBTQA students. Facilitators will present on Philadel-
phia-based collaborations as a launching point for discussion but
the workshop will focus on strengthening participant’s programs
and ideas, by sharing programmatic objectives, challenges and
best practices. Youth are welcomed and encouraged.
Presenters: Allison Buehler, Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA;
Quincy Greene, Educational Justice Coalition, Philadelphia, PA;
Nina Harris, Penn LGBT Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Art of the Schmooze
Community Organizing • Fundamentals
Now that you’re at Creating Change how do you make the most
of it? Does it make sense to attend every activity and be the last
one to leave? Does handing out 1000 business cards really work?
What’s the best way to start a conversation? How do you end
conversations so you can keep circulating? Attend this interactive
workshop to learn tips and tricks to help you work a room, ap-
proach prospective donors and steward supporters. All skill levels
welcomed.
Presenters: Robbie Samuels, MSW, Somerville, MA
The Older Americans Act and Getting Your Money’s
Worth into Your Community
Fundraising • Advanced
As LGBT community organizations build capacity, finding resourc-
es to support those efforts is always a priority. This session will
offer insights into an often overlooked funding source for an often
overlooked part of our community: aging.
Presenters: Loree Cooke-Daniels, Transgender Aging Network;
Joyce Pierson, National Center for Lesbian Rights ; Catherine
Thurston, SAGE ; Laurie Young, The Task Force, Washington, DC
Uniting Communities
Community Organizing • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
The Uniting Communities Toolkit is a brand new manual for ad-
vancing LGBTQ issues within organizations of color. Built on work
done in Oregon, The Toolkit features workshops, case studies, as-
sessments, activities, and exercises that help organizations of color
look at the issues they work on thru an LGBTQ lens, shift organiza-
tional culture to be more inclusive of LGBTQ community members,
and work to become public allies to the LGBTQ community. This
session will help participants from LGBTQ organizations learn how
to use The Toolkit, best practices, and strategize with one another
about advancing racial justice and LGBTQ equality.
Presenters: Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Western States Center,
Portland, OR
WORKSHOP SESSION 2
Friday, February 5 • 10:45AM –12:15PM
A Debrief of LGBT Initiative Campaigns from 2009
Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns • All Audiences
Overall, 2009 marked a year of electoral progress for the LGBT
community. Four communities faced LGBT ballot initiatives on
a myriad of issues, from protecting LGBT people from job and
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housing discrimination in Gainesville, Florida and Kalamazoo,
Michigan, to upholding domestic partnership rights in Washington
state, to protecting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples
in Maine. Of these measures, the LGBT community won three, in
Gainesville, Kalamazoo, and Washington State. These victories,
however, were tempered by the community’s disappointing loss in
Maine, where the passage of Question 1 repealed the state’s law
extending marriage equality to same-sex couples. As the LGBT
community prepares to organize against additional initiative at-
tacks in 2010 and beyond, what lessons can we glean from these
campaigns? LGBT leaders from Maine, Washington, and Kalama-
zoo will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their respective
campaigns to offer lessons for the community.
Presenters: Joshua Friedes, Advocacy Director, Equal Rights
Washington, WA; Daniel Hawes, Director, Academy for Leader-
ship and Action, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Wash-
ington, DC; Jon Hoadley, Campaign Manager, One Kalamazoo;
Betsy Smith, Executive Director, Equality Maine, Portland, ME
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Creating Transgender-Inclusive College
Policies and Practices
Campus • All Audiences
This program will discuss strategies for adding “gender identity/
expression” to campus nondiscrimination policies and the effects
of this change. Using efforts to create trans-inclusive nondiscrimi-
nation policies at Texas colleges as a case study, the session will
give participants the opportunity to discuss strategies, challenges,
starting points, and other aspects of advancing change in a re-
sistant institutional system. We will conclude by presenting the
findings of the first large-scale study of the extent to which cam-
pus transgender-inclusive policies have led to other transgender-
supportive policy changes, such as providing gender-neutral fa-
cilities, health insurance coverage for transitioning students, and
transgender-related programming.
Presenters: Genny Janiczek Beemyn, Director, Stonewall Center,
Amherst, MA; Katy Stewart, Aggie Allies, Bryan, TX; Josephine
Tittsworth, Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit, TX
HIV As We Grow Older: Policy Needs
AIDS/HIV • All Audiences
This presentation will offer a multi-disciplinary review of HIV in old-
er adults. Research findings and health information will provide the
foundation for the deeper discussion: how current HIV policy does
and does not address the greying of the HIV epidemic. A review of
a recent strategy session held in DC with policy makers and activ-
ists in the aging field and in the HIV fields will be presented, and a
discussion will follow.
Presenters: Jim Campbell, National Association on HIV Over
Fifty, Boston, MA; Ernest Hopkins, Director of Federal Affairs,
San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Nathan
Schaefer, GMHC, New York, NY; Dan Tietz, Executive Director,
ACRIA , New York, NY
How To Get What We Want: Understanding and Utilizing
the U.S. Education System to Create Safer Schools
School Issues • All Audiences
Want to combat anti-LGBT bias in schools? Frustrated with
schools’ lack of commitment to these issues? This interactive
workshop will help you understand the mindset of those working
in schools and shaping education policy (e.g., teachers, princi-
pals, politicians). Become familiar with their concerns and learn
how to speak their language. Practice using this information suc-
cessfully and take away new skills and resources.
Presenters: Shawn Gaylord, Director of Public Policy, GLSEN,
Washington, DC; Ellen Greytak, GLSEN, New York , NY
Immigration and Indigenous Borders (Continued)
People of Color • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
Integrating New Media Into Your Organizing Strategy
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
This session walks through how to assess all the tools at your
disposal and ensure that your supporters understand a compre-
hensive and inclusive narrative arc, while moving you closer to
accomplishing your organizational goals. This workshop will cover
ways to maintain your tried and true communication streams,
while also adding in tested new media components that will bol-
ster your overall organizing strategy.
Presenters: Waymon Hudson, The Bilerico Project, Ft. Lauder-
dale, FL; Jenna Lowenstein, Feministing, New York, NY
LGBT Oral History Workshop
Campus • All Audiences
This hands-on workshop will introduce the techniques of oral
history as a grassroots, inter-generational way of preserving the
LGBT past. The workshop will cover the nuts and bolts of inter-
viewing, a quick overview of oral history ethics and methods, and
some considerations when talking about sex and sexual identi-
ties. Participants will explore the uses of oral history and will come
away with practical tools for launching an oral history project.
Presenters: Kelly Anderson, Smith College, MA
Love Won Out: The Marketing, Messaging and
Manipulation Inside the Million-Dollar Machine
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
Love Won Out, the traveling ex-gay roadshow of Exodus Inter-
national and Focus on the Family, draws thousands of people
to its conferences across the country. Attendees are plied with
promises of how to be good Christians and love your LGBT family
member. However, their methods are anything but about family
values. Learn from those who have attended the conference how
LWO is expanding its work, constantly modifying its messages
and what to do when they come to your community.
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Presenters: Elizabeth Fregiato, PFLAG National, Washington,
DC; Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National / Straight for Equality,
Washington, DC
Making Strides Even In A Less
Than Welcoming Environment
Community Organizing • All Audiences
This workshop will give attendees insight on how to make prog-
ress towards full equality even in a less than welcoming envi-
ronment. This will be done by sharing real life experiences from
current and past community leaders. Whether the effort is fully
successful or not, progress can always be made if approached
correctly with the right plan, execution and outlook. Participants
will leave understanding that even though the challenges can be
great, the rewards are even greater.
Presenters: Erin Moore, Stonewall Democrats, Dallas, TX
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National Reporting and Data-Driven Advocacy:
Ending Anti-LGBT Violence By the Numbers
Research and Policy • Intermediate
Participants will learn how to craft broad-range, data-based advo-
cacy messages on anti-LGBT hate violence and Intimate Partner
Violence. They will be guided through ways that these messages
can and have been used in organizing community responses to
violence, media campaigns, Legislative Awareness Days, fund-
ing proposals, and policy papers and then encouraged to partner
with other workshop participants with similar interests to strat-
egize ways to create their own initiatives using these data driven
advocacy tools.
Presenters: Kim Fountain, Director of Community Organizing
and Public Advocacy, NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Proj-
ect, New York, NY; Maryse Mitchell-Brody, National Coalition of
Anti-Violence Programs/NYC AVP, New York, NY; Roberta Sklar,
Roberta Sklar Communications, New York, NY; Terry Slavin,
Lead Staff Attorney Legal Services, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center,
Los Angeles, CA
Numbers Matter: The Importance of the Census for
LGBT Americans in 2010 and Beyond
Research and Policy • All Audiences
In July of 2009, after months of lobbying by LGBT groups, the
Census Bureau announced that it would begin counting same-sex
married couples for the first time. Join experts from the Task Force
Policy Institute, UCLA’s Williams Institute, and the U.S. Census Bu-
reau for a panel discussion on what the census tells us about our
communities, the impacts of this policy change, and plans to advo-
cate for increased LGBT inclusion in future censuses and surveys.
Presenters: Gary Gates, Senior Research Fellow, The Williams
Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA; Jaime M.
Grant, Director of the Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, Washington, DC; Tim Olson, U.S. Census Bureau,
Washington, DC
Serving low-income LGBT people:
Challenges and Strategies for Success
Racial Justice • All Audiences
People of color and low-income people who are LGBT have been
underserved by both LGBT organizations and organizations pro-
viding services to low-income people. Increasingly, LGBT orga-
nizations and legal services organizations are creating specific
projects to meet the needs of LGBT people who are low-income
and of color. This workshop will address the legal services needs
of low-income LGBT individuals by examining current models and
how LGBT and service organizations can collaborate effectively.
Presenters: Natalie Chin, Lambda Legal, New York, NY; Lisa
Cisneros, Student, Brown University, Providence, RI; Cathy Sa-
kimura, Equal Justice Works Fellow, National Center for Lesbian
Rights, San Francisco, CA; Terry Slavin, Lead Staff Attorney
Legal Services, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA
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Telling: Dan Choi and Knights Out
Lieutenant Dan Choi and other founding Board members of
Knights Out will review messaging and media strategies of their
work to allow gays, lesbians and bisexuals to serve openly in the
military. LGBT West Point grads and their allies formed Knights
Out in March, 2009, and gained attention when Dan Choi came
out on The Rachel Maddow Show. Since then, Knights Out mem-
bers have spoken their truth across the country: that “DADT” vio-
lates their honor, disrupts unit cohesion, and is bad for the Army.
We will discuss: why military service is a “tip of the spear” issue;
changing the conversation: don’t let your opponents define the
terms of the debate; going one-on-one with opponents like Elaine
Donnelly; and after DADT: Why coming out in the military will still
be an issue, and what we can do about it.
Presenters: Dan Choi, West Point ’03, Spokesperson, Knights
Out; Sue Fulton, West Point ’80, Communications Director, Knights
Out; Dan Manning, West Point ’04, Board Member, Knights Out
The Greening of LGBT Business and Travel:
Voluntourism with Sweet
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
Sweet, an eco friendly travel company for lesbians, discusses
how LGBT business owners, trend-setters, and community lead-
ers can help their companies and organizations make a difference
while still making a dollar. Discussion will include topics like niche
marketing, website promotions and pr, green business principles,
carbon offsetting, and voluntourism, or volunteer travel.
Presenters: Shannon Wentworth, SWEET, Emeryville, CA
Theater for Social Change:
Tell Your Story Change Your World
Art & Culture • Fundamentals
Basic theater skills can help make speakers more confident, mes-
sages more artful, and audiences more emotionally connected to
your work. In this interactive workshop participants will learn ba-
sic LGBTQ activist performance principles to apply to their activ-
ism work. Participants will learn to use theater exercises, writing
prompts and group discussion to explore personal stories and
how they can inspire constructive community dialogue.
Presenters: Logan Ferrero, Boston, MA; Evelyn Francis, The
Theater Offensive, Cambridge, MA
Trailblazing for Transgender Health
Health • Intermediate
Ensuring good health care for transgender people takes engaged
community members, health care providers, allies, and advo-
cates. Through Project HEALTH: Harnessing Education, Advo-
cacy, and Leadership in Transgender Healthcare, Lyon-Martin
Health Services, Transgender Law Center and Equality California
are embarking on an innovative program to expand access to
healthcare. Come learn how to bridge gaps between community
and providers, engage people in advocacy efforts, support clinics,
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and educate providers.
Presenters: Daniel Gould, Equality California, Los Angeles,
CA; Kara Nostrand, San Francisco , CA; Kristina Wertz, San
Francisco, CA
Victim Advocacy with LGBTQ Clients –
Working Across Systems Across Time
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • Intermediate
This highly interactive workshop will provide a broader understand-
ing of the social barriers that may affect how LGBTQ victims of
violence respond to traumatic events such as hate crimes, domes-
tic violence, sexual assault or harassment. In this workshop we
will address how these types of events affect LGBTQ individuals
or communities considering past experiences of marginalization,
discrimination or underrepresentation. Participants will learn from
real life based scenarios and will be encouraged to share their own.
Presenters: Amanda Escamilla, Fenway Health, Boston, MA
What Your Parents Never Taught You About Sex
Youth • All Audiences
This session will discuss safe sex practices in today’s society, social
responsibilities, as well as HIV/AIDS and STD training. We will identify
the communities and demographics that are the most at risk and
how to promote responsible sex practices in local communities.
Presenters: Ernesto Dominguez; Andrew Striker
WORKSHOP SESSION 3
Friday, February 5 • 3:00PM –4:30PM
A Dialog with Youth:
Talking About Sex and Sexual Freedom
Youth • Fundamentals
This thought provoking and important workshop will create a
space for youth to address how sexual freedom issues, both their
own sexuality and broader public issues, impact LGBTQI youth.
We will completely shift the adult/youth power dynamic for this
youth-led academy where LGBTQI youth activists (ages 22 and
younger) will discuss the importance of including youth in the dia-
logue of LGBTQI issues in order to effectively address the issues
that are most important to them.
Presenters: Jeannie Beeson, National Youth Advocacy
Coalition, Washington DC; Greg Varnum, National Youth
Advocacy Coalition, Washington, DC
Beyond the Meth Monster:
Queer Strategies for Ending the War on Drugs
Health • All Audiences
From Prohibition to the present day, the war on drugs has adversely
impacted the LGBT community through the policing and raiding of
queer spaces, resulting in disproportionate arrests for drug offens-
es. And yet, current organizing being done on the impact criminal-
ization of drugs has on poor and working class queer communities,
especially queers of color, is largely invisible (often the only reference
to queers and the war on drugs is to meth use among white gay
men). This roundtable will feature an intergenerational dialogue from
experienced queer organizers from the Stonewall Era to the pres-
ent, about their work organizing against repressive drug policies in
poor and low-income queer communities, past and present.
Presenters: Miss Major, Advisory Board Member, TGI Justice
Project, San Lorenzo, CA; Gabriel Sayegh, Director, State
Organizing and Policy Project, Drug Policy Alliance, New York,
NY; Laura Thomas, San Francisco Drug Policy Alliance , San
Francisco, CA; Jay Toole, Queers for Economic Justice, NY
Building Anti-Racist Campus Alliances
Campus • Intermediate
Integrating racial justice work into all campus organizing and
social justice activism is crucial to creating change. Not only do
LGBT campus activists need to build coalitions with students do-
ing racial justice work, we need to integrate it into existing work.
This workshop will allow participants to share strategies and ap-
proaches to building an anti-racist movement as well as challenge
us to think about how these approaches manifest in our own lives.
Presenters: Sheri Atkinson, Director, LGBT Resource Center,
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Monroe France, NYU,
Office of LGBT Student Services, New York, NY
From Access to Inclusion to Justice:
An Introduction to Disability Justice and Anti-Ableism
Disability • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
Join multi-issue disability activists for a lively roundtable dialogue
about disability justice and anti-ableism work, followed by small
group discussion. Why is it important to talk about ableism (dis-
ability-based oppression) in our movements as LGBT/Queer ac-
tivists? How does disability need to be integrated into a larger
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vision of liberation? What and who do we lose when disability jus-
tice isn’t part of progressive multi-issue political agendas. Come
ready to engage with these questions and more.
Presenters: Sebastian Margaret, Community Activist; Mia
Mingus, New Voices Fellow, Georgians for Choice, Atlanta, GA
Going back to the beginning, Aprendiendo del pasado
People of Color • All Audiences
This workshop will explore our history as leaders within a Latino
context and the different ways in which we have held leadership
over time. We will use that exploration to enhance our listening,
leadership and consensus building skills as we discover new
forms of leadership which speak to a truth in accountability and
transparency. This will be a bilingual workshop.
Presenters: Jorge Cestou, Chicago, IL; Gabriel Gonzalez,
Omaha, NE; Cristina Martinez, Pearland, TX; Lisbeth Melendez
Rivera, Principal, Intersections Consulting, Washington, DC
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Homophobia in the Black Church
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
Many of our brothers and sisters are suffering from the destructive ho-
mophobia that afflicts society at large as well as the African American
community. Too often, gay people within our own communities are
treated without respect. Too often our churches are a source of and
not a refuge from the intolerance and discrimination they experience in
the world. Homophobia makes our churches fertile ground for those
who seek to set us against one another, who seek to promote discrimi-
nation and unequal treatment in pursuit of their own political power. It is
time that we Speak Until Justice Comes and lift up a gospel of home
and love for one another. It is time for us to challenge discrimination
that harms our brothers and sisters, our families, and our communities.
LGBT Youth and Federal Policy Issues
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
This workshop will provide an overview of the many federal policy
issues currently affecting LGBT youth. Panelists will briefly discuss
the policy issues affecting LGBT youth including safe schools,
comprehensive sexuality education, housing, and federal data
collection. Participants will then develop and share effective advo-
cacy messages and actions related to these issues.
Presenters: Rebecca Fox, Executive Director, National Coali-
tion for LGBT Health, Washington, DC; Sean Gaylord , Director
of Public Policy, GLSEN, Washington, DC; Donald Hitchcock,
Director of Public Policy, Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC
Making music, building the future
Art & Culture • All Audiences
Imagine a world where music makes everyone equal. Two of the
country’s leading Choruses work with youth to build community and
challenge homophobia. Here’s your chance to see - and hear - how.
Presenters: Dominic Gregorio, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Jonathan Palant, Artistic Director,
Turtle Creek Chorale, Dallas, TX; Hywel Sims, Gay Men’s Chorus
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles , CA
Mending Covenants: Strategizing for Transgender
Equality in Faith Communities
Faith & Spirituality • Intermediate
Although the lunacy of the Westboro Baptist Church catches the
media’s attention, the more sober forms of the religious right’s anti-
LGBT and anti-progressive activism have much more long-term
influence in society and the law. This workshop opens up conver-
sations for LGBT activists in faith communities, with a focus on the
question of the role of faith and faith communities in the transgender
movement. The workshop will review important developments in
law, public policy, the media, and demography, and major changes
in denominational policies, doctrines and theologies. We will then
open up to conversations about developing a long-term national
strategy for transgender faith activism. This is the first of a series of
national strategic movement-building discussions.
Presenters: Mycroft Holmes, Interfaith Coalition for Transgender
Equality and ,Boston MA ; Richard Juang, Cambridge, MA; Chris
Paige ; Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, IWR and Faith Work Director,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Minneapolis, MN
Mobilizing Catholic Support for LGBTQ Equality
Faith & Spirituality • Intermediate
Catholics represent the largest religion denomination, and the
highest proportion of religious voters in the US. While Catholic
Church officials lead the fight to maintain discrimination, the ma-
jority of Catholics “in the pews” support equality for our commu-
nity. This session will focus on how to identify and connect with
pro-LGBTQ Catholics, and on the messages found to be most
persuasive to them.
Presenters: Marianne Duddy, Executive Director, DignityUSA,
Washington, DC
Sexual Liberation as a Framework for Change
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
LGBT people have had to cross treacherous terrain in order to find
and claim our desires, and this valuable force remains a razor-sharp
reminder, deep within our hearts, of who we really are-and of ev-
erything we truly can be. We have been shaped, deformed and lib-
erated by the sexuality we have dared to claim. Because of that
journey, we know that sex and desire are political. Liberation move-
ments in our country often suppress or fail to understand the power
this political fact exerts on shaping our worldviews, our definitions of
oppression and freedom, our sense of what is possible. Leftist, femi-
nist, labor, civil rights and transnational freedom movements all suffer
from lacking an integrated view of sexuality as essential to a vision
for liberation. Sadly, fighting right wing backlash at the ballot-box has
had the same effect on the LGBT movement. Which brings us to the
question of the day: are we still a movement for sexual liberation?
Presenters: Amber Hollibaugh, Chief Officer of Elder and LBTI
Women’s Services, Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago, IL;
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John D’Emilio, Historian and Professor of Gender Studies,
University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kenyon Farrow,
Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice, New York;
Debanuj DasGupta; Jaime Grant, Director, Policy Institute,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC
Skills for Surviving Anti-LGBT Politics
Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns • All Audiences
This workshop offers concrete information for surviving anti-gay
politics, such as the current nationwide battle over same-sex mar-
riage. It will help you make sense of the psychological toll of such
campaigns. Information from this workshop has helped people
who have been impacted by anti-gay rhetoric, and it offers others
new skills to protect themselves in the face of current or future
campaigns. Not only can we survive these campaigns, we can
use them to become stronger as people and as activists.
Presenters: Glenda Russell, Louisville, CO
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Story-Telling for Social Change:
Gathering LGBTQ Personal Stories
Movement Building • All Audiences
Why is telling your personal story so important and so challeng-
ing? The stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
lives reveal histories untold and discrimination overlooked. Our
community needs to tell these stories and our society needs to
hear them. Your story is critical to advancing our movement. Yet,
story collection is a challenge faced throughout the LGBT move-
ment. The purpose of this workshop is to attain the skills to collect
and tell our personal stories. We will focus especially on stories of
healthcare denied based on family configuration and experiences
of hate violence. This participatory workshop will guide partici-
pants through story collection methods to hands on storytelling
and gathering within the workshop. It will also provide guides for
story dissemination.
Presenters: Roberta Sklar, Roberta Sklar Communications,
New York, NY
Strengthening the Connection:
Racial Justice and LGBT Rights
Research and Policy • All Audiences
This workshop will focus on the current and potential role of the
racial justice movement in supporting LGBT rights and constituen-
cies, work already underway across the country. The Applied Re-
search Center will lead a discussion about how L/G/B/T constituen-
cies and issues are positioned in today’s racial justice movement.
We will present early findings from our national study, funded by the
Arcus Foundation, of racial justice organizations and leaders and
welcome feedback to strategize around the findings.
Presenters: Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Director, Racial Justice &
Gender Justice Program, Western States Center, Portland, OR;
Rinku Sen, Executive Director, Applied Research Center, New
York, NY
Taking the Mystery out of Nonprofit Marketing:
Use Your Mission, Build Your Brand, Achieve Your Goals
Communications, Media and Messaging • 3 Hour Session
• All Audiences
When an organization’s mission drives its communication, the
messages become clear and passionate, empowering clients, vol-
unteers, donors and staff. This workshop will help not-for-profits
raise public awareness, engage supporters, use resources more
efficiently and grow through periods of diminished resources. This
three-hour workshop will introduce the mission-ing system foun-
dations (research, positioning, strategy development, messaging,
communications planning, evaluation and fiscal management).
Then, participants will work in teams to solve real-life problems.
Presenters: Stephanie Blackwood, Double Platinum, New York,
NY; Arthur Korant, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Double
Platinum
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That’s so gay! School-based interventions and
classroom homophobia
School Issues • Intermediate
This workshop assists teachers, students, and service providers
(working in schools) in creating educational strategies that chal-
lenge anti-LGBT attitudes in classrooms. Participants will review
campus climate results from a large urban school district, research
on teachers’ attitudes on LGBT-inclusive instruction, and discuss
the creation of pragmatic and applicable educational strategies
that may lead to improved school climate. Participants will leave
with knowledge and tools to address these issues in their teach-
ing and engagement of students.
Presenters: Erik Martinez, San Francisco LGBT Community
Center, San Francisco, CA; Roberto Ordenaña, Director of Com-
munity Programs, San Francisco LGBT Community Center, San
Francisco, CA
The SAGE Model:
What Is It, Why Use It, and How to Start an Affiliate
Aging • Fundamentals
As older activists look for places in our community that include
them, the SAGE model is often the answer. This workshop will
describe how SAGE affiliates are created, provide examples of the
advocacy and services different SAGE affiliates offer, and outline
methods for advocates and organizations to work together to cre-
ate inclusive spaces for older LGBT people.
Presenters: Rick Brennan, Sherrill Wayland, Tom Weber, all from
SAGE
We’re here! We’re queer! We eat paneer!
Mapping LGBTQ AAPI Organizing for Social Change
People of Color • All Audiences
Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Island-
er (AAPI) LGBTQs are organizing like never before. This workshop
will give an overview of the nation’s LGBTQ AAPI groups, and
will provide comparative information about their infrastructure, ca-
pacity, and challenges. Presenters will showcase local multilingual
education campaigns to counter anti-gay bias and organizing
campaigns for immigrants’ rights and marriage equality. Repre-
sentatives of some of the nation’s leading LGBTQ AAPI organiza-
tions will provide current information and on-the-ground analysis
of their work.
Presenters: Joyce Gabiola, Queer & Asian, Houston, TX; Alice
Hom, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Los An-
geles, CA; Glenn D. Magpantay, Co-Chair, Gay Asian and Pacific
Islander Men of NY (GAPIMNY), New York, NY; Tawal Panya-
cosit, Director, API Equality
What To Say When We Get There
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
President Obama can’t singlehandedly deliver the equality mea-
sures that we demand and a call for action has been made for us
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to begin lobbying elected members of Congress. But what do we
say when we get to their office or get them on the phone? Faith
In America will present a 90-minute workshop on best- messag-
ing to elected officials who may feel a pro-equality vote will have
negative consequences with their religious-minded constituents.
This is messaging we can give to the parents, community lead-
ers, clergy and everyday Americans who are making calls on our
behalf.
Presenters: Mitchell Gold, Faith In America, Hudson, NC
WORKSHOP SESSION 4
Friday, February 5 • 4:45PM –6:15PM
“Elders Speak,” GRIOT still the only LGBT Elders of Color
organization, why?
People of Color • All Audiences
The power point presentation was taken over a five year period of
over 451 elders of color in New York City. GRIOT looked at health,
income, family, housing and isolation.
Presenters: Glen Michael, Executive Director, GRIOT Circle,
Brooklyn, NY
A Dialog with Youth: Talking About Sex and
Sexual Freedom (continued)
Youth • Fundamentals
Advanced Movement Building through
Lifelong Sexuality Education
Movement Building • Intermediate
This workshop is for advanced activists and educators who wish
to explore and develop radical sexuality education programs de-
signed to further LGBT social justice movements by promoting
lifelong healthy sexuality and well being including desire, pleasure,
and sexual happiness (sexual literacy). This is an interactive expe-
riential workshop and will focus on developing concrete and prag-
matic strategies for implementing progressive sexuality education
programs. Prior knowledge of needs assessments, program de-
velopment, implementation, and evaluation is required.
Presenters: Christopher White, Director of Education and Train-
ing, San Francisco State University– NSRC, San Francisco, CA
Building Coalition: Strategies for Success
Campus • All Audiences
Historically, coalitions have been powerful in the struggle for so-
cial change. This interactive workshop examines the historical and
current issues surrounding coalition building, as well as barriers
and opportunities when developing coalitions. Attendees will have
the opportunity to examine their own identities and discuss how
social identities intersect and play a significant role when building
coalitions around LGBT issues. Attendees will leave with practical
knowledge and strategies on coalition building.
Presenters: Laura Burrow, Southwestern University; Mary
Gonzalez, Austin, TX; Christopher Ray, Southwestern University;
Kamna Tripathi, Southwestern University
Change we can believe in? LGBT equality and
HIV/AIDS policy under the Obama administration
AIDS/HIV • Intermediate
This workshop will provide an update about developments in fed-
eral lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and HIV policy
under the Obama administration. Participants will discuss the sta-
tus of key policy issues including a national HIV/AIDS strategy,
defunding abstinence only programs, the HIV entry ban, employ-
ment nondiscrimination, and family recognition.
Presenters: Randall Ellis, Houston, TX; Ronald Johnson, AIDS
Action Council , Washington, DC; Lyndel Urbano, Gay Men’s
Health Crisis (GMHC), New York, NY
From Access to Inclusion to Justice: An Introduction to
Disability Justice and Anti-Ableism (Continued)
Disability • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
How Homophobia Affects Straight People...
and the REST OF US
Gender Issues • Fundamentals
Homophobia is often understood as an irrational fear of homosex-
uals, however when changing this definition to an irrational fear of
intimate same-sex relationships, we discover a whole new realm
of social dimensions of which to explore. What we find uncovers
many ways in which homophobia affects our whole world and can
address a plethora of issues from the marriage debate, to the lack
of young men entering college, to the way in which fathers and
sons interact. Join us as we explore the ways that homophobia
has shaped our society and what we can do to overcome this ir-
rational fear that has oppressed our LGBT community.
Presenters: Ryan Ubuntu Olson, Center for Artistic Revolution,
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Little Rock, AR
How Straight Spouses of LGBT Partners Become Allies:
How YOU Can Help
Movement Building • Intermediate
How do straight spouses, whose husbands or wives come
out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, move from shock
and anger to become allies fighting for equality? Amity Buxton,
Straight Spouse Network founder, describes the process with
personal stories in text and film told by diverse spouses who
became social justice advocates. Participants will devise and
practice ways to help spouses become allies and design local
advocacy projects they and straight spouses could achieve
together.
Presenters: Amity P. Buxton, Founder, Straight Spouse
Network, Oakland, CA
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How to Become Gay for Pay- Inroads to a Queer Career
Movement Building • All Audiences
Whether you’re a young person just beginning your career, or a
working professional looking to shift your work to a new arena, if
you’ve ever contemplated a career in the LGBT movement this
workshop is for you! Through practical information and tips as well
as personal stories of how some of us working in the movement
now have gotten here, we’ll help you to recognize your options,
decide whether a “queer career” is right for you, and begin to
develop a personal action plan for reaching your goals. Bring your
questions and your resumes!
Presenters: Somjen Frazer, The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, New York, NY; Alex Kent, SAGE: Services & Advocacy
for GLBT Elders , NY; Clarence Patton, Executive Director, The
Pipeline Project; Terry Stone, Executive Director, CenterLink,
Washington, DC
Intersex Workshop
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which
a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t
fit the typical definitions of female or male. This will be an informa-
tional/educational workshop about intersex, including: a brief his-
tory of intersex and the medicalization of intersex bodies, and the
issues with current standards of treatment and care for intersex
individuals.
Presenters: Gina DeVries
Keeping the Peace: Conflict Mediation Training
Community Organizing • All Audiences
This workshop will focus on providing participants with the neces-
sary tools for basic conflict mediation. Attendees will have the op-
portunity to improve their conflict mediation skills through a series
of activities modeling situations that may be encountered in daily
life. This workshop will help attendees become more familiar with
the process of conflict mediation and how it relates to community
organizing. Participants will leave with skills instrumental in sus-
taining community and working towards social justice.
Presenters: Siche Greene-Mitchell, Women’s Center, Eugene,
OR; Erin McGladrey, Women’s Center, Eugene , OR; Arielle Reid,
Women’s Center, Eugene, OR; Tiffany Wong, Youth Leader,
Rainbow Revolutionaries Youth Group, Honolulu, HI
Lessons on Inclusion from the Pipeline Project:
A Panel Discussion on Work Being Done,
Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Organizational Development • Intermediate
This workshop will present a panel discussion on racial diversity
and inclusion work happening through Pipeline Project program-
ming. With Community Center recipients of our Organizational/
Environmental Change curriculum participating in a panel discus-
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sion of this ground-breaking work, attendees will learn some best
practices and strategies around racial diversity and inclusion now
being developed and applied within our Movement.
Presenters: Sue Doerfer, Executive Director, Equality Ohio,
Cleveland, OH; Valarie Larabee, Utah Pride Center, UT; Clarence
Patton, Executive Director, The Pipeline Project; Guido Sanchez,
National Manager of Membership and Development, CenterLink
Reaching Out to the Blogosphere
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
Blogs can be powerful engines of information sharing and places
of substantive conversation, but only when people actively engage
with you and your blog. This workshop focuses on the culture(s) of
the blogosphere and gives concrete strategies for engaging blog-
gers in your work, whether you’re an organizational staff person
or an individual activist.
Presenters: Bil Browning, The Bilerico Project, Indianapolis, IN;
Mike Rogers, Page One Q, Washington, DC; Michael Crawford,
The Bilerico Project, Washington, DC; Jenna Lowenstein, Femi-
nisting, Washington, DC
Standing on the Side of Love
Faith & Spirituality • Intermediate
Standing on the Side of Love is a grassroots public advocacy
campaign, designed to help local communities respond to in-
cidents of violence, oppression, and exclusion. GLBT activists
can use the campaign to build coalitions with other communities
which are oppressed, excluded, or violated. While primarily de-
signed for people of faith anyone may use the campaign’s tools,
found at standingonthesideoflove.org. This workshop will explore
how to do this work most successfully.
Presenters: Meg Riley, Director, UUA, Boston, MA
State of the queer movement through the
historic lens of other social movements
Movement Building • Intermediate
This workshop will help attendees examine their activism through
the historic lens of other social movements, and help to contex-
tualize the queer movement on the continuum of a rights only
based approach to equality. The workshop will offer participants
an opportunity to explore alternative models for achieving equal-
ity through culture change versus strictly legal political change.
Participants will engage in a dialogue that will help to inform their
current activism and grassroots organizing efforts.
Presenters: Julie Davis, Face Value, SF, CA; Anne Marks,
Face Value, SF, CA; Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Taking the Mystery out of Nonprofit Marketing: Use Your
Mission, Build Your Brand, Achieve Your Goals (Continued)
Communications, Media and Messaging • 3 Hour Session
• All Audiences
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The Race for Equality Includes YOU!
Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns • Intermediate
This session is meant to raise awareness and increase excitement
about the opportunities and challenges of running as an openly
GLBT candidate for every level of elected and appointed office.
We will set a framework for asking important questions as you
decide whether or not running for office is right for you.
Presenters: James Dozier, Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund,
Washington, DC; Shawn Werner, Field Director, Gay and Lesbian
Victory Fund and Leadership Institute, Washington, DC
Trans Youth & Safe Schools: Advocacy & Policy
School Issues • All Audiences
Through fun, immersive, and engaging exercises this work-
shop will help participants to identify the key barriers and chal-
lenges that transgender and gender non-conforming youth face
in schools. We will discuss administrative, physical, and mental
health aspects of transitioning in schools. We will then shift our
attention to examining some model policies and finding innovative
advocacy and policy solutions to meet those challenges head on.
Participants will leave with a solid game plan for helping transgen-
der and gender non-conforming youth in schools.
Presenters: Danielle Askini, GSA Network, San Francisco, CA;
T. Aaron Hans, Consultant/Activist, RISE Consulting, Marina, CA;
DJ O’Donoghue, Steering Committee Member, MA Transgender
Political Coalition , Boston, MA
Working Effectively with Partisan Organizations
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • Advanced
Employment non-discrimination, hate crimes, marriage, school
bullying, etc. Across the nation, we’re working on many equality-
based issues and that sometimes means we need to work with
local and state parties as well as the LGBT partisan organizations,
whether they be at the local, state or national level. This brings to-
gether members of the Stonewall Democrats and Log Cabin Re-
publicans to discuss how nonpartisan and partisan groups may
strategically join forces.
Presenters: Kyle Bailey, GLBT Caucus Vice-Chair, Young Demo-
crats of America, Atlanta, GA; Kris Banks, Houston Gay Political
Caucus; Christian Berle, Log Cabin Republicans ; Ted Jackson
CAUCUS 1
Friday, February 5 • 6:30PM –7:30PM
40 Years After Stonewall - A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Activist Timeline
Community Organizing
This caucus will feature speakers from the early LGBT Rights
Movement in America. They will talk about what things were like
then and how they feel things have progressed. Sharing and
questions from the audience encouraged.
Breast Cancer Impacts on the LGBT Community
Health
Lesbian, gay, bisexual women and transgender people have a
greater risk of breast cancer than other women. This interactive
workshop will dispel the myths around breast cancer and sexual
orientation while raising awareness and providing practical ways
participants can mobilize and advocate for equal access to care
and treatment for all.
Presenters: Philip Deitch, Susan G. Komen for the Cure LGBT
National Advisory Council, Dallas, TX
Building Community Beyond the Binary
Transgender Community & Issues
This caucus will explore ways to build community for those who
live between and outside the boxes marked male and female.
Themes will be exploration of gender-neutral language: what’s
out there, what’s missing and how do encourage its use; and
looking at what community looks like for us currently and what
our hopes are for community in the future. Participants will share
their knowledge, make connections with others, and leave with
hope for a stronger community.
Presenters: Shane Whalley, Austin, TX
Caucus for State and/or Local Transgender Advocacy,
Legal, and/or Political Organizations/Activists
Transgender Community & Issues
This caucus is for transgender activists working on the state/local
level advancing transgender equality. Facilitated by members of
the Coalition of State/Local Transgender Advocacy/Political Or-
ganizations, which works to bring together transgender led orga-
nizations for networking and resource sharing. Activities include:
capturing a snapshot of the local transgender advocacy work that
was done in 2009 through group activity and small group discus-
sions based on policy areas in order to share strategies, resourc-
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es, and skills with fellow participants.
Presenters: Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law
Center, San Francisco, CA; Tobias Packer, Co-Founder, Florida
Action Coalition for Transgender Equality, FL; Pauline Park, Co-
chair, New York Association For Gender Rights Advocacy , New
York, NY; Gunner Scott, Director, Massachusetts Transgender
Political Coalition (MTPC), Boston, MA
Creating a Safe Zone Program on Your Campus.
Case Study - Aggie Allies at Texas A&M University
Campus
Are you part of a GLBT and allies safe zone program at your Univer-
sity? Would you like to work with other people engaged in safe-zone
work to arrive at something better for all of us? Join us in a caucus
designed to look at what is currently being done in Texas and across
the country and help us decide what we can each do better.
Presenters: Katy Stewart, Aggie Allies, Bryan, TX
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Don’t Call Me a Tranny Chaser
Transgender Community & Issues
This caucus will provide an opportunity for people (both trans-
identified and not) who love transgender folks to meet and discuss
our experiences with stigmatization in the LGBTQ community as
“tranny chasers.” We will explore the diversity of our identities and
discuss how the phrase tranny chaser has affected our feelings of
inclusion in transgender affirming spaces and the overall LGBTQ
community. Join us for productive discussion and community
building opportunities!
Presenters: Mel Goodwin, The Gay & Lesbian Community
Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Engaging Employee Participation in LGBT Activities
Workplace
This session will focus on ways to create awareness and a posi-
tive impression towards your company’s LGBT resource group
in ways that are fun, inclusive and non-threatening. We’ll share
challenges, expectations, and lessons learned from a conserva-
tive business environment. This will be followed by recommenda-
tions for planning a successful event and reaching your employee
base. We’ll have time for open discussion and for attendees to
share their success strategies.
Presenters: Donna Barlow; Brook Bennett; Katy Krekler, First
American Corporation, Westlake, TX
Finding Our Voice at the Table: advocating for emerging
and less popular issues in the LGBT communities
Community Organizing
Some of the issues facing LGBT communities are well understood
and well funded; others are just emerging, struggling for accep-
tance and financial support. This caucus will be an opportunity for
people organizing around new or less popular issues to meet and
strategize about ways to educate the community, create coali-
tions with other groups, share strategies for engaging potential
funders and use new media, like twitter, for outreach.
Presenters: Liz Margolies, National LGBT Cancer Network,
New York, NY
Getting to Know You
Transgender Community & Issues
This workshop will help attendees become familiar with and im-
prove their existing advocacy skills with Transgender Community
issues. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions to panel
participants in an effort to improve their advocacy and messaging
talents to include issues that encompass Transgender individuals.
Attendees will hear directly from Transgender individual and leave
with practical advice and tools for their own advocacy situations.
Presenters: Marla Compton, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX;
Maeve O’Connor, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX; Mo Snow
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Learning to Be Allies in the LGBT Aging Movement
Aging
Interested in aging issues, but unsure where to begin? Wonder-
ing if you’re “too young” to get involved? Maybe you’re helping
to care for aging parents, or your friends are older and you’d like
to learn more about how to advocate with and for them. Join us
for this caucus of LGBT elders and allies to discuss ageism and
advocacy.
Presenters: Rev. Shaba A. Barnes, Emeritus Co-Director,
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, Albuquerque, NM; Jerry
Hoose, New York, NY; Alex Kent, SAGE: Services & Advocacy
for GLBT Elders , NY
LGBTQ Youth of Color Organizing Summit Caucus
Youth
FIERCE will host a LGBTQ Youth of Color Organizing Summit
Caucus to reconvene the participants of Wednesday’s summit.
This safe space will be a facilitated open discussion about the
experiences of LGBTQ youth of color at Creating Change. The
caucus space is also open to skill shares, identifying goals for next
year’s LGBTQ youth of color organizing summit, or other topics
identified by the participants. The caucus is only open to partici-
pants of the LGBTQ Youth of Color Organizing Summit.
Presenters: Glo Ross, FIERCE, NY
Life as the “unofficial” Campus Queer
School Issues
This caucus is designed for individuals doing LGBT education &
advocacy but are not employed specifically to do so. Caucus at-
tendees will share ideas for programs, educational sessions, ad-
vocacy, and other best practices in addition to sharing tips on
how to obtain buy in from other faculty and staff. Attendees with
leave this session with ideas and tools that can be implemented
on their campus.
Presenters: Matthew Le Brasseur, Tampa, FL
Old Lesbian caucus - lesbians 60 and over
Movement Building
A time for lesbians 60 and over to gather to share movement
building stories, change strategies, personal support .
Presenters: Rev. Jan Griesinger, Co-Director - Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change, Athens, OH
Perspectives and Experiences of Queer Southeast
Asians in LGBTQ Organizations
People of Color
This caucus is an opportunity for queer Southeast Asians and
their allies to share their experiences and views on advocacy in
LGBTQ organizing on college campuses and the larger commu-
nity. Presenters and participants alike will share their own initiatives
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and struggles to integrate advocacy and support for other queer
Southeast Asians around racial, economic, and social justice.
Presenters: Beng Chang, MN; Kohei Ishihara; Sarah Suong;
Kevin Xiong
Protecting Ourselves Against Our Own Bodies
Youth
Remember your first time going to the gyno? Never been? Come
chat with other young women about strategies and terminology
about your body. This 60-minute caucus will leave you with all
the information you may need to be comfortable at your doctors.
Have a great time educating yourself about your body.
Presenters: Stephanie Robinson, BAGLY, Inc., Boston, MA
QPOC Organizing on College Campuses
People of Color
QPOC Organizing on College Campuses is intended for those
who identify as queer people of color. This caucus will focus on
discussing issues relevant to QPOC community building on col-
lege campuses, such as: the importance of politicization in QPOC
spaces, strategies for fostering political analysis while maintaining
a safe, supportive space; the incorporation of class-based and
ability-based discourses into QPOC spaces; how to relate QPOC
college organizing to larger social justice movements.
Presenters: Ajanli Jaiman; Luis Penate; Watufani Poe; Sasha
Wijeyeratne
Queer Activism in Spanish Caucus
Movement Building
In most Queer Latino activist efforts English is the default language
that is used. However, many Latino community members are
Spanish-dominant and prefer to engage civic and cultural issues
in Spanish. This caucus is designed as a Spanish-language LGBT
activist gathering. We hope to share resources, best practices
and confer around the needs of LGBT activism in Spanish.
Presenters: Francisco Dueñas, Proyecto Igualdad Coordinator,
Lambda Legal, Los Angeles, CA
Queer Youth Caucus
Youth
Come one, come all to this wonderful networking opportunity for
young people to meet the leaders of our movement and vice versa.
Presenters: Greg Varnum, Executive Director, National Youth
Advocacy Coalition, Washington, DC
Reading: Sassafras Lowery reads from Kicked Out
Youth
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. Kicked
Out published by Homofactus Press brings together the voices
of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells these for-
gotten stories of some of our nation’s most vulnerable citizens.
Diverse contributors share stories of survival and abuse with poi-
gnant accounts of the sanctuary of community and the power
of creating chosen families. Kicked Out highlights the nuanced
perspectives of national organizations such as The National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force and The National Alliance Against Homeless-
ness and regional agencies, including Sylvia’s Place, The Circus
Project and Family Builders. This anthology, introduced by Judy
Shepard, gives voice to the voiceless and challenges the stereo-
typical face of homelessness.
Presenters: Sassafras Lowrey, Author, Kicked Out
Running a Women’s Group
Community Organizing
This workshop will help attendees increase attendance of women
in their GLBT centers and women’s groups. Participants will com-
pare and analyze types of meetings and advertising methods from
their own experiences. Attendees will leave with practical guide-
lines for when women will participate, meeting ideas, and adver-
tising skills unique to women.
Presenters: Jennifer Owens, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas,
TX; Sandy Thornton, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Talking About Sex in Communities of Color
Sexual Freedom
Doing the nasty just isn’t a polite conversation topic, but for SLG-
BT activists of color, laughing about what really happened on Sat-
urday night with your friends is normal. By extension, being able to
engage others both inside and out of your immediate community
in honest discussions about sexuality should be just as normal.
Join us as we address ways to accomplish this by charting some
of the effective ways African American, Asian, Hispanic and white
LGBT activists have held positive conversations on sexuality in
communities of color.
Presenters: Yoseñio V. Lewis, Woodhull Freedom Foundation,
FRIDAY SESSIONS
San Francisco, CA
Transitioning Beyond the Boxes
Gender Issues
How is your gender identity defined by you? By society? In what
ways do you conform to gender norms? In what ways do you
challenge them? Move beyond the gender boxes! This caucus will
explore gender identity and expression against the backdrop of
the mainstream gender binary system. Share your thoughts, feel-
ings, stories, and ideas on how gender is questioned, accepted,
shaped, and challenged in our community and in our society.
Presenters: Anne Hodson, St. Paul, MN; Shawyn Lee,
Assistant Director, University of Minnesota GLBTA Programs
Office, Minneapolis, MN
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What Does the “A” Stand For Again? Caucus on the
Place of Straight Allies Within the Movement
Movement Building
This is not about how to get people to become allies. This is not
about ooey-gooey talk of how “the best thing you can do is be
there.” How can allies harness their particular status to contribute
to the movement in unique ways? Where do we need to involve
more allies, and where do we need separatist space? What does
the ideal ally look like (perhaps within specific contexts)?
Presenters: David Phinney, CA
Winning Washington: How One Woman’s Story Became
Key in a Major Movement Victory
Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns
Charlene Strong, of the film “For My Wife,” became a key propo-
nent of the Washington State comprehensive domestic partner
legislation. Charlene’s compelling story of a family tragedy helped
to propel the victory in November 2009 on Referendum 71 that
cemented most rights of marriage for same-sex couples in Wash-
ington.
Presenters: Charlene Strong, For My Wife, Seattle, WA
Young and Poly
Sexual Freedom
Polyamory being one of the more marginalized identities of our
community, young people need a safe space to be validated
within their truths. Being young and poly even in the “queer”
community is impacted by a hetero-normative model of family
and relationships. This caucus is not designed as a poly 101 but
is designed for young people that identify on the poly spectrum
to voice shared experiences and learn from one another.
Presenters: Daunasia Yansey, BAGLY, MA
WORKSHOP SESSION 5
Saturday, February 6 • 9:00AM –10:30AM
Aging Out - Facilitating Healthy Transitions
Youth • Intermediate
This workshop provides a forum for youth and adults at youth-
serving organizations to discuss contemporary practices and
policies regarding age-limits, aging out and facilitating supported
transitions for youth. Participants will learn about contemporary
aging out models being employed by other organizations. Youth
and adult attendees will dialogue about their respective needs as
individuals and organizations. Participants will depart with tools to
evaluate their own organizations and strategies for building a fully
supportive aging out policy.
Presenters: Heather Lenox, Texas GSA Network, Austin, TX;
Andie Lyons, The LGBT Community Center of Colorado,
Denver, CO; Trevor Wright, Board of Directors, The Boston
Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Boston, MA
Are You Ready?
Moving Racial Justice in LGBT Organizations
Racial Justice • 3 Hour Session • Fundamentals
When it comes to race and racism, many LGBT organizations
have trouble walking their talk or even talking their talk. But like
individuals, organizations evolve, change and grow. In this inter-
active workshop, participants will develop an understanding of
how racism operates within their organization’s own walls, assess
where their organization fits in the four stages of Anti-Racist Orga-
nizational Development, identify steps to move forward, and share
fears, struggles and best practices in this work.
Presenters: Jeana Frazzini, Executive Director, Basic Rights
Oregon, Portland, OR; Aubrey Harrison, Field Organizer, Basic
Rights Oregon, Portland, OR; Alejandro Juarez, Basic Rights
Oregon, Portland OR; Jessica Lee, Youth Organizer, Basic Rights
Oregon, Portland, OR
Being Safe OUTside the System: LGBTSTGNC Communi-
ties of Color Ending Violence Without Law Enforcement
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans, and
Gender Non Conforming) people of color face hate violence and
police violence on a daily basis. However due to the prevalence of
state based violence LGBTSTGNC people of color are unable and
unwilling to rely upon law enforcement to ensure our safety. In a
highly interactive workshop members of the Audre Lorde Project’s
S.O.S. Collective will support participants in creating strategies to
reduce violence against LGBTSTGNC communities of color.
Presenters: Ejeris Dixon, Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality
Movement Building • All Audiences
Like snowflakes, no two people are exactly alike. How do we as-
sign labels to our complicated and unique experiences? What
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generational changes are we experiencing around labeling? We
will discuss uses and limitations of the Kinsey scale and other
measures of sexual orientation, with attention to factors such as
sex, gender, time, and more. We will conduct a short, anonymous
study, and examine the data. Finally, we will consider the implica-
tions for our activism. This engaging workshop provides much
food for thought.
Presenters: Robyn Ochs, Editor, Bisexual Resource Guide,
Jamaica Plain, MA
Building An Employee Resource Group (ERG) With Impact
Workplace • All Audiences
The corporate world has been a leader on progressing LGBT
equality by recognizing that their employees can be more produc-
tive if they can bring their whole self to work each day. This work-
shop will provide those attending insight on starting, building and
growing LGBTF Employee Resource Groups within their company.
Although each topic is touched, the session emphasis will be on
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how to help develop your ERG’s standing within the company and
the community. ERG’s with real influence on corporate policies can
have a lasting positive impact on LGBT employees for many years.
Presenters: Jeff Snook, Dallas, TX
Centralizing Your Community: Why & How To Start or
Expand Your LGBT Community Center
Community Centers • All Audiences
LGBT centers serve over 40,000 people weekly in 48 states, and
this workshop will help organizers and others to consider the
direction of their local community relative to the formation of an
LGBT center and to learn the tools necessary to take that first
leap. The content will assist those who are considering beginning
a center, those who have started a center, and those with existing
centers looking at building their presence in the community.
Presenters: Kendall Clawson, Executive Director, Portland Q
Center, Portland, OR; David Kilmnick, Executive Director, Long
Island Gay & Lesbian Youth, Bay Shore, NY; Guido Sanchez,
National Manager of Membership and Development, CenterLink;
David Stocum, New Mexico LGBT Centers,NM
Communicating at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality:
Ideas on How To Build Bridges with African Americans
Research and Policy • Intermediate
This workshop will offer a research-based discussion of how
communications can be strengthened between the LGBT move-
ment and African American communities. The workshop will draw
upon research conducted by the Arcus Foundation and others
to articulate the complex intersections of sexuality and race with
the goal of how these lessons can help activists create greater
public support and message effectively when engaging African
Americans. This session is for advocates, policy makers and lead-
ers who are sincerely engaged in organizing and communication
across the lines of race and sexuality.
Presenters: Cornell Belcher, Brilliant Corners Research and
Strategy; Rashad Robinson, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation, NY; Donna Victoria, Victoria Research and Consulting
Creating Diverse Coalitions around Family Definition
Families • Intermediate
This workshop will help participants understand the ways in which
LGBT advocates can find common ground around family defi-
nition issues with immigrants’ rights, women of color, economic
justice, and other social justice advocates and organizations. Par-
ticipants will leave this workshop with concrete tools they can use
to create model coalitions based on a broad definition of family.
Presenters: Kellan E. Baker, Policy Associate, National Coalition
for LGBT Health, Washington, DC; Veronica Bayetti Flores, Na-
tional Latina Institute for Reproductive Health , NY; Rebecca Fox,
Executive Director, National Coalition for LGBT Health, Washing-
ton, DC; Miriam Yeung, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific
American Women’s Forum, New York, NY
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Data for a Change
Research and Policy • Intermediate
Data about transgender communities is sorely lacking. Time and
time again, we see that the lack of data about our communities
hinders our efforts to make change. But there is good news: recent
surveys have begun to fill in research gaps. Come learn how to use
existing data on transgender discrimination issues, conduct similar
surveys in your area, how to determine the implications of the data,
and how to use the data for policy advocacy. We will use examples
from the Transgender Law Center’s State of Transgender California
report and the Task Force and the National Center for Transgen-
der Equality’s National Study of the Prevalence of Discrimination
against Transgender and Gender Non-conforming People.
Presenters: Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law
Center, San Francisco, CA; Somjen Frazer, The National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, New York, NY; Kristina Wertz, San Fran-
cisco, CA
Enhancing HIV/STD Prevention Outreach to Diverse
Communities: African-Americans, Hispanics, and
Men Who Have Sex with Men
AIDS/HIV • Intermediate
This workshop will assist attendees become familiar with and
understand a variety of organizational and interpersonal dynam-
ics involved in outreaching to diverse communities, including
African-American, Hispanic, and MSM populations for HIV/STD
prevention. Participants will exchange best outreach practices,
techniques and strategies with outreach professionals of effective
local and statewide health promotion campaigns. Attendees will
leave with some essential outreach knowledge and skills to further
develop their HIV/STD prevention programs.
Presenters: Mikael Andrew; Jai Makokha; Ruben Ramirez,
Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Equity, Fidelity and Sustainability
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
How do we create equitable agreements in our sexual encounters
and relationships? Does equity require symmetry in sexual prac-
tices and rules? How do divergent needs get met equitably? What
is fidelity? Is it sexual exclusivity? Is it honesty? Is it both or nei-
ther? How are we creating sustainable practices and frameworks
in our relationships? How do we measure success? Is longevity
the measure of a successful relationship? Or vibrancy? Or some-
thing else? This lively discussion will feature panelists who are
embodying and exploring these values and concepts in greatly
varying ways.
Presenters: Amelie Zurn, Jack Harrison, Kenyon Farrow
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Model for Civic Engagement through
Campus LGBT Resource Centers
Campus • Intermediate
University-based LGBT Resource Centers can do more than they
might think for the social justice movement. In this workshop we
will trace the development of our LGBT Resource Center in a con-
servative part of the country including its effective civic engage-
ment strategies. Participants will develop their own strategies for
institutionalizing advocacy. By leveraging the power of the univer-
sity, enormous change can be created in our communities.
Presenters: Milt Ford, Director, LGBT Resource Center, Grand
Valley State University ; Matthew Mokma, Graduate Assistant,
LGBT Resource Center, Grand Valley State University ; Colette
Seguin Beighley, Assistant Director, LGBT Resource Center
-Grand Valley State University
Online to Offline Engagement
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
It’s great to drive people to your website, but if you can’t move
them to take offline action in the “flesh world,” you haven’t done
your job. This session will cover how to move supporters from
online support to offline activist, including some case studies from
some of the most successful organizations in the U.S.
Presenters: Michael Crawford, The Bilerico Project, Washington
DC; R. Fureigh, New York, NY
Passing Good Legislation or Fighting Bad:
Using Research for Good
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • Intermediate
Want to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance in your city? Trying
to fight an adoption ban? This session will give you an opportunity
to talk about upcoming legislative and policy initiatives (the good
and the bad) and learn how to use cutting edge public policy re-
search to accomplish your goals.
Presenters: M.V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The
Williams Institute, Amherst, MA; Angie Buhl, Equality South
Dakota; Naomi Goldberg, Williams Institute, Los Angeles, CA;
Christopher Ramos, Williams Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Promise and Peril: Managing a statewide coalition and
public funding for LGBT health and human services
Movement Building • All Audiences
This session will help attendees become familiar with and improve their
advocacy skills around securing funding for LGBT health and human
services. We will present a model for collaboration between statewide
LGBT advocacy organizations, local community based health and hu-
man service providers and state officials and offer participants practi-
cal tools for creating and managing collaborations in their own states.
Presenters: Daniel Gould, Equality California, Los Angeles,
CA; Jonathan Lang, Empire State Pride Agenda, NY; Carmen
Vazquez, AIDS Institute, New York, NY
Sex[+] More than the Birds and the Bees
Youth • All Audiences
For the past eight years, federal funded abstinence-only programs
have been teaching that: Young persons may sense affection and even
infatuation for a member of the same sex. This is not the same thing
as “being” homosexual. Any same sex “sexual experimentation” can
be confusing to young persons and should be strongly discouraged.
(FACTS Middle School, Teacher’s Edition, p. 72) Abstinence-only be-
fore marriage programs have failed to equip young people with the in-
formation needed to make healthy and informed decisions about sex.
Sex education is a necessary and vital piece of young people’s educa-
tion – one that impacts our decisions, our health and potentially our
whole lives. Regardless of people’s beliefs, we deserve truthful, medi-
cally accurate information that speaks to our real, diverse experiences
and trusts us to make informed decisions. In this workshop, we’re
going to delve deeper into the issue that America loves and hates to
talk about – sex and sex education. We’re going to look at a brief his-
tory of sex education in this country and the abstinence-only culture
shift of the last decade. Through the use of pop culture, PowerPoint
and interactive discussion, we will talk about the dangerous impacts
of abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula and discuss our vision for
sex education that speaks to diverse experiences of all young people.
Presenters: Kierra Johnson and Edith Sargon, ChoiceUSA,
Washington, DC
The Cutting Edge in Trans Rights:
Healthcare, Prisons, and ID Documents
Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences
Transgender rights are rapidly evolving. There have been great
victories in some states and localities and some losses in oth-
ers. Whether fighting for insurance coverage for gender transition,
fighting for better jail/prison treatment, or for accurate IDs there is
plenty cutting edge advocacy going on. Come hear about efforts
in various states and localities, and even the national level, and
what you can do where you are to make a difference.
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Presenters: Simon Arnoff, Community Educator, Lambda Legal,
Chicago, IL; Daniel Gould, Equality California, Los Angeles, CA;
Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Director, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Gunner Scott,
Director, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC),
Boston, MA; Harper Jean Tobin, Policy Council, National Center
for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC
United Nations and International LGBT Issues
International Issues • Fundamentals
Bruce Knotts, with 23 years experience in the State Department
and 2 in the Peace Corps (Ethiopia), was instrumental in the first
inclusion of LGBT issues by the UN’s Human Rights Council. Join
as he details the UN’s work on civil rights on the international
stage, and how we as individuals can help our cause in other
countries as well as our own.
Presenters: Bruce Knotts, Unitarian Universalist United Nations,
New York, NY
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You Lie! Right-Wing Race Backlash:

What it Means for Queers
Research and Policy • All Audiences
What do Teabaggers, Birthers, and town hall gun-totin’ scream-
ers have to do with LGBTQ equality? Sit in on a strategy session
about race politics in the age of Obama and its implications for
our work.
Presenters: Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates,
Somerville, MA

WORKSHOP SESSION 6
Saturday, February 6 • 10:45AM –12:15PM

Are You Ready? Moving Racial Justice

in LGBT Organizations (Continued)
Racial Justice • 3 Hour Session • Fundamentals

Creating Change in your Community -

A Toolkit for LGBTQ Campus Activism
Campus • All Audience
Are you a student who wants to see change but doesn’t know
where to start? Have you been engaged in campus activism for a
while but need a few new ideas? Join us for an interactive step-
by-step process to creating change on your campus or in your
community. We’ll discuss the spectrum of activism, how to build
an inclusive movement, and the dynamics of power, privilege, and
intersectionality. Let’s learn from and share with each other!
Presenters: Joy Messinger, Rochester, NY

Did They Just Say That? Responding to the Right’s Lies

Communications, Media and Messaging • Fundamentals
Find yourself screaming at the TV when someone says something
totally false about the GLBT community? Learn how to neutralize
GLBT rights opponents’ arguments and what to say in response.
This session will use actual materials put out by GLBT rights op-
ponents. Participants will learn the skills to respond with current
and accurate research.
Presenters: M.V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The Williams
Institute, Amherst, MA; Gary Gates, Senior Research Fellow, The
Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA; Naomi
Goldberg, Williams Institute, Los Angeles , CA; Christopher Ra-
mos, Williams Institute, Los Angeles, CA

From Front Line to Bottom Line:

Engaging Corporate Social Responsibility makes cents
Workplace • Intermediate
This workshop will help attendees become familiar with and
improve their existing advocacy skills in corporate relationships.
Participants will learn a variety of strategies for talking to corpora-
tions and how to translate activist-speak into corporate social
responsibility. Connecting the important impact that corporations
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have on the LGBT equality movement and expanding that influ-
ence will be a main focus. Participants will develop skills to cre-
ate long term mutually beneficial relationship with corporations to
further social change.
Presenters: Pat Baillie, Associate Director of Training , Out
& Equal Workplace Advocates, San Francisco, CA; Stephen
Gould, Associate Director of NETWORKS, Out and Equal Work-
place Advocates, San Francisco, CA
Gaybingo: Unity, Fun and Money
Fundraising • All Audiences
This workshop will assist participants learn basic operations and
event management of a monthly fundraiser that attracts GLBTA
friends and family to your agency.
Presenters: Henry Ramirez III, Center Programs Manager,
Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Getting Bi & Passing It On:
Learning to Teach Bisexuality with a Free Curriculum
Bisexual Community • All Audiences
Bisexuality doesn’t just have 2 parts. Come get an overview about
an exciting, free, inter-active, 4-part curriculum that you can take
back to your community to teach them about the ins & outs of
bisexuality, pansexuality & the other names it goes by these days.
Program confronts myths & misconceptions, provides queer defi-
nitions, discusses the intersection of gender identities in relation
to sexual orientation, and addresses single & multiple partner re-
lationships.
Presenters: Dana Dwinell Yardley, Interweave Continental,
Montpelier, VT; Allyson Diane Hamm, Interweave Continental,
Allentown, PA
HIV and young gay and bisexual men and
transgender women: Promoting Support
AIDS/HIV • All Audiences
Nearly three in five new HIV infections occur among gay and bisex-
ual men. Young Black and Latino gay men are disproportionately
affected. Family acceptance and LGBT-affirming interventions
correlate with lower HIV risk behavior. How can we encourage
greater collaboration between public health and education policy
makers? How can we promote family support? How can youth
involvement, social marketing and the internet be harnessed to
address this growing problem?
Presenters: Francisco Roque, Institute for Gay Men’s Health,
Gay Men’s Health Crisis , New York, NY; Caitlin Ryan, Family
Acceptance Project, San Francisco, CA; Lyndel Urbano, Gay
Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), New York, NY
Land, Desire and Culture:
Two Spirit People and the LGBT Movement
People of Color • All Audiences
Join us in a session geared for collective learning about sover-
eignty, Two Spirit people, and our shared legacy, as well as our
expanding analysis and identities. Some of our discussion will re-
volve around what Two Spirit people’s inclusion in the LGBTIGNC
movement has to offer, how the larger movement can align itself
to issues of sovereignty, and how a movement inclusive of Two
Spirit leadership, issues and their intersections would contribute
to the liberation of us all. This is an open session for First Nations
/ Two Sprit / Indigenous folks & allies.
Presenters: Coya Artichoker, First Nations Collective,
Minneapolis, MN ; Paulina Hernandez, Co-Director, Southerners
on New Ground, New Market, TN; Melissa Hoskins, First Nations
Collective ; Melissa Pope, Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality
Center, Oakland University
Mapping Your Desire
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Desire matters. Claiming and acting on our desires creates a
more healthy, sustainable life path for all of us. Fully embodying
our desire gives us an integrity and fierceness that we take into
our families, our communities, and our work for social change.
Creating the sexual life you deserve requires an understanding
of your desire, which can be found by mapping your sexual path
to date. The key treasure trove of information concerning what
turns you on, what keeps you interested, and what touches you
most deeply lies in your unique sexual story. In any persons life, 5
or 10 key points on our sexual map or biography jump out at us
these are the moments when we learned something crucial about
ourselves, or when we felt most vulnerable, most excited, or most
true to our desires. Points on our Desire Map are important guide-
posts for our lives; ignoring them saps us of our sexual vibrancy
and our creative resistance. This workshop will provide an intro-
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duction to Desire Mapping, and a tool for your life-long journey
toward sexual empowerment and a more just world.
Presenters: Jaime M. Grant, Director of the Policy Institute,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Amelie
Zurn, Lesbian Health Activist and Therapist, Washington, DC,
Monique Meadows
Moving Voters on Marriage!:
A Door-to-Door Voter Persuasion Model
Marriage • All Audiences
This workshop will help you think differently about how to move
voters to be supportive of marriage equality. Since January 2009,
Vote for Equality has been developing a new model of in-person,
door-to-door voter persuasion. Learn how to use the tools that
have been developed and how to analyze the data that has come
out of having over 5,000 conversations at the door with voters in
swing and unsupportive areas in California.
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Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, Senior Field Organizer,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los Angeles, CA; Regina
Clemente, LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles; Jay Darling,
LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA; Laura Gardiner, LA
Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA
Staying Safe While TRANSitioning
Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences
While going through the transition from female to male or male to
female staying safe while having sex becomes more complicated.
This workshop will go over different ways in which one can protect
themselves and their identity. Instead of putting the power in the
hands of your sexual partner, take it back and protect yourself.
Presenters: Conor Lipchus, Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Youth, Boston, MA
The Journey from Laws to Jobs For Trans People
Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate
With the help of tireless activists, more jurisdictions are passing
laws protecting transgender people from workplace discrimina-
tion. Still, many transgender people remain marginalized and con-
tinue to experience discrimination in hiring and on the job. Local
activists have turned their attention to creating comprehensive
workforce development programs focusing on the unique needs
of transgender job seekers. This workshop will help you pass non-
discrimination laws, and begin to work toward enforcement. We’ll
discuss ways to create, fund and implement workforce develop-
ment programs designed especially for transgender and gender
non-conforming job seekers.
Presenters: Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project
Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington,
DC; Kristina Wertz, San Francisco, CA
The National Transgender Discrimination Survey:
A Talk on Preliminary Findings
Research and Policy • All Audiences
From November 2008-March 2009, The National Center for
Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force fielded the largest study of transgender discrimination ever
undertaken in the U.S. Nearly 6,500 respondents have provided a
striking portrait of the tremendous barriers to employment, hous-
ing, health care, public and family life that transgender and gender
non-conforming people face in every day life due to bias. Come
here preliminary findings from this historic study.
Presenters: Somjen Frazer, The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, New York, NY; Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National
Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC
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The Volunteer Connection: Maximizing Your
Organization’s Potential by Creating an
Amazing Volunteer Experience
Organizational Development • Intermediate
Learn the basics of creating and maintaining the support neces-
sary for a volunteer program that results in thrilled volunteers and
greater productivity for the agency. The workshop will provide the
necessary tools to support a volunteer program and to effectively
utilize volunteers. Attendees will learn the basics of volunteer man-
agement, from recruiting, communicating to and recognizing vol-
unteers. Information applies to volunteer coordinators and other
staff at all levels, from beginner to experienced.
Presenters: Deborah Cavazos, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Welfare Warriors: Surviving Violence,
Fighting Injustice and Building Community
Racial Justice • All Audiences
This interactive workshop led by low income LGBTGNC members
of Queers for Economic Justice will focus on sharing the resistance
and resilience strategies that low income queer, trans and gender
non conforming people use to navigate poverty related violence
and build strong self determining communities. The Welfare War-
riors project utilizes participatory action research (PAR), in which all
members of the collective participate at each step of the research.
The session will be an opportunity to learn about PAR as a mecha-
nism for raising critical consciousness around structural violence
against queers of color and how QEJ has incorporated research
into our on going campaigns. This workshop will screen the docu-
mentary of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative, a project of
Queers for Economic Justice. The half hour documentary captures
on screen how low income LGBTGNC fought back against injus-
tice, created liberating communities and survived poverty related
violence in New York City. We will share how this media project has
become a strategy of the Welfare Warriors to challenge discrimina-
tion, homophobia and transphobia in New York City.
Presenters: Reina Gossett, Queers for Economic Justice, New
York, NY
What Do Funders Want? Developing Your Grant Proposal
Fundraising • Fundamentals
Will foundations fund your organization? Should you even both-
er to apply? Who should you apply to? What makes a proposal
strong and fundable? Aren’t foundations cutting back because
of the recession? These and other questions will be explored in
depth by staff from the two largest LGBT foundation funders, Ar-
cus and Gill. This session will benefit beginners and those at an
intermediate level.
Presenters: Dave Montez, Associate Program Officer, Gill
Foundation, Denver, CO; Cindy Rizzo, Director of Grant Making
Programs, The Arcus Foundation, New York, NY
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What it Means to be an LGBT Asylee & How You Can Help
International Issues • All Audiences
This workshop will walk attendees through the LGBT asylum seek-
ing process and give first hand accounts of what it is like for LGBT
people in countries where they are persecuted. Attendees will have
the chance to learn about the ways religion has often been the basis
for oppression and the ways many churches are fighting and taking
a stance against that oppression. Participants will leave with practi-
cal tools for supporting LGBT asylum seekers around the country.
Presenters: Rev. Judith Hanlon, LGBT Asylum Support Task
Force, Holden, MA; Angela Knapton, LGBT Asylum Support
Task Force, Worcester, MA; Sean Martin, LGBT Asylum Support
Task Force, Worcester, MA; Lisa Laurel Weinberg, Lutheran
Social Services, LGBT Human Rights Protection/Political Asylum
Representation Project, Worcester, MA
Working Against Elitist Activism:
A Discussion with Youth Activists
Youth • All Audiences
This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and bar-
riers created by the down-er than thou mentality that often leads
to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing.
Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this ses-
sion will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of
strong organizers instead of alienating one another with destructive
judgments. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will devel-
op real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conflict.
Presenters: Jeannie Beeson, National Youth Advocacy Co-
alition, Washington, DC; Vincent Villano, Campus Progress,
Washington DC
WTF is Going On with Congress?
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
Our LGBT agenda is getting bogged down in Congress, or is it
on the brink of passage? We have had a victory or two, but what
does it take to get the rest of our priorities passed? Join national
advocates for a frank discussion of the status and expectations
on various bills, including the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act, the Uniting American Families Act, the Safe Schools Im-
provement Act, Military Readiness Enhancement Act, Education
Non-Discrimination Act, and the Respect for Marriage Act. Be
prepared to be told what individuals and local/state organizations
need to be doing to get these bills moving as the real key to pass-
ing these priorities is in the hands of the grassroots and don’t be
surprised if we ask you to call your Representative/Senator in the
middle of the workshop.
Presenters: Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National Center
for Transgender Equality, Washington DC; Stacey Long, Federal
Legislative Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Wash-
ington, DC Julie Kruse, Policy Director, Immigration Equality, New
York, NY; Sue Fulton, Communications Director, Knights OUT;
Kara Suffredini, Esq., Director of Public Policy and Community
Engagement, Family Equality Council, Boston, MA
WORKSHOP SESSION 7
Saturday, February 6 • 3:00PM –4:30PM
¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say?
Creating Multilingual Spaces
Movement Building • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
Why do I have to use this equipment? Repeating everything into
another language makes the meetings take twice as long! If they
dont understand, they should bring someone to interpret for
them. Any of these sound familiar? Language is a powerful tool
that can be used to achieve different political goals. It can be used
to silence voices of marginalized communities to oppressively
maintain privilege; or it can be used to create spaces for new
community voices in ways that transform race relationships and
empower marginalized groups. Organizing is about relationships,
so is movement building. But how can we do either if we cannot
talk to one another? A commitment to Language Justice and to
creating multilingual political spaces is an important component
of SONGs (Southerners on New Ground) organizing work. SONG
has been developing its Language Justice analysis and practice
for several years and successfully effected its first fully linguisti-
cally integrated Organizing School in Virginia in August 2009. This
workshop will cover the why and the how of creating multilingual
spaces. The workshop is highly interactive and based on a popu-
lar education model.
Presenters: Roberto Tijerina, Board of Directors, Southerners
on New Ground, Durham, NC
Advocacy, Community Mobilization and Outreach,
Participation and the Rest of the Mess in HIV Clinical
Research: What’s the Deal for Populations Most Impacted?
AIDS/HIV • All Audiences
Common words in the field of HIV/AIDS work, regardless of ones
title, Community Member, PI/Researcher, Community Educator/
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Recruiter etc., are used in an almost drowning fashion. Is it fa-
tigue, boredom or something else? While finding a safe and ef-
fective vaccine that works for everyone, to prevent the spread of
HIV is our worlds best long-term hope for controlling the AIDS
epidemic, there is more out there in the abyss of health and well-
ness! HIV clinical research is also essential in the fight against HIV
along with prevention, treatment, care and its in-laws advocacy
community mobilization and outreach. People are tired and in the
US more focused now than ever on other environmental factors.
Added on top of that yummy cake, there are still a lot of myths,
misunderstanding, and historical challenges that prevent persons
most impacted, specifically Blacks and Latinos, from participating
in research, accessing care or at the basic level, really caring at
all. The Gay Mens Health Agenda and the National Coalition for
LGBT Health have outlined a clear road and approach to an im-
proved health and wellness. This workshop will provide the space
to identify areas of collaboration for the individual and at the orga-
nizational level to ignite the fire for a resurgence of passion, hope
and care for our collective well being. Come join us and contribute
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your thoughts, ideas, and passion while we drive toward action
steps of hope.
Presenters: Chris Bartlett, Executive Director, LGBT Leadership
Initiative, Chester, PA; Russell Brewer, Program Manager, Center
on AIDS and Community Health, Washington, DC; Kaijson
Noilmar, Legacy Project Coordinator, HIV Vaccine Trials Network,
Seattle, WA
Culturally Sensitive Practice with
LGBTQ Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Youth • All Audiences
This workshop will discuss distinct challenges faced by LGBTQ
youth in the child welfare, juvenile justice and homeless systems
of care, where they are often subject to discrimination, harass-
ment and violence. Participants will learn about the ways LGBTQ
youth enter these systems, the risks they are subject to once there
and the principles that guide culturally competent work with LG-
BTQ youth. Participants will also learn about innovative laws and
policies and available resources to improve care for these youth.
Presenters: Flor Bermudez, Lambda Legal, NY; Dennis
Coleman, Lambda Legal, Dallas, TX; Judith Dumont, Youth
First Texas, Dallas, TX
Engaging Queer Youth in Your Advocacy Efforts
Youth • Fundamentals
Wondering how to get those youth from the marches and rallies
you see on TV to your organization’s advocacy events? Wishing
you had more young people participating in your advocacy work?
Join us for a presentation and discussion on solving these riddles.
Presenters: Greg Varnum, Executive Director, National Youth
Advocacy Coalition, Washington, DC
Executive Directors Roundtable
Organizational Development • 3 Hour Session
• All Audiences
If you are the staff leader (Executive Director, CEO, etc.) of a non-
profit organization, this is the session for you! Being a nonprofit
CEO can be a lonely job, especially if you are working in the LGBT
or AIDS realms. Plus, in this economy, organizations are facing
unprecedented challenges. Opportunities rarely exist to interact
with, help and learn from colleagues in similar positions. This
three-hour session will provide current EDs with an opportunity to
do just that. Led by a group of seasoned EDs/CEOs at a variety
of organizations across the country (larger, smaller, national, local),
this session will focus on managing through difficult times, includ-
ing specific tactics and strategies for maintaining and increasing
fundraising. Large and small group interactive discussions (as the
attendees desire) will address subjects such as effective relation-
ships between an ED and his/her Board, stress management,
maintaining staff morale, etc. The session concludes with a recep-
tion to provide an opportunity for EDs/CEOs to network with their
colleagues and share ideas and best practices.
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Presenters: Kendall Clawson, Executive Director, Portland Q
Center, Portland, OR; Marjorie J. Hill, Chief Executive Officer, Gay
Men’s Health Crisis, New York, NY; Lorri L. Jean, Chief Executive
Officer, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA; Kate
Kendell, Esq., Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian
Rights, San Francisco, CA; Mike McKay, Executive Director,
Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Gays God and the Workplace:
SANE Conversations and TFR Love
Faith & Spirituality • Advanced
Corporate America provides a radical example of progress toward
equitable treatment for LGBT-identified individuals. Since 1991, more
than 95% of the Fortune 500 has adopted non-discrimination poli-
cies and two-thirds offer Domestic Partner Benefits. The most vocal
opposition to these policies has come from religious extremists who
claim Biblical authority for condemning LGBT equality. This workshop
will provide a model for SANE conversations that can lead to relation-
ships based on TFR (*Truth, Forgiveness and Reconciliation).
Presenters: Susan Gore, Mentor Group, Dallas, TX
HIV, Race and Generational differences
AIDS/HIV • Intermediate
Gay and bi men are a small minority in the U.S., but nearly three
in five new HIV infections. Black gay/bi men are hardest hit. In-
fections among gay/bi men are increasing. Has HIV prevention
policy failed? How do preventionists address the striking race and
age differences among HIV+ gay/bi men? How will we handle the
graying of AIDS, with a third of HIV+ people 50+?
Presenters: Kenyon Farrow, Executive Director, Queers for
Economic Justice, New York, NY ; Ronald Johnson, AIDS Action
Council , Washington, DC; Francisco Roque, Institute for Gay
Men’s Health, Gay Men’s Health Crisis , New York, NY; Lyndel
Urbano, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), New York, NY
King & King Redux: Beating The Use of School
Curriculum as a Wedge Issue
Movement Building • 3 Hour Session • Fundamentals
Our opposition has enjoyed considerable success in leveraging
fear of children [being] taught about same-sex marriage in schoolto
shift public–and explicitly voter–opinion against same-sex marriage
in both California and in Maine marriage equality campaigns. This
workshop will engage attendees in interactive information and strat-
egy exercises to evaluate the Right’s use of school curriculum as a
wedge issue and our best responses to them. We will delve into the
opposition’s strategies and available public opinion research data
and work together to develop effective public education campaigns
and collaborate broadly within different communities.
Presenters: Judy Appel, Executive Director, Our Family
Coalition, San Francisco, CA; Amy R. Simon, Goodwin Simon
Strategic Research, Oakland, CA; Betsy Smith, Executive
Director, Equality Maine, Portland, ME
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Kink, Race and Class
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
How does race/racism/classism play into our kink? As a person
of color in the kink world, can we leave some of our identities
at the door? Are queer play parties and kink worlds accessible
to poor people? Why? Why not? Do kinksters operate in a po-
litical vacuum? Is it possible to be kinky and political? How can
we respect one another and continue to navigate within the kink
sphere? (Kink may encompass bondage and discipline, domina-
tion and submission, sadism and masochism, power exchange
play, fetishes, multi-partner encounters or relationship configura-
tions, etc.)
Presenters: I.G. Rivera, Sex Educator, Principal, Poly Patao
Productions
Outing Age 2010: Research and Policy
Research and Policy • Intermediate
In 2000, the Task Force released an historic document on re-
search and policy issues affecting LGBT older adults. The 2010
update includes new findings, more research, and key policy rec-
ommendations as we prepare for the reauthorization of the Older
Americans Act in 2011.
Presenters: Sunny Bjerk; Loree Cooke-Daniels, Transgender
Aging Network; Somjen Frazer, The National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, New York, NY; Laurie Young, The Task Force,
Washington, DC
Publicity and Awareness:
Linking the GLBT community and the media
Communications, Media and Messaging • Fundamentals
This workshop will help attendees formulate and develop a vari-
ety of strategic GLBT communications messages and effectively
communicate those messages to print, broadcast and social me-
dia. Participants will learn who to message, how to message and
about specific cases where messaging achieved desire results.
Attendees will leave with practical advice and tools for messaging
success.
Presenters: Rafael McDonnell, Resource Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Put the Fire Out: Dealing with Crisis Situation in the Media
Communications, Media and Messaging • Intermediate
What happens when the news catches wind of something you
wish stayed under wraps? For those times when crawling under a
rock isn’t an option, this interactive workshop will give participants
useful tools that can actually make a bad situation better, or at
least mitigate the fallout. By addressing the steps that define a
communications crisis and identifying effective strategies to deal
with unforeseen challenges - before they occur, this workshop will
prove to be a vital asset to organizations of all sizes. Participants
who are currently encountering communications challenges and
those who just haven’t had to deal with a crisis - yet - will come
together to share experiences with fellow colleagues and coop-
eratively develop real-life, workable solutions. Attendees will gain
hands-on experience during the workshop, and will leave with
tools to begin their own crisis communications planning.
Presenters: Laura McGinnis, Account Manager , Renna
Communications, Washington, DC; Cathy Renna, Co-Founder
and Principal, Renna Communications, Washington, DC
Reinvigorating Your LGBTQA Campus Organization
Campus • All Audiences
This workshop will help attendees identify problems with their LG-
BTQA campus organizations and come up with solutions for those
problems. Participants will brainstorm ideas on how to reinvigorate
their organization through small groups and large group discus-
sion. Participants will then use these ideas to create an action plan
for the following year on how to strengthen their organizations.
Presenters: Laura Graving, Dayton, OH; David Topping,
Kalamazoo, MI
Small-Dollar Online Fundraising
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
We can’t ensure that you’ll raise $500 million like the Obama cam-
paign, but we can help you parse out how to create an effective
small-dollar online fundraising program. This session gives some
stats on why email is still the killer fundraising app, how to include
your supporters in your fundraising asks, and how to ensure that
your asks are part of a meaningful theory of change.
Presenters: Julia Rosen and Andy Szekeres
Spiritual Self-Defense
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
LGBT people and their allies don’t have to be at the mercy of
those who preach condemnation. We can empower ourselves
and recapture our connection to God. In her workshop “Spiri-
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tual Self-Defense” pastor and author Candace Chellew-Hodge
teaches: How to answer hatred or condemnation; How to avoid
pointless religious debates; Learn to see opponents as God’s gift;
Spiritual practices to reclaim your authentic self.
Presenters: Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge
Talking About Sex in the Trans and Trans Allies Community
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
How do we talk about sex in the transgender community with our
friends and partners? How about with our allies? We probably
don’t. And if we can’t talk about sex with our intimate friends and
our activist allies, how will we ever have these important discus-
sions with legislators and policy makers? We talk about equality
(very important conversation!), and we talk about issues with iden-
tification documents, and we talk about workplace discrimination,
but do we talk about our fundamental human right to sexual free-
dom - to freedom of sexual expression? And do we talk about
how those documents and that discrimination violates our fun-
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damental human right to our personal autonomy? No - we often
don’t. But we will here. How do these conversations take place?
What’s important for our community and for our allies to know
about how we live our lives as sexual beings...as human beings?
What are the discussions we need to have with each other to
demystify the issues around sex and sexuality in our community?
Join Yosenio Lewis for this interactive discussion as he leads par-
ticipants through a series of exercises that will help create con-
crete tools for individuals to use in their every day lives to facilitate
and engage in these important discussions.
Presenters: Yoseñio V. Lewis, Woodhull Freedom Foundation,
San Francisco, CA
The State of Higher Education for LGBT People: 2001-2009
Campus • Fundamentals
In a 2003 study the climate on college campuses was found to be
less than welcoming for LGBT people (e.g., 42% were the target
of harassment). In 2009, a follow-up study re-examines the cam-
pus climate for LGBT people. Given the increase in LGBT inclu-
sive policies, curricular and co-curricular programs, and services,
has the climate changed? This program will engage participants,
reviewing the results and brainstorming recommendations to ad-
dress the challenges unearthed in the report.
Presenters: Somjen Frazer, The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, New York, NY; Sue Rankin, Assistant Professor of Educa-
tion, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Transforming Leadership: Approaches to
Developing & Sustaining Trans Leaders
Organizational Development • Intermediate
This collaborative session will focus on key approaches to develop-
ing and sustaining Trans leaders in the movement. From identifying
and recruiting, to tackling organizational priorities around trans is-
sues, to sustaining and developing leadership; this workshop has it
all. Participants will leave with a solid understanding 6 key principals
in developing and sustaining trans leaders in the movement.
Presenters: Danielle Askini, GSA Network, San Francisco, CA;
Pauline Park, Co-Chair, New York Association For Gender Rights
Advocacy , New York, NY; Kim Pearson, AZ; Jaan Williams,
National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA
WORKSHOP SESSION 8
Saturday, February 6 • 4:45PM –6:15PM
¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say?
Creating Multilingual Spaces (continued)
Movement Building • 3 Hour Session • All Audiences
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Building LGBT Domestic Violence Coalitions:
It Takes A Village
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
While domestic violence within the LGBT community has received
more attention, resources to assist survivors are limited, making
Coalition-building essential. Attendees will leave with ideas on
how to begin their own coalition, people and resources to contact
and ideas on how to gain attention and membership to the coali-
tion. Attendees will leave with tools and ideas on whom to contact
within their communities and how to best create collaborations.
Presenters: Kitty Olde, Plano, TX; Heidi Pyron, Dallas, TX
Executive Directors Roundtable (Continued)
3 Hour Session • All Audiences
Faith and LGBTI Equality:
Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk
Faith & Spirituality • Intermediate
The intersection of faith communities and the LGBTI movement is
groundbreaking territory for our justice movement. In this session,
years of valuable experience in this work are combined to offer ef-
fective methodology both for organizing supportive communities
of faith and for training secular LGBTI and ally organizers to speak
the language of and work with communities of faith. You will value
this workshop if you are a faith leader who wants to learn how to
engage other religious leaders in organizing within your own faith
community, and/or a secular LGBTI or ally organizer who wants
to learn how to organize more effectively with people and com-
munities of faith.
Presenters: Kerry Chaplin, California Faith for Equality, West
Hollywood, CA; Sharon Groves, Deputy Director Religion and
Faith Program , HRC, Washington, DC; Harry Knox, Director,
Religion and Faith Program, HRC, Washington, DC
From Inclusive to Intersectional: The Joys and
Challenges of Diverse Online Communities
Communications, Media and Messaging • Intermediate
Multi-contributor blogs are virtual platforms where writers with
different identities, experiences, and politics come together. In
this workshop, editors and contributors from The Bilerico Project
and Feministing will examine the challenges of creating inclusive
communities for marginalized voices and issues. How do we cre-
ate spaces where diverse perspectives are heard and nurtured?
Based on real life case studies, this workshop will engage partici-
pants in dialogue about best practices for nurturing intersectional
analyses and building new coalitions, online and off.
Presenters: Bil Browning, Bilerico Project, Indianapolis, IN ;
Miriam Perez, Feministing.com, Washington, DC; Paige Schilt,
Bilerico Project, Austin, TX; Jos Truitt, Feministing.com
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House/ Ballroom Scene 101: A hands-on workshop on
the history of ballroom culture for LGBT people of color
People of Color • All Audiences
For decades, the LGBT House/Ballroom circuit has nourished
itself throughout the country in the shadows of urban life. Dat-
ing back to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, LGBT House/
Ballroom sensibilities and practices have been on the cutting edge
of pop culture ever since, influencing everything from American
fashion, music, entertainment and beauty industries. In spite of
the scene’s ubiquitous presence, mainstream audiences have yet
to accredit the origins of its influence on so many arenas of cul-
ture. In light of media exploitation, and the scene’s rapidly increas-
ing popularity, it is important to educate our communities about
the LGBT House/Ballroom scene’s structure and its tremendous
significance in LGBT history.
Presenters: Vogue Evolution
King & King Redux: Beating The Use of
School Curriculum as a Wedge Issue (Continued)
Movement Building • 3 Hour Session •
Learning to be Allies to Support Old Pride
Movement Building • All Audiences
This workshop for people of all ages will explore and practice
ways we can work together across the age divide to celebrate
getting older/old. Participants will get information on ageism, the
myths of aging, the ways young and old are divided from each
other. They will then be asked to practice challenges to ageist
policies and treatment and to list some specific things they can do
to make change at home.
Presenters: Rev. Shaba A. Barnes, Emeritus Co-Director, Old
Lesbians Organizing for Change, Albuquerque, NM; Rev. Jan
Griesinger, Co-Director - Old Lesbians Organizing for Change,
Athens, OH
LGBT Families Count! How to Mobilize
Your Community Around the 2010 Census
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
This workshop will train activists and community leaders on ways
to promote the 2010 Census in their communities, and mobilize
their communities around the Census. It will include a training and
discussion on how to form LGBT Complete Count Committees,
which are local, community-driven efforts to educate and engage
LGBT people around the Census, with a goal of getting a com-
plete count of LGBT Americans in 2010.
Presenters: Lanette Swopes, United States Bureau of the
Census, Philadelphia , PA; Matt Weinstein, United States
Bureau of the Census, Northridge , CA
Our Common Cause - A place for polyamorous/
non-monogamy communities in the LGBTIQA movement
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
As LGBTIQA movements strive for society to recognize and em-
brace a spectrum of gender and sexual identities, the polyam-
orous/non-monogamous (poly/NM) communities are working to
gain recognition and equity within these movements. This work-
shop is aimed at people who are interested in having a dialogue
regarding poly/NM issues in broader LGBTIQA movements. We
will examine issues of “outness,” inclusion in LGBTIQA move-
ments, and strategies for raising poly/NM concerns within your
own work.
Presenters: Timothy Gardner, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA;
Robin Nussbaum, SUNY, NY
Preaching to the Choir?
Moving Your Message Through Communities of Color
Communications, Media and Messaging • Intermediate
This workshop will help attendees move their LGBT messaging
into the challenging minority media market. By identifying typical
obstacles encountered by LGBT organizations in minority media,
and encouraging participants to share the real-world challenges
they have recently faced, the workshop will openly discuss and
generate workable solutions to working effectively with minority
media outlets.
Presenters: Laura McGinnis, Account Manager, Renna
Communications, Washington, DC
Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation:
Intergenerational Storytelling & Dialogue
Youth • All Audiences
Young people often feel left outside of the mainstream LGBTQI
movement, while seasoned activists experience their own set of
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challenges aging in a youth-centric LGBTQI community. This ses-
sion aims to bridge that generation gap through personal storytell-
ing. Participants will improve their abilities to build effective coalitions
and communities by cultivating meaningful relationships across
generations - relationships that hinge not on ageist assumptions,
but rather on common ground as explored through dialogue. Par-
ticipants of different age groups will be partnered so please come
with an open mind and heart, ready to listen and to share.
Presenters: Susan Gore, Mentor Group, Dallas , TX; Moonhawk
River Stone, Task Force Board Member; Co-Chair, Empire State
Pride Agenda Foundation; Ending Disparities Committee, Niska-
yuna, NY; Vincent Villano, Campus Progress, Washington, DC
The Future of Sexual Orientation
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
As the gender revolution proceeds, LGBT sexual behavior and
partnerships appear to be aligning less and less with identities
based on traditional, binary gender categories. How do we think
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about this? What does lesbian gay or bisexual mean today? The
emergence of homoflexible, heteroflexible, queer, and pansexual
sexual orientations in community discussions and on social net-
working sites reveals shifting identities. Additionally, some sexual
communities and identities are forming principally around what we
do in bed, i.e. based on sensation, power relationships or specific
fetishes. Other communities are forming based on how we con-
figure our relationships, i.e., serial or life-long monogamy, polyam-
orous family configurations, swinging, or long-term single life. The
question arises: What is the future of sexual orientation?
Presenters: Justin Tanis, Tristan Taormino, Amy Andre
The Pursuit of Bully-Free Schools: Innovative
Approaches to Improve School Climate for LGBTQ Kids
Youth • All Audiences
This interactive presentation will bring participants up to speed
on the most recent information on bullying and cutting-edge bul-
lying prevention programs. Participants will leave the presentation
with an understanding of the best practices for bullying prevention
and the tools to promote safe and friendly schools. Participants
will also learn about ways to build community-based partnerships
that foster respect and acceptance among youth of different
backgrounds.
Presenters: Carol Bresnahan, Ewing , NJ; Professor Robert
Salem, University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, OH;
Professor Michelle Stecker, Ewing, NJ
The Trevor Project’s Lifeguard Workshop
Youth • All Audiences
INTENDED FOR PARTICIPANTS 24 AND UNDER PLEASE.
Join The Staff from The Trevor Project to learn more about how
you can become a lifeguard and save the lives of your LGBT and
questioning friends who may be going through an incredibly tough
time because of the way they are treated in their homes, commu-
nities, schools, and religious institutions.
Presenters: Kelli Peterman, Trevor Project, New York, NY;
Dave Reynolds, The Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix
Schneider, The Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Vacha
Jr., Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA
Using Monologues as an Educational Tool
Campus • All Audiences
Learn about a different way to start conversations about LGBTQ
identities and issues. The Gender and Sexuality Center at The
University of Texas at Austin started a peer facilitation program
that uses student written and performed monologues as a way to
educate and start dialogues around LGBTQ identities. This work-
shop will talk about their model; students in the program will per-
form monologues and talk out their experiences with the program.
Presenters: Shane Whalley, Austin, TX
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Visual Voices: Latino GLBTQ Artists, Art and You!
Art & Culture • All Audiences
Sabrina Zarco, Chicana Two Spirit artist, will lead a discussion
spotlighting some U.S. GLBTQ artists of Latino heritage. Partici-
pants will gain a better understanding of how these artists use the
visual as a tool for activism. Explore how these artists address
social realities such as poverty, discrimination, religion, family, and
the legacy of machismo, a gender differentiation found in most
Latin American cultures. Take a look at how these artists found a
visual voice to challenge racism and heterosexism and discover
how you can also find your visual voice.
Presenters: Sabrina Zarco, Organizer, Dos Locas Productions,
Little Rock, AR
Youth Led Youth Groups:
The Benefit of Youth Helping Each Other
Youth • All Audiences
More often than not, the time in life when growing up is the hard-
est is even harder if you’re growing up queer. Unfortunately there
aren’t a lot of good ways to deal with it. To make it worse, this
seems to be a time when adults seem to forget, causing difficulty
when trying to relate to today’s kids. This is what makes youth
led youth groups so successful. This seminar will outline a suc-
cessful youth led youth group, as well as a successful relationship
between youth, youth leaders, and adult guides.
Presenters: Samantha Iwen, Boston Alliance Of Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, Boston, MA
CAUCUS 2
Saturday, February 6 • 6:30PM –7:30PM
Bisexuality and Political Issues
Bisexual Community
The Bisexual Political Caucus is open to individuals who would like
to share their views on what issues the Bi/fluid/pansexual move-
ment should focus on. We will discuss personal political beliefs
from a non partisan perspective and how we can best work col-
lectively to achieve equal rights.
Presenters: Matt Goodman, BiNET USA, Dallas, TX
Butch/Femme: A Feminist Conversation between Lovers
Gender Issues
This session will be a public conversation between Kelly Anderson
and Carmen Vazquez who have been in a relationship for three
years and have had many a private conversation about feminism
and queer liberation, butch and femme and the evolution of those
identities and their place in lesbian culture; about how sexual and
gender identity self determination represents the democratization
of intimate identities in our culture, not just in queer culture but
the broader culture as well. In the intimacy of their relationship to
each other and to past lovers, they have experienced how butch/
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femme conforms to and defies the stereotypes and how it has
shaped the content of their erotic lives. Following the conversa-
tion, the session will be open to Q/A and commentary.
Presenters: Kelly Anderson, Smith College, Northampton, MA;
Carmen Vazquez, AIDS Institute, New York, NY
Caucus/Networking of LGBT Asian Americans, South
Asians, Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)
People of Color
Join other LGBT Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast
Asians and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to tell about your organiza-
tions, share strategies, and plan for a National Queer Asian Pacific
Islander Alliance.
Presenters: Ben de Guzman, Co-Director for Programs,
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC;
Liz Thompson, API Pride of Chicago, Chicago, IL
College Student Caucus
Campus
Student leaders on college campuses rarely have a chance to
breathe, let alone work with, support, and learn from student on
other college campuses. This is disappointing given the fact that
these students are involved in such amazing work on their home
campuses. This caucus will bring together student leaders from
campuses across the country to identify common issues; learn
new program strategies and program practices; and create col-
laborative relationships with other students.
Presenters: Elizabeth Elkins, Emory University Office of LGBT
Life, Atlanta, GA; Michael Shutt, Emory Office of LGBT Life,
Atlanta, GA
Designing Usable Research
Research and Policy
This year’s research caucus will focus on how to insure that a
research project is useful for activists. We will discuss issues of
design, reporting, timeliness, and accessibility/formats most help-
ful to activists.
Presenters: Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates,
Somerville, MA
Forget the Polite Conversation:
Getting Real About FTM Transition
Transgender Community & Issues
Let’s drop the polite conversations and let’s talk bluntly. Let’s talk
about our experiences growing up and being socialized as female.
What kinds of changes do we experience in our community once
we transition or come out as transgender? How does transition
affect our sexuality and relationships? What are the golden pieces
of information that you know now, that you didn’t know before?
What are realistic expectations to have about testosterone and
managing emotional and physical changes in a non-self-destruc-
tive manner? Are all FTM’s full of anger and aggression? How do
we create or re-negotiate our support networks? Where can we
find mentoring and safe, reliable information? These are all im-
portant questions that come up as we transition. This workshop
will create the space for participants to speak openly and frankly
about their personal identity, transition, fears (and joys) of transi-
tioning from Female-to-Male.
Presenters: Shane Morgan, TransOhio, Columbus, OH
How LGBTQA History Informs Current Activism
Campus
This caucus will be an opportunity to learn about LGBTQA Activ-
ist History in the Heartland and how it relates to national issues
and the LGBTQ rights movement of today. Let’s dialogue about
ways to find out about our history, share stories and experiences,
and how to use this information for inspiration and ongoing social
change in the work we are doing today!
Presenters: Pat Tetreault, Sexuality Education Coordinator,
University Health Center, Lincoln, NE
Intercountry & Transracial Adoptees Caucus
People of Color
An informal discussion and networking session for all transracial
and intercountry adoptees and people of color raised in foster care.
Presenters: Shawyn Lee, Assistant Director, University of
Minnesota GLBTA Programs Office, Minneapolis, MN; Pauline
Park, Co-Chair, New York Association For Gender Rights
Advocacy , New York, NY
Latin@s: Estamos Presente
People of Color
This Latino LGBT caucus Latin@s: Estamos Presente will allow
SATURDAY SESSIONS
activists from around the country to connect, network, hear and
share the status of the Latino LGBT movement in the U.S.A. and
Puerto Rico. Join us to discuss the state of the Latino LGBT
movement and where it’s headed.
Presenters: Jorge Cestou, Chicago, IL; Cristina Martinez,
Pearland, TX
Leather Caucus
Sexual Freedom
Whatever your kink – come meet your peers – fetishists of every
stripe, the tippity tops, the brash bottoms, the doms and dom-
mes, the bois, the high femmes, the givers and takers, the lovers
of pain and pleasure. We’ll all be here, queer and fabulous.
Presenters: Jaime M. Grant, Director of the Policy Institute,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC
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LGBTQ Jewish Caucus
Faith & Spirituality
Calling all LGBTQ Jews, activists for LGBTQ inclusion, and folks
who want to support LGBTQ Jews! This session is an opportunity
to connect, share plans and experiences, and learn with LGBTQ
Jews and their allies.
Presenters: Gregg Drinkwater, Co-Director, Mosaic: The National
Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Denver, CO; Andrea
Jacobs, Jamaica Plains, MA; Vanessa Prell, Washington, DC
Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus
Sexual Freedom
The Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus provides an important af-
finity group for those who aren’t monogamous. The session pro-
vides a safe, non-judgmental space for folks to meet, network
with others, ask questions, and share ideas.
Presenters: Timothy Gardner, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA;
Robin Nussbaum, SUNY, NY
Queerspawn Caucus
Families
As folks with LGBTQ parents we often act as ambassadors for
the queer community - educating peers and teachers, represent-
ing the real face of the LGBTQ family, and being advocates for
change. At the same time, living in a world that treats our families
differently can be isolating or challenging. This caucus will bring
together folks with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen-
der, and/or queer parent/guardian for community building and
empowerment as queerspawn activists.
Presenters: Monica Canfield-Lenfest, COLAGE, San Francisco,
CA; Bethany Lockhart, COLAGE, San Francisco, CA
Sex Workers’ Caucus
Sexual Freedom
A space for all people who work or have worked in the sex indus-
try to discuss our role and needs within the larger queer/LGBTQ
community.
Presenters: Gina de Vries, San Francisco, CA
SOFFAs Supporting Each Other
Gender Issues
Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies of transpeople face
a unique set of issues that are rarely addressed within dialogues
around sexual orientation or gender identity. This will be a space
for SOFFAs, particularly lesbians partnered with FTMs, to discuss
maintaining ones identity while affirming ones partner’s, combat-
ing misconceptions about orientation and gender and how to take
care of oneself emotionally. This is not trans 101.
Presenters: Daunasia Yansey, BAGLY, Boston, MA
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The Alphabet Soup of Sexual “Minority” Youth
People of Color
Latino Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning
(GLBTQ) youth face tremendous difficulties in a society and cul-
ture where heterosexuality often seems the only acceptable orien-
tation, homosexuality is regarded as deviant, and variation from
cultural concepts of “machismo” often evokes hostility or violence.
Through this workshop, participants will be introduced to the vari-
ous sexual minority groups in society and gain a greater under-
standing of the concept of the sexuality spectrum. Through an
interactive exercise and presentation, this workshop seeks to act
as a catalyst for greater understanding of sexual minority groups
and the many youth who identify themselves as queer.
Presenters: Ariel Cerrud, Advocates For Youth, OR; William
Dennis, Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC
The National LGBT Aging Roundtable:
A Report on Activities
Aging
This caucus will offer a report-out and update on the activities of
the National LGBT Aging Roundtable. The Roundtable is facilitat-
ed by SAGE is includes representatives from LGBT organizations
around the country that are doing key work in aging services and
advocacy.
Presenters: Lisa Krinsky, Boston, MA; Karen Taylor, SAGE/
Queens, New York, NY; Laurie Young, The Task Force,
Washington, DC
Transgender Religious Leaders Network Reception
Transgender Community & Issues
Join leaders from the Transgender Religious Leaders Network to
learn about our organizing within and around diverse faith tradi-
tions, including an emerging speakers bureau and other network-
ing resources. Both secular and faith -based allies are encouraged
to join us for this time of relationship building and getting to know
one another.
Presenters: Lauryn Farris, United Church of Christ Transgender
Collective; Richard Juang, Cambridge, MA; Chris Paige
Using Social Media to Build a Movement -
Pink Menno Campaign
Faith & Spirituality
The Pink Menno Campaign focused on creating a visible presence
of LGBTQ individuals and allies at Mennonite Church convention.
The successful movement relied heavily on social networking. This
session explores strategies and tools employed by Campaign or-
ganizers. Participants will leave with increased understanding of the
role Ning, Facebook, Twitter and texting played. Participants will
have the opportunity to work together to identify tools and strate-
gies that make sense within the communities they seek to impact.
Presenters: Luke Yoder, Pink Menno Campaign, Denver, CO
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Weaving the Nations Together:

First Nations Community Dialogue
People of Color
This is an internal dialogue for self-identified First Nations folk to
build community and connect Two Spirit organizing occurring
across North and South America. As part of this dialogue, we will
share the ongoing work of the First Nations Collective and discuss
the next steps as we struggle for inclusion in the overall movement
for LGBT equality. This session for First Nations / Two Spirit / In-
digenous - identified people only.
Presenters: Coya Artichoke; Paulina Hernandez, Co-Director,
Southerners on New Ground, New Market, TN; Melissa Hoskins;
Melissa Pope, Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Center, Oak-

LIVE
land University

Working in Coalition - How a committee of LGBT

organizations from across the state are able to
do coalition work together.
Movement Building
This caucus will detail how one coalition of organizations doing
LGBT aging work from across NYS came together to do advo-
cacy and create a standardized cultural competency training. This
LARGE
caucus will provide the opportunity for participants to share their
own experiences of working in coalitions and provide some useful
‘how-to’s’ to make that successful.
Presenters: Glen Francis, GRIOT Circle, Brooklyn, NY; Jonathan
•
Lang, Empire State Pride Agenda, NY; Tom Weber, SAGE

Workplace Equality for Public Employees

Workplace
Public Employees Caucus. Join fellow public employees at the
THINK
BIG
local, state, and national levels, as we devise a plan to ensure
equality and inclusion of LGBTQ employees and their partners.

SATURDAY SESSIONS
Presenters: Kayci Barnett, Denton, TX

THAT’S
IT FOLKS
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