Contents

Schedule at a Glance 3
Welcome Letters
From the Executive Director 5
From the Conference Host Committee 6
Greetings from Elected Officials 9
Two-Spirit Open Letter 15
Conference Information
Host Committee,Thank You’s 7
Creating Safe Space, Trans Etiquette 19
Spiritual Diversity Ethics Statement 20
A New Year, a New Opportunity:
Engaging Our Family at Creating Change 20
A Guide to Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette 21
Creating Accessibility 22
General Info:
First Timers’ Orientation, Childcare, Cyber Café 25
Spiritual Gatherings 25
Host Committee Services 27
Exhibitors 29
Conference Events
Plenary Programs 30
Award Honorees 33
Receptions, Meetings, Special Events 36
Film Screenings 39
Institutes, Academy, and Sessions
Day-Long Institutes 43
Sessions By Topic 51
Academy for Leadership and Action 61
Friday Sessions
Session 1 71
Session 2 75
Session 3 78
Session 4 82
Caucus 1 86
Saturday Sessions
Session 5 89
Session 6 93
Session 7 96
Session 8 100
Caucus/Networking 2 104
Sunday Sessions
Session 9 108
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Task Force Leadership Council 112
Task Force Board and Staff 114
In Memoriam 115
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 Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

9:00am–6:30pm Day-Long Institutes

Thursday, February 3, 2011

9:00am–6:30pm Day-Long Institutes
7:00pm First Timer’s Orientation
7:00pm Welcome To Minneapolis Reception
Registration 8:00pm • Opening Plenary with Faisal Alam, Bishop Yvette Flunder,
Tuesday, February 1 Rabbi Joshua Lesser, Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson
Practice Spirit, Do Justice: Hard Work for Our Common Good •
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Wednesday, February 2
8:00am – 10:00pm Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3 9:00am–10:30am Workshop Session 1 Academy for Leadership and Action
8:00am – 10:00pm 10:45am–12:15pm Workshop Session 2 9:00am–12:15pm • Session 1
Friday, February 4 12:15pm–1:30pm Lunch on your own
8:00am – 8:00pm 12:45pm Muslim Friday Prayer Salat-ul-Jumah
Saturday, February 5 1:30pm–2:45pm • Plenary Session with Rea Carey: State of the Movement •
8:00am – 6:00pm
3:00pm–4:30pm Workshop Session 3 Academy for Leadership and Action
Sunday, February 6 4:45pm– 6:15pm Workshop Session 4 3:00pm–6:15pm • Session 2
8:00am – 12:00 noon
6:30pm– 7:30pm Caucuses and Networking Sessions
7:30pm Shabbat Service
Cyber Café Hours 7:30pm Recovery Meeting
Thursday, February 3 8:00pm Stand UP for Change with Sandra Valls
through Sunday, February 6 8:30pm Receptions and Evening Events
Same as registration hours
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Exhibit Area
9:00am–10:30am Workshop Session 5 Academy for Leadership and Action
Thursday, February 3
10:45am–12:15pm Workshop Session 6 9:00am–12:15pm • Session 3
through Sunday, February 6
12:15pm–1:30pm Lunch on your own

Childcare Hours 1:30pm–2:45pm • Plenary Session with Chrystos: Indigenous Peoples of

the Americas: Towards Collective Sovereignty •
Friday, February 4 and
3:00pm– 4:30pm Workshop Session 7 Academy for Leadership and Action
Saturday, February 5
8:00am – 6:00pm 4:45pm–6:15pm Workshop Session 8 3:00pm–6:15pm • Session 4

Sunday, February 6 6:30pm– 7:30pm Caucuses and Networking Sessions

8:00am – 3:00pm 7:30pm Recovery Meeting
8:00pm The Second Annual MasQueerAde Ball
8:30pm Chrystos: Poetry Reading
10:00pm Sextravaganza

Sunday, February 6, 2011

9:30am–11:00am Workshop Session 9
9:30am–11:00am Engaging the Spirit: An Interfaith Gathering
11:30am–1:00pm • Brunch and Closing Plenary with God-Des and She •
2:00pm Conference Feedback Session

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From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director

Welcome to the 23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change!

Thanks to our superstar Minneapolis Host Committee for working hard for so many months to roll out a rainbow
carpet of welcome to all of us - especially its leadership team of Alfonso Wenker, Kelly Lewis, Kevin Xiong, and Rev.
Dr. Robyn Provis. Thanks also to our own staff Russell Roybal, Sue Hyde and Marta Alvarado for their hard work to
produce Creating Change.

Results from mid-terms elections still reverberate in our communities, but let’s not forget to celebrate our important
accomplishments as a community. In April, we queered the census, with over 140,000 of us returning our forms
with a brilliant pink sticker demanding our relationships and our families are included in the picture of this country’s
diversity. This collective action to counter our invisibility prompted the right-wing group Americans for Truth About
Homosexuality to sputter, “Obama Queers the Census.” Yep!

Our collaborative work with other organizations on the New Beginning Initiative coalition that we head up has
produced tangible success in improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through federal
agency policy change. Just to name a few, transgender people can now more easily change their passport gender
markers; increased funds flow to vital services for LGBT people; discrimination against same-sex couples in hospital
settings is banned; and school administrators must protect students from harassment on account of their sexual
orientation and gender identity.

Other good news: our colleagues in the great state of Illinois scored a major success with passage of their civil
unions law; our friends in Bowling Green, Ohio fought off attacks and passed two ordinances protecting people
from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and public education based on sexual
orientation and gender identity/expression; and Florida’s gay adoption ban was declared unconstitutional ending a
shameful chapter in that state.

Pro-LGBT faith leaders gather here at Creating Change, under the programming banner of Practice Spirit, Do
Justice. We welcome them and look forward to an ever-stronger base of people of faith who stand with us and for
us in years ahead.

And yet, mid-term election results present new challenges to us, but we are ready! We have faced down hostile leg-
islative initiatives many times before. We will continue to identify and work with fair-minded members of Congress
who support and defend equality for LGBT people. We will push for the administration and its agencies to make
additional tangible changes that benefit lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and our families. We will work
with local partners in communities across the country to secure equality. Political winds and players may shift, but
the fundamental needs of the people do not. We will hold this administration accountable, because no matter who
is in office, our community needs jobs, protection from discrimination, and a roof over our heads, a way to feed our
families. We won’t settle for less.

As we gather together, let us not forget the tragic losses we have faced this year – and in years past - in the sui-
cides caused by violent harassment faced by our community’s young people. Our nation is facing a serious epi-
demic that must be addressed by our schools and administrators. Our elected officials must act promptly on federal
legislation aimed to protect LGBT students from harassment.

We gather in Minneapolis, as we have gathered each year since 1988 in cities across this country, to strengthen our
movement by building our skills, planning our strategies, sharing much-needed information and perspectives, and
forging stronger bonds among us.

As we seek a transformed society, not one of us can sit on the sidelines. Thank you for your courage, your perse-
verance and your integrity. Now, more than ever, together, we will create change!

Rea Carey
Executive Director

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 From the Conference Host Committee

Welcome to Minneapolis, Minnesota in the land of 10,000 Lakes!

Thank you for joining us at the 23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. We invite you
to dive right in to as many of the over 250 workshops as you can manage while enjoying the beauty that is
Minneapolis. Many people, including over 100 Host Committee Members have worked tirelessly over the
past year toward making Creating Change 2011 a success.

We know its frigid outside, but the community you build, your conference take-aways and the sites of the city
will keep you warm!

Now, a bit about this winter wonderland: Minneapolis is a progressive city with a dynamic vibe and a
swirl of creative energy. It’s easy-to-navigate so we hope you’ll squeeze a lot into your visit. In the midst of
a bustling city environment, vast green spaces provide many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. So don’t
be afraid of a little snow and a bit of wind . Get outside!!

Some Fun Minneapolis Facts include:

• The largest shopping complex in the country, The Mall of America- Bloomington, MN. Uffdah!
(You’ll learn what that means below.)
• Nearly 200 miles of recreational paths winding through the metro area.
• 22 city lakes and more than 170 parks means that no Minneapolis resident lives more than 6 blocks from a park.
• More theater seats per capita than any U.S. city outside of New York City.
• #1 Bike-Friendly city in the country.

Proud Minnesota (LGBTQA) Firsts include:

• The longest-serving openly Lesbian State Legislator in the U.S: Rep. Karen Clark (DFL 61A).
• First State to ban employment discrimination based on Gender Identity with the passage of the
Minnesota Human Rights Act of 1993.
• Shades of Yellow (SOY) – the first Hmong LGBT non-profit organization in the U.S (no other known
organization in the world).
• Philanthrofund Foundation’s (PFUND) Communities of Color Endowment is the first permanently endowed
fund serving LGBT people of color in the nation.
• Minneapolis the first home away from home for the Creating Change Conference when it first convened
outside Washington D.C in 1991. Welcome Back!
• The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection of GLBT historical materials houses over 40,000 items, making it
one of the largest GLBT history collections in the United States.

One last thing, here is a little Minnesota Slang for your stay. Just in case you hear these words, you will
know what they mean.
“Uffdah!” =Anything from WOW to CRAP!
“Ya, you betcha!”= Yes certainly/ you are correct/sure thing .

We hope you get out of the hotel and see a bit of our city including eating, night-life, shopping, and perhaps
even theater. On Nicollet Avenue, Hennepin Avenue and First Avenue you’ll find bars, burgers, baristas, and
beaucoup to do! Good restaurants are plentiful! Check out the guide book that our Local Hospitality
Committee put together for your perusal and enjoyment!

Have a great conference. Enjoy yourself, learn, and meet new people!

Warmly,
Alfonso Wenker Kelly Lewis Kevin Xiong Rev. Dr. Robyn Provis
Creating Change 2011 Conference Co-Chairs

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 Host Committee THANK YOU!
Co-Chairs Thanks and many appreciations for your help in making The 23rd
Alfonso Wenker Kevin Xiong National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change a great success!
Kelly Lewis Rev. Dr. Robyn Provis
Aaron Lauer Keri Beyer African American Working Group Mickey McIntyre and
Kevin Watson Steven Aggergaard realChange Partners
Adam Robbins
Al Oertwig Khang Xiang Faisal Alam Rev. Irene Monroe
Alie Tichenor Kim Langness All God’s Children, Morgan Stanley Waterbury Group
Amy Johnson Kris Lockhart Metropolitan Community Church National Center for Transgender Equality
Anna Meyer Lane McKiernan
Macky Alston NoMi Happy Hour Crew
Anne Hodson Lauren Beach
Anne Phibbs Laurie Crelly API Working Group Old Lesbians Organizing for Change
Arin MacNeese Leigh Combs Urooj Arshad (OLOC)
Bao Thao Leigh Smythe Arcus Foundation OpenSource Leadership Strategies Inc.
Barbara Friedman Lexi Schoenbauer Out & Equal
Coya Artichoker
Barry Lau Linda Her
Audre Lorde Project OutFront Minnesota
Becky Evan Liz Loeb
Becky Saltzman Loree Lindblom Ben & Jerry’s Lake Calhoun Out4Good
Becky Thao Loretta Worthington Black Tie Dinner Cara Page
Beng Chang Lou Hoffman Sung Park
CAMP Bar
Beth Zemsky Luciano Patino Lars Peterssen and RD Zimmerman
Bethany Snyder Lupe Castillo Campus Pride, Shane Windmeyer
Betsy Gardner Lyn Mitchell Campus Progress, Vincent Paolo Villano PFund Foundation
Brian Elliot Madson Nathan Mandy Carter Milo Pinkerton & Virgil Taus
Brett Bowman Maggie George Mike Cassidy Milo and Virgil’s Fabulous Fund of
Casey Lankow Marie Fromm The Minneapolis Foundation
Cassie Lang Matt Musel CenterLink, Terry Stone
Chris Pollum
Chao Yang Maureen Carlson COLOR CoordiNATION
Max Gries Pride Institute
Chong Moua Consortium of Higher Education
Cheryl Maloney Meg Riley LGBT Resource Professionals Queers for Economic Justice
Cheyenne Johnson Michael Grewe Ann Craig Queer Muslim Working Group
Chloe Billadew Michael Spivak Quorum: Twin Cities GLBTA
Sharon Day
Constance Hope Michele Steinwald Chamber of Commerce
Curt Prins Ming Lee Days Inn University
Rainbow Health Initiative
Daony Vang Miranda Foslien Francisco De León
David Coleman Monica Meyer Carolina Ramos
Orlando Espin
David Vang Monica Bryand Anita May Rosenstein Foundation
Faith in America
David Weiss Pada Lo SAGE, Michael Adams and
David Glick Peter Kim Family Equality Council, Jennifer Chrisler
Serena Worthington
Dejuar Gamble Philip Lowe Kenyon Farrow
Kevin Salzer
Devin Reynolds Qualley Neal Franklin Cafe
Donna Olsen Rabbi Jared H. Saks Allen Schuh and
Freedom to Marry, Evan Wolfson Anderson Prize Foundation
Donnia Moschkau Rabbi Melissa B. Simon
Doug Bright Rabbi Michael Latz Fresh Fruit Radio Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer
Earnest Simpkins Rabbi Sharon Steifel, Bishop Yvette Flunder Shades of Yellow
Elizabeth Scott Rachel Olson Rev. Elder Darlene Gardner Patrick Shuette & Dolores Dohm
Eric Meininger Remy Corso Gay and Lesbian Alliance
EG Nelson Rev. Paul Eknes-Tucker Southerners on New Ground
Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Fue Khang Richard LaFortune The Bishops and Elders Council
Galen Smith Richard Garnett Lisa Geduldig
The City of Minneapolis, Mayor R.T. Rybak
Greg Mastel Rick Stafford Gill Foundation
The Colu.mn and Andy Birkey
James Pennington Rob Yaege Gladius
Rochelle James The Disability Justice Collective
Janet Dahlem GLBT in Recovery
Jason King Roger Youngs The First Nations Collective
Ron Morris Gita Gulati-Partee
Jason Bucklin The National Religious Leadership
Jay Wilson Ross Murray Dr. Sharon Groves Roundtable
Harvey Zuckman Roxanne Anderson Ashley Harness The Saloon
J.B. Mayo Ryan Kroening Hilton Minneapolis, The Smitten Kitten
Jean Nikolaus Tretter Sara Olson Joe Grossi and Andy Paschke
Jeff Falk Sarah Turnbull Roberto Tijerna
Illusion Theater
Jeff Gundvaldson Scott Anderson Transgender Working Group
Jen Parshley Scott Mayer Imperial Court of Minnesota
Trevor Project, Charles Robbins
Jessi Tebben Shai Wise Institute for Welcoming Resources
Paul Tuchman
Jessica Rosenberg Sheila Lais International Imperial Court System
Jim Kelley Sheila Zemsky Twin Cities Black Pride
Jewish Movement Building Group
JJ Kahle Siobhan Brewer University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Joan Higinbotham Steve Lennis John Larsen & Mike Stewart
Dave Wait
Jodi Fritsche Steven Levy Lavender Magazine
Welcoming Church Program Leaders
Jodi Prichard Susanne Powers LGBT Therapists of Minnesota
John Brentnall Todd Park Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz
LouAnn’s Restaurant
Justin Jagoe Troy Bermel Miriam Weinstein
Kasey Miklik Willam Panzarella Mall of America
Erin Whitworth
Kate Nelson Willow Gallagher Marketingnonprofits.org
Wilde Roast Café
Kathleen Remund Xay Yang Meet Minneapolis:
Kaye Fredensborg Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson
Friend of the Host Committee Convention & Visitors Bureau
Kayla Butler Beth Zemsky
Metropolitan State University
Kelly Abel Knochel
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The First Nations Collective is honored to welcome you to the
23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change.
We are an autonomous Collective organized around providing greater awareness of and access for Two Spirit people at Creating
Change. It is unfortunate but true that over the course of the next few days, we may become the voice for many. However, we can-
not speak for all. We are here as people committed to justice with an intersectional understanding. We are here to make space for
those who are not here yet, who are not ready, or who could not afford the journey. We accept this responsibility with humility and
honor while knowing that we cannot speak for the many facets of our community.

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

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

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

Again, within our own communities, more often than not, we have held a place of honor and respect as Two Spirit people. We were
teachers, spiritual leaders, and family members. Our presence here is to offer this larger community a vision beyond tolerance or
equality. We offer a vision of acceptance and reverence that existed pre-colonization, that our communities remember, and from
this larger community may benefit. We invite all to attend our workshops: Immigration and Indigenous Borders on Friday at 3:00
PM, Land, Culture, and Desire: 2 Spirit People and LGBT Organizing on Saturday at 3:00 PM and Weaving the Nations Together,
a Two Spirit community caucus for those who identify as Two-Spirit and indigenous on Saturday at 6:30 PM. We are also excited
about the first ever plenary session on Saturday afternoon dedicated to indigenous issue and sovereignty. We are honored to bring
Chrystos to Creating Change and engage in historic discussions about the role of First Nations people within overall LGBTIGNC
movement for liberation.

As part of our core value, we align our organizing with all indigenous people’s struggles throughout the world, this year we are ex-
cited and proud to honor the work of our comrades working on behalf of justice and recognition of Palestine and Palestinian rights.
In that spirit of solidarity, we encourage you to also attend a workshop on Pinkwashing by the local chapter of the International Jew-
ish Anti-Zionist Network on Sunday morning. We also encourage people to be aware of a national tour of queer Palestinian activists
who will be traveling through the Twin Cities and presenting on their work and journey at Saturday at 3:00 PM in Palestinian/US
Queers: What Is Our Relationship? We view the issue of Palestine as one of an indigenous people’s struggle to retain their right to
their land and self-determination. In their struggle, we see our own and in doing so, we wish to provide any support we can to their
on-going struggle for sovereignty.

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

Thank you,

The First Nations Collective

Coya Artichoker – Sicanu Lakota; Paulina Hernández - Chicana Mestiza; Melissa Hoskins – Cherokee: Robert John Hinojosa –
Pueblo / Zuni; Angel Fabian – Zapoteco Xicano; Mija – Aztec / Mestizo

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 Creating Safe Space for Everyone!

Creating Change is committed to being a safe and positive Transgender Etiquette

space for the LGBT community and its allies. We want Adapted from The 2002 Portland Creating Change Host Committee
everyone here to learn a lot, meet fabulous new people
from all over the country, and feel good about talking and There are many transgender people at Creating Change.
relaxing with each other as we build a stronger movement. To be inclusive and improve the quality of life for transgen-
Towards that end, we want to remind everyone of guiding der people here, please read and act upon the following.
principles that are essential to maintaining respectful and
safe space for each other, especially for our younger Please do not assume anyone’s gender, even people you
colleagues. may have met in the past. A person’s external appearance
may not match their internal gender identity. You can-
There are two fundamental principles to the Creating not know the gender or sex of someone by their physical
Change Conference: human rights and solidarity. Sexual body, voice, appearance or mannerisms. Pay attention to
harassment strikes at the heart of both. It creates feelings a person’s purposeful gender expression. We consider it
of uneasiness, humiliation and discomfort. It is an expression polite to ask: “What pronoun do you prefer?” or “How do
of perceived power and superiority by the harasser over you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words
another person. for anyone. When you are unsure of a person’s gender
identity and you don’t have an opportunity to ask some-
Sexual Harassment is any unwanted attention of a sexual one what words they prefer, try using that person’s name
nature, such as remarks about appearance or personal life, or gender-neutral phrases like “the person in the red shirt,”
offensive written or visual actions like graffiti or degrading instead of “that woman or man.”
pictures, physical contact of any kind or sexual demands.
One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs
Harassment may include, but is not limited to, unwelcome is to designate restrooms gender neutral. In bathrooms,
behavior of a sexual nature. For example: many transgender people face harassment that can lead
to anything from deep discomfort to arrest or death. Re-
• Touching someone without their permission gardless of what bathroom you are in, please let everyone
(grabbing, hugging, petting) pee in peace. Each of us can decide for ourselves in which
bathroom we belong.
• Sexual propositions
Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories
• Sexually offensive pictures, magazines, notes, when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s
calendars, cartoons, or jokes privacy and boundaries and do not ask unnecessary
questions. Educate yourself through books, web sites, and
• Unwanted flirtations or advances transgender workshops. Then please join the many hard-
working allies who are working to respond appropriately
• Graphic comments about an individual’s body to transphobic situations. Respectful allies, who learn from
or dress and with transgender people and then educate others, are
important for successful transgender liberation.
• Verbal abuse (including sexual insults and name-
calling) Thank you for your help and have a great conference!

• Repeated pressure or requests for sexual activities

• Rewards for granting sexual favors or the with-

holding of rewards for refusing to grant sexual
favors

Creating Change is committed to creating an environment

where all participants feel safe and comfortable. If you
feel harassed or threatened, please ask to speak with
the Conference Director who can be contacted in the
registration area.

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 Creating Safe Space for Everyone!
Spiritual Diversity
Ethics Statement
In the course of the next five days of Creating Change 2011,
we acknowledge the rich diversity of many communities and
identities that will be represented and experienced. Together
we welcome holding space with Jews, Christians, Muslims,
Two Spirit people, Atheists, Wiccans, Pagans, Buddhists, February 3, which also marks the Lunar New Year for many
Agnostics as well as those who practice other spiritual or Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific
non-spiritual paths.
We also acknowledge that we do not gather to form agree-
ments about right belief or faith, only the intersections that
continue to form our personal, spiritual, social, and cultural
lives.
What we can affirm and agree on is:
• The inherent worth of every person; that every person is
worthy of respect, support, caring and invitation
• The intention to work towards a culture free of discrimination
and oppression based on any identity
• The ethic that everyone is welcome to participate in this
conference without the need to become like us in order to • South Asian activists and organizations have actively en-
be acceptable
• That the way we behave towards one another is the truest
expression of we believe
Lastly, it is our hope that the collaborations that take place will
contribute to the removal of barriers that separate us, while
empowering us to bless and transform the world through our
unique gifts together and individually. May it be so.
We hope you enjoy the conference.
The Spiritual Needs Subcommittee of the 2011 Host Committee
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A New Year, a New Opportunity:
Engaging Our Family at
Creating Change
The Planning Committee for this year’s “AAPI Focus: Building
a Queer AAPI Movement” is pleased to welcome participants
to this year’s Creating Change. Creating Change kicks off on
Islanders (AAPI), and we take this opportunity for dialogue and
education about who we are in all our complexity.
In the spirit of solidarity and understanding the diversity
amongst the AAPI rubric, we affirm the following:
• Many AAPIs, including Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese
Americans, celebrate Lunar New Year with their families and
cannot be with us. We commit to making sure that their
absence does not signify their erasure;
• The Twin Cities AAPI population, including the large Hmong
American population and a significant number of Korean
American adoptees who are LGBT, provides a unique oppor-
tunity to discuss what diversity means for all of us;
gaged with the Task Force and continue to push the enve-
lope of the entire LGBT movement to make connections to
constituents and issues that are complex and intersectional;
and
• Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander queers have led a
number of movements, from fighting for our own sovereignty
in solidarity with other indigenous peoples, to starting the
fight for marriage equality a decade before the mainland.
We look forward to a large slate of activities, including a special
Lunar New Year presentation at the Thursday night Open-
ing Plenary. At some of these events, such as the Day-Long
Institute, “AAPI Focus: Building a Queer AAPI Movement,” we
appreciate our allies’ respect of the safe space we build for
ourselves as AAPIs. In lieu of attending those spaces, every-
one and our allies are welcome to our open events, such as a
Friday reception for the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander
Alliance (NQAPIA). These events, as well as an unprecedented
number of AAPI themed workshop sessions, provide a range
of spaces and places to engage the Creating Change family.
In partnership,
AAPI Institute Planning Committee
 Creating Safe Space for Everyone!

A Guide to Bisexual/
Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette
The bisexual identity speaks more to the existence of attrac-
tion to people of any gender, rather than merely a statement of
past or current relationships and/or sexual activities. Bisexual,
pansexual, fluid and folks who choose to remain “unlabeled”
are part of the LGBT community and need you as an ally just
as much as they remain your strong partner in the fight for
equality. In hopes of creating a space at Creating Change in
which all attendees can freely and safely be themselves, we
offer a few notes on bisexual/pansexual/fluid communities.
Common misconceptions about bisexual/pansexual/fluid com-
munities include: There’s no such thing as bisexuality; it’s just a
phase; bisexuality itself reinforces the gender binary; bi people
spread sexually transmitted diseases; and bisexuals face
less discrimination than gay, lesbian and transgender people.
Bisexuality is NOT exclusively a transitional phase between
heterosexuality and homosexuality. No single pattern exists
among bisexuals. Many people declare their bisexuality to
claim their personal history. They don’t want to erase previous
loves or parts of themselves to buy acceptance.
• Recognize that bisexual people often face similar discrimina-
tion and obstacles as gays and lesbians with regard to job
security, healthcare, marriage, custody, visitation and adop-
tion of children.
• Recognize the way that specific relationships function is en-
tirely independent of sexual orientation. Be positive about all
relationships –monogamous, polyamorous, or anything else.
• Accept you might never fully understand someone else’s
sexuality, and that it’s okay not to.
Thank you for respecting all the ways we can love each other!
Enjoy the conference!
Compiled by 2011 Creating Change Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid
Organizing Institute Co-coordinators, Becky Saltzman and Faith
Cheltenham. Thanks to The Bi Resource Center, UC Davis Bi
Visibility Project, Human Rights Campaign, The National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, Sean Cahill, and Robyn Ochs for source material.

With that in mind, we offer a few ways to embrace bisexual/

pansexual/fluid communities:

• Use inclusive language, instead of “gay rights” or “gay mar-

riage” use phrases like “equal rights” and “marriage equality”.

• Question the negativity associated with bisexual stereotypes.

• Check in with someone about what term(s) they prefer –

Remember that no one person represents a community;
no two people are the same and definitions may vary. Please
respect each person’s power and ability to define themselves.

• Recognize that bisexuality is often invisibilized/ delegitimized,

so bi/pan/fluid people usually have to come out over and over.

• Respect people’s privacy and boundaries. Take a moment

before asking questions and look into the assumptions
behind them.

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
the Disability Justice Collective, and the Host
Committee’s Accessibility Subcommittee have
worked hard to make Creating Change 2011
welcoming and accessible for attendees with
disabilities. In the spirit of learning how our com-
munities can be inclusive of and accessible to all
people, we have put together these guidelines
for creating a community where people with dis-
abilities are valued and respected.
Words like “cripple,” “defect,” “spastic,” “lame,”
“retard,” “psychotic”, “paranoid” and “crazy”
have been used to bully and oppress disabled
people for many decades. Don’t use these
words casually. You may hear disabled people
calling each other crip or gimp. This is “insider”
language, akin to LGBT people calling each
other queer. It’s not appropriate language for
non-disabled people to use.
Understand that the lives of disabled people are
neither inspirational nor pitiful by virtue of our
disabilities. Rather our disabilities are ordinary
and familiar parts of who we are.
Ask and wait for an answer before you try to
help someone. What you assume is helpful may
not be.
When you encounter someone using a service/
assistance or guide dog, do not pet, offer food
to, or interact with the animal in any way. Do not
comment on the dog’s presence i.e. “and who
do we have here?” They are working hard; you
are supporting the independence and autonomy
they provide by not distracting them.
In order to be understood by as many people
as possible, speak at a moderate volume and
pace. Practice active listening by asking and
responding to questions and giving both verbal
and non-verbal cues that you are still engaged
in the conversation.
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Creating Accessibility
When you are speaking to someone using an
interpreter, address the person you are speaking
with, not the interpreter.
Many people here have disabilities that affect
the ways that they learn, understand, and/or
communicate. You can show respect for people
by practicing patience with those who learn
and/or communicate at a different pace or in
a different way than you do. Don’t make as-
sumptions based on atypical speech patterns,
body language, or eye contact. If you are having
difficulty communicating with someone, try a
different form of communication, like writing or
demonstration instead of talking.
Flashing lights can trigger seizures or other con-
ditions. Avoid wearing or carrying decorative
flashing lights and don’t take photographs using
the flash on your camera in public spaces.
There are seats set aside for people with varying
disabilities, both up front and scattered through-
out in the plenary space and in the meeting
rooms. Please be prepared to move chairs to
make room for people using wheelchairs, wher-
ever they may wish to sit at plenary sessions
and workshops.
In order to make it easier for everyone to move
around the conference freely, please keep the
aisles clear. Be aware of the people around you
when navigating tight, crowded public spaces,
and leave plenty of room for people to pass
safely; and please hold inaccessible doors open
for people.
Becoming scent-free is an important step to-
ward access for people with disabilities and/or
chronic illnesses and is a skill you can practice
everywhere. If you are not accustomed to going
scent-free, it is important to think carefully about
all the products you use in your day. You can ei-
ther not use shampoo, soap, hair products, per-
 From the Disability Justice Collective
fume, essential oils, skin lotion, shaving cream,
makeup etc., or use fragrance-free alternatives
that are available in many drug stores. If you
must use scented products please sit or stand
as far away as possible from areas designated
“Scent Safer” areas. During plenary sessions,
scent-safer spaces are designated in the Min-
neapolis Grand Ballroom and in Grand Ballroom
E. If scents and chemicals present a barrier
for you, please know that Creating Change is
not yet a scent-free conference. If you need to
find a scent-safer area while at the conference
please check with the accessibility table adja-
cent to the conference registration area outside
of the Grand Ballroom.
If you smoke (or hang around people while they
smoke) please do so only in the designated
areas and away from entrances. When inside
please sit or stand as far away as possible from
those areas designated “Scent Safer” areas.
Challenge your assumptions. Some disabilities
are less visible than others. Everyone has a right
to use the accommodations they need without
being criticized or questioned.
Disability Access Coordinators will be on site
during the Creating Change Conference. If you
have questions, concerns or need assistance
regarding access, please stop by the Accessibil-
ity Table adjacent to the conference registration
area to contact an Access Coordinator. If the
Access Coordinator is not available, please seek
assistance at the conference registration area.
Please listen to the needs and stories of dis-
abled people when they are volunteered; yet
please respect people’s privacy and boundaries
by not asking unnecessarily intrusive questions.
Many disabled people deal with daily curiosity
about our bodies and find it exhausting. Edu-
cate yourself through books, web sites, and
at the disability-related workshops at Creating
Change. Then, please join the many hardwork-
ing allies who are working to respond appropri-
ately to ableist situations.
Please stop by the accessibility table adjacent
to the conference registration area outside the
Grand Ballroom for:
• Programs in large print.
• Electric scooters and wheelchairs.
• Viewing a large print grid schedule of events.
• More information about communicating with
people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, or to
pick up an Assisted Listening device.
Conference attendees utilizing ASL interpreting
services can meet interpreters at the accessibil-
ity table in the area outside the Grand Ballroom.
If you want or need a place to hang out with
disabled people, visit the Disability Hospitality
Suite. Check the conference grid schedule for
exact room number.
The Disability Justice Collective has worked in
partnership with the Task Force to create edu-
cational programming about disability justice,
ableism, and access at Creating Change and
to further integrate anti-ableism into the Task
Force’s intersectional anti-oppression frame
work . In addition, the Disability Justice Col-
lective has identified concrete ways in which
the Creating Change Conference can be more
accessible to people with a range of disabilities.
This work is ongoing.
Disability Justice Collective: Patricia Berne, Eli
Clare, Sebastian Margaret, Mia Mingus
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 General Information

First Timers’ Child Care Cyber Cafe

Orientation Childcare services are provided by Par- Creating Change provides a cyber café
Thursday February 3, 7:00 pm ty Sitters, an experienced Minneapolis for your cyber chores! Cyber cafe hours
Please check the grid schedule for location. agency specializing in event childcare. coincide with hours of operation in the
First time at Creating Change? Feeling a Please check in at the conference reg- conference registration/office area. The
bit overwhelmed by the amount of infor- istration area in the hotel lobby for the cyber café is located on the third floor, ad-
mation that you need to quickly digest in exact room location of childcare. There jacent to the registration area. Come by
order to make good choices about how is no charge for on-site childcare, but to check your email. Please be aware that
to spend your time? Want some help? we ask that parents pick up children for the computers are a shared resource, so
Come to the First Timers’ Orientation ses- lunch from Noon to 1 PM. Some activi- limit your time if others are waiting. Wire-
sion with the Conference Director to get ties will be provided by Party Sitters. less access is available in other areas of
your questions answered by the expert! the hotel. Happy digitizing!
Childcare is available:
Friday 8:00 am– 6:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am– 6:00 pm
Sunday 8:00 am– 3:00 pm

Spiritual Gatherings

Meditation Space /Quiet Room The Calling of the Names:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday We Remember
While attending Creating Change 2011, a meditation and
contemplative space is being made available by the Spiritu-
al Needs Subcommittee of the Host Committee. Any prear-
ranged faith-specific activities will be posted on a schedule
outside the room. We invite you to stop by to relax, refresh
and to share your response to reflective questions posted
in the shared space. Thank you for helping us create safe
and sacred space by respecting the faith or spiritual per-
spective of all who may utilize the space.
Muslim Friday Prayer
Salaat-ul-Jumah
Friday, February 4, 12:45 pm
Meditation Space/Quiet Room
Sponsored by Al-Fatiha and dedicated to Muslims who are
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning,
those exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity,
and their allies, families and friends. All welcome.
Shabbat Celebration
Friday, February 4, 7:30 pm
Carvers
Please join Rabbis Michael Adam Latz, Jared H. Saks, Me-
lissa B. Simon, & Sharon Steifel, along with music leaders
Steve Greenberg & Jane Newman, for Shabbat Services.
Let your soul soar as we welcome Shabbat together!”
Friday, February 4, Plenary Session 1:30 pm
Who are the people you have lost that have marked your
life? How do you remember them? Who were the people
whose stories, whose presence, words, and deeds live on
after they have died? Who have you lost to AIDS, cancer,
hate crimes, or other tragedies? The Calling of the Names
is an opportunity to honor them in community and with oth-
ers who can support and lift you up as you remember with
joy their impact on your life. During this plenary session join
us and celebrate the lives of those who have marked our
journeys by calling their names, loudly and proudly.
Engaging the Spirit:
An Interfaith Gathering
to Close Practice Spirit,
Do Justice
Sunday, February 6, 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Check the conference grid for exact location.
Just as we need to engage our mind and our heart, we
must also engage our spirit. The Practice Spirit, Do Justice
planning committee and the Spiritual Needs Subcommittee
have created a gathering that will include ritual, readings
and music from many different spiritual traditions to sym-
bolize our blessed particularity and radical connectedness.
Join us for this important celebration of the power of Spirit
and the call to do justice.

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 Host Committee Services
Check the conference grid schedule for exact locations.
Recovery Meetings
Friday and Saturday 7:30 pm
Topic/discussion support meetings for “friends of Bill W”
available under the local direction of GLBT in Recovery. For
more Twin Cities information, www.glbtinrecovery.com
Transgender Hospitality
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 10 pm
Drop by for relaxation as well as informal socializing and
networking with transgender folk and allies at Creating
Change 2011. Hosted by the Transgender Subcommittee
of the Host Committee.
Bi/Pan/Fluid Hospitality Suite Youth Hospitality Suite
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 10 pm
The Bisexual Organizing Project of Minneapolis/St. Paul
welcomes all bi/pan/fluid people and our allies to our Hos-
pitality Suite! We’ll warm you up with delicious food, hot
drinks and great conversation. We’ll provide a place to meet
up or relax between events, to grab a quick light meal or
snack or to continue that thought provoking conversation
or flirtation. Stop in and say hi; we welcome EVERYONE!
People of Color
Hospitality Suite
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 10 pm
Please come and relax in the People of Color Hospitality
Suite, a safe space to meet other people of color, enjoy
games, and try ethnic foods from local ethnic restaurants
here in the Twin Cities. The suite will be open from 8am-
10pm for your leisure, so stop by and say hi. You’ll meet
POC artists, musicians, organizational and community
leaders, movement builders/implementers and volunteers
from all over the nation.
We Love Your Feedback
Our annual Creating Change Conference offers a rich and rigor-
ous program of workshops, trainings, film screenings, caucus-
es and networking sessions, meetings and social and spiritual
gatherings.
This year, our program includes 25 Day-Long Institutes on
Wednesday and Thursday, 20 sessions in the Task Force
Academy for Leadership and Action, and over 200 workshop
sessions and caucuses/networking sessions on Friday and
Saturday. Special programming for faith community leaders is
presented under the heading Practice Spirit Do Justice. Evalua-
tion forms for each of these sessions are distributed and collect-
ed by our conference volunteers. Please let us know what you
found useful and helpful at sessions by filling out the evaluation
forms and returning them to volunteers in the meeting rooms.
Disability Hospitality Suite
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 10 pm
Disabled people and allies are welcome to join in disability
culture and community. In order to be accessible to people
who need to be able to breathe, please keep this space
scent-free (stop at the access table if you need unscented
personal care products or more information). We will have
a range of healthy food and low-allergenic food available. If
your wheelchair breaks, you run out of test strips or need
something from the grocery co-op, or your PCA needs a
break, we may be able to help find a replacement with re-
spect and without hassle.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 9pm
The Youth Hospitality Suite is a place for youth and young
adults (ages 24 and below) to come relax, network, eat, and
recharge. The Suite will offer food, games, DVDs, comput-
ers, and resources to help youth/young adult attendees
make the most of their time at CC 2011. The Youth Hos-
pitality Subcommittee, with Campus Progress, presents
a Saturday night event that features spoken word artists,
young adult talents, a main performer, and dancing. The
Youth Hospitality Suite is sponsored by The Trevor Project.
Elder Hospitality Suite
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 am – 8pm
The Elder Hospitality subcommittee honors and invites you
to stop by our suite for refreshment, relaxation, networking,
and sharing. Because your life journeys have been foun-
dational to our movement, we hope you’ll take a moment
to mutually share your stories with the people you meet at
CC11. Board games and resources will also be available.
Each attendee at Creating Change will receive an email from the
Task Force in the days following the conference that invites you
to complete an evaluation of the overall conference experience.
By completing this form, you will help us design and present
a better and more relevant Creating Change Conference next
year in Baltimore.
Finally, for those of you who prefer to participate in a face-to-
face meeting, the Conference Director conducts a Feedback
Session on Sunday following the closing plenary in the Grand
Ballroom.
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 EXHIBITORS

20% Theatre Company Twin Cities Minnesota NOW Foundation

Advocates for Youth National Center for Transgender Equality

AIDS/LifeCycle National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

AM 950 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Americans United for Separation of No Limits Printing

Church and State
Out and Equal
Ameriprise Financial
OutFront Minnesota
Atticus Circle
PFund Foundation
Best Buy
Park Nicollet Melrose Institute
Campus Pride
Point Foundation
Campus Progress
Pride Institute
COLUMBIA/VenusPlusX
Religious Institute
Cornerstone/Day One
RLM Art Studio
EMD Serono
Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
Equally Blessed
Sean’s Last Wish Foundation
Freedom to Marry
SEIU Lavender Caucus
Genderf•kation: A Gender Emancipation
Smitten Kitten
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Soulforce
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Strength In Numbers Consulting
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT)
SWEET
Human Rights Campaign
Tressies Hair Extensions LLC
Iliff School of Theology
Trevor Project
Integrity USA
True Colors Bookstore
Interweave Continental, Inc
Twin Cities Black Pride
Lambda Legal
UnitedHealth Group
Lavender Greens LGTBIQ Caucus of the GPUS
University of Minnesota Press
Lutherans Concerned/North America
White Privilege Conference
METRO / Centerlink

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Mistress of
Ceremonies
Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton, the LGBT movement’s
funniest and smartest political commen-
tator, returns to host each of the plenary
programs at Creating Change. She writes,
she vlogs, she blogs, and she slogs
shoulder-to-shoulder with activists and
organizers, all the while, moving us for-
ward by keeping us laughing. Kate regales
with keen insights and hilarious observa-
tions. In addition to performing comedy all
across the U.S., Kate writes her award-
winning blog, CommuniKate, and posts
at the Bilerico Project, the Huffington Post,
NYC Up and Out, and The Progressive.
Get ready to roar!
30 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011
Plenary Programs
Opening Keynote Address
Practice Spirit, Do Justice:
Hard Work for Our Common Good
Thursday, February 3 • 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Faisal Alam
Faisal Alam is a queer-identified Muslim
activist of Pakistani descent. He is the
founder of Al-Fatiha, an organization for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, inter-
sex & questioning (LGBTIQ) Muslims and
their allies.
Rev. Elder
Nancy L. Wilson
Rev. Elder Nancy L. Wilson, Moderator,
Metropolitan Community Church be-
gan her leadership and ministry with the
Metropolitan Community Church in 1972
and has served many roles within the de-
nomination ever since.
Bishop Yvette Flunder
Bishop Yvette Flunder, Founder of
City of Refuge Community Church
UCC founded City of Refuge, a thriving
inner-city congregation in the south of
Market neighborhood of San Francisco
that celebrates the radically inclusive love
of Jesus Christ.
Rabbi Joshua Lesser
Rabbi Joshua Lesser leads the growing
Congregation Bet Haverim in Atlanta as
a place dedicated to celebrating all as-
pects of Jewish life and creating a spiri-
tual home that is accessible to those who
have not connected in other settings.

State of the
Movement Address
Friday, February 4
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Rea Carey
Executive Director,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
An annual and much-anticipated event at
Creating Change, Rea Carey presents
the annual State of the Movement Ad-
dress. Carey assesses opportunities for
change, challenges that face our move-
ment and gives voice to an uncompro-
mising call to action. Rea Carey is the ex-
ecutive director of the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, the oldest national
organization working to secure equal
rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-
gender (LGBT) people. Prior to coming
to the Task Force, she was a co-founder
of Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Vio-
lence and founding executive director of
the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. In
1999, The Advocate named Carey one of
its “Best and Brightest” for individual con-
tributions to the LGBT rights movement.
Follow her on Twitter @rea_carey.
State of the Movement Sponsor
Plenary Programs
Indigenous Peoples of
the Americas: Towards
Collective Sovereignty
Saturday, February 5
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Chrystos
This plenary honors the Indigenous
Peoples of the Americas, raising visibility
of First Nations political organizing and
movement building, including strategies
towards sexual sovereignty. As part of
surviving occupation, colonialism and an
American History narrative that erodes
our ways of life, it has been our ancestral
imperative to not only survive, but thrive.
One of our challenges is to preserve the
spiritual practices that honor Two Spirit
people, a contemporary term recogniz-
ing historic multiple-gender customs.
We want to share a more whole analysis
and strategies towards liberation for all
people who experience oppression.
Chrystos speaks on the intersections
between First Nations Two Spirit people
and issues inherent in the colonization
of Turtle Island. Beginning with a brief
history of Gay American Indians (GAI),
she discusses the historic roles of Indian
Queers in various nations, as well as cur-
rent work to reestablish these, despite
the christian church. Two Spirit people
fight for respect within tribal societies
and in colonizer society. Our struggle is
embedded in First Nation’s resistance
to colonizer control, since it is colonizer
law that debases queer sexuality, and in
some cases, continues to punish us.
Closing Plenary
with Brunch
Sunday, February 6
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Minneapolis
Loves You Better!
Featuring
God-Des and She
A hip-hop/pop/soul duo from the Mid-
west, God-Des and She play to packed
venues all over the world from New York
to Sweden and at Pride events all over
the LGBT U.S. God-Des and She rocked
Showtime’s hit series “The L Word” with
their cheeky tune “Lick It.” The pair held
down the #1 spot on MTV LOGO with
their song “Love You Better.” Their most
recent and third album, Three, testifies
that God-Des and She are about to blow
up—big. Produced by Brian Hardgroove
of Public Enemy (Wu Tang Clan, Burn-
ing Spear, Aerosmith), the new album
confirms their status as an underground
act about to hit the big time. Catch them
while you can for some better lovin’.
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 Award Honorees

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has the great privilege to present awards recognizing the hard work and dedication of colleagues in our
LGBT movement. These awards are generously funded by the Paul Anderson Prize Foundation, administered by Allen Schuh; the International
Court System; and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). We thank these funders for lifting up activists who express their passionate
commitments to social justice in many important ways.

The Susan J. Hyde Activism Award for Longevity in the Movement

Kylar W. Broadus is a professor, attorney and activist, on the faculty at Lincoln University of Missouri, a historically black
college where he previously served as chair of the business department. Kylar maintains a general practice of law in Columbia,
Missouri. He served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Black Justice Coalition from 2007 until 2010. He has served
on the Board of Directors of the National Stonewall Democrats since 1998. He wrote the essay “The Evolution of Employment
Discrimination Protections for Transgender People,” published in “Transgender Rights,” edited by Currah, Juang, Minter, 2006. He
is a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and speaks and lobbies on the national, state and local
levels in the areas of transgender and sexual orientation law and advocacy. Kylar founded the Trans People of Color Coalition,
the only national social justice organization serving transgender people of color. He served three terms on the City of Columbia
Human Rights Commission and two terms on the board of the statewide GLBT advocacy group, PROMO: For the Personal Rights
of Missourians. While on the Human Rights Commission, Kylar worked for passage of a transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination
ordinance. Kylar is featured in the film “Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen” and is a 2010 Rockwood Institute LGBTQ Fellow.

The Leather Leadership Award

Chuck Renslow, often called The Leatherman of the Century, has lived and loved in leather his entire adult life and created
leather community institutions to foster a leather cultural identity and to preserve its history. He launched the International Mr.
Leather (IML) contest in 1979 at Chicago’s first leather bar, the Gold Coast, which he opened in 1958. IML continues to be the
largest annual gathering of the leather tribe: a conference, a contest, and a celebration of immense proportions. Chuck was the
founder and photographer of Kris Studios in 1950, one of the earliest and most durable of the physique houses. He also was a
noted photographer of the ballet and his dance photography is in the Newberry Library dance collection. He was among the earli-
est members of several gay liberation organizations and has served on boards of directors of 14 different LGBT organizations,
including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force twice, first 1978-1985 and later 2005-2007. Chuck founded the Prairie State
Democratic Club in 1980 and Chicago’s famous White Party. Chuck was inducted into the City of Chicago’s Lesbian and Gay Hall
of Fame in 1991 and has received numerous honors from the gay and leather communities. In 1991, Chuck and Tony DeBlase
created the Leather Archives & Museum, and he remains its president. In 2010, Chuck established a foundation to sustain the
Leather Archives and Museum, naming it the sole beneficiary of International Mr. Leather.

The Paul A. Anderson Award for Youth Leadership

Alyssa Veil, 17, graduates this spring from the Blake School, having expressed her leadership and pride for all to see and
hear. Each senior class member at the Blake School delivers a senior speech and Alyssa chose to tell her classmates about her
journey of coming out, to herself, her family, her school and to her world. Entitled The Ultimatum of GLBT Discrimination, Alyssa
addressed the Blake Upper School, talking about LGBT youth suicide and her own experience with suicide. Alyssa has flourished
and thrived in a supportive school environment and is a gifted hockey player and artist and a student leader of the school’s Gay
Straight Alliance and its Justice League. Alyssa aspires to become a justice-seeking attorney and will, later this year, lead the
workshop “Support and Advocacy for GLBT Students” at the 2011 Minnesota Independent Schools Association Conference.
Alyssa will attend Williams College in September 2011.

The SAGE Advocacy Award for Excellence in Leadership on Aging Issues

PFund Foundation, the only Minnesota foundation dedicated exclusively to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
issues, has worked to improve the quality of services and support offered to LGBT older adults since 1991, when it first funded
an LGBT aging project. In 2010, PFund released a first-of-its-kind report, Equality as we Age: a Report on LGBT Seniors in Min-
nesota. The report recommended changes to facilitate improved health and wellness, visibility, social interaction and services for
LGBT elders. Moving forward, PFund will convene LGBT older adults and community organizations to address the recommenda-
tions in the report. In the past year, PFund also collaborated on the release of the regional and national versions of the report,
Ready to Serve? The Aging Network and Older LGB and T People, which studied the national aging network’s readiness to meet
the specific needs of the growing numbers of LGBT older adults in this country. PFund’s ongoing support of regional LGBT aging
groups, including the creation of an endowed fund for LGBT aging issues, led to the establishment of Training to Serve (TTS),
whose mission is to train aging services providers to ensure that LGBT people are able to achieve a satisfying quality of life in later
years. This award is generously supported by SAGE.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011 33

 Receptions • Meetings • Special Events
Wednesday, February 2
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT
Resource Professionals Annual Business Meeting
7:00 pm–8:00 pm First-Timers Welcome
8:00 pm–10:00 pm Annual Meeting
Carvers
The Consortium is a national organization of professionals
who provide support and services to LGBTQA students,
staff and faculty at colleges and universities and who edu-
cate campus communities about sexual orientation and
gender identity issues. The Consortium’s Annual Business
Meeting is free and open to anyone interested in joining the
Consortium and learning about LGBTA issues at colleges
and universities.
Convening at Creating Change
PFund Foundation is hosting a convening for invited grantee
partners in its region—Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Iowa. Participants will gather and en-
gage in community-building and skills-building, helping to
foster community and promote collaborations in broader
social justice work. Made possible by a grant from the Otto
Bremer Foundation.
Welcome Reception with Appetizers and Cash Bar
Wednesday, February 2, 6:45 pm
Grand Ballroom F
Regional Mapping/Visioning Meeting with refreshments
Sunday, February 6, 1:45 pm
Rochester
36 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011
Thursday, February 3
David Bohnett CyberCenter Reception
6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Porter & Frye Restaurant, Lower Level, Ivy Hotel
Join our fun and casual reception to chat about the David
Bohnett CyberCenters - there are over 60 at LGBT Cen-
ters from coast to coast. This event is for LGBT Community
Center leaders who already host a David Bohnett Cyber-
Center or for LGBT Center leaders who want to learn more
about this innovative program.
Welcome to Minneapolis Welcome Reception Sponsor
7:00 pm
Exhibit Area, Third Floor
Mix and mingle in the conference
exhibit area adjacent to conference registration. Refresh-
ments and cash bar. Sponsored by General Mills.
“Fearless”: Photo Exhibit
Los Angeles based artist Jeff Sheng exhibits a portion of his
photography series “Fearless” which features “out” LGBT
athletes on high school and college sports teams, a collec-
tion of over 100 athletes taken since 2003. Sheng’s most re-
cent photo series “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was widely covered
by the media this past year, and “Fearless” was exhibited
at Nike World Headquarters, the 2010 Vancouver Winter
Olympics, as well as over a dozen high school and colleges
last year. For more information, please visit www.jeffsheng.
com or www.FearlessCampusTour.org.
Creating Change Opening Cruise
After Opening Plenary Session
Grand Ballroom F
This session is open to any and all people who identify as “avail-
able” and interested in meeting and/or hooking up with people at
the conference. For folks who say: “I wish I had met you earlier
in the conference!” You now have no excuse; this is your oppor-
tunity. The Opening Cruise is building on the Poly/Nonmonog-
amy Speed Greeting sessions of the past several years, which
have been enormously successful. This year, we are widening
the circle, inviting anyone who is “available” and still encourage
the strong Creating Change Poly/NM contingent to come out in
force!
This Opening Cruise is an extravagant welcome to come and en-
joy the great diversity of available, brilliant, adventurous Creating
Change-goers. Small group settings and one on one conversa-
tion offer an opportunity to ask questions, share interests, swap
contact info, network, and organize across the room and across
the country. Participation is flexible and everyone is welcome to
attend inclusive of all identities and life experience. Depending
on attendees, more discussion groups based on identity, age,
region, and interest may be developed. Program hosts will also
be on hand to answer questions and help with resources.
 Receptions • Meetings • Special Events
Friday, February 4
The Obama Administration and the LGBT Community
8:00 am
Skywater Lounge, First Floor, Hilton Minneapolis
Join the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in a question-
and-answer session with Obama Administration appointees
to discuss the White House, Administrative Agencies and the
LGBT community. We will be joined by Brian Bond, Deputy
Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement,
and agency appointees. Panelists will discuss changes in
rules and regulations affecting the LGBT community, legisla-
tive efforts and ongoing initiatives that impact LGBT people
and their families. A Q/A session follows the presentations.
Stand UP For Change @ The National Conference on
LGBT Equality: Creating Change
Starring Smart and Sassy Comedian Sandra Valls,
followed by the Karaoke Throw Down for Change!!
Doors Open at 8:00 pm • Show Time 8:30 pm
Grand Ballroom • Hilton Minneapolis Hotel
Free Admission with Conference Badge
$10/door for non-conference attendees
Show up and sing at the Karaoke Throw Down for Change!
Karaoke Throw Down organized by Asian Pacific American
Labor Alliance
Sober Social
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Check grid for location
Are you in recovery or just looking for some fun without alco-
hol or drugs? Come to the Sober Social. Will there be kara-
oke, a comedian, music or dancing? It is a surprise but fel-
lowship and fun is guaranteed! Snacks provided. Bring your
friends. Sponsored and organized by the PRIDE Institute,
celebrating 25 years of creating healthy LGBT community.
Queers for Economic Justice and Authors of
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT
People in the United States
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
Join QEJ for a reception to celebrate and honor those who
have inspired us and filled us with possibility, resiliency and
vision and to recognize an important book about to be re-
leased. QEJ will honor three progressive LGBT leaders at
the reception. And in these hard times, we will also be cel-
ebrating QEJ’s survival and spirit as a radical, economic
justice, queer organization. The reception will also celebrate
the launch of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT
People in the United States (Beacon Press 2010). The co-
authors Kay Whitlock, Andrea Richie and Joey Mogul will be
there to sign hot-off-the-press books.
NYAC Reception: Roots & Fruits: A Gathering to
Celebrate the National Youth Advocacy Coalition’s
Past, Present and Future
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
Over the past 17 years, NYAC has held a special place in the
LGBTQ movement, promoting the leadership and wellness
of queer, trans and questioning youth across the country,
building community and supporting the organizations that
support these youth. Does NYAC hold a special place in
your heart? Are you invested in an LGBTQ movement that
places the needs of our youth at its core? Do you believe in
celebrating the resilience of LGBTQ youth and advocating
for their vision for a better world? Are you a young person, a
NYAC alum, a youth organizer, or a youth service provider?
Then, come to this reception to celebrate NYAC’s past, be-
come part of our present and learn about our commitments
to LGBTQ youth in the future.
Faith in America Reception
8:30 pm– 9:30 pm
Check grid for location
Join our entertaining reception for a lively conversation about
the greatest impediment to equality in America today. We
have a special activity planned for attendees in which you
can help us pinpoint the No. 1 justification for stigma and
hostility and how to most effectively address it. This is going
to be fun and informative. This event is for LGBT activists
and leaders who wonder how a minority voice working with
a minority political party almost single-handedly defeated a
measure that was supported by a majority, both in the mili-
tary and general public.
Rockwood Leadership Institute Reception
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
A space for Rockwood Leadership Institute graduates to re-
connect or form new connections. We also welcome those
who want to learn more about Rockwood’s offerings, in-
cluding our 2011 Fellowship for LGBTQ Advocacy, and pro-
grams that serve leaders from different social change move-
ments, such as the National Yearlong Fellowship and our
open Art of Leadership trainings. Refreshments provided.
Karaoke Pop-Star Reception
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
Come join us for an evening of fun and frolic with your fa-
vorite federation of Asian American/ South Asian/ Southeast
Asian/ Pacific Islander (AAPI) LGBTQ organizations. Queer
AAPIs and our friends and allies will share our talents and
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Friday, February 4 (continued)
pop-star ambitions on the mic- featuring the infamous Kit
Yan, reigning Mr. Transman Competition Champion. Pro-
ceeds for the event will support the National Queer Asian
Pacific Islander Alliance. Cash bar and appetizers.
Integrity USA Reception & Sung Compline
8:30 pm– 10:00 pm
Check grid for location
Integrity USA invites you to fellowship with Episcopalians
attending Creating Change. Meet Executive Director Max
Niedzwiecki, President David Norgard, Treasurer David
Cupps, Director of Communications Louise Brooks, VP for
National & International Affairs Albert Ogle, VP for Local Af-
fairs Neil Houghton, Stakeholders Council Chair Susan Mc-
Cann, and Province 6 Coordinator Scott Monson! The eve-
ning will conclude with Sung Compline with the choir of St.
Paul’s on-the-Hill.
Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) Reception
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
All Metropolitan Community Church members and leaders
and all who are interested in learning more about MCC are
invited to this reception. Hosted by the Minneapolis congre-
gation All God’s Children MCC.
Release of the National Transgender Discrimination
Survey Report
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
Join the authors from the Task Force and the National Cen-
ter for Transgender Equality for the unveiling of the long-
awaited key findings of “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of
the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.” Compel-
ling national data on the breadth of the social and economic
marginalization of transgender and gender non-conforming
people is finally available. This data will change the LGBT
movement. Come hear about it, and what to do about it.
Bilerico Project Blogger Reception
8:30 pm
Check grid for location
Come mix and mingle with some of your favorite bloggers,
social media mavens, and online personalities. Whether you
have your own site or lurk on other blogs, you’re welcome
to attend the blogger reception and meet the people behind
your computer screen. Strong opinions encouraged. Cash
bar available. Co-sponsored by the National Gay and Les-
bian Task Force, AfterEllen, The New Gay, & Queerty.
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Saturday, February 5
Minnesota Meet-Up
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Rochester
As a result of the November elections, the political climate in
Minnesota has moved sharply to the right. Now more than
ever, your voice is crucial for holding back attacks against
LGBT families, including a possible 2012 referendum to
change the constitution to ban the freedom to marry. Join
leaders from OutFront Minnesota, Project 515, and the Na-
tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force to find out how you can
help fight back and win in Minnesota.
Interweave Continental Annual Meeting
8:00 pm
Check grid for location
Interweave is the national, member-based organization for
LGBT, queer & allied Unitarian Universalists. An annual re-
port of activities will be presented. Election of officers will be
held. Annual budget will be voted on. Meeting is open to all.
Voting is limited to individual or chapter members.
The Second Annual MasQueerAde Ball:
An Event for Youth and Friends
8:00 pm – Midnight
Grand Ballroom • Hilton Minneapolis
Join OUTMedia’s comedy sensation Ben Lerman and re-
nowned slam poet Kit Yan for humor and spoken word.
Ben, simply brilliant with his ukulele and comedy, and Kit, a
featured artist in “Asians Aloud,” headline this special youth
event including local queer youth dancers, spoken word art-
ists and performers. An alcohol and drug free event for all
ages. A dance party for guests 24 and under will follow the
show. Presented by Campus Progress and the Youth Hos-
pitality Subcommittee. Free to all.
Blowing in from the West
8:30 pm
Rochester
A reading of old and new poems by Chrystos, Indigenous
Rights and Queer Equality Activist. If you have a favorite
you’d like to hear, leave a message at sbirdstone@gmail.
com.
Sextravaganza
10:00 pm
Symphony III
A cabaret-style evening of sexy, gender queer performance
art, music, and stand up with a few surprises. Featuring:
AJ Head, Ignacio Rivera, M’Bwende Anderson, Cary Alan
Johnson, Dr. J and others. Free and open to all!
 Receptions • Meetings • Special Events
Sunday, February 6
Breakfast and Conversation with Face Value
8:30 AM Breakfast; Meeting 9 – 10:30 AM
Symphony IV
The Face Value team welcomes you to join us for break-
fast and conversation. You’ll meet key members of our team
and we will share information about our recent grant from
the Ford Foundation’s new initiative, “Sexuality, Health and
Rights Among Youth in the United States,” and discuss op-
portunities for collaboration. We invite you to be a part of
this exciting conversation. Founded in 2009, Face Value is
working to create a society where lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) people are fully accepted and integrat-
ed into the fabric of American life – quite literally taken at
face value. All are welcome.
Film Screenings
Bullied: A Student, a School
and a Case that Made History
Friday, February 4 • 4:45 pm
Grand Ballroom E
Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made
History chronicles the powerful story of a student
who stood up to his anti-gay tormentors and filed
a federal lawsuit against his school district. The
suit led to a landmark federal court decision hold-
ing that school officials could be held accountable
for not stopping the harassment and abuse of gay
students. Bullied tells the story of Jamie Nabozny
<www.jamienabozny.com>, who suffered relent-
less verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his
classmates in Ashland, Wisconsin. School officials
failed to stop the attacks, despite pleas from Jamie
and his parents. Jamie Nabozny will speak at the
screening and there will be a Q&A led by two repre-
sentatives from Southern Poverty Law Center: Sam
Wolfe, a staff attorney, and Thom Ronk, a curricu-
lum specialist for Teaching Tolerance. (USA, 2010,
40 mins.)
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Saturday, February 5 • 4:45 pm
Grand Ballroom E
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale tells the tragic history
and facts surrounding the discovery of HIV in the U.S.
blood supply in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Through the eyes of survivors and family members,
the documentary film chronicles how a miracle treat-
ment for hemophilia became an agent of death for
10,000 Americans. Faced with evidence that phar-
maceutical companies and government regulators
knew the medicine was contaminated with deadly
viruses, they launched a powerful and inspiring fight
to right the system that failed them and to make it
safer for all. Both gay men and people with hemo-
philia have been disproportionately impacted by the
HIV epidemic. Critical advancements in HIV preven-
tion, treatment, and research can be linked directly
to the years of successful advocacy by both the
bleeding disorders and gay rights communities. On
the heels of the Health and Human Services (HHS)
Blood Committee’s vote last year to recommend re-
search and review of the FDA’s longstanding defer-
ral of all men who have had sex with another man
(MSM) from donating blood, the two communities
invested in reform find common ground through the
shared history featured in Bad Blood. Director: Mari-
lyn Ness. Necessary Films, (USA, 2010. 80 mins.)
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Creating Change proudly presents a full menu of Day-Long In-
stitute programs that provide in-depth teaching and learning in
crucial topic areas. Topics range from anti-racism and people of
color organizing to youth leadership, board members’ training,
aging, health, community centers and campus programs, allies in
our movement, transgender organizing, training for youth-serving
adults, family advocacy, sexuality, faith, school advocacy, working
with federal agencies, and media and messaging.
Please check the grid schedule for room assignments.
Wednesday, February 2
Institute Sessions • 9:00 am–6:00 pm
A series of simultaneous Day-Long Institutes offers skills to ad-
dress institutional racism, to integrate racial justice into LGBT or-
ganizations, and to learn with colleagues of color. The Task Force
proudly partners with the First Nations Collective, the Disability
Justice Collective, Audre Lorde Project, Southerners on New
Ground and Queers for Economic Justice to develop content
and to facilitate these Institutes. We are grateful to our colleagues
for their great work to present these important Institutes.
Challenging and Transforming White Supremacy
in Our Work: Our Vision, Our Roles
This Institute will focus on white folks working to build liberation
movements. What are the systems and analysis we need to
do this work? How are we reflecting individually and collectively
on or work with other white folks and with folks of color? How
are we creating and sharing tools to build anti-racist and anti-
imperialist work as white LGBTQ activists across lines of ability,
race, class, culture, gender, sexuality, and all other identities?
Come engage with us for a day of learning.
Finding Our Kin Folk:
People of Color Organizing for New Activists
Specifically for people of color who would like to explore their life
experiences as LGBT people of color. This Institute is for people
of color who want to name, share and strategize about the is-
sues of identity and community that impact our lives. This is a
multi-racial people of color space and so issues facing people
of color within and between communities will be discussed.
This session will focus on skills for community building.
Building Bridges Across Our Communities: People of
Color Organizing Institute for Intermediate Activists
This Day Long Institute is intended for People of Color who have
considerable experience organizing in communities of color and
want to deepen their work in our own community (ies). This Insti-
tute will focus heavily on both identity-based (e.g. Brown/Black;
light skinned/dark skinned) and issue-based (e.g. war; violence;
colonialism; gender binary) organizing strategies. We will also
be addressing issues of privilege and how all forms of oppres-
sion connect. Intended to create a multi-racial people of color
space and, as a result, issues facing people of color within and
between communities will be discussed. Intended for people of
color who have 2-5 years of organizing experience.
DAY-Long Institutes
Access(ing) Our Liberated Bodies
DAY-Long Institutes
This is an advanced session for seasoned anti-oppression or-
ganizers and trainers. Session attendance will be by applica-
tion only. Applications will be available in November/December
2010. This is a multi-racial, multi-gendered, cross-class, cross-
issue and disability justice session. This session will focus on the
question of how we organize for the liberation of our collective
and individual bodies in a culture where colonialism, classism,
ableism, sexism and racism are daily lived realities. Bring your
organizing strategies, best thinking, new ideas and vision for
building a movement that is inclusive of our complex bodies.
Each and every body welcome!
Thursday, February 3
Institute Sessions • 9:00 am–6:00 pm
For Practice Spirit, Do Justice Attendees
Practice Spirit, Do Justice–Opening Plenary
9:00-10:30am
We stand in an important moment in the history of
our shared spiritual and religious movements— the reality of col-
onization, brokenness and alienation from one another and the
opportunity for solidarity and shared work across issues, identi-
ties and communities. This frame-setting plenary will engage
the question of both the intense brokenness and the places for
liberation and healing. Leadership for this session will include
reflection, dialogue, music and prayer from Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz,
Sung Park, Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, Dr. Joel Kushner, Rev. Debra
Haffner, Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer, Rev. Irene Monroe and many
others who will speak to the sacredness of keeping our work
grounded in the experiences and vision held by the most com-
plex bodies in our communities.
Practice Spirit, Do Justice Institute
Intersectional Movement Building
from a Faith Perspective
Fundamentals Session
Do we dare build a faith-based movement around a bolder vi-
sion for the social change we want? Are we too often caught in
an endless cycle of defensive fights, leaving little room to focus
on what we are really after – LGBT legal, physical, and spiritual
liberation within a broad context of social, racial, and economic
justice? How do we build a movement in which we get to show
up with all of our multiple identities that recognizes both the rich
commonalities and the complex differences in our experiences,
cultures, and needs? How do we build organizations and a faith
based movement in which we can practice spirit and do justice
in a way that recognizes the intersections of our identities, the
interconnection of issues, and the interdependence of our com-
munities? In this Institute, we will explore these questions by
discussing principles of intersectional movement building and
exploring a developmental approach for building individual and
organizational intercultural competency.
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Intended Audience: Those new to faith organizing and move- Thursday, February 3 continued
ment building; and people of faith who are aligned or unaligned For Creating Change Attendees
with an organization.
Community Center Institute
Faculty: Phyllis Braxton, President and Founder of PINK Con-
Building Our Community from the Center
sulting, LLC; Beth Zemsky MAEd, LICSW, a consultant special-
Fundraising, Fundraising, Fundraising…It’s always our most re-
izing in intercultural organizational development with organiza-
quested topic. Come join us for an interactive session for staff,
tions working towards social change and movement building.
board members and volunteers on a variety of fundraising sub-
jects from making personal asks to nonprofit entrepreneurship.
Practice Spirit, Do Justice Institute
You’ll leave with a tool belt of great, new ideas to take back to
Intersectional Movement Building for your center. Presented by CenterLink: The Community of LGBT
Faith-Based Organizational Leaders: Centers.
Living the Practice
Advanced Session
Transgender Focus
Many faith-based organizations are working hard to build a
Stronger Together:
broad-reaching and transformative progressive faith-based
A Trans Strategy/Skills Sharing Institute
movement that is committed to racial, economic, and social
We are all stronger when we are not one person, but part of
justice. Working in this context adds complexity to the organiza-
a thriving organization. And, we are stronger as a movement
tional development of these organizations because movements
when organizations share resources and strategies for smarter
(and the issues they address) are always in flux. Strengthening
transgender advocacy. So, let’s build strong organizations AND
a faith-based movement organization requires an understand-
share our lessons learned with each other! Join transgender
ing of the cultural and political context of its faith tradition, the
and allied leaders, some of whom founded the Trans Advocacy
national political context, the complexity of working across
Network in the past year, for a frank discussion of where we
race, class, and culture, and the historical trajectory of the so-
are, training on how we can build stronger organizations, and a
cial movement in which our organizations are situated. How
dynamic sharing session about best practices and strategies to
can we use these changing times to move beyond reactive
advance transgender rights.
politics toward more purposeful, transformational social change
that honors the culture, faith values and traditions of our faith
Youth Leadership
communities while recognizing the intersections of identities,
Queer It Up: Young Adult Leader Institute
the interconnectedness of issues, and the interdependence
Vision change. Dig deep. Take action. Young adult leaders from
of our work as we build our organizations and our movement
across the country will learn valuable strategies for empowering
together? In this Institute, we will build on intercultural com-
their voices and being advocates for social justice. This Day Long
petency skills and strategies for building long-term movement
Institute explores the skills and resources necessary for success-
power to explore organizational strategies that reflect and move
ful leadership, coalition building and tackling issues within your
us toward our transformational goals. We will explore what roles
college campus or your local community. Valuable information
organizations need to play in order to take advantage of this
will also be shared from Campus Pride’s 2010 State of Higher
movement moment and strengthen our organizations’ ability
Education for LGBT People and LGBT-friendly Campus Climate
to contribute to building an intersectional movement for social
Index. Presented by Campus Pride, www.campuspride.org.
justice. This Institute is for those interested in linking their or-
ganization’s strategic work with the strategic development of Faculty: Matt Comer, Campus Pride; Shane Windmeyer, Campus
a faith-based movement for fundamental social transformation. Pride; Ted Lewis, Campus Pride & Campus Pride Peer Leaders
Intended Audience: Those in a leadership position in their
Youth Organizing
faith-based LGBTQ or progressive organization; Those who at-
NYAC Youth Summit: Uptight Gays and Out of Control
tended have attended previous sessions with this facilitator or
Queers - Youth building a full movement
those who attended the Communications track at the Believe
This Institute will be a full day for youth activists, organizers, and
Out Loud Power Summit, October 2010.
leaders to come together in the ongoing negotiation of the di-
Faculty: Beth Zemsky MAEd, LICSW, a consultant specializing rection of the LGBTQ movement. Who are we, and how do we
in intercultural organizational development with organizations bring our identities and issues to the table in a way that respects
working towards social change and movement building. our boundaries, our relationships, and the cause? We will hold
a space for young people to interact around bridging the politi-
cal rifts of LGBTQ, self-care, leadership growth, intersectionality
and overlapping identities, and making it all work for our real
lives. If you want to come to the table as a full and whole being,
let’s talk about how each one of us can do that, and help others
do the same. To learn more about the National Youth Advocacy
Coalition’s work, visit www.nyacyouth.org.

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Best Practices for Queer Youth Work:
Mobilize, Engage and Collaborate!
This Day Long Institute will train adult leaders in youth-serving
organizations who want to increase their individual and/or orga-
nizational capacity to effectively mobilize, engage and collabo-
rate with youth in movement building efforts. We will highlight
research and initiatives related to LGBTQ youth, introduce tools
to assess organizational readiness and consider approaches to
increasing organizational capacity to do long term movement
work that is inclusive of young people.
Faculty: Jessica Flaherty, Director of Programs, BAGLY: The
Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth: Sarath Suong, Mens Health
Coordinator, MAP for Health
LGBT Campus Administrators
The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Profes-
sionals (“the Consortium”) will host a day of professional devel-
opment, skills building, and networking for those who have a
professional role supporting LGBTQ issues (and people wishing
to assume such positions) on college and university campuses.
Topics to be covered include: successful educational and devel-
opmental programming, establishing supportive infrastructures
and administrations, meeting the needs of LGBTQ students of
color and other under-served communities by creating an in-
clusive learning environment and working with student groups
as allies, advisors, and leadership developers. There will also
be time for administrators to network and meet with others
from their regions to discuss common concerns and specific
challenges. This session is intended for graduate students or
campus administrator/faculty who engage in or plan to engage
in LGBT work on college campuses. This session is for Con-
sortium members with limited space for nonmembers who are
interested in attending. To learn more about the Consortium,
please visit our website at www.lgbtcampus.org<http://www.
lgbtcampus.org/>
Ally Institute
The first-ever Ally Institute is designed specifically for both allies
of the LGBTQ movement and LGBTQ individuals to strengthen
their knowledge base, skills, and organizing savvy with LGBTQ
communities through an inclusive, social justice frame. Partici-
pants will consider how allies to the work of gender and sexual
freedom can help create inclusive and accessible environments
in the different positions, roles and communities where they live,
work, play and worship through a mix of facilitated activities,
skill sharing, and small group work. Attendees will learn key
concepts for understanding and educating about LGBTQ com-
munities within a social justice frame and will be given oppor-
tunities to develop new advocacy tools, helping them become
more effective change agents in all areas of their life. All allies
and friends welcome!
Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Organizing Institute
Spend a focused, fun and productive day with bisexual/pan-
sexual/fluid activists and learn how to grow bi and bi-friendly
groups. Whether you are a seasoned activist or just starting
out, we invite you to join us in creating a supportive and safer
DAY-Long Institutes
environment from which to build on the bi activist movement.
Allies are welcome!
Throughout the day we will work on skill building to focus on the
work in your community; together we’ll develop strategies, set
goals and create avenues for resource sharing. We will offer and
model interactive activities that create community and spaces
where we can fully examine the work of being a bi activist. We
will also examine the roots of biphobia, both internal and exter-
nal, and their influence on us as activists. We will then discuss
how to utilize intersectionality as a visibility tool while honoring
the fact that we are more than just our bisexual/pansexual/fluid/
un-labeled identity. Further, we’ll talk about proactive/reactive
organizing tactics and the key elements and issues around
which we can organize in the next year.
Co-coordinators: Becky Saltzman, Minneapolis, MN, Faith
Cheltenham, West Hollywood, CA, Gary North, Los Angeles,
CA, Ellyn Ruthstrom, Boston, MA
Facilitators: Lauren Beach, Minneapolis, MN, Bill Burleson,
Minneapolis, MN, Faith Cheltenham, West Hollywood, CA, Angel
Fabian, Oakland, CA, Sidney Gardner, Minneapolis, MN, Morgan
Goode, Brooklyn, NY, Loraine Hutchins, Takoma Park, MD,
Gary North, Los Angeles, CA Robyn Ochs, Boston, MA, Ellyn
Ruthstrom, Boston, MA, Becky Saltzman, Minneapolis, MN,
Kyle Schickner, Los Angeles, CA, Lividia Violette, Dallas, TX
Schools Focus
Advocating for LGBT Issues in K-12 Schools:
Current Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices
This day-long institute will bring Safe Schools advocates up to
speed on the latest issues in education policy, bullying preven-
tion strategies and national education reform efforts and their
implications for efforts to improve school climate and culture.
With a complex system including local control, state mandates,
and federal funding, U.S. schools can be incredibly difficult to
navigate. By demystifying the U.S. education system and pro-
viding concrete tools to engage with the system, this interactive
institute will help participants overcome roadblocks they may
face in their efforts to combat anti-LGBT bias in schools. Adult
and youth participants will learn how to advocate for and imple-
ment effective evidence-based interventions at the state and
local level from experienced advocates from all regions of the
country. Organized and presented by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Education Network.
AAPI Focus
Building a Queer AAPI Movement
Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific
Islanders (AAPIs) are among the fastest growing minority groups
in the nation and constitute an emerging sector of the LGBT
community. More and more LGBT AAPIs are coming out of the
closet, yet they still face invisibility, isolation, and stereotyping.
The needs and concerns of LGBT APIs are often overlooked
in the LGBT community or marginalized in the Asian American
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community. To counter this, the National Queer Asian Pacific
Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) spearheaded a coalition of organiza-
tions and individuals to plan a Pre Conference LGBT AAPI Insti-
tute. It was conceived at the AAPI Caucus at the last Creating
Change conference, in 2010 in Dallas, TX.
The Institute is open only to LGBT AAPIs. Sessions will include
a series of panels featuring experts in the field, proven activists
and organizers, and interactive group discussion. Participants
are very much encouraged to offer their own perspectives and
opinions.
We aim to create an API movement space. Below are what the
organizers hope participants can walk away with after attending
the Institute.
• A network of fellow LGBT AAPI activists around the country
• Concrete ways to overcome barriers that frustrate LGBT AAPI
organizing
• Strategies on pressing public policy issues, how to increase
the visibility of AAPIs, and ways to counter homophobia in the
larger AAPI community.
• An understanding of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast
Asian, and Pacific Islander queer histories in the U.S. with a
focus on immigration patterns
• Skills building in local organizing, leadership development,
and capacity building.
• A better understanding of the multiplicity of our communities
across gender, nationality, religion, and other lines and how
this affects our ability to build a national movement.
A strong historical/educational component needs to be part of
the institute as well as the conference, both to educate our-
selves and the community.
Aging Focus
Research to Policy and Practice: How to Improve
the Lives of LGBT Elders in Your Community
This Institute will demonstrate, through presentations, real-life
examples and experiential exercises, the important links be-
tween research, policy and practice. With new research as a
base, LGBT older adults and aging advocates have recently
made historic strides in improving the lives of LGBT elders.
Learn from constituents and professionals from around the
country about leveraging research to obtain funding, influence
policy, address health, legal and financial disparities and dis-
crimination and create stellar programs and services. We will
address the historic lack of systematic data collection on LGBT
older adults and current improvements at the local, state and
national levels. Research to Policy and Practice is sponsored
by SAGE. Planning, presenting and organizing faculty include
members of the National LGBT Aging Roundtable, The National
Resource Center on LGBT Aging, The National Gay and Les-
bian Task Force and SAGENet, a network of SAGE Affiliates
from rural and urban communities across the country.
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Presenters: Bob Anderson, Associate Director, Metropolitan
Area Agency on Aging;Natalie Chin, Staff Attorney, Lambda Le-
gal; Susan Cogger, Director of Development and Communica-
tions, Pfund; Loree Cook-Daniels, Transgender Aging Network,
FORGE; Catherine Croghan, Training To Serve; Scott French,
Program Manager, SAGECAP; Ken Helander, Coordinator,
SAGE of the Rockies; John Johnson, Director of Federal Rela-
tions, SAGE;Alex Kent, Program Manager, SAGE; Hilary Meyer,
Director, National Resource Center on LGBT Aging; Rajean
Moone, Training to Serve; Dawn Simonson, Executive Director,
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging, Inc.; Laurie Young, Direc-
tor of Public Policy and Government Affairs, National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force; Sherrill Wayland, Executive Director, SAGE
Metro St. Louis; Serena Worthington, Director of Community
Advocacy and Capacity Building, SAGE
Sexual Freedom
Geographies of Sex: Mapping our Desire:
An Institute for Sexual Liberation
What are we doing in bed and why does it matter? How is the
pursuit of our personal desire relevant to our work for justice?
The modern LGBT movement was founded on a belief that in
our sexual and gender persecution lay the seeds of a transfor-
mative sexuality that could create radical change across the re-
pressed American social, political and cultural landscapes. But
the current political environment – shaped by pernicious ballot
measures and a quest for the “moveable middle” – has all but
erased sexuality from view in our movement conversations, or-
ganizations and agendas. At the Task Force, we believe that an
authentic, empowered sexuality is a tremendous asset to any
movement for justice. This year’s Sexual Liberation Institute will
focus on our desires: how we have shaped them and how they
have shaped us. By moving through a process of discovering
and reclaiming pivotal experiences that have forged our sexual
paths, we will begin to map our desire and move toward a more
vibrant, empowered daily expression of our sexualities.
Faculty: Jaime M. Grant, Francisco De León, Ignacio Rivera,
Amelie Zurn, Jack Harrison, Monique Meadows, Caitlin Breed-
love, Cary Alan Johnson, Angie Head, Asha Leong, Harper
Jean Tobin, Cary Alan Johnson
Disability Justice
The Familiar Made Strange:
Integrating Disability Justice Politics into Our Racial,
Economic and Multi-Issue Justice Work
The collision of disability, economic, and racial justice are
inseparable in the lived experiences of poverty, the struggles
of First Nations peoples for sovereignty, work-related injuries,
homelessness, gentrification, sterilization, immigration, the
closure of mental health support systems, and more. Come
join disability justice activists from the Disability Justice Collec-
tive as we explore the ways ableism and disability impact our
various queer trans/gnc communities and our activism. The
first half of this daylong Institute will focus on the fundamentals
of building a disability justice analysis, politics and knowledge
base. During the second half, we will explore the layered
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connections between disability, class, race, queerness, and
necessity of embedding disability justice into our social justice
politics.
Health Issues
“Gaga” for Healthcare: Engaging a New Generation
in a New Health Movement
A facilitated conversation on the intersection of advocacy for
Queer, Transgender, Bi-sexual, Lesbian and Gay people estab-
lishing a shared vision of healthy lifestyles.
What does the new healthcare law mean and where do we go
from here? Some of the topics we will explore are the future of
new HIV prevention technologies, Healthy People 2020 and the
National HIV/AIDS Strategy. How do we address gender inclu-
sivity and variance, sexual orientation and other differences that
make a difference in LGBT communities in culturally competent
ways within our healthcare system? How do we address stan-
dards of care as it pertains to sex and sexuality with our health
care professionals? Some of these standards of care would in-
clude:
• Transgender: Appropriate hormonal therapies and mental
health support, reproductive health.
• Lesbian: Breast Cancer, HPV, reproductive health.
• Gay men: Colon care, hypertension, aging, heart disease,
HPV, substance use.
• Gender variant: Acquiring legal identification.
• Bi-sexual: Freedom to discuss varying sexual activities.
• Younger people: Encouraging them to live long enough to tell
their stories. New Media Training Institute
Federal Agencies
The New Beginning Initiative: Creating Change with
the Obama Administration and Federal Agencies
Historically our community has fought for rights through legisla-
tion, courts, and the ballot box, sometimes with stalled prog-
ress. The NBI has a different focus: working through federal
administrative agencies to substantively change government
policies that benefit people in our community every day. Con-
gress delegates to federal agencies the responsibility to imple-
ment the laws they pass, which means there is still work to be
done after a bill is signed into law. Learn to create change by
working in partnership with federal agencies.
During this Day-Long Institute, participants will hear from panel-
ists on:
• Historical Perspectives: Why Was 2008 A “New Beginning” for
the LGBT Community?
• NBI Accomplishments in 2010
• How the Administrative Agencies Work
• How to Communicate with the Agencies as an Activist
• How You Can Bring Federal Money to Your Local Cause
Family Focus
DAY-Long Institutes
Powerful Parenting: Engaging and Elevating the
Participation of LGBT Families for Political Power
In the first half of this two-part Institute, participants will ex-
amine how our history as a LGBT family movement has both
built and limited our political power. Looking through the lens
of those who have gone before us, we will identify opportuni-
ties and challenges that still limit LGBT families’ participation
in our liberation. How do our notions of family and parenting
make us powerful? What self-imposed limits do we create for
ourselves as LGBT families? What is the political power of the
family frame? What does it mean to truly engage LGBT families
in LGBT-equality campaigns? From these conversations, par-
ticipants will develop a shared understanding of our history and
develop an action plan for fully realizing the political power of
this important part of the LGBT community.
The second half of this Institute will focus on the ongoing chal-
lenges organizations face in engaging LGBT families meaning-
fully in their equality efforts. “Families don’t participate in equal-
ity work” is a familiar refrain in the LGBT movement. In the
second part of the Institute we will examine the reasons why
LGBT parents are perceived as less participatory. Leveraging
the voices of experience in both political organizing and fam-
ily organizing we will look at models of engagement that have
worked and explores new ideas for breaking the mold. Partici-
pants will leave the Institute having developed concrete ways to
more effectively engage LGBT families in their campaigns and
to ensure the political power of this important and growing con-
stituency of the LGBT movement are fully involved at the local,
state and federal level.
At GLAAD’s New Media Training Institute (NMTI), you will spend
a day with new media and LGBT movement experts, learning
about the latest digital tools and online advocacy strategies that
you can incorporate into your work. You will learn how to find
digital tools that are appropriate for your budget, how to stay
on top of the latest new media trends, and how to successfully
implement them at your organization.
Messaging
Using Social Science Research to
Communicate with the Moveable Middle
Please join the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD) and the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) for a
Day-Long Institute about communicating with moveable middle
Americans about LGBT issues. The Institute will be rooted in
research-based messages and will cover overall approaches to
communicating on social issues in general and LGBT issues in
particular, and communicating to African Americans and Lati-
nos on LGBT issues and communicating on non-discrimination
ordinances. This session is for communications professionals
and policy advocates working within organizations with a goal
of changing the hearts and minds of the moveable middle.
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Board Leadership
Be a Board Star – Learn what you need to
know to be the best darned board member
in the universe!
How on earth did my job get so hard? Don’t worry, we’ll explore
what you need to do (and what you don’t) to be a stellar board
member. We’ll build your confidence, sharpen your skills and
give you the tools to shine brightly. Our trajectory to get your
stars aligned:
Right Constellation of Board R&R:
That’s Roles & Responsibilities (not rest & relaxation)
• Why Boards Exist — it’s a charming story (some might say a
costume drama).
• What the Law Says — your three duties, the ones you have
to do, scouts honor.
• 3 Plus 1 Starring Roles— what the world really wants from you.
• Critical Condition or Constituent Compliant — different
organizations mean different leadership.
North Star: Set Policy and Ensure the Public Trust
• Planning for the future – your most important work, really.
• Hiring the right chief executive – it’s when your job really starts.
• Approving annual budget – your second most important
board service.
• Expanding Star: Ensure Resources for the Policy You Set
• Monitor the annual budget – can you read financial statements?
• Capitalize fundraising and development programs.
• Model fundraising and giving for volunteers and donors –
yes, you have to do it.
Rising Star: Building the Board — Getting Better Every Time
• Setting a simple board structure – less is more.
• Identify, recruit and mentor potential board members –
they’re all around you.
• Board accountability and evaluation – the key to succession
success.
ONE EXTRA STAR: The Shining Star — Be the Ambassador
• Showing Up Isn’t Enough — You’ve got to achieve one of
the other Stars.
• Learning to C.A.R.E. — A system that focuses on them.
• Working a Room. How the pros make it seem effortless:
20 tips to being a great ambassador.
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Friday, February 4
Academy Session 1 • 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Workshop Session 1 • 9:00 am–10:30 am
Workshop Session 2 • 10:45 am–12:15 pm
Academy Session 2 • 3:00 pm–6:15 pm
Workshop Session 3 • 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Workshop Session 4 • 4:45 pm–6:15 pm
Caucuses 1 • 6:30 pm–7:30 pm
Saturday, February 5
Academy Session 3 • 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Workshop Session 5 • 9:00 am–10:30 am
Workshop Session 6 • 10:45 am–12:15 pm
Academy Session 4 • 3:00 pm–6:15 pm
Workshop Session 7 • 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Workshop Session 8 • 4:45 pm–6:15 pm
Caucuses 2 • 6:30 pm–7:30 pm
Sunday, February 6
Workshop Session 9 • 9:00 am–10:30 am
Session Skill Levels
Fundamentals – Basic/entry level for new
staff, board members, volunteers and activ-
ists, or existing staff, board, volunteers and
activists with new responsibilities. Typically 0-1
year of experience in the topic area. Content
covers terminology, basic theory and building
essential skills.
Intermediate – 2-5 years experience. Con-
tent includes putting theory into practice, and
practical application. Sessions deal with seri-
ous challenges or barriers to being effective.
Some time is devoted to problem solving.
Advanced – 5+ years of experience. Ses-
sions tailored for lead volunteers and orga-
nizers, board chairs, executive directors and
senior managers, and experienced lobbyists.
Content includes advanced theory, organi-
zational management, and best practices. In
addition, advanced sessions can include case
study examinations and high-level problem
solving.
All Audiences – Session is suitable for par-
ticipants at all skill levels
Sessions By Topic
What’s Culture Got to Do With It?
Making the Most of Organizational
Culture
Academy 1 & 2 • All Audiences
Inclusion and Intersectional Work
It’s Not You And It’s Not Me:
It’s an Organizational Turning Point
Academy 1 • Fundamentals
Organization Building
Let’s Talk About It: Values-Based
Messaging and Public Speaking
Academy 1 • All Audiences
Communications for You and Your Organization
Moving A Target To Win On Your Issue
Academy 1 • All Audiences
Organizing To Win
Walking Our Talk: Applying a Racial
Justice Lens in Our Organizations
Academy 1 • All Audiences
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Don’t Do It Alone: Lead the Way to
Fundraising Success by Building a
Team of Experienced and Dedicated
Fundraisers
Academy 2 • Intermediate
Organization Building
Framing Advocacy Efforts with Vision
Academy 2 • Fundamentals
Communications for You and Your Organization
Flexing Collective Power Part 1:
The Foundations of Effective
Organizational and Campaign
Planning
Academy 2 • Intermediate
Organizing To Win
Intentional Leadership and
Followership: Building a Base
for Breakthrough Social Change
Academy 2 • Fundamentals
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Workshop Sessions by Topic start on next page.
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Want a Bigger Piece of the Pie?
Create a Plan for a Diverse and
Stable Funding Base
Academy 3 • All Audiences
Organization Building
To Plan or Not To Plan: There is No
Question When It Comes to Effective
Sessions By Topic
Communications
Academy 3 • All Audiences
Communications for You and Your Organization
Flexing Collective Power, Part 2:
Winning LGBT Equality At The
Ballot Box
Academy 3 • Fundamentals
Organizing To Win
Steering Ourselves Towards Racial
Justice: Making the LGBT and Racial
Justice Divide Obsolete through
Intentional Organizing and Advocacy
Academy 3 & 4 • Advanced
Inclusion and Intersectional Work
Building Faith-Based Partnerships:
Global Justice or Queer Colonialism
Academy 3 • Fundamentals
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Set Your Compass for Managing
Leadership in Yourself and Others
Academy 4 • Intermediate
Organization Building
Social Media: How Facebook
Can Help Win LGBT Equality
Academy 4 • All Audiences
Communications for You and Your Organization
More $, More Power: Asking for
What We Need and Getting It!
Academy 4 • Intermediate
Organizing To Win
Mercy + Justice = Winning LGBT
Political Campaigns
Academy 4 • Fundamentals
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
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Aging
Getting Smart about Aging
Session 1 • All Audiences
Finding Common Ground:
Collaboration between LGBT &
Older Adult Service Providers
Session 2 • Intermediate
National LGBT Aging Roundtable
Member Caucus
Caucus 1
Helping Your Older Adult Populations:
Utilizing, and Contributing to, the Na-
tional Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Session 5 • All Audiences
Identifying and Resisting the
Social Construction of Aging
and Embracing Old Pride
Session 6 • All Audiences
Taking Care of Our Own: Our
Community’s Response to Caregiving
Session 8 • All Audiences
Growing Older with the Epidemic:
HIV and Aging
Caucus 2
SAGENet Affiliate Caucus
Caucus 2
OLOC Caucus
Session 9
Aging Programming Sponsor
AIDS/HIV
YEAH! - Engaging LGBT Youth
to be Empowered Against HIV!
Session 3 • All Audiences
Gay Men and HIV: Recent Trends,
Challenges, and Opportunities
Caucus 1
Latin@s:
How is HIV/AIDS Affecting Us?
Caucus 1
How to put on an
HIV prevention workshop
Session 6 • Fundamentals
Sessions By Topic
Getting it From All Sides: Rethinking
HIV Advocacy and Prevention Outside
of the Condom Box
Caucus 2
Growing Older with the Epidemic:
HIV and Aging
Caucus 2
Anti-Violence/
Bias Reduction
How to Start an Anti-Violence
Project: Lessons and Strategies
from the National Coalition of
Anti-Violence Programs
Session 1 • All Audiences
Queer (In)Justice: Policing,
Prosecution & Punishment of
LGBT People in the United States
Session 2 • Intermediate
Micro, Mezzo, and Responses
to LGBTQ Hate Violence
Session 3 • All Audiences
Hanging Out and Hooking Up:
Cruising, Safer Dating and
Negotiating Sex
Session 5 • All Audiences
National Reporting and Data-Driven
Advocacy: Ending Anti-LGBTQ
Violence By the Numbers
Session 6 • All Audiences
Art & Culture
Queer Arts and The City
Session 2 • All Audiences
Art as Social Change
Session 8 • All Audiences
Small Town LGBT Film (or Arts)
Festival
Caucus 2
Your Brilliant Queer Writing Career
Caucus 2
Bisexual Community
Bi Any Other Name:
A 20 year Anniversary Dialogue
Session 1 • All Audiences
Beyond Binaries:
Identity and Sexuality
Session 2 • All Audiences
Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Caucus
Caucus 1
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Campus
Affecting Change on College Campuses:
A Gay/Straight Alliance Model
Session 1 • Fundamentals
Creating Safe Space in Greek Life &
Athletics: A Peer Education Program
Session 2 • Fundamentals
Creating Your Own Change
With GenEQ U
Session 2 • Intermediate
Combining Leadership, GLBT Studies,
Service Learning and Study Away:
Lessons from the GLBTA Leadership
Sessions By Topic
Year at the University of Minnesota
Session 3 • All Audiences
Queering Student Organizing
Session 3 • Advanced
Creating Student Initiated
Coalitions on Campus
Session 4 • Fundamentals
Serving LGBTQ Students
without an LGBT Center
Session 4 • Fundamentals
An Erased Population:
Exploring Homophobia in Sport
Caucus 1
College Student Caucus
Caucus 1
Empowering Members of
Campus Student Organization
Session 5 • All Audiences
Interpersonal Violence and The LGBTQ
Community: A Conversation about
how we can prevent Homophobia and
Violence on College Campuses
Session 6 • All Audiences
The State of Higher Education
for LGBTQQ People
Session 7 • All Audiences
What Does It Mean Not to
Discriminate Against
Transgender Students?
Session 8 • Intermediate
What responsibility does Higher
Education have in the development
of LGBTQA students of color?
Caucus 2
Trans Survival Guide: Initiating
Transgender Activism at Our Schools
Session 9 • All Audiences
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Communications, Community Elections,

Media and Messaging Organizing Ballot Measures
Did They Just Say That? Responding Responding to Hate: and Campaigns
to Myths about LGBT People Community Organizers Unite ElectEquality:
Session 1 • Fundamentals Session 1 • Intermediate Progress at the Ballot Box
Caucus 1
Making Media Work for You White Weddings or White Washing?
Session 1 • All Audiences The New HOMOnormative Agenda The Race For Equality Includes You!
[why it is scary] and Arguments Session 5 • Intermediate
Guerrilla Social Marketing For Health Against Equality
Promotion or Movement Building Session 2 • All Audiences
Session 2 • All Audiences Faith & Spirituality
Executive Directors Roundtable Join the Movement. Keep the Faith.
Lights, Camera, Action: Session 3 & 4 • All Audiences Session 2 • All Audiences
Intensive Real World Media Training
for Movement Leaders Hands Up: Community Actions on Changing Minds of Conservative/
Session 3 & 4 • Intermediate Police Accountability and Misconduct Evangelical Christians
Session 4 • All Audiences Session 3 • All Audiences
Own the Room: Boost Your
Facilitation and Presentation Skills Shouting over the Silence: “God Hates Fags”
Session 4 • All Audiences The Re-birth of Direct Action Session 4 • All Audiences
Session 4 • All Audiences
Creating a Progressive Media Atheist, Free Thinker,
Caucus 1 Radical Faerie Caucus Non-Believer Caucus
Caucus 1 Caucus 1
Breaking The Cycle of
Religion-Based Bigotry Youth Organizing 101 Of Faith and On-Line:
Session 6 • All Audiences Session 5 & 6 • Fundamentals Tools to Get Going
Session 5 • All Audiences
The Penis That Ruined Latin@ Pride:
Marriage Equality Beyond Circuit Parties and Parades Re-Emergence of Queer Paganism:
Session 6 • Fundamentals Session 7 • All Audiences An Awakening into Beauty, Balance
and Delight
The Sweet Spot: Case Studies of OurSafety OurSelves: LGBTSTGNC Session 6 • All Audiences
Successful Organization/Blogger/ Communities of Color Creating
Grassroots Collaboration Innovative Anti-Violence Strategies Uganda –
Session 8 • All Audiences Session 7 & 8 • All Audiences the Armageddon of the Culture Wars
Session 7 • All Audiences
Getting Media Attention for Your Issue Sassy in the South
Caucus 2 Caucus 2 Families
Bridging the Gap in U.S. Foster Care
Inclusive Curriculum and Messaging: Unid@s: Estamos Presente. and Adoption Restrictions: Ending
Making the Change We Want to See The Latino LGBT Caucus LGBT Parenting Restrictions
Session 9 • All Audiences Caucus 2 Session 1 • Intermediate

Keeping Committed Volunteers in the

Community Centers Era of the Facebook “Maybe”
UP UP and Away:
Session 9
Building a Community Center for
Supporting the LGBTQ Community
Session 4 • All Audiences Disability
Audism Unveiled: An Examination
From LA to Anchorage: of Discrimination & Prejudice
The State of LGBT Community Centers Session 4 • All Audiences
Session 5 • All Audiences
Disabled and loving
Recruiting, Training, and Motivating Caucus 1
Volunteers in Your Organization
Session 5 • All Audiences Disability and Racial Justice
Session 8 • All Audience
Making Spaces/Taking Space
Session 9 • Intermediate
Family Time:
Make Change, Make History!
Session 1• All Audiences
Bullied at the Ballot Box:
Fighting Back With New Messages
About Kids and Families
Session 3 • Fundamentals
Creating Diverse Coalitions
Around Family Definition
Session 6 • Intermediate
Parenting Queerly
Caucus 2
Families Programming Sponsor

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Fundraising
Fundraising for Free!
Session 1 • All Audiences
Resource ®evolution: moving away
from wealth-based fundraising to-
wards community interdependence
Session 2 • All Audiences
Gender Issues
Intersex 101
Session 4 • All Audiences
E. None of the Above
Caucus 1
Exploring the Intersections Between
Bisexual and Transgender Identities
and Organizing
Session 8 • Advanced
Queer Identity & Intersectionality
Session 8 • All Audiences
Queering Butch/Femme:
What does it mean in 2011?
Caucus 2
Cultivating Butch Pride
Session 9 • Intermediate
Health
LGBT Health as a Tool
for Social Justice
Caucus 1
Creating Healthy Communities:
Obstacles and Opportunities
Session 6 • All Audiences
Federal LGBT Health Initiatives
Session 7 • Intermediate
LGBTQ Mental Health: A Priority Issue
Session 7 • All Audiences
Queering Reproductive Justice:
The Intersection of Reproductive
Health and LGBTQ Liberation
Session 7 • All Audiences
The Creation and Development of a
LGBT Health Center, PRIDE Clinic
Session 7 • Intermediate
When Health Care Isn’t Caring:
Examining Health Care Discrimination
among LGBT and HIV Communities
Session 7 • All Audiences
Sessions By Topic
Innovations in the Field: Positive
Health Project’s Model for Engaging
Transgender Women of Color
Session 8 • Fundamentals
Community Caucus: Healthy Spaces
Caucus 2
Immigration
Ending anti-LGBT Discrimination in
U.S. Immigration Law
Session 1 • All Audiences
Queer Immigrant Lives: Redemption
and Reform in a Globalized Context
Session 4 • All Audiences
We’re Coming Out and Want the
World to Know: Intersections of
LGBT & Immigrant Communities
Session 5 • All Audiences
International
Issues
What it Means to be an LGBT Asylee
& How You Can Help
Session 1 • Fundamentals
Fighting Back Against a
Global Anti-Gay Agenda
Session 2 • All Audiences
Global Campaign on Religions,
Homophobia, Transphobia:
How to Engage Your Organisation
at the International Level
Session 3 • Advanced
Palestinian Queers/US Queers:
What is our relationship?
Session 7 • All Audiences
Reina de mi Misma/Queen of Myself:
Las Krudas d’ Cuba
Caucus 2
Labor
Becoming Better Allies:
Supporting Labor Struggles
Session 6 • All Audiences
LGBT Labor 101 -
The Union Difference
Session 7 • All Audiences
LGBT Labor International Cooperation
Session 8 • All Audiences
Labor Caucus
Caucus 2
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011
Legislative/Legal
Reform and
Public Policy
American Indian Gender Policies:
Restoration of Balance
Session 2 • Fundamentals
Finally, Federal Action on Hate
Crimes: Implementing the Matthew
Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate
Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
Session 3 • Intermediate
Fair Housing and the LGBT
Community: Initiatives and Strategies
Sessions By Topic
for Combating Housing Discrimination
Based on Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity
Session 4 • All Audiences
The Status of LGBT Federal Legislation
Under the 112th Congress
Session 5 • All Audiences
Meeting LGBT Health and Human
Services Needs: A Model for State
Level Advocacy and Action
Session 6 • All Audiences
LGBT Youth and Federal Policy Issues
Session 8 • All Audiences
Motivating Policy Change:
How to Talk to Your State
Representative and Senator
Session 8 • Fundamentals
Marriage
Roadmap to Victory: How We’ll Win
Freedom to Marry Nationwide
Session 1 • All Audiences
Saying I Do: Marrying Racial Justice
and Marriage Equality
Session 1 & 2 • All Audiences
Here’s How Marriage Matters:
Tools and Messaging Training
for Marriage Education
Session 3 & 4 • All Audiences
The Joys and Challenges of Polling
Session 5 & 6 • All Audiences
Moving Swing Voters on
Marriage Equality
Session 7 • All Audiences
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 Sessions By Topic

Military/ Going for the Gold: Transphobia, Social Justice Demands Good
Racism, and Why the Oppression Governance: How to Optimize Your
Veterans Issues Olympics are a Losing Game Group s Governance to Match Your
Telling: Katie Miller, Knights Out, Session 5 • Fundamentals Queer Mission
and DADT Session 9 • Intermediate
Session 4 • All Audiences
The Pink Elephant in the Room:
White Privilege and Racism within Keeping Committed Volunteers in
The Path Forward on
the Queer Community the Era of the Facebook “Maybe”
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Session 6 • All Audiences Session 9
Session 7 • All Audiences
How to Become Gay for Pay –
Life After DADT: Military Service for
Inroads to a Queer Career
People of Color
LGBT Personnel in the Post-Ban Era Social Justice Sexuality Initiative:
Session 9 • Intermediate
Caucus 2 Preliminary Results from a Nation-
wide Survey of LGBT People of Color
Pennsylvania Caucus & Session 1 • Advanced
Movement Building Strategy Session
Saying I Do: Marrying Racial Justice Session 9
Ahora: Strengthening LGBT Latino
and Marriage Equality
Session 1 & 2 • All Audiences
Communities and Coalitions
Organizational Session 1 • All Audiences
Givin’ it to Ya Straight! Development
Session 2 • Fundamentals Art of the Schmooze Anti-Homophobia &
(Networking Tips) Transphobia Project
Session 2 • All Audiences Session 1 • All Audiences
Need a Fourth For Bridge:
Small town/rural organizing
Session 2 • Intermediate Strategic Planning: How to Best Black Lesbians Matter
Utilize Your Scarce Financial and Session 2 • All Audiences
Better Together – Human Resources
Session 3 • All Audiences Immigration and Indigenous Borders
Collaborations between Session 3 • All Audiences
Racial Justice and LGBT Groups
Session 3 • All Audiences Humor and Diversity
Session 4 • All Audiences Trans People of Color Organizing
and Advocacy
Why the Tea Party is Out to Get Session 4 • All Audiences
Queers and What to Do about It Strategic Alliances and Collaboration
Session 3 • All Audiences Session 5 • Intermediate
Caucus/Networking of LGBT Asian
Being a Leader without Being a Americans, South Asians, Southeast
Activists Together:
Victim: Personal Activist Strategies Asians and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)
Resisting Anti-LGBT Politics Caucus 1
Session 4 • All Audiences Session 7 • Intermediate

Practical Research & Program Navigating the World as LGBT and

What’s Law Got to Do With It?:
Evaluation: Tools you Need to Secure Middle Eastern
Where Do Legal Rights Fit in the Caucus 1
LGBT Social Justice Movement? Funding and Build a Solid Foundation
Session 4 • All Audiences for Your Organization
Session 7 • Advanced Queer Activism in Spanish Caucus
Caucus 1
Southeastern U.S. Caucus
Caucus 1 Learning as We Build (Building as
We Learn): Creating a Guide for Land, Desire and Culture: Two Spirit
Sustaining Queer Womyn of Color People and the LGBT Movement
Ex-Gay Survivor Caucus Session 7 • All Audiences
Caucus 1 Organizations
Session 8 • Fundamentals
Latin@ Pride:
Fabulous & Empowered: A Presenta-
We CAN Create Fully Transgender Beyond Circuit Parties and Parades
tion of FIERCE’s Organizing Tool Kit Session 7 • All Audiences
and other Youth Organizing Models Inclusive Organizations!
Caucus 1 Session 8 • Fundamentals
Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101
Session 8 • All Audiences
¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say? Extreme Transgender Inclusion:
Creating Multilingual Spaces Taking it to the Next Level
Session 9 • Fundamentals Learning as We Build (Building as We
Session 5 & 6 • All Audiences
Learn): Creating a Guide for Sustaining
Queer Womyn of Color Organizations
The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Session 8 • Fundamentals
Our Path to Dignity and Equality
Session 5 • All Audiences

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We’re here! We’re queer!
We eat paneer! Mapping LGBTQ
AAPI Organizing for Social Change
Session 8 • All Audiences
Unid@s: Estamos Presente.
The Latino LGBT Caucus
Caucus 2
Intercountry & Transracial Adoptees
Caucus
Caucus 2
Negotiating Queer Identities of
People of Color on the U.S./
Mexico Border
Caucus 2
Weaving the Nations Together:
First Nations Community Dialogue
Caucus 2
Engaging & Mobilizing Communities
of Color on the LGBT Agenda
Session 9 • Fundamentals
The Exploitation of Queers:
Pinkwashing, Palestine and
Our Joint Struggles
Session 9 • All Audiences
Practice Spirit,
Do Justice
Beyond Transgender Inclusion to
Transformation
Session 1 • Intermediate
Faith Based Models that further
Self-determination, Sovereignty and
the Preservation of Sacred Sites
Session 1 • All Audiences
Hidden Voices:
The Lives of LGBT Muslims
Session 1 • All Audiences
Making the Christian Case for
LGBT Equality: Message Training
Session 1 • All Audiences
Leader, Know Thyself
Session 2 • All Audiences
Messology of the Black Church
Session 2 • All Audiences
Join the Movement. Keep the Faith.
Session 2 • All Audiences
The Pulpit of the Press: Making the
Religious Case for LGBT Equality
Session 2 • All Audiences
Sessions By Topic
(LGBTQ) Justice, (LGBTQ) Justice
Shall You Pursue
Session 3 • Intermediate
Be a Board Star Basics:
Understanding Roles & Responsibilities
Session 3 • All Audiences
Media Savvy for Media Strategies
Session 3 • All Audiences
Ask for Money Face-to-Face...
Have Faith!
Session 4 • All Audiences
Race and Power:
An Examination of Intersectionality
Session 4 • All Audiences
Working with Asian & Pacific Islander
(A&PI) Congregations to Become
Welcoming
Session 4 • All Audiences
API Caucus @ Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Caucus 1
Homo-Interior:
Religious Design for Your Queer Soul
Caucus 1
Telling Our Stories
Caucus 1
Transgender: A Question of Faith
Caucus 1
Lifting As We Climb: An Exercise
(therefore you might sweat) In
Rethinking How We Do What We Do
So We Can Do It Better!
Session 5 • All Audiences
Case Studies for
Denominational Engagement
Session 5 • All Audiences
Mobilizing Pro-Equality Catholics
on LGBT Issues
Session 5 • Intermediate
It’s All About The Frame
Session 6 • All Audiences
LGBT Synagogues and Organizations:
Surfacing Our Diversity and Fitting
the Mosaic Together
Session 6 • All Audiences
Spirit and Desire: Framing a Discussion
About Our Spiritual and Erotic Lives
Session 6 • Intermediate
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011
Building the Response to HIV
and AIDS Across Communities
Session 7 • All Audiences
Humor, Hospitality, and Heliotropes
as Tools for Social Change
Session 7 • All Audiences
Majority Minority - Case Studies in
Advancing Equality among People of
Color and People of Faith
Session 7 • All Audiences
Strategic Storytelling
Session 7 • All Audiences
Sessions By Topic
Building a Statewide Interfaith
Network for Equality
Session 8 • All Audiences
Fighting Islamophobia and Homophobia:
Building Solidarity in Oppressed
Communities
Session 8 • Intermediate
The Possibilities of Faith Work In
An Aging LGBTQ Community
Session 8 • All Audiences
Building Bridges To Wholeness –
Next Strategies for LGBT Jewish
Movement Building
Caucus 2
It’s All About Me: Queer Spirituality
Caucus 2
Pagan and Queer
Caucus 2
Queer Muslim Caucus
Caucus 2
Strength for the Journey:
A Reflective Workshop
Caucus 2
Racial Justice
White Privilege in the Queer Community:
Holding Each Other Accountable
Caucus 1
Creating Meaningful Change:
Addressing Poverty in the LGBT
Community Through Collaboration
Session 5 • All Audiences
Barriers to Access for LGBTQ Youth
Session 6 • Intermediate
The Pink Elephant in the Room:
White Privilege and Racism
within the Queer Community
Session 6 • All Audiences
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Research and Policy What responsibility does Higher Kink & Leather Caucus
Designing a Survey and Using Data to Education have in the development Caucus 2
Secure Protections for LGBT People of LGBTQA students of color
Session 2 • Intermediate Caucus 2 Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus
Caucus 2
Emotional Congruence and Best Practices:
“Conflicted” Voters: Understanding Anti-Bullying & Harassment Work Sex Worker Caucus
in Rural Communities Caucus 2
Deeper Psychological Dynamics
Session 3 • Intermediate Session 9 • All Audiences
Gay Male Desire
Inclusive Curriculum and Messaging: Session 9 • All Audiences
Just-Released Results of the
National Trans Discrimination Survey Making the Change We Want to See
Session 7 • All Audiences Session 9 • All Audiences Our Bodies, Our Sex
Session 9 • All Audiences
Public Policies that Impact LGBTQ Sexual Freedom
Communities: The LGBTQ Policy Bi Any Other Name: Transgender
Journal of the Harvard Kennedy A 20 Year Anniversary Dialogue Community & Issues
School Session 1 • All Audiences New Information on Transgender
Caucus 2 Discrimination to Inform Workplace
Life After Lawrence v. Texas: Policies
School Issues Ongoing LGBT Issues in the Session 5 • Fundamentals
Why Wait to Stop Hate? Criminal Justice System
Convincing Ourselves and Winning Session 1 • All Audiences The Cutting Edge in Trans Rights:
Others to Crucial (and effective!) ID Documents, Restroom Access,
Anti-Bias Work with Children Going the Distance: and Prisons
Session 1 • All Audiences Longterm Commitments Session 5 • Intermediate
in all of their Glorious Forms
Trans Youth & Safe Schools: Session 2 • All Audiences Trailblazing for Transgender Health
Advocacy & Policy Session 6 • All Audiences
Session 2 • Intermediate Mapping Your Desire
Session 3 • All Audiences Advocating for Better Health Care
Go, Team, Go! Creating Safe and Access for Transgender Individuals
Inclusive High School Athletic “Movement Speak” – Session 7 • All Audiences
Programs for LGBT Students The Tower of Babel
Session 3 • All Audiences Session 4 • All Audiences Creating Our Destinies: Strategies for
Employment in Trans Communities
Sex Ed on the Federal, State and Femme Outside of Gender Session 7 • Fundamentals
Caucus 1
Local Level and how YOU can get
involved! Just-Released Results of the National
Session 3 • Intermediate Leather Leadership Roundtable Trans Discrimination Survey
Caucus 1 Session 7 • All Audiences
Research for Change:
Leveraging Data to Improve Sex-Positive Trans Caucus Livin’ to the T, Struggle, Issues
Caucus 1 and Triumphs as Young Adult
School Climate for LGBT Youth
Session 4 • All Audiences Transpersons
Trans/cending Trans- & Session 8 • Intermediate
Gay Straight Alliances Partner-Only Spaces
Caucus 1 Trans Feminism
Caucus 1
Session 8 • All Audiences
GLSEN’s Safe Space Kit Campaign: Doing Justice: A place for polyamorous/
You can help make schools safer for non-monogamous communities in Caucus for State/Local
LGBT students the LGBTIQA movement Transgender Advocacy
Session 5 • Intermediate Caucus 2
Session 5 • All Audiences

Making LGBT Students Count: Kink, Race, & Class The Joy of Authenticity –
Session 6 • All Audiences Voices from the Spectrum: Trans
Creating Change in the Youth Risk
Behavior Survey Adults, Children and Their Families
Session 5 • All Audiences
Building Sex Positive Space Caucus 2
Session 7 • Fundamentals
Anti-Racism Framework for Trans and Genderqueer Youth Caucus
Negotiating Consent Caucus 2
Safe Schools Organizing Session 8 • All Audiences
Session 6 • Advanced

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Workplace
Economics and Equality: Supporting
LGBT Business Communities
Session 2 • Fundamentals
Gender Transition in the Workplace:
Transgender - How we do it in
Minnesota and Nationally
Session 3 • Fundamentals
Making the Most of Recruiting
Resources. When and How to Engage
a Search Consultant or When and
How to do it Yourself?
Session 6 • Advanced
Assumptions, Tools, Risks and
Understanding: Safe Services
for Youth
Session 7 • All Audiences
Activating an Employee Resource
Group for Advocacy
Session 8 • Fundamentals
Best Practices on Corporate External
Relations and current political
landscape in Minnesota
Session 9 • All Audiences
Sessions By Topic
Youth
Harsh Realities: Addressing anti-
LGBT bias and bullying faced by
black and Latino male youth
Session 1 • Intermediate
The Lifeguard Workshop
Session 1 • Fundamentals
From Inspiration to Action:
How to Facilitate Transformative
Youth-led Action
Session 2 • Fundamentals
Show Some SAS:
LGBTQ Youth of Color Stand Up
Against Criminalization
Session 3 • All Audiences
Making it Better: Programs and Policy
Interventions that Protect and Nurture
LGBT Youth in America’s Schools
Session 3 • Intermediate
YEAH! - Engaging LGBT Youth to be
Empowered Against HIV!
Session 3 • All Audiences
Fabulous & Empowered: A Presenta-
tion of FIERCE’s Organizing Tool Kit
and other Youth Organizing Models
Caucus 1
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Creating Change 2011
Youth Organizing 101
Session 5 & 6 • Fundamentals
Enabling Activism Among
18-24 Year Olds
Session 5 • All Audiences
Building a Youth Run
Adult Supported Youth Group
Session 6 • Fundamentals
Barriers to Access for LGBTQ Youth
Session 6 • Intermediate
Assumptions, Tools, Risks and
Understanding: Safe Services
Sessions By Topic
for Youth
Session 7 • All Audiences
LGBTQ Youth of Color,
Homelessness, and the Sex Trades:
LGBTQ responses to anti-trafficking
initiatives, coercion, and harm
Session 8 • All Audiences
LGBT Youth and Federal Policy Issues
Session 8 • All Audiences
Trans and Genderqueer Youth Caucus
Caucus 2
Promoting LGBTA Youth Leadership
through Social and Educational
Programming
Session 9 • Intermediate
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The Academy for Leadership and Action is a premier leadership develop-
ment opportunity for people working to create change at all levels in the LGBT
and progressive movements.
The Academy for Leadership and Action was developed by the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force in 2008 to meet the growing need for qualified candidates
for local, state and national positions of significant responsibility in the lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement. The primary goal of the Acad-
emy program track is to support a diverse pool of skilled leaders and activists
in their work for LGBT equality by providing them with the tools needed to be
effective.
Each Academy session has been designed to:
• Provide practical, cutting edge, hands-on tools to help meet some of the
most significant challenges to leading effectively within the LGBT movement.
• Put the learning needs of the participants at the heart of the curriculum.
• Be interactive, engaging, and participatory in the method of training delivery.
Academy programming stems from the Task Force’s values of building a move-
ment that is interdependent, interconnected, and where everyone can bring their
full selves to the work of creating a transformed society. The Task Force believes
that creating long lasting social change requires work in the following four areas:
• Making immediate political change –electing progressive leaders, pass-
ing progressive laws and ballot initiatives, and changing the policies of
society’s dominant institutions.
• Building organizational capacity and infrastructure – creating strong,
vibrant, and connected organizations that have the financial resources and
base of supporters needed to endure.
• Transforming worldview – shifting prevailing public attitudes and values
towards a vision of a more just and progressive world.
• Authentic Inclusion – creating a diverse movement that invites everyone to
bring their full selves to our organizations, campaigns, and movement work.
To ensure the needs of participants are appropriately met, Academy sessions
are designated as follows:
Introductory: Typically 0-1 year of experience in the topic area. Content covers
terminology, basic theory, and building essential skills.
Experienced: Typically 2-5 years experience in the topic area. Content in-
cludes putting theory into practice and practical application. Sessions deal with
serious challenges or barriers to being effective. Some time is devoted to prob-
lem solving and developing strategy.
Advanced: Typically 5+ years of experience in the topic area. Content includes
advanced theory, organizational management, and best practices. In addition,
advanced sessions can include case study examinations and high-level problem
solving. Sessions are tailored for lead volunteers and organizers, board chairs,
executive directors and senior managers, and experienced lobbyists.
Note: We strongly encourage pre-registration for Academy sessions
because there is limited capacity for these popular sessions. You
MUST be preregistered for the Authentic Inclusion and Intersectional
Work sessions.
You may select Academy sessions at the Creating Change registra-
tion area.
Academy Sessions
Academy Session 1
Friday, February 4 • 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Organizational Best Practices
It’s Not You; And It’s Not Me —
It’s an Organizational Turning Point
Level: Experienced
As leaders we often blame ourselves or others for the challenges our organi-
zations experience (someone has to be at fault! or so we think). With over 30
years of working with nonprofit social justice organizations, the Management
Assistance Group (MAG) has found that there are predictable turning points
where old ways of operating simply break down and intentional adjustments
are required. These turning points are a natural outgrowth of change and
development. Learning to spot them enhances your ability to lead your orga-
nization through inevitable challenges and change.
This workshop is based on the book, Seven Turning Points: Leading Through
Pivotal Transitions in Organizational Life, and the booklet Strategic Planning
That Makes A Difference. Participants can expect an interactive learning en-
vironment.
Participants will:
• Understand the seven key turning points of an organization
• Explore two turning points selected by participants including:
• Characteristic patterns of problems that signal that an organization has
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reached that turning point and needs change, and
• Recommendations for the main adjustments organizations need to make
and how to anticipate the resistance that may arise.
• Develop a framework that supports effective strategic planning.
The workshop is intended for executive directors, board members, and staff
leaders operating in nonprofit organizations.
Trainer: Robin Katcher, Senior Consultant and Deputy Director at the Man-
agement Assistance Group
Communications for You and Your Organization
Let’s Talk About It:
Values-Based Messaging and Public Speaking
Level: Introductory
In today’s political climate, strategists on both sides of the aisle are scrambling
to make a claim on values. The truth is that values don’t solely belong to those
working on either side of the debate. Infusing our advocacy messaging with
our progressive values can help create greater resonance with political lead-
ers, with our base of supporters, and with the public at large.
In this session, participants will become more effective advocates by ground-
ing message development in progressive values that resonate with a broad
range of audiences. Participants will begin by identifying the fundamental
values that are the foundations of their work. Following this, participants will
learn how to develop values-based messages that are targeted for specific
audiences. After practicing message development, participants will learn how
to effectively disseminate their message by learning and practicing the finer
points of delivery through public speaking.
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• Increase their understanding of the role that values-based messaging
plays in shaping the political arena
• Learn how to identify the messaging needs of an audience
• Develop the capacity to create compelling values-based messages for a
broad range of audiences
• Hone the ability to effectively disseminate a message
• Become more effective public speakers
Trainers: Kate Childs Graham, Communication Director, Choice USA and
Trystan Reese, Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Organizing to Build Sustainable Power
Organizing: Moving A Target To Win On Your Issue
Level: Introductory
Ever wonder how to move a decision maker to support your organization’s
championed policy or advocacy issue? Often, progressives think that the de-
cision makers who impact our lives will support our issues simply because
“it’s the right thing to do.” No matter how just the cause, most decision mak-
ers – whether they are legislators, agency appointees, or leaders of allied
non-profit organizations — root their actions in self-interest rather than moral
righteousness.
Advancing progressive issues in the public arena requires an understand-
ing of what it takes to appeal to the self-interest of those with the power to
support – or reject – policies we care about. This session will teach how to
understand and use the concept of self-interest to build the political power
needed to win. The study and application of the concept self-interest will
include: finding common ground in building broad-based advocacy coalitions,
creating effective personal stories for advocacy campaigns, and conducting
effective face-to-face visits with decision makers.
Learning objectives:
• Learn to identify the self-interest of organizations in participating in
advocacy coalitions
• Develop individual stories that are effective in building support for an issue
• Learn how to conduct effective face-to-face meetings elected officials or
other institutional decision makers
Trainers: Sarah Scanlon, Senior Labor Trainer, Wellstone Action; Cynthia
Campos Manager, Movement Building Project; Mattie Weiss, Deputy Director
of Training / Senior Trainer and Camille Cyprian, Co-Director, Campus Camp
Wellstone
Authentic Inclusion and Intersectional Work
What’s Culture Got to Do With It?
Making the Most of Organizational Culture
Level: Experienced
Note: this session is 6 hours divided into 2 parts.
Who does most of the talking at the staff meeting? Who keeps the break
room sparkly clean? What would you never dream of wearing to work? How
do race and gender play out in day to day interactions? These are just some
of the questions new employees or volunteers might notice when they first
join an organization. Over time, we become part of an organization’s culture
and like fish, we stop noticing the water! In fact, many of us only pay attention
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when something happens - something especially good or troubling. A sick co-
worker gets two weeks of extra sick time donated by concerned colleagues, a
difficult interpersonal conflict takes over a planning process, or a celebration
of a beloved leader moves us to tears. There are moments when we realize
that culture is what we make it!
In this session we will reflect on organizational culture and ask ourselves how
to create more intentional and inclusive spaces – where privilege and power
are topics that become vital to workplace sustainability. By examining how
people, practices and policies make up an organization’s culture; we will learn
strategies to create inclusive, participatory climates that work for us rather
than against us.
Participants will:
• Deepen their understanding of teamwork and collaboration
• Explore race and gender as specific indicators of inclusion
• Learn practical tools for building organizations that reflect our values
• Share ideas about potential structures for managing challenging times
Facilitator: Evangeline Weiss, Leadership Programs Director, National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Walking Our Talk – Applying a Racial
Justice Lens in Our Organizations
Level: Advanced
Frame: Building Capacity and Infrastructure
As we commit ourselves to dismantling racism and other systems of privilege
and oppression, many of us are engaging in deep dialogue and education.
But when we try to apply that learning to our own organizations we can get
stuck in our own analysis. How do we get from reflection to action, even as we
continue our learning? This session will provide concrete opportunities and
frameworks for applying a racial justice lens to the way we do business in our
faith-based organizations – ultimately, allowing us to have greater impact on
our missions and also to become models for the change we seek in the world.
This session is designed to be highly interactive and tap the wisdom and
experience of participants. We will work in small groups focused on specific
elements of organizational life such as board development, fundraising, and
staff/volunteer development. Each group will use an assessment tool to take
stock of the ways their organizations interrupt privilege and oppression as well
as ways they perpetuate, perhaps unintentionally, racism and white privilege.
We’ll work together to explore ways to more intentionally integrate a racial
justice lens into the way we do business. We also will explore strategies for
influencing our congregational associations.
This session is intended for those who:
• Have participated in Beth Zemsky’s Intercultural Development Training
• Are self-reflective, willing to take risks in order to build their own self-
awareness, and able to step back and support others’ learning in a group
setting
• Are experiential learners able to contribute to authentic dialogue and work
with tools offered by the facilitators in order to develop their own, custom-
ized learnings
Learning Objectives:
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• Leave with concrete ways to apply a racial justice lens to board develop-
ment, fundraising, and/or staff/volunteer development
• Learn a tool for discussing these issues with colleagues in your organization
• Develop strategies for advocating for change in the congregational systems
in which you operate
Faculty: Gita Gulati-Partee, OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc., Durham,
NC and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, intersections/intersecciones consulting, Silver
Spring, MD
Academy Session 2
Friday, February 4 • 3:00 pm–6:15 pm
Organizational Best Practices
Don’t Do It Alone: Lead the Way to Fundraising
Success by Building a Team of Experienced and
Dedicated Fundraisers
Level: Experienced
Are you in a position where raising money from individual gifts is seen as a
one-person job? Do you struggle meeting your goals for raising money from
individual gifts? Is your board “give/ get” more of a wish than a plan? Do you
often call alone to ask potential donors for money? The good news is that
there’s a way to make your work more effective and more fun: Build a team
of askers to raise money with you.
Time and time again we have found that everyone has the potential to be an
effective asker. With the right training and support, nearly everyone can raise
individual gifts for organizations they care about. This workshop is designed
for people who already raise individual gifts on a regular basis and seek to
build a team of askers to grow their fundraising ability.
Participants will:
• Learn how to identify potential fundraisers among volunteers, staff,
friends and family
• Develop an understanding of how to train and support new fundraisers
• Learn how to manage a team of fundraisers
• Understand how to manage the natural changes in your job as a
fundraiser in managing a team of askers
Trainers: Trina Olson, Senior Training Manager and Kathleen Campisano, Se-
nior Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Communications for You and Your Organization
Framing Advocacy Efforts with Vision
Level: Experienced
Let’s be real – we have some communications challenges. It’s easier to
name the ways our communities are hurt than the solutions we want to see.
We are better at 20 minute speeches about the complex nuances of gender,
race, sexuality and class then we are at motivating people to take action for
liberation. We are constrained by the push-me-pull-you challenges of com-
municating to our current base while also changing the hearts and minds of
broader communities.
If you just said, “amen” to these challenges, this Academy session is for you.
Together we will explore ways to see these challenges with clarity and move
pro-actively toward framing liberation using Asian Communities for Reproduc-
tive Justice’s Strong Families Initiative as a case study in progress.
Participants will:
• Learn how to use storytelling as a tool to build resonate frames
• Understand examples of real life communications successes that model
pro-active framing at the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality
• Be able to apply tools to your advocacy work from our Strong Families
Communications Toolkit
Trainers: Moira Bowman, Movement Building Director and Diana Ip, Com-
munications Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Organizing to Build Sustainable Power
Flexing Collective Power Part 1: The Foundations of
Effective Organizational and Campaign Planning
Level: Introductory – Experienced
Winning improvements for our communities, electing people, and holding
powerful people accountable all require building people power. This challeng-
ing and intense session will demystify effective planning, both for your organi-
zation and your issue campaign that is the basis for all successful organizing
campaigns.
The first portion of the training will teach how to identify clear goals and ob-
jectives for your plan. The lens through which planning will be discussed is
a S.W.O.T. (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analysis; this analysis will
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subsequently inform how to develop a clear and concise message for your
advocacy work; and how to prioritize campaign tasks on a timeline for suc-
cessful execution.
The second portion of the training will teach participants how to conduct a
power analysis, which examines the political strengths and vulnerabilities of a
decision maker in considering support for an issue. Conducting an effective
power analysis can be critical in understanding what it takes to move a deci-
sion maker on your issue. Participants will spend the majority of time work-
ing through a case study of a specific issue and learn how to identify targets,
map power relationships, develop a strategy and put together a grassroots
campaign plan.
Learning Objectives:
• Planning a successful campaign strategy through SWOT analysis
• The role that Power Mapping plays in moving an issue and a target
• How to incorporate a message, timeline and resource needs into your plan
Trainers: Sarah Scanlon, Senior Labor Trainer, Wellstone Action; Cynthia
Campos, Manager, Movement Building Project, Wellstone Action; Mattie
Weiss, Deputy Director of Training/ Senior Trainer, Wellstone Action; Camille
Cyprian, Co-Director, Campus Camp Wellstone; Sarah Reece, Deputy Director
for the Academy for Leadership and Action, National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force; Bex Ahuja, Senior Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
and Dan Hawes, Director for the Academy for Leadership and Action, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force
What’s Culture Got to Do With It?
Making the Most of Organizational Culture Continued
Note: this session is 6 hours divided into 2 parts.
See description from session 1 continued on next page
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Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Intentional Leadership and Followership:
Building a Base for Breakthrough Social
Change
Level: Advanced
Our culture worships leaders. We look to people in leadership roles for vision,
direction, solutions, and support. And yet, most of us spend most of our time
following (a boss, a board, a constituency, a mission). This highly interactive
session aims to lift up and reclaim the practice of followership and, at the
same time, to reframe leadership as a dynamic relationship, rather than a
fixed position, that encompasses leaders and followers.
How we follow informs how we lead, and vice versa. Participants will discover
their strengths and shadows and how these manifest in both leadership and
followership styles. We will explore how to participate successfully both within
our faith communities and the broader LGBT movement as allies, advocates,
and activists to build more inclusive spaces and coalitions as well as more
dynamic forms of leadership – ultimately building a base for the movement.
Using a video prompt, a self-assessment tool, paired and group dialogue,
silence, and journaling, participants will reflect on their followership styles and
explore what makes them “exemplary followers” who can lead and follow
from wherever they are.
This session is intended for those who:
• Are self-reflective, willing to take risks in order to build their own self-
awareness, and able to step back and support others’ learning in a
group setting
• Are experiential learners able to contribute to authentic dialogue and
work with tools offered by the facilitators in order to develop their own,
customized learnings
• Desire more intentional, inclusive, and effective forms of leadership in
their organizations, communities, and lives
Learning Objectives:
• Leave with a new understanding of leadership as a dynamic relationship
that encompasses leaders and followers
• Build self-awareness about strengths and shadows and how these
manifest in both leadership and followership styles
• Develop strategies for leveraging natural styles and tendencies to build
more inclusive spaces and coalitions as well as more dynamic forms of
leadership
Faculty: Gita Gulati-Partee, OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc., Durham, NC
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Academy Session 3
Saturday, February 5 • 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Organizational Best Practices
Want a Bigger Piece of the Pie?
Create a Plan for a Diverse and
Stable Funding Base
Level: Experienced- Advanced
Social change costs money. You need a funding plan not just this year, but for
years to come! Join Mickey MacIntyre of realChange Partners for a speedy
yet thorough overview of how to bake a diversified fundraising pie, which
includes a round of “Name that Fundraising Method,” “Calculator Time Tri-
als” (you know, for developing budgets!), and “Cute Adorable Organization
Seeking. . .” (a little Case for Support fun). From direct mail to planned giving,
from making the ask to making profitable events, apply the best practices
of a multitude of development methods to create a three-year plan to grow
your organization’s fundraising pie. Whether you’re a new fundraising staff
needing a quick overview of the key components of a diverse development
program, or a board or staff member responsible for the fundraising program,
this workshop is for you! Let them eat cake!
Participants Will:
• Learn the key elements of a diverse fundraising program and the strategic
impact on the development bottom line
• Know how to articulate a concise Case for Support for organizations
• Learn to apply an understanding of the myriad of fundraising opportunities
to create a strong Development Plan that will fund the realization of your
mission
Trainer: Mickey MacIntyre, President & CEO, realChange Partners, LLC
Communications for You and Your Organization
To Plan or Not To Plan: There is No Question
When It Comes to Effective Communications
Level: Introductory
An organization could have the best staff, the greatest relationships with me-
dia and enough clout to move an ocean, but, in the end, communications is
nothing without a strategic and effective plan. Planning helps set clear and
attainable goals. It takes into mind our capacity, our strengths and our niche in
order to catapult our message into the public arena. As the media landscape
changes and online earned media gains speed, it is crucial that we have solid
plans to get our message out to a wide variety of audiences.
In this session, participants will learn the basic steps to create an effective
communications plan as well as the easiest and smartest ways to gain earned
media. Then, participants, given scenarios and examples, will work together to
create communications plans, and talk through the most effective strategies.
Participants will:
• Learn how to create a strategic and effective communications plan
• Learn how to gain earned media
• Learn how to capitalize on key moments to disseminate your message
effectively through media
• Learn how the Internet is changing earned media landscape
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Trainers: Kate Childs Graham, Communication Director, Choice USA and Ra-
shad Robinson, Senior Director of Programs, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD)
Organizing to Build Sustainable Power
Flexing Collective Power, Part 2:
Winning LGBT Equality At The Ballot Box
Level: Introductory- Experienced
In state legislatures and city councils around the country, LGBT activists con-
tinue to advance pro-LGBT laws and policies. In many cases, however, elected
officials are not the final decision makers on our issues – voters are. As the
right wing continues to aggressively place local pro-LGBT laws on the ballot
for a public vote, our community must be ready to prevail at the ballot box.
For over eight years, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has been part-
nering with local communities to build strong campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT
initiatives or referenda. With the Task Force’s support, our community has
reversed a long-standing losing streak in preserving job and housing discrimi-
nation protections at the ballot box. The Task Force has also been partner-
ing with groups around the country to build new models of person-to-person
campaigning capable of challenging homophobia amidst those who oppose
LGBT equality, especially on hot button issues such as marriage equality.
This session will examine successful strategies and tactics for person-to-per-
son voter engagement in LGBT initiative or referenda. Trainers will draw upon
case studies of past and current campaigns, from protecting non-discrimina-
tion protections in Kalamazoo, Michigan to regaining the freedom to marry
in California, to explain the fundamental concepts behind building majority
support in the electorate for LGBT issues.
Participants will:
• Develop an ability to calculate votes to win for any initiative or referendum
campaign
• Learn how to match appropriate campaign strategy and tactics to the
external political environment
• Learn fundamental concepts of different modes of voter engagement,
including voter identification, voter persuasion, and get out the vote
• Hone skills to be effective at motivating base supporters to vote
• Learn techniques for challenging homophobic thinking amidst moderate
and anti-LGBT voters
Trainers: Sarah Scanlon, Senior Labor Trainer, Wellstone Action; Cynthia
Campos, Manager, Movement Building Project, Wellstone Action; Mattie
Weiss, Deputy Director of Training / Senior Trainer, Wellstone Action; Camille
Cyprian, Co-Director, Campus Camp Wellstone; Sarah Reece, Deputy Director
for the Academy for Leadership and Action, National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force; Bex Ahuja, Senior Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
and Dan Hawes, Director for the Academy for Leadership and Action, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Authentic Inclusion and Intersectional Work
Steering Ourselves Towards Racial Justice:
Organizing for LGBT Rights AND Racial Justice
Level: Advanced
Note: this session is 6 hours divided into 2 parts.
Are you certain that you could be doing your work in more racially just ways,
from the way you choose campaigns, to how you do outreach, to how you
message issues? Are you certain that you don’t have to choose between
working for LGBT equality and racial equity? If so, then you know that the
ones who have been active against LGBT people are also often perpetuators
of racism and xenophobia. Thoughtful and successful engagement in racial
justice work requires cross-issue collaboration and the adoption of a racial
justice lens. LGBT advocacy and racial justice work are not an either or bi-
nary – this Academy session will provide movement activists with the tools
necessary for building an inclusive progressive movement that works for both
LGBT and racial justice. Some of these tools stem from choices we face in
how we work for LGBT equality that include building multi-racial coalitions,
multi-racial grassroots support, diverse and inclusive leadership, and oppor-
tunities for people to be their whole selves. In this session we will examine
ways in which systemic racial inequality manifests itself and offer proposals,
messages, and strategies for advancing racial equity. This is an opportunity to
learn practical tools and tips to sharpen your analysis, skills and strategies for
addressing structural racism in issue and advocacy campaigns.
Participants will:
• Learn how to effectively talk about and challenge racial inequality
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• Be introduced to the approach of “Leading with Race”––addressing
racism explicitly, but not necessarily exclusively, when framing issues
• Learn tips and lessons for effective multi-racial organizing for LGBT rights
and racial equity
Trainers: Terry Keleher, Director of the Midwest Office and Program Director
of the Racial Justice Leadership Action Network, The Applied Research Cen-
ter; Donna Hernández, Special Events Coordinator and NY Operations Man-
ager, The Applied Research Center; Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Gender Justice
Program and RACE Program Director of Western States Center and Kelley
Weigel, Executive Director, Western States Center
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Building Faith-Based Partnerships:
Global Justice or Queer Colonialism
Level: Advanced
LGBTQI communities of faith and individuals are involved in efforts to lay the
foundations for social change and promote equality in every country and con-
text around the globe. Sometimes we encounter the structures and systems
that our ancestors in faith established in well-meaning but developmentally
inhibiting ways. Sometimes we come face to face with our own racism, clas-
sism, and contextually inappropriate desires to do good.
In this workshop, leaders of Metropolitan Community Churches, who are in-
volved in the work of global justice in many different contexts, will offer an
overview of post colonialism in faith-based work and liberation theologies and
present eight case studies of their work in specific contexts. There will be an
opportunity for questions and discussion, as well as the chance to connect
with other spiritual activists.
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Criteria for Your Audience: This advanced 3-hour session is intended for those
interested in exploring ways to combine the best in post-colonialist, libera-
tion and queer thought with active, on-the-ground partnerships in a variety of
global contexts. Participants should be involved in the work of global justice
already and represent a faith-based organization or group or a particular pro-
gram that is faith related in a justice-oriented organization.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will gain a succinct and applicable overview of post-colonialist and
liberation theologies, as well as a queer-based critique of thought and practice
• Case studies will enable interaction with spiritual activists who have
established working partnerships across cultural, ethnic, class and
faith diversities
• Participants will learn both the pitfalls of seasoned activists and
methodologies that have led to social change without repeating the
missional mishaps of the past
• Participants will be invited to become part of a developing global network
of spiritual activists and to share future learning opportunities with MCC’s
Global Justice Institute
Faculty: The Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, Moderator of Metropolitan Community
Churches; The Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Chair, Global Justice Team, Metropolitan
Community Churches; The Rev. Robert Griffin, Global Justice Team of MCC,
Liaison to Jamaica and The Rev. Neil Thomas, Pastor MCC Los Angeles, Presi-
dent of California Faith for Equality
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Academy Session 4
Saturday, February 5 • 3:00 pm–6:15 pm
Organizational Best Practices
Set Your Compass for Managing
Leadership in Yourself and Others
Level: Experienced
Despite popular belief, none of us are natural born leaders. In reality, folks we
admire have just acquired the skills of leading and tend to exercise them more
often. The very best leaders know that the true leader never does it alone! In
this session, you’ll assess your individual leadership styles from the perspec-
tive of the Leadership Compass; learn management systems to apply leader-
ship skills in settings with staff, volunteers, and clients; and practice personal
leadership in managing others in solving real world organizational challenges.
Whether you’re leading from the top, the middle or the front line, come and
im-prove your so-called “soft-skills” of leadership and management so you
can motivate and inspire others to join, support and stay on your team.
Participants will:
• Know more about their leadership and management style . . .
and how others perceive and respond to their leadership style
• Develop the skills and systems needed to engage and manage leaders
(and teammates!) around them
• Apply leadership and management skills to solve real world challenges
facing their organizations.
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Trainers: Mickey MacIntyre, President & CEO, realChange Partners, LLC and
Hope Wisneski, Deputy Director of The GLBT Community Center of Colorado
Communications for You and Your Organization Level: Introductory-Experienced
How Facebook Can help Win LGBT Equality
Level: Introductory
There’s far more to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube than Farmville and videos
of cats playing pianos. They are also powerful ways to share your message,
engage supporters, raise money, and put pressure on elected officials.
This session will give you practical and effective ways of integrating new me-
dia into your existing and future campaigns without breaking your budget.
Examples of innovative online campaigns from LGBT and other progressive
groups will be used to show how you can leverage the power of online com-
munities to achieve your political and educational goals.
Participants will leave the workshop:
• Having learned how to integrate new media into offline campaigns
• Having learned to use social media to engage supporters in effective action
• Having learned to use social media to communicate with elected officials
Trainers: Michael Crawford, New Media Director, Freedom to Marry and
Trystan Reese, Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Organizing to Build Sustainable Power
More $, More Power:
Asking for What We Need and Getting It!
Level: Introductory- Experienced
Ever feel like money is the thing holding your group back from achieving your
goals? Worry that you’ll turn people off by asking by fundraising? Feel like our
movement feeds into classist, racist and ageist assumptions about money?
You’re not alone. By raising money in a different way, we can reinvent the
power structure of our movement.
Let’s break down the barriers of anxiety and assumptions about asking and
giving. No gimmicks—live conversations with real people work. We’ll arm you
with tried and true methods, examples and tools to make asking feel great
and the money roll in.
Participants Will:
• Learn to change WHO funds the LGBT movement (not just white, gay men)
• Tackle classism & discomfort around asking
• Move fundraising from scary to possible and empowering
• Help to re-invent the power structure by teaching EVERYONE to raise $
• Raise not just little, but big $ so organizations can be bigger, support more
leaders, lift goals and buy and pay for needed things
• Learn that direct asking puts $ in the bank NOW
Trainers: Win Chesson, Development Manager, Immigration Equality and
Rodrigo Lehtinen, Field Organizer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Steering Ourselves Towards Racial Justice: Organizing
for LGBT Rights AND Racial Justice Continued
Note: this session is 6 hours divided into 2 parts.
See description from session 3
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Mercy + Justice =
Winning LGBT Political Campaigns
For too long, right-wing people of faith have led and dominated secular cam-
paigns to make LGBT people second class citizens. Whether by taking to the
airwaves to publically demonize LGBT people or turning out congregants to
vote or lobby against policy change, the right-wing has used the church as a
base from which to organize against advances for LGBT people.
Pro-LGBT people of faith and LGBT political advocates have struggled to unite
in collaborating effectively around secular or religious policy change. Conse-
quently, the LGBT community has ceded significant moral and political ground
to the right wing in campaigns for changing churches, intra-denominational
polity, or secular policies to promote full inclusion and equal treatment of
LGBT people.
For the past year, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has been working
with its partners in the Welcoming Church Movement to build innovative new
models of organizing that better bridge the divide between communities of
faith and secular advocates of LGBT equality. In 2010, the Task Force’s Insti-
tute for Welcoming Resources launched a groundbreaking new training, the
Believe Out Loud Power Summit, which brought together over 250 leaders of
faith for skills building training to motivate more faith allies to speak out and
take action for LGBT equality in their churches, national denominational as-
semblies, and their statehouses.
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This session will examine successful strategies and tactics for building a
mass-movement of LGBT and allied people of faith to participate in collective
action that builds power for successful intra-faith and secular campaigns.
Additionally, this session will explore how to use biblical frames of mercy and
justice to motivate people of faith to fill specific leadership roles in secular
and faith-based campaigns for LGBT equality. Trainers will draw upon case
studies of past and current campaigns as well as solicit input and ideas from
attendees about how people of faith and faith leaders can play key roles in
strengthening these organizing efforts.
Participants will:
• Share stories from successful faith organizing in LGBT political campaigns
• Brainstorm new roles and organizing ideas for people of faith in LGBT
political campaigns
• Learn key recruitment skills necessary to build big and effective teams of
volunteers
• Role play barriers to empower people of faith to work for justice in the
world
• Learn how to match appropriate campaign strategy and tactics to the
external political environment.
Trainers: Sarah Reece, Deputy Director for the Academy for Leadership and
Action, and Dan Hawes, Director for the Academy for Leadership and Action,
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Workshop Session 1 shop we name and critique our positions of multiple identities,
Friday, February 4 • 9:00 am – 10:30 am social locations, and use of privilege in an intersectional world.
Faith communities at their best look at welcome and inclusion
Affecting Change on College Campuses: as sourced in God’s wholeness, not our own tolerance. Using
A Gay/Straight Alliance Model ancient vocabularies of belief along with current vocabularies
Campus • Fundamentals of the dynamics of injustice, education about human gender
This workshop is designed to offer attendees a model for orga- diversity can be transformative for everyone. Objectives: partici-
nizing and integrating a Gay/Straight Alliance into a college cam- pants will be able to link terminology about gender diversity to
pus. Participants will collaborate to identify issues detrimental to anti-oppression concepts; participants will have scenarios for
educational success; specifically those of LGBTQ individuals, inclusion of gender diversity in their contexts; participants will
family, and friends on campuses without representation. Partici- have a theological vision for what broader equality would mean.
pants will study an organizational model for developing a series Presenters: Dee Ellen Dressler, Morris, MN; Malcolm Himschoot,
of campaigns designed to affect change and promote student Denver, CO; AnnMarie Kneebone, Elkhart, IN; Enzi Urimba
achievement. Attendees will leave with a model, practical ad- Odongo Tanner
vice, and strategies for building their own advocacy group.
Presenters: Dr. Whitney Elmore, Macon State College, Bonaire, Bi Any Other Name: A 20 Year Anniversary Dialogue
GA; Amanda Pfannkuche, Macon College, Bonaire, GA; Amy Sexual Freedom/Bisexual Community • All Audiences
Rehner, Macon State College, Bonaire, GA Twenty years ago, Bi movement pioneers Loraine Hutchins and
Lani Ka’ahumanu published their landmark anthology of bisexual
Ahora: politics and experience: Bi Any Other Name. In this workshop,
Strengthening LGBT Latino Communities and Coalitions Bi visionary Loraine Hutchins leads a discussion with movement
People of Color • All Audiences leaders on the impact of the book, its affect on the trajectory of
This workshop will focus on the current and potential role of the bi movement, and the state of bi organizing liberation today.
Latino communities in supporting LGBT rights and constituen- Presenters: Faith Cheltenham, BiNet USA, West Hollywood,
cies, work already underway across the country. Hispanics In CA; Loraine Hutchins, Professor of Inter-Disciplinary Sexualities,
Philanthropy and the Arcus Foundation will lead a discussion Montgomery College, & Towson University, Takoma Park, MD
about past and potential links between L/G/B/T and Latino so-
cial change movements. We will present findings from our as- Bridging the Gap in U.S. Foster Care and Adoption
sessment of LGBT Latino movement building, funded by the Restrictions: Promoting Permanency by Ending LGBT
Arcus Foundation. These findings will provide a springboard for Parenting Restrictions on the State and Federal Levels
a group discussion of strategies for strengthening LGBT-Latino Families • Intermediate
coalitions and efforts to promote LGBT rights in Latino com- Participants will take away strategies for how to defeat anti-
munities. LGBT parenting bills and putting forth pro-LGBT parenting
Presenters: Ben Francisco, Hispanics in Philanthropy; Roz Lee, legislation by learning what the polling says Americans think of
Arcus Foundation; Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ph.D.; Antonio LGBT people as parents, the best messages and messengers
Pastrana Jr., Ph.D. for ending parenting restrictions and advancing child welfare,
and how to build strategic coalitions and partnerships to defeat

Anti-Homophobia & Transphobia Project
People of Color • All Audiences
Is there a program that you have always wanted to do, but just
haven’t been able to find funding? Do you want to redress ho-
mophobia & transphobia in communities of color? If so, this
workshop is for you! Come learn about Advocates for Youth’s
Anti-Homophobia & Transphobia project that provides small
seed grants to organizations seeking to redress homophobia
and transphobia within communities of color.
Presenters: Durryle Brooks, Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC
Beyond Transgender Inclusion
to Transformation
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate
“Justice, and only justice, shall you pursue.” Deu-
teronomy 16:20 Anti-oppression work can be the paradigm
for gender education that transgender and gender-variant
people are asking our faith communities to do. In this work-
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state level bans and advance proactive legislation at both the
state and federal level.
Presenters: Emily Hecht-McGowan, Family Equality Council,
Washington, DC; Rhodes Perry, PFLAG National, Washington, DC
Did They Just Say That?
Responding to Myths about LGBT People
Communications, Media and Messaging • Fundamentals
What do you do when someone says something totally false
about the LGBT community? Learn how to neutralize myths
and stereotypes about LGBT people by using the best available
research. This session will use actual materials and ads that
make false or misleading statements. 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;
Jody Herman, Williams Institute
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Ending Anti-LGBT Discrimination in U.S. Immigration Law
Immigration • All Audiences
Come to this dynamic workshop on advocating against LGBT
discrimination in US immigration law, focusing on how YOU
can take action to pass the Uniting American Families Act (H.R.
1024, S. 424). We will describe the obstacles bi-national and
immigrant LGBT families face under current law, offer legisla-
tive updates on UAFA and comprehensive immigration reform,
and provide you with the tools you need to take action in your
own community. We will encourage you to ask questions, take
action, and share models of success from your own grassroots
work. You will leave with a concrete plan to create change in
your own community.
Presenters: James A. Ferg-Cadima, Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Washington, DC; Ben de Guzman, sexual orientation and gender expression were the most com-
Co-Director for Programs, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander mon reasons LGBT students of color reported feeling unsafe
Alliance, Washington, DC; Jesse Garcia, President, LULAC
4871 - The Dallas Rainbow Council, Dallas, TX; Gannon Long,
Immigration Equality, Washington, DC
Faith Based Models that further
Self-determination, Sovereignty and
the Preservation of Sacred Sites
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This workshop will explore models created by Indigenous Min-
istries to further the sovereignty, self-determination and preser-
vation of sacred sites of Indigenous peoples. Since the 1970’s,
many Native Americans across the nation have been working
within church systems to advance an agenda that includes as-
sisting Native Americans to become influential leaders within
national ecumenical organizations in order to achieve self-de-
termination for Native Americans within their own churches and
larger communities. This workshop will give some history of
these models and allow for discussion as to what works, what
needs improvement and what more can be done. The discus-
sion will include the roles of LGBT Natives within the church and
the Native community.
Presenters: Martha Allen, Director, First Nations Kitchen, Min-
neapolis, MN; Rev. Marlene Helgemo; Rev. Michele Morgan, St.
James on the Parkway Episcopal Church
Fundraising for Free!
Fundraising • All Audiences
Fundraising for Free! is an invigorating session that brings tried
and true ideas to fundraisers from any setting. Through social
media and working with small, local businesses, ideas can be
put in place that cost your organization little or nothing and
strengthen your fundraising plan.
Presenter: Dan Hanley, Boulder County AIDS Project, Boulder, CO
Getting Smart about Aging
Aging • All Audiences
This interactive workshop is intended for people with some
understanding of LGBTQ aging issues. Build your understand-
ing of how the aging services/aging policy administration world
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works, and the attitudes and preparation of providers of aging
services to serve our LGBTQ aging population. Work with other
participants to translate this understanding into plans for orga-
nizing back home: let’s make aging services and housing safe
and welcoming for the oldest members of our communities.
Presenters: Catherine Croghan, Training to Serve, Minneapolis,
MN; Kelly Abel Knochel, Training to Serve, Minneapolis, MN;
Rajean Moone, Training to Serve, Minneapolis, MN; Jean Quam,
Training to Serve, Minneapolis, MN
Harsh Realities: Addressing Anti-LGBT Bias and
Bullying Faced by Black and Latino Male Youth
Youth • Intermediate
With the rise of the rate of suicide among black and Latino males,
in school and many also reported experiencing verbal harass-
ment in school based on their race and ethnicity. More emphasis
must be given to exploring the bullying, harassment, and other
conditions that lead young black and Latino adolescent boys to
feel such despair that they decide to take their own lives. This
discussion will give focus on exploring how bullying and harass-
ment look when on the basis of race, class, gender expression,
one’s perceived sexual orientation and appearance. What are the
specific words used to bully? Are there different forms of gen-
der expression demanded of black and Latino boys? Do cur-
rent general models for addressing anti-LGBT bullying in schools
and for creating supportive environments reach this population
and address their needs? What is the intersectional approach to
creating supports? What can we do as individuals, educators,
community organizers, counselors, parents, and allies to address
these issues and to provide supports? This session is open to all
that are committed to exploring this topic.
Presenters: Monroe France, NYU, Office of LGBT Student
Services, New York, NY; Travis Gabriel, Resident Director, NYU,
New York, NY
Hidden Voices: The Lives of LGBT Muslims
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This panel discussion will aim to highlight the many
struggles and challenges facing lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual and transgender (LGBT) Muslims. Panelists will discuss
how they view their identity as LGBT Muslims; how and if they
have reconciled their faith with their sexual orientation or gender
identity, and what they believe Allies of LGBT Muslims can do to
fight against Islamophobia within mainstream gay and lesbian
communities.
Presenters: Tynan; Beena; Raquel; Faisal Alam, Founder & Di-
rector, Al-Fatiha Foundation (LGBTIQ Muslims), Washington, DC
How to Start an Anti-Violence Project:
Lessons and Strategies from the
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
Presenters from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Pro-
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grams will discuss models and strategies to build an Anti-Vi-
olence Project at the local level. This workshop is designed to
get participants thinking about the importance of understanding
the community need for an AVP. Deliberate planning of an AVP
will ensure the sustainability and viability of the project because
it will be accountable to the community which it comes from
and serves. Through case studies, participatory exercises and
group dialogues, participants will explore the needs and possi-
bilities for building an Anti-Violence Project in their communities.
Presenters: Rachel Smith, Virginia Anti-Violence Project,
Charlottesville, VA; Rebecca Waggoner, Outfront Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
Life After Lawrence v. Texas:
Ongoing LGBT Issues in the Criminal Justice System
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Lawrence v. Texas is widely hailed as a case that ended the
criminalization of the LGBT community. But transgender individ-
uals, LGBT youth of color, low-income women, and sex work-
ers continue to be targeted and subjected to harsher treatment
in the criminal justice system because of their sexual conduct.
This session will explore strategies to expand the LGBT legal
rights framework to better account for these issues and chal-
lenge the ongoing criminalization of LGBT people.
Presenters: Alexis Agathocleous, Center for Constitutional
Rights, New York, NY; Kate Mogulescu, Legal AID Society, New
York, NY; Andrea Ritchie, Brooklyn, NY
Making Media Work for You
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
Are you waiting for the media to cover your organization or
event? Don’t wait any longer. Create your own media and get
the word out there. In today’s media landscape it’s important to
have various multimedia tools in your toolbox to promote your
issues and get the message out. This session will give practical
tools to make your own radio programs, podcasts and simple
videos that can amplify your message and highlight your work.
And we’ll demonstrate ways to get that content distributed
through blogs, e-mail and social media once the content is cre-
ated. The busy multimedia team at Free Press (freepress.net)
has created hundreds of videos, maintains several blogs and
produces a weekly 5-minute radio program, Media Minutes.
Free Press works to increase media opportunities for everyone.
Presenters: Steve Converse, Free Press, Florence, MA; Lindsy
Embree, Free Press, Florence, MA
Making the Christian Case for LGBT Equality:
Message Training
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
To secure equality, we must move the hearts and
minds of the 76% of Americans who identify as Christians. This
workshop is focused on building a common, values-based
framework in order to talk to Christians about LGBT people.
We’ll spotlight how pro- and anti-LGBT messengers currently
frame issues of equality, morality and God, based on an analysis
of two years of media coverage. And we’ll invite participants to
begin to create new values-based messages.
Presenters: Macky Alston, Auburn Theological Seminary; Ross
Murray, Minneapolis, MN; Robert Perez, Vice President, Fenton
Communications, San Francisco, CA; Amy Simon, Partner,
Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, Inc., Oakland, CA
Family Time: Make Change, Make History!
Families • All Audiences
Family Time is an online, social media project featuring a short-
film and an interactive time line chronicling 20 years of LGBTQ
family movement history, showcasing personal stories — from
outrageous talk show appearances to the impact of HIV/AIDS
on our community — as well as political milestone moments like
when judges overturned anti-gay adoption bans in Florida and
Arkansas in 2010. Come watch the film (14 min) and learn how
you or your organization can use the accompanying social me-
dia tools to contribute to the timeline and share it with your fam-
ily, friends, classmates, colleagues, religious leaders and policy
makers. Together we’ll become better advocates for ourselves
and our families. COLAGE is the only national network of people
with LGBTQ parents. All are encouraged to attend!
Presenters: Elizabeth Castellana, National Field and Chapter
Coordinator, COLAGE; Beth Teper, Executive Director, COLAGE;
Carlos Uribe, National Program Director, COLAGE
Responding to Hate: Community Organizers Unite
Community Organizing • Intermediate
Community service organizations are frequently understaffed
and underprepared for mission critical activities. In this 90-min-
ute session, participants will participate in a mock community
crisis (a local hate crime committed against a well-respected
lesbian couple). In this mock crisis, organizations must deal with
the following issues: Facebook-friend or foe? Approaching the
media. Information overload. Who’s on first?
Presenters: Traci Haydu, Maryville College, Maryville, TX; Rebecca
Lucas, Maryville College, Maryville, TN; Noah Lucas, Maryville
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HIgh School, Maryville, TN
Roadmap to Victory:
How We’ll Win Freedom to Marry Nationwide
Marriage • All Audiences
Evan Wolfson and Sean Eldridge will discuss the marriage land-
scape, while national and state Executive Directors join us to
explain what is needed to advance Freedom to Marry’s three-
pronged Roadmap to Victory.
Presenters: Sean Eldridge, Freedom to Marry, New York, NY;
Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry, New York, NY
Saying I Do:
Marrying Racial Justice and Marriage Equality
Movement Building/Marriage • All Audiences
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how opponents of marriage
equality use race very effectively to divide supporters and how
the marriage movement has not succeeded in building allianc-
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es, engaging communities of color or centralizing the leadership
of LGBT people of color. We’ll discuss the work for marriage
equality in Oregon and beyond and what you can do in the fight
for marriage equality and racial justice moving forward!
Presenters: Ellen Flenniken, Basic Rights Oregon; Jeana
Frazzini, Executive Director, Basic Rights Oregon; Jessica Lee,
Youth Organizer, Basic Rights Oregon, Portland, OR
Social Justice Sexuality Initiative: Preliminary Results
from a Nationwide Survey of LGBT People of Color
People of Color • Advanced
This 90-minute session will unveil preliminary and major find-
ings from one of the largest-ever nation-wide surveys to target
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of color.
Funded, in part, by the Arcus Foundation, this research project
seeks to assess how race, class and sexuality intersect to influ-
ence, among other things: access to social services, civic en-
gagement, family dynamics, and attitudes, as well as religious
experiences.
Presenters: Colin Ashley; Juan Battle; Cassondra Kellam;
Antonio Pastrana Jr., Ph.D.
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The Lifeguard Workshop
Youth • Fundamentals
FOR YOUTH AGES 24 AND UNDER ONLY.
Suicide among LGBTQ youth is a public health and social jus-
tice issue. Join The Trevor Project’s staff and Youth Advisory
Council to learn about how you can be a lifeguard and save the
lives of your LGBT and questioning friends who may be going
through an incredibly tough time because of the ways they are
treated in school, at home and in their various communities.
Presenters: Kelli Peterman, Trevor Project, New York, NY;
Dave Reynolds, The Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix
Schneider, Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Vacha Jr.,
Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA
What it Means to be an LGBT Asylee & How You Can Help
International Issues • Fundamentals
This workshop will walk attendees through the LGBT asylum
seeking process and give firsthand accounts of what it is like
for LGBT 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 fight-
ing and taking a stance against that oppression. Participants will
leave with practical 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; Lisa Laurel Weinberg, Lutheran So-
cial Services, LGBT Human Rights Protection/Political Asylum
Representation Project, Worcester, MA
Why Wait to Stop Hate? Convincing ourselves and
winning others to crucial (and effective!) anti-bias
work with children
School Issues • All Audiences
Children need early and explicit guidance to help them reject
bias and we need to make it happen. Prejudice, bias-based
bullying, and discrimination can be reduced with proactive,
prevention work with young people. This workshop will explore
the critical importance and goals of anti-bias education. We will
practice ways to respond to common forms of opposition and
resistance to LGBT-inclusive, anti-bias work with kids and ways
to advocate for this work with parents, educators and others.
Presenters: Nancy Michael, Executive Director, aMaze, Min-
neapolis, MN; Lyn Mitchell, Program and Outreach, aMaze,
Minneapolis, MN; Meg Thomas
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Workshop Session 2
Friday, February 4 • 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
From Inspiration to Action:
How to Facilitate Transformative Youth-led Action
Youth • Fundamentals
This workshop will empower participants to work with youth
to create lasting and transformative change in their own com-
munities. We will discuss how service-learning principles and
practices can guide youth-led activism and LGBTQ advocacy.
Participants will gain practical skills in action project planning
and practice these skills in the session so that they are prepared
to bring them back to passionate youth in their communities!
Presenter: Carolyn DeChants, Great Lakes PeaceJam, Kal-
amazoo, MI
American Indian Gender Policies:
Restoration of Balance
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • Fundamentals
As Tribal Governments in North American follow the state’s lead
in the passage of DOMA legislation, it’s imperative that Native
Americans, both Two Spirit and allies, educate tribal commu-
nities/leadership regarding historical values of respect, honor,
generosity, and courage in order to overturn such legislation;
create new ordinances that protect and support healthy gen-
der identity and behaviors. Two Spirit/Native LGBT people must
create effective tribal strategies to improve our standings within
our own tribes. We can do this by creating legislation to include
Native LGBT folks in the civil rights ordinances of our tribes/na-
tions. This workshop will provide a framework for this work to
be done, including model policies.
Presenter: Sharon Day, Indigenous Peoples Task Force, Min-
neapolis, MN
Art of the Schmooze (Networking Tips)
Organizational Development • All Audiences
Do you feel awkward at networking events and uncomfortable
making new connections? In these times, it is more important
than ever to effectively build relationships with prospective
funders, board members, staff and volunteers. At this highly in-
teractive workshop participants will learn the basics of how to
work a room, how body language creates welcoming commu-
nity spaces, and how to end conversations to keep circulating.
Practice at the session and throughout the rest of the conference.
Presenter: Robbie Samuels, MSW, Somerville, MA
Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality
Bisexual Community • All Audiences
How do we assign labels to our complicated and unique experi-
ences? We will discuss uses and limitations of the Kinsey scale
and other measures of sexual orientation, with attention to fac-
tors such as sex, gender, time, culture, and more. We will con-
duct a short, anonymous study, and examine the data. Finally,
we will consider the implications for our activism. This engaging
workshop will transform your thinking!
Presenter: Robyn Ochs, Bisexual Resource Center / BiNet USA,
Jamaica Plain, MA
Black Lesbians Matter
People of Color • All Audiences
This workshop will introduce the Black Lesbians Matter report,
a first of its kind examination of the unique experiences, per-
spectives and priorities of black lesbians in the U.S. Key study
areas include health, family, identity, aging and visibility. We will
discuss key findings from this needs assessment, conducted
by the Zuna Institute, and offer insights to policy advocates, al-
lies, funders and service providers working with black lesbian
communities.
Presenters: Stephanie Daniels, Zuna Institute; Francine Ramsey,
Zuna Institute
Creating Safe Space in Greek Life & Athletics:
A Peer Education Program
Campus • Fundamentals
This workshop will demonstrate the vital role peer educators
can play in changing the campus climate at a university or col-
lege. Participants will view a simple power point presentation
used to educate traditionally hard to reach populations (Greek
Life and Athletics) and will interact with the presenters about
the program’s evolution. Participants will learn how the program
has grown, what speaks to these hard to reach populations and
exactly how we reach out to campus constituencies to hook
them.
Presenters: Fran McDaniel, Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
PA; Kristin Vallis, Peer Educator, Office of LGBT Awareness,
Bucknell University; Spencer Whalen, Peer Educator, Office of
LGBT Awareness, Bucknell University
Creating Your Own Change With GenEQ U
Campus • Intermediate
Creating Your Own Change with GenEQ U offers a compre-
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hensive guide on small- scale, local queer conference planning,
highlighting a series of suggested steps to successfully plan and
execute a gender and sexuality diversity- themed conference
with intersections around progressive movements to engage al-
lies and create sustained relationships between the host institu-
tion and its surrounding community.
Presenters: Steve Silva, Yale University, Brooklyn, NY; Kati
Moug, Yale University, Brooklyn, NY; Amalia Skilton, Yale Uni-
versity, Brooklyn, NY
Designing a Survey and Using Data
to Secure Protections for LGBT People
Research and Policy • Intermediate
Policymakers and the public often want to know just how com-
mon our needs and problems are, but community groups aren’t
always able to produce data. This session will give you the tools
you need to conduct a community-based survey and an oppor-
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tunity to strategize with experts and advocates on how best to
use survey data to accomplish your legislative and policy goals.
Presenters: Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law
Center, San Francisco, CA; Jody Herman, Williams Institute;
Christy Mallory, The Williams Institute
Economics and Equality:
Supporting LGBT Business Communities
Workplace • Fundamentals
Economic development is a critical component of the LGBT
movement. By directly supporting LGBT businesses with our
dollars and by supporting supply chain inclusion, business certi-
fication and access to federal, state and municipal procurement
we assist in moving equality forward. While we continue to push
for important protections against discrimination in the work-
place we also strengthen the LGBT community by strengthen-
ing the LGBT business community. This session will discuss
the various ways to advance LGBT equality through economic
development.
Presenters: Irwin Drucker, Program Director, GLBT and Interna-
tional Supplier, IBM; Victoria Fulkerson, NGLCC; Sam McClure, ied forms they take, despite hostile political, social and legal
Quorum, Minneapolis; Frantz Tiffeau Jr., Senior Manager, Supply environments. Come witness and celebrate longterm commit-
Chain Diversity, Office Depot
Fighting Back Against a Global Anti-Gay Agenda
International Issues • All Audiences
This session will provide an overview of the challenges faced
by LGBTQ persons in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa and ex-
plore ways of working in solidarity that take into account the
involvement of U.S.-based actors and evangelicals in these and
other anti-gay initiatives around the world. Panel participants will
include LGBT advocates who work on the ground as well as
at the international level from advocacy and legal perspectives.
Presenters: Cary Alan Johnson, International Gay and Lesbi-
an Human Rights Commission, New York, NY; Frank Mugisha,
Sexual Minorities Uganda; Jeremy Rye, New York, NY; Pamela
Spees, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY
Finding Common Ground: Collaboration between
LGBT & Older Adult Service Providers
Aging • Intermediate
Our common ground is providing supports and services for
ALL older adults to age with dignity and respect. It is from this
common ground that SAGE Metro St. Louis has built the LGBT
Older Adult Referral Network by forming lasting relationships
with over 60 Older Adult Service providers. Join this session to
discuss how your community can start building a referral net-
work of LGBT welcoming older adult service providers through
community engagement, outreach and purposeful strategic
partnership building.
Presenter: Sherrill Wayland, Sage, St Louis, MO
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Givin’ it to Ya Straight!
Movement Building • Fundamentals
What are straight allies? What do they look like? How do they
act? And more importantly, how many are out there? It’s one
thing to be a supportive individual for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender rights (LGBT), and it’s a whole other thing to be a
straight activist who fights for equality alongside LGBT peers.
Come to this session to learn how to be a better straight ally or
how to engage straight allies in the fight for equality.
Presenters: Matthew LeBlanc, Georgetown University Wash-
ington, Washington, DC; Nicholas Poch; Julie Thibodaux, ACLU
of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
Going the Distance:
Longterm Commitments in all of their Glorious Forms
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Monogamy, open monogamy, marriage, polyfidelity, committed
friendships and kinship cohorts. What does it take to sustain
longterm, committed relationships? LGBT people creatively
and doggedly sustain our relationships and families in the var-
ments.
Presenters: John D’Emilio; Francisco De León; Suzanne Pharr,
Founding Member, The Women’s Project of Little Rock, Arkansas
Guerrilla Social Marketing for
Health Promotion or Movement Building
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
Save the world on a shoe string with this street-smart work-
shop. Social marketing combines marketing strategy with psy-
chological change theory. It’s been used to promote public
health and everything from seat belts to condom use. This pop-
ular and entertaining workshop will build your capacity to cre-
ate and assess effective interventions and campaigns, stretch
funding, and develop amazing marketing messages. Use it for
movement building, public health, and behavioral interventions.
Laugh while you learn guaranteed.
Presenter: Rev. Robyn Provis, marketingnonprofits.com, Min-
neapolis, MN
Join the Movement. Keep the Faith.
Faith & Spirituality/Practice Spirit, Do Justice
• All Audiences
Join us as we celebrate the involvement of trans-
gender people of faith and our allies as an integrated part of
transgender organizing and movement building! Participants
from Creating Change and Practice Spirit, Do Justice are invited
come together to network, resource one another, and share ex-
periences about how people of all faiths are impacting transgen-
der health and wellness around the world. Leaders from a variety
of religious and secular transgender organizations will be present.
Presenters: Kylar Broadus, Attorney, Trans People of Color
Coalition, Columbia, MO; Minister Louis J. Mitchell, Recovering
the Promise Ministries, Chicopee, MA; Chris Paige
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Leader, Know Thyself
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Leadership isn’t a place on an organizational chart;
it’s something we carry inside. Find your inner leader!
Join us in taking an honest look at our soft skills inventory, using
leadership skills in real world situations and thinking about your
next steps in building your leadership portfolio.
Presenter: Mickey MacIntyre, realChange Partners, Celebration, FL
Messology of the Black Church
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Why can’t we as an African American community
tell the truth about our sexuality? What price do we
pay in telling the truth? And what role does the church play in
perpetuating unsafe sexual behavior? Homophobia in the Afri-
can American community has become more than merely a spir-
itual crisis. It is now a public health crisis. But what happens in
churches, communities, and families where people lose touch
with their bodies and sexualities? Our silence, shame, and stig-
ma around issues of sexual identities, gender expressions, and
sexual practices have allowed for behaviors of denial, neglect,
and abuse. And the lack of pastoral care to people deemed
“outsiders” is also a factor contributing to high-risk sexual be-
haviors and the transmission of HIV/AIDS in the African Ameri-
can community. Right now, the state of black America is in a
crisis. And the church institutionally has contributed the culture
of the politic of silence because it not only lacks the language
to talk about sex but it also sees sex as private and personal
matters and not about the business of the black Christian com-
munity as a way of loving God and ourselves. But the black
church is also uniquely positioned to significantly affect knowl-
edge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors within congregations and
by extension the entire African American community.
Presenters: Mandy Carter, Mandy Carter Consulting, Durham,
NC; Rev. Irene Monroe
Need a Fourth For Bridge: Small Town/Rural Organizing
Movement Building •Intermediate
Wanted: A Fourth For Bridge Building, promoting, sustaining
and integrating a LGBT support network in small town and rural
America.
Presenter: R L Pete Housman, The Middle Voice /The Green
Heart Group, Jonesboro, IL
Queer (In)Justice: Policing, Prosecution &
Punishment of LGBT People in the United States
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • Intermediate
This workshop will help participants gain a common under-
standing of the many ways in which the criminal legal system is
a site of oppression for LGBTQ people, delineating how LGBT
folks are policed and punished in the streets, in courtrooms,
and in prisons. Participants will share and develop skills to ex-
pose and challenge these injustices through organizing and leg-
islative/policy advocacy, while simultaneously building account-
ability and safety outside of the criminal legal system.
Presenters: Joey Mogul, member, People Law Office, Chi-
cago, IL; Andrea Ritchie, Brooklyn, NY; Kay Whitlock, National
Representative, LGBT Issues, American Friends Service Com-
mittee, Missoula, MT
Queer Arts and The City
Art & Culture • All Audiences
Queer Arts and the City is a workshop that will use the four step
model of a community cultural plan (Research, Input, Strategize,
Implement) to take stock of existing cultural resources for LGBT
people in their city and show how they can be maintained, en-
hanced, or new ones developed to continue to improve the lives
and the vitality, livability, and success of the community.
Presenter: Harold Steward, Fahari Arts Institute, Dallas, TX
Resource Revolution:
Moving Away from Wealth-Based Fundraising
towards Community Interdependence
Fundraising • All Audiences
This workshop brings together community organizing tools,
somatics or body-based tools, and broadening definition of re-
sources to move away from wealth-based fundraising models
towards those that support community interdependence.
Presenters: Kate Eubank, Executive Director, PFund Foun-
dation, Minneapolis, MN; David Nicholson, Program Manag-
er, Headwaters Foundation; Susan Raffo, Executive Director,
PFund Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Saying I Do: Marrying Racial Justice and
Marriage Equality (Continued)
Movement Building/Marriage • All Audiences
The Pulpit of the Press: Making the
Religious Case for LGBT Equality
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Media is the pulpit of the twenty-first century; yet
inspired and prophetic leaders representing pro-LGBT perspec-
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tives are often nowhere to be heard or seen in the news. This
workshop will help you cultivate your unique voice as a move-
ment spokesperson for the platform of TV, radio, print and web
media.
Presenters: Macky Alston, Auburn Theological Seminary;
Ross Murray, Minneapolis, MN
Trans Youth & Safe Schools: Advocacy & Policy
School Issues • Intermediate
Through fun, immersive, and engaging exercises this workshop
will help participants to identify the key barriers and challenges
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 school policies and finding innovative ad-
vocacy and policy solutions to meet those challenges head on.
Participants will leave with a solid game plan for helping trans-
gender and gender non-conforming youth in schools.
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Presenters: Danielle Askini, GSA Network, San Francisco, CA;
T. Aaron Hans, Consultant/Activist, RISE Consulting, Marina,
CA; Tim Michael, GSA for Safe Schools, Madison, WI
White weddings or white washing?
The new HOMOnormative agenda [why it is scary]
and arguments against equality
Community Organizing • All Audiences
Homonormativity. No, it’s not a typo. If you have never heard
this term or want to make your activist work more inclusive, then
this workshop is for you. This session will draw upon theoretical
definitions of homonormativity and manifestations of this con-
cept in our activism and everyday lives to demonstrate its role in
impacting the mainstream LGBT political agenda. Upon exam-
ining current political endeavors, we will gain an understanding
of whose concerns are addressed in “our” movement, whose
concerns are not receiving enough attention, and how we can
incorporate academic theory into our activism to diversify the
LGBT political agenda.
Presenters: Jesus Estrada-Perez, Minneapolis, MN; E.G Nelson,
Minneapolis, MN; Eli Vitulli, Minneapolis, MN
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Workshop Session 3
Friday, February 4 • 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
(LGBTQ) Justice, (LGBTQ) Justice Shall
You Pursue
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate
The Torah teaches us to pursue justice, but does
that include justice for LBGTQ folks? If so, what are our options
to pursue it? In this session, we will explore what Jewish tradi-
tions teach us about LGBTQ justice and how to incorporate
those lessons into our own work. We will also explore the insti-
tutional landscape as it provides challenges and opportunities
for doing this work in a Jewish and interfaith context.
Presenters: Idit Klein, Executive Director, Keshet, Boston’s GLBT
Jewish Advocacy & Education, Jamaica Plain, MA; Joel Kushner,
The Institute for Judaism & Sexual Orientation, Los Angeles, CA
Be a Board Star Basics:
Understanding Roles & Responsibilities
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Are you a new board member (or work with some)?
Are you a seasoned leadership volunteer who needs a little re-
fresher? Either way, Be a Board Star Basics is the workshop for
you. What’s my job description? What does fiduciary respon-
sibility really mean? Seriously, we’re supposed to do that? Big
board, small board, new organization or been around for years,
this introductory session will guide you through understanding
what you need to know to build a board that makes the grade!
Presenter: Mickey MacIntyre, realChange Partners, Celebration, FL
Better Together - Collaborations between
Racial Justice and LGBT Groups
Movement Building • All Audiences
This interactive workshop will present the Applied Research
Center’s new research on the relationship between racial jus-
tice groups and LGBT constituencies, and reveal models for
engaging communities of color in fighting heterosexism. We
will explore trends in organizing among LGBT people of color,
and involve workshop attendees in small group discussion and
problem-solving via hypothetical scenarios based on actual
events. We can build authentic, strategic and long- term link-
ages with smart, forward-looking work.
Presenters: Dom Apollo; Roz Lee, Arcus Foundation; Aimee
Santos-Lyon, Western States Center
Bullied at the Ballot Box: Fighting Back
with New Messages About Kids and Families
Families • Fundamentals
Join us to develop key messages about children, LGBT-headed
families, race, and class. We will look at how our communi-
ty was characterized during the Prop 8 campaign (and again
since), analyze videos with “Queer people threaten children”
messages that were used in Prop 8, watch and listen to the
voices of queer youth and youth with LGBT parents, and de-
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velop messages that can be used to counteract and protect
against “threat” messaging.
Presenter: Laura Matanah, Rainbow Rumpus, Minneapolis, MN
Changing Minds of Conservative/Evangelical Christians
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians pro-
duce the lion’s share of religion-based homophobia in America.
But what if we could change their minds? In this workshop,
you’ll learn to reach evangelicals (and others!) with a pro-LG-
BTQ message...and actually get results. Discover why most ap-
proaches fail, how and when to engage on the Bible, and what
the most effective arguments are for different situations. No ad-
vance knowledge required; you’ll come out an expert!
Presenter: Justin Lee, The Gay Christian Network, Raleigh, NC
Combining Leadership, GLBT Studies, Service Learning
and Study Away: Lessons from the GLBTA Leadership
Year at the University of Minnesota
Campus • All Audiences
The GLBTA Leadership Year at the University of Minnesota is
one of the few programs which combines leadership theory,
GLBT studies, service learning and study away in a year-long
student experience. This workshop will examine the compo-
nents of the program, its successes and failures, and how it
could easily be modified for use by other colleges, universities,
and high schools.
Presenters: Ben Falter, University of Minnesota; Anne Phibbs,
Systemwide Director, GLBT Programs Office, University of Min-
nesota, Minneapolis, MN; Xay Yang, University of Minnesota
Emotional Congruence and “Conflicted” Voters:
Understanding Deeper Psychological Dynamics
Research and Policy • Intermediate
Why do so many people who view themselves as fair-mind-
ed end up voting against LGBTQ equality? Join this in-depth
interactive presentation to deepen your understanding of the
psychological dynamics underlying people’s attitudes toward
LGBTQ people. We’ll draw upon findings from extensive and
innovative research (30+ focus groups/roundtables employing
psychodynamic analysis) and explore how to develop empathi-
cally attuned and emotionally congruent messaging on LGBTQ
issues, along with specific strategies for communicating to in-
crease support for equality.
Presenters: David Binder, Principal, David Binder Research,
San Francisco, CA; Amy Simon, Partner, Goodwin Simon Stra-
tegic Research, Inc., Oakland, CA; Phyllis Watts PhD, Wild
Swan Resources, Sacramento, CA
Executive Directors Roundtable
Community Organizing • All Audiences
If you are the staff leader (Executive Director, CEO, etc.) of a
nonprofit organization this is the session for you! Being a non-
profit CEO can be a lonely job, especially if you’re working in the
LGBT or AIDS realms. Although they can be key to our survival,
opportunities rarely exist to interact with, help and learn from
colleagues in similar positions. This two-part series of work-
shops will provide current E.D.’s with an opportunity to do just
that. Led by a group of seasoned E.D.’s/CEO’s at a variety of
organizations (larger, smaller, national, local), and comprised
of large and small group interactive discussions as attendees
prefer, this Roundtable will give participants an opportunity to
address specific issues with a wide variety of colleagues from
around the country. Come prepared to share your own best and
worst practices stories! Covered subjects may include manag-
ing through difficult economic times, fund raising, board recruit-
ment, staff morale, effective relationships between an E.D. and
his/her board, CEO contracts, time management, stress man-
agement, etc. The series concludes with a reception to provide
an opportunity for attendees to network with their colleagues
and share ideas and best practices. This session is for nonprofit
Executive Directors/CEO’s only.
Presenters: Kendall Clawson, Executive Director, Portland Q
Center, Portland, OR; 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; Lance Toma, Executive Director, Asian & Pacific
Islander Wellness Center
Finally, Federal Action on Hate Crimes:
Implementing the Matthew Shepard and
James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • Intermediate
Reported hate crimes against LGBT people have risen dramati-
cally over the last decade. After more than a decade of advoca-
cy, Congress passed the Shepard-Byrd Act which extends hate
crimes coverage to persons who are, or perceived to be, LGBT,
among other categories. Federal prosecutors and investigators
now have a duty to form stronger liaisons with the LGBT com-
munity so that law enforcement can better identify and prose-
cute these crimes. Join the LGBT liaison of the U.S. Department
of Justice, a federal prosecutor, a representative from the Com-
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munity Relations Service, and community advocates for a lively
discussion of how the federal government has implemented the
law so far, what else needs to be done, and how advocates can
better ensure that hate crimes against LGBT people are fully ad-
dressed by state and federal government authorities.
Presenters: Mark Kappelhoff, U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, DC; Becky Monroe, U.S. Department of Justice;
Matt Nosanchuk, U.S. Department of Justice
Gender Transition in the Workplace:
Transgender - How we do it in Minnesota and Nationally
Workplace • Fundamentals
It can be one of the most unexpected, sensitive and puzzling is-
sues an employer ever confronts. An employee wants to change
his or her gender in the workplace. Now, what to do? This dy-
namic, interactive presentation will provide information on gen-
der identity and expression (transgender) and how it relates to
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the workplace, employers, employees and the concept of re-
spectful workplace environments for all employees. The session
will provide a place to ask questions, challenge assumptions,
examine myths and stereotypes, and learn what these labels
and words mean. A “how to successfully do it” manual.
Presenter: Debra Davis, Gender Education Center, Maple Grove, MN
Global campaign on Religions, homophobia, transphobia -
How to engage your organisation at the international level
International Issues • Advanced
Through the experience of the global initiative on “Religions,
Homophobia, Transphobia” developed for the International Day
Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the focus of this session
will be to explore the connections between local actions and a
global campaign and how US activists can meaningfully engage
in it. The session aims at developing both the strategic vision for
engagement and the creativity for developing activities.
Presenter: Joel Bedos, International Day Against Homophobia
and Transphobia Committee, Paris, France
Go, Team, Go! Creating Safe and Inclusive
High School Athletic Programs for LGBT Students
School Issues • All Audiences
Taking into account the unique role and characteristics of ath-
letics in high schools, participants will plan training sessions
specifically for working with high school athletic staff, parents
of athletes or student-athletes. Participants will learn about the
GLSEN Sports Project, a new GLSEN initiative, and the re-
sources available from the Sports project.
Presenter: Pat Griffin, Coordinator of Changing the Game: The
GLSEN Sports Project, Belchertown, MA
Here’s How Marriage Matters:
Tools and Messaging Training for Marriage Education
Marriage • All Audiences
Training on the tools you can use to launch a public education
campaign in your state, while also supporting the national effort
to win marriage. We will also highlight research being done on
messages to use during an actual marriage campaign and mes-
saging tools for targeting specific communities such as com-
munities of color, faith communities, youth, or other progressive
communities.
Presenter: Thalia Zepatos, Freedom to Marry, Portland OR
Immigration and Indigenous Borders
People of Color • All Audiences
Some immigration activists call for the dissolution of all na-
tional borders. But what does this mean for current sovereignty
struggles 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 current forces of imperialism that have created a global
population of migrant workers? Join us as we take a collective
journey to identify common ground that respects the intersec-
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tion 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 Sprit/Indigenous
folks and allies.
Presenters: Coya Artichoker; Trishala Deb, Brooklyn, CA; Lucia
Leandro Gimeno, Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY; Paulina
Hernandez, Co-Director, Southerners on New Ground, New
Market, TN; Melissa Hoskins
Lights, Camera, Action: Intensive Real World
Media Training for Movement Leaders
Communications, Media and Messaging • Intermediate
Simulation of real crisis communication scenarios that leaders
may face in their role as an Executive or Communications Di-
rector will be created. Participants working in groups will de-
velop an action plan, learn how to conduct interviews and com-
municate their messages for high-profile television, print, radio
and online outlets by being videotaped on camera. Targeted
feedback from the trainer and other participants will be given
and participants will leave with winning tools to enhance their
advocacy goals.
Presenters: Darryl Hannah, GLAAD, New York, NY; Dannie
Tillman, GLAAD, Los Angeles, CA
Making it Better: Programs and Policy Interventions that
Protect and Nurture LGBT Youth in America’s Schools
Youth • Intermediate
Anti-LGBT harassment and violence in schools is receiving un-
precedented national attention. What can be done to make it
better at school for youth at risk of suicide and other effects of
bullying and harassment? From Gay Straight Alliances to anti-
bullying laws, this workshop will review research and analysis of
programs and policies that have made schools safer, equipping
participants with the knowledge necessary to make a difference
in their local school districts.
Presenter: Jason Cianciotto, Tucson, AZ
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 person’s
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 guideposts for our lives; ignoring them saps us of
our sexual vibrancy and our creative resistance. This workshop
will provide an introduction to Desire Mapping, and a tool for
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your life-long journey toward sexual empowerment and a more
just world.
Presenters: Jaime M. Grant, Arcus Center for Social Justice
Leadership, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI; AJ Head;
Amelie Zurn, Lesbian Health Activist and Therapist, Washing-
ton, DC
Media Savvy for Media Strategies
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Have you ever been “wowed” by an event or dem-
onstration and asked, “Where is the media to cover
this?” If you have ever said, “Someone should say something
about this injustice,” the Media Savvy for Media Strategies work-
shop can help. Getting your voice into the news is not luck, it
is media savvy and it can be learned. Effective media strategies
are more important than ever as we move toward full equality
and face powerful backlash. Well-funded groups like the National
Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association
still claim to speak for religion. The good news is that pro-LGBT
denominations and people of faith are ramping up their skills and
media outreach through mainstream and digital media to tell our
stories. More of us need to engage television, newspaper and
radio journalists to cover our stories. Simple planning can make
it happen. Connect with the blogosphere and on-line media out-
lets. Let your own web sites become part of the media scene. Go
for the buzz and become the “go to” people for journalists in your
area. Come learn about effective media engagement for LGBT
faith groups through clear messages and the ability do interviews,
write letters to the editor, and build relationships with media. For
twenty-five years, GLAAD has trained grassroots advocates and
national spokespersons while working directly with top media to
implement policies and practices that support fair and balanced
media coverage. GLAAD will bring that experience and exper-
tise to the workshop so you can walk out with increased “Media
Savvy for Media Strategies.”
Presenter: Ann Craig
Micro, Mezzo, and Responses to LGBTQ Hate Violence
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
With recent changes in hate crime laws and prosecution, in-
cluding enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd,
Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, plus heightened media atten-
tion on anti-LGBTQ hate violence, local service providers and
communities are in need of best practices when responding to
hate violence at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and need
information to advocate for survivors of hate violence. The pre-
sentation and exercise will use actual examples of how LGBTQ
communities have successfully responded to hate violence,
and cover the following objectives: 1) learning and practicing
effective victim advocacy skills; 2) understanding the prevalence
and psychological impact of hate violence; 3) working with me-
dia; 4)legislators/elected officials; 5) engaging law enforcement
and criminal legal system; 6) concepts of transformative justice
and 7) developing strategies for community response to hate
violence by utilizing the NYC Anti-Violence Project’s Community
Rapid Incident Response Guide.
Presenters: Daniel Britt, Francis Marion University GLBTSA,
Florence, SC; Jake Finney, LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Los
Angeles, CA; Jared Ringer, New York City Anti-Violence Project,
New York, NY
Queering Student Organizing
Campus • Advanced
By rethinking how students relate to each other and the popula-
tion at large, how students can make their lives and their work
responsive to the public and the public responsive to them, and
how students can fight for their rights without assimilating to
existing social roles, we will talk about ways student activism
can have an impact that is both more intense and more trans-
formative.
Presenters: Cedric Lawson, Development Director, United
States Student Association, Washington DC; Sam Menefee-
Libey, Campus Progress, Washington, DC; Angela Peoples,
Campus Progress, Washington, DC
Sex Ed on the Federal, State and Local Level
and how YOU can get involved!
School Issues • Intermediate
Sex education is important to all young people, and especially
GLBTQ youth. What is taught (or not) can be a reflection of how
accepting a community is (or is not) of GLBTQ youth. Our youth
are at higher risk for HIV and unintended pregnancy and too
often navigate through unhealthy relationships. Come learn how
you can fight for comprehensive sex education on the federal,
state and local levels to impact the lives of young people!
Presenters: Sarah Audelo, Advocates for Youth, Washington,
DC; Kurt Mitchell, Texas Freedom Network; Abby Rosenstein,
Advocates for Youth, Washington DC
Show Some SAS:
LGBTQ Youth of Color Stand Up Against Criminalization
Youth • All Audiences
Streetwise & Safe (SAS) aims to build knowledge, leadership
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and power among LGBTQQ youth of color who experience
policing, violence, and criminalization in the context of “qual-
ity of life” policing and the policing of prostitution. In this work-
shop, SAS youth will share their unique youth-led “know your
rights” curriculum tailored to the experiences of LGBTQ youth.
Participants will gain critical information about their legal rights,
learn and practice basic skills, and brainstorm possibilities for
change.
Presenters: Tree Alexander, Urban Justice Center, New York,
NY; Ileana Gonzalez, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY
Strategic Planning: How to Best Utilize
Your Scarce Financial and Human Resources
Organizational Development • All Audiences
This session illuminates the key to maximizing those two things
all organizations have too little of: money and people’s time. We
will review the strategic planning process and how it ensures
organizations are focused on those things that are truly achiev-
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able and most impactful. Attendees will leave with revised mis-
sion statement, an analysis of the organization’s strengths and
weaknesses, and an understanding of how to set goals further-
ing their mission.
Presenters: James Larsen, CPA, Strategic Planning Consultant,
Bisexual Organizing Project, Prairie, MN
Why the Tea Party is Out to Get Queers
and What to Do about It
Movement Building • All Audiences
What do you really know about the Tea Party’s agenda con-
cerning LGBTQI people? How successful will they be? Through
interactive exercises, we will learn together about the ideas,
campaigns and people behind the Tea Party and other aspects
of the Right at this moment. We will then review some current
and potential strategies for LGBT freedom and equality in light
of a clearer understanding of the opposition, its goals, and its
possible level of success.
Presenters: Pam Chamberlain, Senior Researcher, Political
Research Associates; Kenyon Farrow
YEAH! - Engaging LGBT Youth
to be Empowered Against HIV!
AIDS/HIV • All Audiences
YEAH! (Youth Empowered Against HIV!) is a locally developed
intervention designed to reduce the number of new HIV infec-
tions in Columbia, South Carolina by training and supporting
peer educators who facilitate HIV risk reduction education with
young men who have sex with men (YMSM). By age, persons
between 25 and 44 years accounted for the largest proportion
of new HIV infections in 2006 in the US, and nearly one-third
of all new HIV infections diagnosed in SC in 2007 were in per-
sons under 29 years. Clearly, young men who have sex with
men remain at high risk for HIV infection. By targeting HIV pre-
vention programs directly to gay, bisexual, and queer identified
men ages 18-25, we have seen successful changes in dialogue
among a population which has grown up in a world where HIV
is not a scary unknown and where treatments have become
more manageable, leading to complacency toward the disease.
Our goal with this session is to create a forum for discussion of
issues and trends relating to HIV/AIDS in YMSM in America in
2011, explore current YMSM targeted programs, and share our
best-practice recommendations for creating similar programs in
LGBT communities throughout the US and beyond.
Presenters: Jason Coleman, PhD, University of Nebraska;
Shehan Welihindha M.Ed., University of Arkansas; Ryan Wilson,
M.Ed., Harriet Hancock Community Center, Columbia, SC
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Workshop Session 4
Friday, February 4 • 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm
“God Hates Fags”
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
More than three quarters of teens report that their peers who
are gay (or even thought to be gay) are harassed and bullied in
their schools and communities. Often this harassment is based
on, and justified by, misguided religious beliefs. This seminar will
present an overview of spiritual violence against young people,
based on their perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or
gender expression, as well as offer guidelines for addressing
the problem.
Presenters: J.T. Bacon, Interweave Continental, Baton Rouge,
LA; Allyson Diane Hamm, Interweave Continental, Allentown,
PA; Don Hoppe, Interweave Continental, Baton Rouge, LA; Sue
Principe, Interweave Continental, Phoenix, AZ
“Movement Speak” - The Tower of Babel
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
One of the most useful tools in the movement to expand rec-
ognition of our fundamental human right to sexual freedom is
conversation. We recognize that conversations about sexuality
and human rights are often fraught with unintended moments
of hurt and misunderstanding and we recognize, too, that if we
can’t talk among ourselves, we will almost certainly be heavily
challenged in talking to the people whose minds and hearts
we want to engage in our fight for human rights. This work-
shop will explore the challenges and opportunities involved in
creating safe and productive spaces for talking about sexuality
and sexual freedom. Participants will leave with new tools for
conversations and advocacy that they can take back to their
personal and/or professional communities.
Presenters: Ricci Levy, Executive Director, The Woodhull Free-
dom Foundation, Washington, DC; Dr. Elizabeth Wood
Activists Together: Resisting Anti-LGBT Politics
Movement Building • All Audiences
This workshop offers concrete information for surviving anti-
LGBT politics. It will help you make sense of the psychologi-
cal 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.
Presenter: Glenda Russell, Senior Research Associate, Institute
for Gay & Lesbian Strategic Studies, Ypsilanti, MI
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Ask for Money Face-to-Face . . . Have Faith!
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Whether you work with faith communities or focus
on the secular, as a board member, staff member
or volunteer you can ensure your organization’s financial suc-
cess. Come see just how easy it is. Nothing can replace asking
for money face-to-face for efficiency, effectiveness, and pure fun.
Presenter: Mickey MacIntyre, realChange Partners, Celebration, FL
Audism Unveiled:
An Examination of Discrimination & Prejudice
Disability • All Audiences
Participants will view a documentary defining audism through
a series of interviews with deaf and hard-of-hearing people re-
counting their experiences with job discrimination, attempts to
“cure” deafness, and miscommunication with other individuals.
A panel discussion among Deaf LGBT Minnesotans will follow
the film, with time for questions. Participants are invited to ex-
amine their own hearing privilege and how they intentionally or
unintentionally contribute to audist oppression, and address the
challenges and rewards of social justice organizing and what
ally behavior amounts to in practice.
Presenters: CM Hall, BLeGIT (LGBT Member Section of Registry
of Interpreters for the Deaf), Portland, OR; Raymond Luczak
Creating Student Initiated Coalitions on Campus
Campus • Fundamentals
We must build coalitions on college campuses if students desire
to rewrite policy and influence institutional structures to increase
access for the LGBTQ community. As an organizer for gender
neutral housing on the University of Michigan’s campus, I will
discuss the process of building a coalition that engages student
governments, organizations, and administrators in large policy
changes. We will also cover the method and process of self-
reflexivity and personal development in groups.
Presenter: Allison Horky, University of Michigan Spectrum Center,
Ann Arbor, MI
Executive Directors Roundtable (Continued)
Community Organizing • All Audiences
Fair Housing and the LGBT Community: Initiatives
and Strategies for Combating Housing Discrimination
Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of cur-
rent efforts and pending developments in the area of fair hous-
ing for the LGBT community at the federal and local levels. This
workshop will familiarize you with current federal policy efforts to
increase protections against housing discrimination in the LGBT
community, advocacy efforts by local and national organiza-
tions, and the status of HUD s groundbreaking national LGBT
housing discrimination study.
Presenters: Kenneth Carroll, Office of Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, Washington, DC; Maya Rupert, National Center for Les-
bian Rights, Washington, DC
Hands Up: Community Actions
on Police Accountability and Misconduct
Community Organizing • All Audiences
Based off of the 2009 raid of the Atlanta Eagle gay bar this
interactive workshop will examine police misconduct in both
communities of color and LGBT communities. We will review
the community work that is being done to hold law enforcement
accountable for their actions in Atlanta, GA and beyond. Par-
ticipants will envision strategies to address police accountability
and to create alternative models for safe space.
Presenters: Chelsea Johnson-Long, Safe OUTside the System
Collective (A project of the Audre Lorde Project), Brooklyn, NY;
Holiday Simmons, Lambda Legal, Atlanta, GA
Here’s How Marriage Matters: Tools and Messaging
Training for Marriage Education (Continued)
Marriage • All Audiences
Humor and Diversity
Organizational Development • All Audiences
This workshop is designed to explore some of the barriers im-
posed by race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability, and
cultural differences. Discussions will focus on the use of appro-
priate humor to raise sensitivity, and to generate creative and
positive action in our daily lives. With its accent on leadership
training, this session will empower participants to appreciate dif-
ferences, embrace similarities, and promote harmony and em-
powerment in our respective environments and communities.
Learning Objectives: 1. To develop awareness and sensitivity
about differences. 2. To learn ways to utilize humor for trans-
formation and healing. 3. To improve communication skills with
others using humor.
Presenter: Karen Williams, M.Ed., Comic, Founder/CEO, HaHA
Institute, Cleveland, OH
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Intersex 101
Gender Issues • All Audiences
Intersex 101 will provide attendees an opportunity to learn
about specific intersex conditions and the historical, social and
political ways that medical and broader communities respond
to individuals who identify as intersex and/or who have inter-
sex conditions. Participants will be encouraged to think critically
around deconstructing traditional notions of sex characteris-
tics and identities and will leave with the knowledge, tools, and
resources around being allies and advocates to people of all
sexes.
Presenters: Michael Grewe, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN;
Kim Jorgensen
Lights, Camera, Action: Intensive Real World Media
Training for Movement Leaders (Continued)
Communications, Media and Messaging • Intermediate
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Own the Room:
Boost Your Facilitation and Presentation Skills
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
While each person brings their own unique experiences, per-
sonality and talents to a presentation, this highly interactive
workshop will help us approach leading trainings in an orga-
nized and effective way, alleviating some of the anxiety of public
speaking. Participants will gain tools and strategies to improve
planning and facilitation skills as well as identify some of their
strengths in providing trainings. Activists at all levels interested
in improving presentation skills will benefit from this workshop.
Presenter: Samuel Lurie, Transgender Training and Advocacy,
Hinesburg, VT
Queer Immigrant Lives:
Redemption and Reform in a Globalized Context
Immigration • All Audiences
This session provides a more holistic analysis of immigration
and comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.
Panelists present a comprehensive analysis of comprehensive
immigration reform, including: 1) grounding the debate within
a global context of migration, 2) an analysis of intersectional
movements at work, and 3) strategies for participants to orga-
nize in their own communities. We foreground the lives and ex-
periences of LGBTQ immigrants and provide meaningful ways
for allies to engage.
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Presenters: Ben de Guzman, Co-Director for Programs, Na-
tional Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC;
Trishala Deb, Brooklyn, CA; Gannon Long, Immigration Equality,
Washington, DC; Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Principal, Intersec-
tions Consulting, Washington, DC
Race and Power:
An Examination of Intersectionality
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This past summer at the Human Rights Campaign
Summer Institute for Theological and Religious Studies an in-
tense and animated discussion took place between scholars
and students about the value and challenges of intersectionality
as a working concept. While intersectionality is a concept of the
multiple identities within all of us, distinguishing it from coali-
tion work across different interest areas and justice work, the
concept carries profound different practical implications when
approached from the position of queer people of color. What
becomes clear in this articulation is the fluidity of sexuality and
race and how they mutually inform one another. What such ar-
ticulation also brings to the surface are the subtle ways that we
perpetuate oppressive structures even in progressive organiz-
ing. The question remains, however, how do we do organizing
from a truly intersectional as opposed to simply a coalition mod-
el? In dialogue, these scholars are leading the ways of thinking
about these issues. I can guarantee that this would be a panel
that would truly enliven the conference and perhaps as it did the
summer institute and the American Academy of Religion annual
conference most recently.
Presenters: Sharon Groves, Deputy Director Religion and
Faith Program, HRC, Washington, DC; Sara Rosenau, Drew
University; Thelathia Young, Emory University; Ellen Armour, E.
Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology, Di-
rector of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexu-
ality, Vanderbilt University School of Divinity, Nashville, TN
Research for Change: Leveraging Data
to Improve School Climate for LGBT Youth
School Issues • All Audiences
This workshop will provide information about the experiences
of LGBT youth in U.S. schools, using findings from GLSEN’s
2009 National School Climate Survey. Presenters will share
research about the diverse educational experiences of LGBT
youth, including exposure to bias-based behaviors, access to
institutional supports, and changes in school climate over the
last decade. GLSEN’s Local School Climate Survey, a research
tool for organizing in local communities, and strategies for using
research will also be discussed.
Presenters: Mark Bartkiewicz, GLSEN, New York, NY; Elizabeth
Diaz, GLSEN, New York, NY; Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN
Serving LGBTQ students without an LGBT Center
Campus • Fundamentals
The goal of this session is to share how one of the most “LGBT
friendly” schools in the county is able to create a welcoming and
celebratory climate without the presence of centralized services
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in the form of a center. This session will provide attendees with
tangible ideas to bring back to their campuses in order to have
an impact on the quality of life for LGBTQ members of their
campus community. This session will also explore how to pro-
vide student services at campuses that have political or religious
limitations on doing so.
Presenters: Ryan Prosser, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN;
Finn Schneider, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Shouting over the Silence: The re-birth of Direct Action
Community Organizing • All Audiences
We’re tired of being bypassed by politicians who are more inter-
ested in protecting their jobs than ours. And we’re tired of waiting
on others to articulate mechanisms for change — we’re creating
our own! Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and fight back for
your equality? We want to help you create state-based “strike
force” groups interested in campaigning locally on LGBT and
inter-sectional issues. By the end of this session, you’ll have tan-
gible ways to implement direct actions in your own community!
Presenters: Heather Cronk, GetEqual, Washington, DC; Robin
McGeehee, GetEqual, Fresno, CA; Michelle Wright, GetEqual,
Fresno, CA
Telling: Katie Miller, Knights Out, and DADT
Military/Veterans Issues • All Audiences
Former Cadet Katherine Miller and Communications Director
Sue Fulton of Knights Out, both also members of the public
board of OutServe, the underground network of active-duty
LGBT servicemembers, will talk about messaging and media
strategies behind their work to allow gays and lesbians to serve
openly in the military. We will illustrate the importance of tell-
ing personal stories in changing attitudes; and why “don’t ask,
don’t tell” started to crumble when people started “telling.”
Presenters: Sue Fulton, Communications Director, Knights
Out; Katherine Miller
Trans People of Color Organizing and Advocacy
People of Color • All Audiences
Trans People of Color will come together to build networks and
form alliances for us to be better advocates. We have many
more similarities, particularly in relation to the greater LGBT
movement. Working together makes us much stronger! We will
discuss ways to share our resources and form strong alliances
across our races, classes, religions and the many other ways in
which our communities are unique. This is designed for the indi-
vidual or a group. The intent is to provide resources and learn to
collaborate to become more effective self advocates.
Presenter: Kylar Broadus, Attorney, Trans People of Color
Coalition, Columbia, MO
UP UP and Away: Building a Community Center
for Supporting the LGBTQ Community
Community Centers • All Audiences
The UP Center of Champaign County is a new community cen-
ter for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, and ally commu-
nity in the Midwest. Within seven months of being incorporated
as a nonprofit, The Center had developed twelve educational,
support, and social programs, hosted the community’s first or-
ganized Pride Festival, and connected to over 20 local resourc-
es in order to serve the LGBT community needs better. This
workshop provides attendees with the challenges we faced and
shares some the successes we had in developing our center in
order to help others wanting to develop similar initiatives. Come
learn and share ideas for incorporating and structuring a com-
munity center, utilizing the Internet and social networking tools
to promote your organization, and strategies for raising money.
Presenters: Kevin Johnson, President, The UP Center of
Champaign County, Ann Arbor, MI; Megan Pacely, Treasurer,
The UP Center of Champaign County, Urbana, IL
What’s Law Got to Do With It? Where Do Legal Rights
Fit in the LGBT Social Justice Movement?
Movement Building • All Audiences
Come examine the role of legal advocacy and litigation in the
LGBT movement. Together we will discuss the following ques-
tions: Does the emphasis on winning equal rights support or
hinder our larger efforts to achieve social justice? How do we
build greater communication, collaboration and accountability
between legal advocates, organizers and activists to make our
movement stronger? Ultimately, how can litigation and legal ad-
vocacy be a part of building an activist movement for social
change?
Presenters: M. Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Attorney,
Lambda Legal, New York, NY; Beverly Tillery, Director of Com-
munity Education and Advocacy, Lambda Legal, New York, NY
Working with Asian & Pacific Islander
(A&PI) Congregations to Become Welcoming
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This workshop will be conducted by members of
Network on Religion and Justice for Asian & Pacific Islander
LGBT Equality (NRJ). The aim of this workshop is to present and
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discuss various strategies and means to engage Asian & Pacific
Islander churches in becoming a welcoming worship place for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals. The
A&PI communities hold many complexities in their breadth of
ethnicities, languages, and generational layers (both in age and
immigration status). Thus, working with A&PI congregations
around issues of LGBT welcoming can be challenging and re-
warding. Topics will cover how to start the welcoming process
in a culturally competent and respectful manner in navigating
the welcoming process, and how to continue the engagement.
Specific case studies will be shared of A&PI welcoming congre-
gations and their journey. Short clips from the documentary film,
In God’s House, will also be shown as part of the workshop.
Presenter: Sharon Hwang Colligan, Network on Religion and
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Friday, February 4 • 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
An Erased Population: Exploring Homophobia in Sport
Campus
Homophobia has been a consistent albeit often silent issue in
sport. From restricted career advancement to a greater inci-
dence of depression, the negative effects of homophobia are
profound and can be exacerbated by the sexist culture of sport.
We will explore research and initiatives related to homophobia
and heterosexism in sport settings. Our aim is to create aware-
ness, promote research, encourage advocacy and involvement,
and brainstorm ideas for changing the homophobic sport envi-
ronment.
Presenters: Austin Calhoun, Tucker Center for Research on
Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, Min-
neapolis, MN; Alyssa Norris, Tucker Center for Research on
Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, Min-
neapolis, MN
API Caucus @ Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
This space will be open only to those who identify
as Asian & Pacific Islander and also as Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning. The purpose
of the gathering will be to create meaningful relationships across
our diverse ethnic, gender, class, and faith communities. We will
seek to build a new community or expand upon our already ex-
isting ties and communities to better support and build a basis
for growth and collaboration. We will have time to introduce one
another, get to know each other better, share histories, stories,
and resources.
Presenters: Ben de Guzman, Co-Director for Programs, Na-
tional Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC;
Asha Leong, Outreach Associate, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund, Atlanta, GA
Atheist, Free Thinker, Non-Believer Caucus
Faith & Spirituality
Atheists are still considered the least-trusted minority group in
the US. This caucus will be an opportunity to discuss the chal-
lenge of carrying both a non-believing and LGBT identity and
to strategize how better to recruit allies from the non-believing
community and confront religious bias. Anyone who is curious
about these worldviews is welcome to join the discussion.
Presenter: Zack Ford, zackfordblogs.com, Newport, PA
Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Caucus
Bisexual Community
This interactive caucus will help participants create connections
across the nation with other bisexual individuals. As an often
invisible identity, it’s important to have spaces where we can
gather to see that our community exists and that there is sup-
port for Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid identities across the nation.
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We will look to the participants to decide the exact flow of the
caucus. We hope also to give attendees a chance to think and
chat about the space for Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid identified
folks at Creating Change 2011 and to explore how to apply a
Bi/Pan/Fluid lens to the workshops participants will attend dur-
ing the rest of the conference. Learning Objectives: Participants
will leave with a sense of community and national connections.
Participants will also leave with ideas on how to frame their work
and the confidence and ability to speak from Bi/Pan/Fluid iden-
tities throughout the rest of Creating Change 2011.
Presenters: Robyn Ochs, Bisexual Resource Center/BiNet
USA, Jamaica Plain, MA; Becky Saltzman, Minneapolis, MN
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 organi-
zations, share strategies, and plan for a National Queer Asian
Pacific Islander Alliance.
Presenters: Ben de Guzman, Co-Director for Programs, Na-
tional Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC;
Asha Leong, Outreach Associate, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund, Atlanta, GA; Glenn D. Magpantay, Co-Director,
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, New York, NY
College Student Caucus
Campus
Student leaders on college campuses rarely have a chance to
breath, 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 lead-
ers from campuses across the country to identify common is-
sues; learn new program strategies and program practices; and
create collaborative relationships with other students.
Presenters: Michael Shutt, Emory Office of LGBT Life, Atlanta,
GA; Danielle Steele, Office of LGBT Life Emory University, At-
lanta, GA
Creating a Progressive Media
Communications, Media and Messaging
This workshop will help participants gain a real world under-
standing of how the media has been captured by conservative
activists to undermine progress for the GLBT community. Par-
ticipates will learn the power of progressive talk radio to influ-
ence public dialogue and elections; and how they can launch
progressive media throughout the country.
Presenter: Janet Robert, AM950 The Voice of Minnesota, Eden
Prairie, MN
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Disabled and Loving
Disability
You walk by a person with a significant disability. Do you find
them attractive or repulsive? Discuss issues played out in the
media based on disability. Can you open your heart to someone
or is it purely pity party? Let’s discuss it as a group.
Presenter: Francisco Vaca, Potterville, MI
E. None of the Above
Gender Issues
Gender Queer, Genderfuct, Gender Non-Conforming, Androgy-
nous... There are many words that describe where an individual
may fall on the gender spectrum. For the many people fall under
these titles, it seems like being rainbow in a black and white
world. This seminar is designed to explore living on the gen-
der spectrum in a gender binary world in a discussion exploring
topics and asking questions such as: “What do you do when
forced to choose between male and female?” “Do you iden-
tify solely as ‘gender queer’ or do you identify with more than
one gender identity?” “Gender Non-conforming Pronouns” and
“Gender Queer and Transitioning.”
Presenter: Ripley Iwen, BAGLY, Metheun, MA
ElectEquality: Progress at the Ballot Box
Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns
For decades, LGBT Americans have relied almost exclusively
on the Democratic Party to promote, enact and defend legisla-
tion aimed at guaranteeing our equal rights under the law. But
if there is anything that we’ve learned since the 2008 elections,
it’s that having Democratic majorities in Congress and a Demo-
cratic President does not guarantee us rights we deserve - ac-
cess to equal rights. ElectEquality, a program conceived and
implemented by the National Stonewall Democrats, is a stra-
tegic campaign initiative aimed at harnessing the power of les-
bian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans to influence the
outcome of the electoral process across the country. In 2010 for
the inaugural launch for the ElectEquality program, NSD sent 11
grassroots organizers (these organizers make up the freshman
class of the Equaliteam), across the country working to elect
pro-equality Democratic candidates to Congress. In 3 months,
these 11 organizers were able to knock on 59,353 doors, call
105,231 voters, and generate over 5,625 volunteer hours.
Presenters: Jerame Davis, National Stonewall Democrats; Mi-
chael Mitchell, National Stonewall Democrats, New York, NY;
Linsey Pecikonis, National Stonewall Democrats, Washington,
DC; Daniel Ramos, Broomsfield, CO
Ex-Gay Survivor Caucus
Movement Building
The Ex-Gay Survivor’s Caucus will be meeting to share with oth-
er ex-gay survivors our stories and learn how to create change
from our experiences.
Presenter: Philip Lowe, Richfield, MN
Fabulous & Empowered: A Presentation of FIERCE’s
Organizing Tool Kit and other Youth Organizing Models
Movement Building
FIERCE is proud to release our organizer’s toolkit this year. The
toolkit is a guide we hope will serve to support organizations
that either already follow a youth-led organizing model or are
looking to implement one. In our current climate, youth-led or-
ganizing as a tool for empowerment and change is an undeni-
able necessity. Come dialogue with us about successful youth-
led organizing models, how to implement them, and the lessons
learned along the way.
Presenter: Emerson Brisbon, FIERCE, NY, NY
Femme Outside of Gender
Sexual Freedom
Femme Outside of Gender is a workshop that asks how a
femme identity is understood and lived in differently queer bod-
ies and spaces. What makes being a femme so compelling to
some of us and why is it often seen as problematic and suspi-
ciously unqueer. Join femme identified Amber Hollibaugh, Ken-
yon Farrow and other panelists in this conversation.
Presenters: Kenyon Farrow; Amber Hollibaugh, Interim Ex-
ecutive Director, Queers for Economic Justice, New York, NY
Gay Men and HIV:
Recent Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
AIDS/HIV
Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men
(MSM) have been particularly hard hit since the onset of the HIV
crisis, and they continue to experience disproportionate rates of
HIV infection when compared to other populations. However,
the health needs of these men have been historically ignored.
The CDC recently released new data indicating a 17% increase
in new HIV infections among gay men from 2005 to 2008. This
session will address how MSM are prioritized in the National
HIV/AIDS Strategy and the new opportunities to proactively ad-
dress some of the barriers and challenges in HIV prevention
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with MSM.
Presenters: David Purcell, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Robert Valadez,
GMHC, New York, NY
Gay Straight Alliances
School Issues
This Caucus will focus on Gay-Straight Alliances in High
Schools. This will be an opportunity for youth who are in Gay
Straight Alliances and organizations working to build the Gay
Straight Alliance movement to come together to share experi-
ences, network, and build community.
Presenters: Danielle Askini, GSA Network, San Francisco, CA;
T. Aaron Hans, Consultant/Activist, RISE Consulting, Marina,
CA; Tim Michael, GSA for Safe School, Madison, WI
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Homo-Interior:
Religious Design for Your Queer Soul
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Tired of being asked how you “reconcile your
sexuality with your faith”? Let your inner designer respond! A
mandala is a form of sacred art used in various religious tradi-
tions to focus the attention of spiritual seekers in establishing a
sacred space. We will adapt this ancient technique to give voice
and visibility to the content of our fabulous queer souls. Par-
ticipants will design their own mandalas, and will discuss their
spiritual and political significance.
Presenters: Rev. Liz Edman, New York, NY; Kelby Harrison,
Post-doctoral Fellow in Social Ethics, Union Theological Semi-
nary, New York, NY
Latin@s: How is HIV/AIDS Affecting Us?
AIDS/HIV
This Latino HIV/AIDS caucus Latin@s: How is HIV/AIDS Affect-
ing Us? will allow activists from around the country to connect,
network, hear and share the status of how HIV/AIDS is affecting
the Latino LGBT community the U.S.A. and Puerto Rico. Join
us to discuss how HIV/AIDS affects our community and what
can we do to positively impact the prevention and intervention
efforts.
Presenters: Juan Calderon, Chicago, IL; Jorge Cestou, Unid@s,
Chicago, IL
Leather Leadership Roundtable
Sexual Freedom
Join leather leaders to strategize and advance our goal to
decriminalize BDSM through “Consent Counts,” a project
launched at the 2006 Creating Change Conference. Discrimi-
nation and persecution of consensual BDSM practitioners is on
the rise and consensual BDSM is frequently prosecuted as as-
sault. This project is well under way and needs your input.
Presenters: Richard Cunningham; Leigh Fleming
LGBT Health as a Tool for Social Justice
Health
Blending policy and advocacy by using a social justice ap-
proach, we will tackle LGBT health disparities. Health is not just
a personal issue; it reflects the structures that shape society.
Factors such as race, gender, class, gender identify, and sexual
orientation affect the ability of individuals to enjoy healthy lives.
Presenter: Matthew Rose, National Coalition for LGBT Health,
Washington, DC
National LGBT Aging Roundtable Member Caucus
Aging
In this caucus session, members of the National Roundtable on
LGBT Aging will report on advocacy and service initiatives oc-
curring throughout the country. Everyone in the room will have
the opportunity to participate by sharing their knowledge, ask-
ing questions and networking.
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Presenters: John Johnson, SAGE, Washington, DC; Serena
Worthington, Director of Community Advocacy and Capacity
Building, SAGE, Chicago, IL
Navigating the World as LGBT and Middle Eastern
People of Color
This session will address the unique status of Arab-American
(and other Middle Eastern) LGBT people in our society. Partici-
pants will hear about cultural and social reasons that contribute
to the oppression and extreme sense of isolation that is often
experienced by people who are at the intersection of Middle
Eastern cultures and the LGBT community. Participants will en-
gage in interactive discussions of shared experiences, support
systems and possible long-term programs that could positively
impact the community.
Presenter: Robert Salem, Attorney, University of Toledo Col-
lege of Law, Toledo, OH
Queer Activism in Spanish Caucus
People of Color
In most Queer Latino activist efforts English is the default lan-
guage that is used. However, many Latino community members
are Spanish-dominant and prefer to engage civic and cultural is-
sues in Spanish. This caucus is designed as a Spanish-language
LGBT activist gathering. We hope to share resources, best prac-
tices and confer around the needs of LGBT activism in Spanish.
Presenters: Francisco Dueñas, Proyecto Igualdad Coordina-
tor, Lambda Legal, Los Angeles, CA
Radical Faerie Caucus
Community Organizing
The Radical Faerie Caucus will focus on radical faeries with
space to discuss history, sanctuaries, spirituality and radical fa-
erie culture(s) and community(ies).
Presenters: Eric Eldritch, Circle Keeper, DC Radical Faeries,
College Park, MD; Timothy Gardner, Northwoods Radical Faer-
ies, Bethlehem, PA; Brett Tallgrass-Pearson, Minneapolis, MN;
Ralph Wyman, Minneapolis, MN
Sex-Positive Trans Caucus
Sexual Freedom
Presenters: Yoseñio V. Lewis, Woodhull Freedom Foundation,
San Francisco, CA; Harper Jean Tobin, Policy Council, National
Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC
Southeastern U.S. Caucus
Movement Building
As queer and allied organizers and leaders in the South/South-
east United States, we face unique challenges in working for
social change affected by the dynamics of race, religion, socio-
economic status and many other historical factors. Join us at
this caucus to dialogue and strategize with fellow activists and
organizers in the South to build community and enhance our
social change work.
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Presenters: Ryan Miller, University of North Florida, Jackson-
ville, FL; Natalie Nguyen
Telling Our Stories
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
The most effective means for LGBTQI folk to
change hearts and minds is by telling our stories
and letting people get to know us. Recently we saw where Eliz-
abeth Hasselback, a host on TV’s The View changed her mind
about gay marriage because she got to know Melissa Ether-
idge. This session will resource even the most shy of folk how
to effectively communicate their stories to change hearts and
minds.
Presenters: Louise Brooks, Altadena, CA
Trans/cending Trans- & Partner-Only Spaces
Sexual Freedom
This caucus will provide an opportunity for trans-identified and
gender non-conforming persons in current or previous romantic
relationships with other trans and gender non-conforming per-
sons to meet and discuss how we navigate the uniqueness of
our relationships in typically binary-oriented spaces. We will ex-
plore the diversity of our identities and discuss how trans- and
partner-only spaces have affected our participation in the trans
and overall LGBTQ communities. ALL genders welcome!
Presenters: Mel Goodwin, The Gay & Lesbian Community
Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; Phoenix Schneider,
Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA
Transgender: A Question of Faith
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
This workshop will answer the question, “Why did
God make me a man, if God wanted me to be a
woman?” In a series of interactive discussions, participants will
move beyond the limits of religion and reach into the true mean-
ing of faith, and learn how to find, embrace and develop faith
beyond previously held limits and beliefs.
Presenter: Stephanie Mott, Kansas Statewide Transgender
Education Project, Topeka, KS
White Privilege in the Queer Community:
Holding each other accountable
Racial Justice
The caucus will allow participants to identify and discuss ways
in which White privilege manifests in LGBT/Queer organiza-
tions. Using consciousness raising questioning participants will
develop and consider ways oppressed sexual identities mask
racial privilege within the LGBTQA community. People of all
races, ethnicities, and nationalities are encouraged to attend.
Presenters: Jeffrey Carroll, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;
Lauren Hannahs, Graduate Assistant, LGBT Resource Center,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Workshop Session 5
Saturday, February 5 • 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Lifting As We Climb: An Exercise (therefore
you might sweat) In Rethinking How We Do
What We Do So We Can Do It Better!
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
We will explore what it means to reshape a movement. We will
engage in a redefining of/direct discussion of purpose and in-
tent. We so frequently engage in the work of our movement
without a game plan. We rarely have a clearly articulated plan
around what are we here to do, what have we brought to the
table, what are we working with and what may be helping
or hurting our intended outcomes. We will reflect upon what
it means to own, accept and think about the proper use(s) of
privilege, which can keep us stuck in a habit of disavowing our
privilege and therefore never seeing the responsibilities implicit
in having privilege. We focus on five major questions that can
lay the foundation for inclusive and thoughtful movement build-
ing work. Safety: Am I mindful of the physical and emotional
safety of others? Empowerment: Am I fostering an environment
where each individual’s strengths, experiences and uniqueness
can be highlighted and built upon? Trustworthiness: Am I being
clear and consistent with my expectations of and in my inter-
actions with others? Am I maintaining appropriate boundaries?
Am I creating an atmosphere of respect and acceptance free of
judgment? Choice: Am I providing those I interact with experi-
ences of choice and control? Collaboration: Am I allowing an
approach of collaboration and sharing to be at the center of my
interactions? Join us for this thought provoking discussion!
Presenter: Minister Louis J. Mitchell, Recovering the Promise
Ministries, Chicopee, MA
¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say?
Creating Multilingual Spaces
Movement Building • All Audiences
Organizing and movement building are based on relationships.
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Neither can happen if we can’t talk to one another. Language
is a powerful tool that can be used to silence communities or
to create spaces for new voices to emerge in ways that trans-
form race relationships and empower marginalized groups. This
workshop focuses on creating social justice spaces where lan-
guage is used democratically to strengthen cross-cultural alli-
ances by providing the tools and resources necessary for bridg-
ing communication across language.
Presenter: Roberto Tijerina, Popular Educator/Trainer, Durham, NC
Case Studies For
Denominational Engagement
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This workshop will focus on recent campaigns for
full inclusion waged within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America and the Episcopal Church USA as case studies. We’ll
examine long-term strategies used by Lutherans Concerned/
North America and Integrity USA. Key learnings include the
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strength of one-on-one visits and long-term relationship build-
ing, graceful engagement from within, leveraging catalyzing
events, and the ministry of presence.
Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, Senior Field Organizer,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los Angeles, CA; Ross
Murray, Minneapolis, MN; Max Niedzwiecki; Trystan Reese, Na-
tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Creating Meaningful Change: Addressing Poverty
in the LGBT Community Through Collaboration
Racial Justice • All Audiences
LGBT people are more likely to live in poverty than the general
population, but there are few LGBT services and advocacy fo-
cused specifically on the most urgent issues that low-income
LGBT people face. This workshop will highlight these issues,
discuss successful collaborative efforts to address poverty in
the LGBT community, and discuss how activists can be in-
volved in addressing the needs of low-income LGBT people.
Presenters: Natalie Chin, Lambda Legal, New York, NY; Cathy
Sakimura, Equal Justice Works Fellow, National Center for Les-
bian Rights, San Francisco, CA; Terra Slavin, Lead Staff Attor-
ney Legal Services, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles,
CA; Dan Torres, California Rural Legal Assistance, Stockton, CA
Doing Justice: A place for polyamorous/non-
monogamous communities in the LGBTIQA movement
Sexual Freedom • Intermediate
As LGBTIQA movements strive for society to recognize and
embrace a spectrum of gender and sexual identities, the poly-
amorous/non-monogamous (poly/NM) communities are work-
ing to gain recognition and equity within these movements. This
workshop is aimed at people who are interested in having a
dialogue regarding poly/NM issues in broader LGBTIQA move-
ments. We will examine issues of “outness”, inclusion in LGB-
TIQA movements, and strategies for raising poly/NM concerns
within your own work.
Presenters: Timothy Gardner, Northwoods Radical Faeries,
Bethlehem, PA; Robin Nussbaum, Coordinator, Oneonta Gender Presenters: Jenny Betz, President, GALA-St.Mary’s College,
& Sexuality Resource Center, Oneonta, NY Moraga, CA; Justin Rosado, GLSEN, New York, NY
Empowering Members of Campus Student Organizations Going for the Gold: Transphobia, Racism,
Campus • All Audiences and Why the Oppression Olympics are a Losing Game
Oftentimes, students can end up creating a culture in their cam-
pus organization that only involves their executive board. But
that isn’t a sustainable organization, and when the entire board
graduates from college the organization breaks down. This
workshop will teach participants how to empower their mem-
bers in their organization and create a sustainable organization.
Presenters: Laura Graving, Dayton, OH; David Topping, OUT-
spoken, Kalamazoo, MI
Enabling Activism Among 18-24 Year Olds
Youth • All Audiences
Currently both college students and high school students are
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targeted in outreach efforts by the LGBTQ community. However
those who are not involved in or do not have access to the un-
dergraduate education system have been historically silent within
the LGBTQ movement. This workshop will focus on how to cre-
ate spaces for these individuals and empower them to share their
stories and become involved with the larger community.
Presenters: Amanda Lee Genero; Lindsey Van Clief, Advo-
cates for Youth, CT
From LA to Anchorage:
The State of LGBT Community Centers
Community Centers • All Audiences
There are more than 200 known LGBT community centers lo-
cated in 46 states and the District of Columbia serving thou-
sands of LGBT people each week. Have you ever been to an
LGBT Community Center? Are you a staff member at a center?
Are you interested in learning about some of the largest orga-
nizations in the LGBT movement? Come to this collaborative
session to talk about the changing role of LGBT community
centers, as we present results from the 2010 Community Cen-
ter Survey Report, authored by the Movement Advancement
Project and CenterLink.
Presenters: Naomi Goldberg, Movement Advancement Project,
Chicago, IL; Terry Stone, Executive Director, CenterLink
GLSEN’s Safe Space Kit Campaign:
You can help make schools safer for LGBT students
School Issues • All Audiences
This workshop will briefly lead participants through GLSEN’s
Safe Space Kit: Guide to Being an Ally to LGBT Students with
interactive activities and discussions. The kit will show partici-
pants how they can create safe spaces in schools by support-
ing LGBT students, educating about anti-LGBT bias and advo-
cating for changes in schools. Participants will also learn about
GLSEN’s Safe Space Campaign, which aims to send a Safe
Space Kit to every High School in America. All participants will
receive a free kit along with campaign material.
Movement Building • Fundamentals
It’s no secret that trans people face discrimination both inside
and outside of LGBT communities. But when we focus on
transphobic oppression alone, conversations about racism are
left behind. In this workshop we’ll discuss some of the ways
in which racism operates and how the far right systemically
launches attacks that impact trans communities and communi-
ties of color. Participants will explore a case study and learn how
to avoid the “oppression Olympics.”
Presenters: Maceo Persson; Tash Shatz, Basic Rights Oregon,
Portland, OR
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Hanging Out and Hooking Up:
Cruising, Safer Dating and Negotiating Sex
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
With a rise in reports of pick-up violence in LGBTQ commu-
nities, NCAVP offers this workshop to equip LGBTQ commu-
nities, especially youth, with safety strategies for hanging out
and hooking up. This workshop will focus on safer dating and
through exercises, role-plays, and discussion, will provide skills
and tools for asserting boundaries, detecting bad behavior, un-
derstanding consent (both asking for and giving), understand-
ing the distinctions between BDSM and abuse, and addressing
and dealing with triggers. This workshop will rely and expand
upon NCAVP’s safer dating tips. In support of healthy commu-
nities and healthy movements, we’ll provide participants with
support to develop awareness of their own needs, wants, and
boundaries, as well as those of potential partners.
Presenters: LaDawn Best, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los An-
geles, CA; Jessica Farmer, Kansas City Anti-Violence Project,
Kansas City, MO; Crystal Middlestadt, Colorado Anti-Violence
Program, Denver, CO; Rachel Smith, Virginia Anti-Violence Proj-
ect, Charlottesville, VA
Helping Your Older Adult Populations:
Utilizing, and Contributing to,
the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Aging • All Audiences
Are you aware of the specific concerns, needs and resources
available to your community’s older population? SAGE (Ser-
vices and Advocacy for GLBT Elders), in partnership with ten
organizations, has launched an ambitious and much-needed
National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, with the overall goal
of improving services for LGBT older people. This workshop will
both empower you to direct older people in your community to
the resources that they need, and will also provide a medium for
you to contribute to the ongoing development of the National
Resource Center.
Presenter: Hillary Meyer, SAGE, New York, NY
Making LGBT Students Count:
Creating Change in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
School Issues • All Audiences
This skills building workshop will examine the ongoing state and
federal administrative advocacy efforts to incorporate LGBT
students into the federal Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
and discuss the importance of data collection to facilitate LGBT
advocacy. Panelists will provide background regarding YRBS
advocacy efforts at the state and federal level, discuss how sta-
tistics and data can be used to further advocacy efforts, and
provide tools and resources to facilitate engagement in YRBS
or other administrative advocacy.
Presenters: Durryle Brooks, Advocates for Youth, Washing-
ton, DC; Alison Gill, Policy Associate, GLSEN, Washington, DC;
Carolyn Laub, Executive Director, Gay-Straight Alliance Net-
work, San Francisco, CA; Dave Reynolds, The Trevor Project,
Los Angeles, CA
Mobilizing Pro-Equality Catholics
on LGBT Issues
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate
Catholicism is the largest religious denomination
in the US, representing more than 26% of all adults, and 28%
of voters. The Catholic hierarchy has consistently led the fight
against LGBT equality. However, a strong majority of Catholics
support equality for our community in both civil and religious
matters. This session will provide tools on reaching both pro-
equality and “moveable middle” Catholics and motivating them
to take positive actions.
Presenter: Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director, Dignity
USA, Washington, DC
New Information on Transgender Discrimination
to Inform Workplace Policies
Transgender Community & Issues • Fundamentals
With the completion in 2009 by the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force of the first-ever National Survey of Transgender Dis-
crimination, there now exists new data on the discrimination
faced by the transgender community. This session is aimed for
HR professionals, employees and anyone interested in under-
standing more about the challenges faced by the transgender
community and how this data can effectively be utilized and
transferred to greater workplace policies and acceptance.
Presenters: David Alexander, National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, New York, NY; Ron Falcon MD, Co-Chair for Johnson &
Johnson GLOBAL Affinity Group; Jack Harrison, National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Jennifer Martin, Chair,
PRIDE Employee Resource Group, Best Buy, Minneapolis, MN
Of Faith and On-Line: Tools to Get Going
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
Over the past fifteen years the media landscape has changed
drastically. It can be a whirlwind to keep up with the latest tech-
nologies, not to mention discerning which methods will help us,
as LGBTQ people of faith, to change hearts and minds. This ses-
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sion brings together prominent online LGBTQ and allied voices
to share best practices and practical tools that help broaden and
deepen conversations about faith, religion and values online.
Presenter: Rev Janet Edwards, Pittsburgh, PA
Recruiting, Training, and Motivating Volunteers
in Your Organization
Community Centers • All Audiences
This session will help your organization fully utilize supporters
as volunteers in a variety of positions. Motivation techniques
and recruitment tools will be shared. Volunteers can provide
an invaluable resource to your organization. These volunteers
not only provide much needed services, but also become more
vested in the organization’s mission. Attendees will leave with a
greater understanding of the tools needed to recruit, train, and
motivate volunteers.
Presenters: Paul Allen, Oklahomans for Equality, Tulsa, OK;
Toby Jenkins, Oklahomans for Equality, Tulsa, OK
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Strategic Alliances and Collaboration
Organizational Development • Intermediate
With government, foundation and individual donor funds in short
supply for service and advocacy organizations, inter-agency
collaboration is no longer a luxury but an imperative. This work-
shop will provide participants with a framework to consider po-
tential collaborations, explore best practices, and help staff and
board members discern what to look for in partner agencies as
well as what they offer to them.
Presenter: John Magisano, Brooklyn, NY
The 1964 Civil Rights Act:
Our Path to Dignity and Equality
Movement Building • All Audiences
Want Equal Civil Rights? For starters, they’re called “Human
Rights” because you are born with them and it is every gov-
ernment’s primary responsibility to protect them! Come find out
how the 1964 Civil Rights Act works to fulfill this duty by outlaw-
ing discrimination based on “race, color, sex, national origin, and
religion” and how it could include “sexual orientation and gender
identity.” Offered by www.eQualityGiving.org and The American
Equality Bill (AEB) Project (www.AEBnow.org), organizers of the
NYC Grand Central ‘Homophobia Kills Die-In.’
Presenters: Gregory Brooker, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil
Division; J. Todd Fernandez, The American Equality Bill (AEB)
Project, New York, NY
The Cutting Edge in Trans Rights:
ID Documents, Restroom Access, and Prisons
Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate
Transgender rights are rapidly evolving. There have been great
victories in some states and localities and some losses in oth-
ers. Whether fighting for better jail/prison treatment, for accu-
rate IDs, or against smear campaigns about restrooms, there is
plenty of cutting edge advocacy going on. Come hear about ef-
forts in various states and localities, and even the national level,
and what you can do where you are to make a difference.
Presenters: Sadie Ryanne Baker; Sean Lund, National News
Media Coordinator, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation;
Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Director, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC; Harper Jean To-
bin, Policy Council, National Center for Transgender Equality,
Washington, DC
The Joys and Challenges of Polling
Marriage • All Audiences
Join key leaders and pollsters to learn more about the best way
to get what you want when performing research. We will walk
through everything from how to find the right pollster for you,
when to use the different methods of research (focus groups,
polls, etc.), how to work with your pollster to make sure you get
the information you need, and the overall strengths and weak-
nesses of polling. We will also discuss how to target specific
communities when doing research.
Presenter: Thalia Zepatos, Freedom to Marry, Portland, OR
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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 excite-
ment about the opportunities and challenges of running as an
openly GLBT candidate of color 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: Martin Garcia, Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute,
Washington, DC; Shawn Werner, Director of Campaign Servic-
es, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute
The Status of LGBT Federal Legislation
Under the 112th Congress
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
Join national advocates for a frank discussion of the status and
expectations for several bills.
Presenter: Stacey Long, Federal Legislative Director, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC
We’re coming out and want the world to know:
Intersections of LGBT & Immigrant Communities
Immigration • All Audiences
Amidst rising hate rhetoric towards immigrants and gays in
America, undocumented students have become street artists,
organized coordinated actions around the country, and made
their voices heard in Congress and the White House. Experi-
ence, explore, and discuss the intersectionality between the
LGBT and the immigrant youth movements.
Presenters: Andrea Cahuantzi; Yahaira Carrillo, Kansas & Mis-
souri DREAM Alliance; Gregory Cendana, Asian Pacific Ameri-
can Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; Matias Ramos,
United We Dream
Youth Organizing 101
Community Organizing/Youth • Fundamentals
Are you an LGBTQ youth of color looking to gain some knowl-
edge on organizing? Then this workshop is for you! Join FIERCE,
a NYC-based youth-led organization dedicated to building the
power and leadership of LGBTQ youth of color, for a workshop
on base building and youth-led campaign strategy. Through this
interactive workshop, we hope to provide you with the skills you
need to start to make the change you want to see in your own
communities. This workshop is open to LGBTQ youth of color
between the ages of 13-24 years old.
Presenter: Emerson Brisbon, FIERCE, NY, NY
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Saturday, February 5 • 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say?
Creating Multilingual Spaces (Continued)
Movement Building • All Audiences
Anti-Racism Framework for Safe Schools Organizing
School Issues • Advanced
This workshop will present the anti-racist framework for safe
schools organizing drafted by the National Safe Schools
Roundtable. The framework highlights best practices in to com-
bat racism in schools, as well as confronting racism within the
safe schools movement. Participants will leave with a deeper
understanding of race and sexual orientation/gender identity in-
tersections and practice in schools.
Presenters: Danielle Askini, GSA Network, San Francisco, CA;
Ashley Johnson, Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition; Cathy Sa-
kimura, Equal Justice Works Fellow, National Center for Lesbian
Rights, San Francisco, CA
Barriers to Access for LGBTQ Youth
Racial Justice/Youth • Intermediate
This workshop is designed to provide participants with an anti-
oppression and harm reduction framework for addressing is-
sues and needs facing LGBTQ youth, particularly transgender
youth and youth of color, in accessing housing, healthcare,
education, and employment. We will focus on one local com-
munity response - the GLBT Host Home Program, a grassroots
effort where adults from the community volunteer to open their
homes to queer youth who need safe and stable housing.
Presenters: Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Training and Network Coordi-
nator, GIFT (Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training); Rocki
Simeos, formerly of Youthlink, Minneapolis, MN
Becoming Better Allies: Supporting Labor Struggles
Labor • All Audiences
If you want to learn the skills and tools to become a more ef-
fective ally with your labor union coalition partners, this is your
session. We will discuss the principles of “buying union” and us-
ing union facilities and services; help participants deepen your
understanding of strikes, boycotts and other labor actions, and
provide training for LGBTQ nonprofits on best practices. If you
have specific questions or challenges you are facing in your or-
ganizing work, please bring them for discussion.
Presenters: Donna Cartwright, Director, Pride at Work, AFL-
CIO, Cliffside Park, NJ; Leslie Gabel-Brett, Lambda Legal; Cleve
Jones, UNITE-HERE; Peggy Shorey
Breaking The Cycle of Religion-based Bigotry
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
Equality measures, from marriage to repealing DADT, are op-
posed by those who play to anti-gay sentiment held in place by
church teaching. Full equality will come sooner rather later when
the entire community, not just our faith allies, is equipped to
effectively counter anti-gay religious attitudes and messaging.
This workshop will present participants with messaging that has
been proven effective through four years of field- testing and
how you can use it in your community.
Presenters: Brent Childers, Faith In America, Hudson, NC;
Mitchell Gold, Faith In America, Hudson, NC; Steve Hildebrand,
Sioux, SD
Building a Youth Run Adult Supported Youth Group
Youth • Fundamentals
Growing up isn’t easy. Growing up queer can be impossible.
Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of good ways to deal with it.
Youth groups are a good way to keep youth out of trouble in
the most troubling of times. Youth led, adult supported social
groups are successful, because the group is represented and
policed by the membership and their peers. This seminar will
outline how to create a successful youth led adult supported
social support group, and guide attendees in creating their own
group.
Presenter: Ripley Iwen, BAGLY, Metheun, MA
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 fam-
ily definition issues with immigrant rights, women of color, eco-
nomic justice, and other social justice advocates and organiza-
tions. Participants will leave this workshop with concrete tools
they can use to create model coalitions based on a broad defi-
nition of family.
Presenters: Heron Greenesmith, Legislative Counsel, Family
Equality Council; Rhodes Perry, PFLAG National, Washington,
DC
Creating Healthy Communities:
Obstacles and Opportunities
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Health • All Audiences
Research has repeatedly shown that there are significant health
disparities between LGBTQ and heterosexual individuals. Those
disparities are then increased because of other aspects of our
identities (e.g., race, age, ability, class, citizenship). Participants
will be invited to identify obstacles to accessing appropriate and
competent healthcare for themselves and members of their
communities, as well as to explore obstacles within our own
communities and identify opportunities for change.
Presenters: Dr. Alex Iantaffi, University of Minnesota School
of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN; Ani Koch, Rainbow Health
Initiative, Minneapolis, MN; Keith Pederson, Division of Epide-
miology and Community Health School of Public Health, Min-
neapolis, MN
How to put on an HIV prevention workshop
AIDS/HIV • Fundamentals
Do you work with MSM and have wanted to put on a sexual
health workshop with your organization but just didn’t know
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where to get started? This workshop is designed to give you the
tools you will need to be able to go home and put on a sexual
health workshop in your community. You will learn how to lead
two activities: Hands, Mouth, Dick, and Ass which will give par-
ticipants the fundamentals of HIV/STD transmission and Move
with Your Feet which will get your participants thinking about
how they engage with sexual health issues in relationship to
their peers.
Presenters: Aaron Brosier, Minnesota Aids Project, Minneapolis,
MN; Rob Graham, Minnesota AIDS Project, Minneapolis, MN
Identifying and Resisting the Social Construction
of Aging and Embracing Old Pride
Aging • All Audiences
Participants will learn the structure of oppression especially as
it applies to old LGBT people. They will develop strategies for
resistance and practice forms of resistance and learn how best
to embrace aging and demonstrate “old pride.” This workshop
will be interactive and all people are welcome.
Presenters: Mandy Carter, Durham, NC; Ruth Debra, OLOC;
Rev. Jan Griesinger, Co-Director - Old Lesbians Organizing for
Change, Athens, OH
Interpersonal Violence and The LGBTQ Community:
A Conversation about how we can prevent
Homophobia and Violence on College Campuses
Campus • All Audiences
The need for safe spaces on college campuses for our com-
munity is a source of constant discussion. What is often over-
looked however is the need to address the violence that creates
the need for safe spaces in the first place. In this interactive
workshop, we will talk about ways in which we can address
the interpersonal violence and homophobia occurring on col-
lege campuses around the United States then we will discuss
ways in which we could work towards preventing it, making
every college campus a safer space for LGBTQ individuals and
their allies.
Presenter: Joanna Storey, The Phoenix Center at Auraria, Au-
rora, CO
It’s All About The Frame
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
When engaging Christians, it is vital that we present
our issues in ways that deeply resonate with their
core values and faith. We must start our conversations with
something in which they already deeply believe. We’ll also talk
about moving people of faith to think not just about showing
mercy, but showing mercy and creating justice. Faith organiza-
tions are great at cleaning up after a mess, but how often do
we think about why the mess happened in the first place? Does
Christian Scripture in fact call us to do work that challenges the
systems in place that create oppression and inequalities?
Presenters: Ross Murray, Minneapolis, MN; Trystan Reese,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Vicki Wunsch, Institute
for Welcoming Resources
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Kink, Race, & 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 political
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, domi-
nation and submission, sadism and masochism, power ex-
change play, fetishes, multi-partner encounters or relationship
configurations, etc.)
Presenters: Kenyon Farrow; Asha Leong, Outreach Associate,
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Atlanta, GA; Ignacio
Rivera, Consultant, Brooklyn, NY
LGBT Synagogues and Organizations:
Surfacing Our Diversity and Fitting the
Mosaic Together
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
This is a facilitated discussion and an open dialogue to explore
two developments in our LGBT Jewish Movement: the historical
role of LGBT synagogues and its evolution to the present and
future and the emergence of advocacy/educational/grassroots
queer Jewish organizations and their contribution and purpose.
With that information as a foundation, the session will explore
the relationship between the two entities to understand the pri-
orities of the synagogues and organizations respectively and to
have an open discussion around what happens if or when those
priorities diverge. This section will also include differentiating the
skills and offerings of each entity. In the final part of the session,
participants will identify areas for partnership and ways to sup-
port one another, articulating a model by which the strengthen-
ing and growth of each institution is viewed and experienced as
strengthening for overall community.
Presenter: Joel Kushner, The Institute for Judaism & Sexual
Orientation, Los Angeles, CA
Making the Most of Recruiting Resources.
When and How to Engage a Search Consultant
or When and How to do it Yourself?
Workplace • Advanced
This workshop will provide information and decision making
data for determining when to use a professional search consul-
tant for a CEO or Board search. The session will feature a panel
of recruiting experts and recent users of executive search in a
moderated discussion. Participants will pose questions specific
to their organizations, gain exposure to market-leading thinking,
and engage in a robust exchange of practical experience with
peers in the movement.
Presenters: Emilie Carr, William Way Community Center; Darrel
Cummings, Chief Operating Officer, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center,
Los Angeles, CA; Joe McCormack, McCormack & Associates,
Toluca Lake, CA; Glennda Testone, NY GLBT Center
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Meeting LGBT Health and Human Services Needs:
A Model for State Level Advocacy and Action
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
This presentation will review A Blueprint for Meeting LGBT
Health and Human Services Needs in New York State, a new
groundbreaking recommendations report produced as collab-
oration between Hunter College, Empire State Pride Agenda
Foundation, the NYS LGBT Health and Human Services Net-
work, LGBT health experts and statewide stakeholders. The
statewide collaboration process, the report contents and the
subsequent dissemination plan can serve as a model for other
state and local LGBT health advocates, providers and allies.
Presenters: Jonathan Lang, Empire State Pride Agenda, NY;
Carmen Vazquez, Coordinator of LGBT Health and Human Ser-
vices Unit, AIDS Institute, New York, NY; Barbara Warren, Cen-
ter for LGBT Social Science and Public Policy, Hunter College,
CUNY, New York, NY
National Reporting and Data-Driven Advocacy:
Ending Anti-LGBTQ Violence By the Numbers
Anti-Violence/Bias Reduction • All Audiences
This interactive workshop addresses the state of violence
against and within LGBTQ communities by providing partici-
pants with the latest data and policy initiatives on anti-LGBTQ
hate violence and LGBTQ intimate partner violence. The work-
shop will specifically look at the following NCAVP reports: (1)
Hate Violence Against LGBTQ People in the United States in
2009; (2) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Do-
mestic Violence in the United States in 2009; and (3) a policy
paper prepared jointly by NCVC and NCAVP, Why It Matters:
Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-
gender and Queer Crime Victims. Participants will examine
ways they can use the information contained in the reports to
address violence in their own communities as well as to advo-
cate for policy change.
Presenters: Loree Cooke-Daniels, FORGE Transgender Sex-
ual Violence Project, Milwaukee, WI; Lisa Gilmore, Center on
Halsted Anti-Violence Project, Chicago, IL; Terra Slavin, Lead
Staff Attorney Legal Services, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los
Angeles, CA
Re-Emergence of Queer Paganism:
An Awakening into Beauty, Balance and Delight
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
Queer Pagans have been an active part of GLBTQ communities
since the heady street actions of the 1970’s right into the cur-
rent cutting edge gender explorations of today. We invite you to
join us in exploring this way of life rooted in justice and pleasure
that embraces and nurtures the basic understanding, “There
are many ways of living a life of beauty, balance and delight on
the Good Green Earth.”
Presenters: Donald Engstrom-Reese, Minneapolis, MN; Mark
Engstrom-Reese, Minneapolis, MN
Spirit and Desire: Framing a Discussion
About Our Spiritual and Erotic Lives
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate
As LGBTQ people, our sexual and erotic identities
are a critical dimension of all that we are, all that we believe, all
that we do. Yet our sexual selves are often not understood or
valued within a faith setting or spiritual framework, as they re-
main controversial, repressed or denigrated by the larger culture
around us. This workshop will examine and exalt the capacity
for us to be sexual people and discuss the importance of that
recognition in faith settings and in places where LGBTQ people
gather to build community. We will discuss the fear of sexuality
that LGBTQ erotic identities often inspire and discuss the critical
importance of creating an explicitly sex positive and sex affirm-
ing message within our spiritual and faith focused work.
Presenters: Rev. Alicia Heath-Toby, Unity Fellowship Church;
Amber Hollibaugh, Interim Executive Director, Queers for Eco-
nomic Justice, New York, NY; Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, IWR and
Faith Work Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Min-
neapolis, MN
The Joys and Challenges of Polling (Continued)
Marriage • All Audiences
The Penis That Ruined Marriage Equality
Communications, Media and Messaging • Fundamentals
By examining how queer blogs and media outlets have used
sexually provocative stories, advertisements and images to ad-
vocate and report on queer rights, we’ll examine how LGBT
sex-positive messaging can help the cause and how much of
our sex lives should be kept behind bedroom doors. What’s the
difference between promotion and pornography when it comes
to politics and when is a little skin too much? And how can one
penis ruin the entire marriage equality movement?
Presenters: Bil Browning, Bilerico Project; Zack Rosen, Bile-
rico Project; Daniel Villareal, Queerty
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The Pink Elephant in the room: White Privilege and
Racism within the Queer Community
Movement Building • All Audiences
This workshop explores racism, white privilege, and barriers to
cross cultural coalition building. Participants will examine how
white privilege and racism impedes the work of their organiza-
tions and the movement at large. Guided by the belief that white
privilege/anti racist work must start with the individual, partici-
pants will learn how to examine their own actions and simple
steps to address inconsistency in their work/organizations. At-
tendees will leave with tools for cross cultural queer community
building.
Presenters: Breianna Hasenzahl-Reeder; Sheltreese McCoy
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Trailblazing for Transgender Health
Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences
Ensuring good health care for transgender people takes en-
gaged community members, health care providers, allies, and
advocates. Project HEALTH: Harnessing Education, Advocacy,
and Leadership in Transgender Healthcare, a collaborative pro-
gram of Lyon-Martin Health Services, Transgender Law Center
and Equality California, aims to expand access to healthcare
for transgender communities. Come learn how to bridge gaps
between community and providers, engage people in advocacy
efforts, support clinics, and educate providers.
Presenters: Kara Desiderio, Lyon-Martin Health Services;
Michelle Enfield; Kristina Wertz, San Francisco, CA
Youth Organizing 101 (Continued)
Community Organizing/Youth • Fundamentals
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Workshop Session 7
Saturday, February 5 • 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Advocating for Better Health Care Access
for Transgender Individuals
Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences
In this workshop, the presenters will discuss how LGBT ad-
vocates can remove barriers to healthcare access for trans-
gender people. A significant amount of time will be spent on
health insurance coverage for transition-related care- i.e., what
transgender people’s rights are regard health insurance cover-
age and how to get employers to obtain health insurance that
covers transition-related care.
Presenters: Stacey Jackson-Roberts, American University
Washington College of Law, Washington, DC; Masen Davis,
Executive Director, Transgender Law Center, San Francisco; M.
Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Attorney, Lambda Legal,
New York, NY
Assumptions, Tools, Risks and Understanding:
Safe Services for Youth
Workplace/Youth • All Audiences
The purpose of this workshop is to equip service providers with
basic tools needed in order to ensure Lesbian Gay Bisexual
transgender queer questioning and intersex (LGBTQQI) youth
have a safe atmosphere when accessing homeless youth shel-
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ters and crisis intervention services. In the process of this work-
shop we will address the assumptions that we as providers
make when working with LGBTQQI youth and work on strate-
gies for dismantling those assumptions. This workshop will also
address the risk factors that LGBTQQI youth face. Participants
will be given tools to incorporate into their case management
practices and into their work environment to improve service
provisions for LGBTQQI youth.
Presenters: Nicole Mills, Lutheran Social Services, Saint Paul,
MN; Enzi Urimba Odongo Tanner
Being a Leader without Being a Victim:
Personal Activist Strategies
Organizational Development • Intermediate
Columnist Molly Ivins said to activists, “Above all have fun.” But
being an activist and leader is often tedious, exhausting, thank-
less, lonely, and personally destructive. It raises personal issues
and faces criticism and even division. This workshop, for ac-
tivists at all levels, analyzes these events and our reactions to
become more effective while we take care of ourselves. Partici-
pants receive a copy of Dr. Minor’s booklet, “Burnout, Blowout
and Breaking Up.”
Presenter: Robert N. Minor, Professor, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS
Building Sex Positive Space
Sexual Freedom • Fundamentals
This workshop will look at why and how a space like a feminist
sex toy store can be so important to the sex positive movement
and how this kind of community based business can create dis-
cursive change, queering sexual stereotypes and sex negative
conversations. Participants will hopefully leave with a broader
sex positive vocabulary but a desire to engage in more sex posi-
tive conversations with their communities.
Presenter: Clare Jacky, The Smitten Kitten, Minneapolis, MN
Building the Response to HIV
and AIDS Across Communities
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
The US HIV & AIDS epidemic is far from over. Par-
ticipants will engage with panelist in a process to explore effective
strategies for working at the intersections and across communi-
ties in response to HIV. Who’s already engaged and what is hap-
pening? How might participants, our communities and networks
better respond (religious and secular LGBT-SGL organizations,
men who have sex with men, women, people of color communities)?
Presenters: Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, Executive for Health
and Wholeness Advocacy, Wider Church Ministries, United
Church of Christ, Cleveland, OH
Creating Our Destinies:
Strategies for Employment in Trans Communities
Transgender Community & Issues • Fundamentals
Transgender communities experience staggering rates of un-
and underemployment. In order to build a strong, vibrant move-
ment, basic needs like employment must be met. San Francisco
has created a groundbreaking model for economic empower-
ment in trans communities. In this workshop, community lead-
ers, organizers, advocates and service providers will discuss
employment needs in transgender communities and will plan
strategies to implement solutions to address those needs.
Presenters: Claire Farley, San Francisco LGBT Community Cen-
ter; Maceo Persson, Transgender Law Center; David Shlasko,
Jewish Vocational Services; Kristina Wertz, Transgender Law
Center, San Francisco, CA
Federal LGBT Health Initiatives
Health • Intermediate
A look at federal initiatives that have the potential to positively
impact LGBT health and health disparities in ways that have not
been seen in almost a decade. Starting with a discussion of the
foundation that is being built by advocacy organizations and
community advocates working with the Obama Administration,
Congress, and the federal agencies in order to effectively ad-
dress a broad range of LGBT disparities.
Presenter: Matthew Rose, National Coalition for LGBT Health,
Washington, DC
Humor, Hospitality, and Heliotropes
as Tools for Social Change
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
In this workshop we address the nature vs. nurture
debate: Are queers born with a more highly developed sense of
humor, or is it an acquired characteristic? Since the anti-equality
activists have co-opted tactics of fear, anger and smoldering
resentment, we’ll focus on the leftovers: joy, love and hospitality.
We’ll share tactics for creative social change: instant theater,
flash mobs, well-placed “mocktivism,” guerilla acts of hospital-
ity, and other stuff we haven’t thought of yet!
Presenter: Lisa Larges, That All May Freely Serve, Rochester, NY
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Just-Released Results of the
National Trans Discrimination Survey
Research and Policy • All Audiences
Every day, transgender and gender non-conforming people
bear the brunt of social and economic marginalization due to
their gender identity and expression. The struggle for fairness
has too often been held up because of the lack of hard data
on the scope of discrimination they face. Two years ago, the
National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force formed a ground-breaking research
partnership to address this problem by launching the first com-
prehensive national transgender discrimination study! From em-
ployment and education, to ID documents, to family life, come
here the compelling results with a focus on how to integrate this
data into your advocacy.
Presenters: Jaime M. Grant, Arcus Center for Social Justice
Leadership Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI; Mara Keisling,
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Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Equality, at the national or community level. Emphasis will be placed on
Washington, DC; Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project identifying specific strategies for advancing a focus on LGBTQ
Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, mental health that can be applied in local communities, includ-
DC; Justin Tanis, Program Manager, National Center for Trans- ing educational and awareness activities, improving clinical ser-
gender Equality, Woodbridge, VA vices, and advocacy.
Presenters: Anne Haas, American Foundation for Suicide Pre-
Land, Desire and Culture: vention, Camden, ME; Andrew Lane, Johnson Family Founda-
Two Spirit People and the LGBT Movement
tion, New York, NY; Anand Pandya, Cedars-Sinai Medical Cen-
People of Color • All Audiences
ter, Los Angeles, CA
Join us in a session geared for collective learning about sover-
eignty, Two Spirit people, and our shared legacy, as well as our
Majority Minority -
expanding analysis and identities. Some of our discussion will
Case Studies in Advancing Equality
revolve around what Two Spirit people’s inclusion in the LG-
among People of Color and People of Faith
BTIGNC movement has to offer, how the larger movement can
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
align itself to issues of sovereignty, and how a movement in-
We are a convergence of identities and values. Much of today’s
clusive of Two Spirit leadership, issues and their intersections
communication strategies treat their audiences as single-issue
would contribute to the liberation of us all. This is an open ses-
or primarily one-dimensional. During this session, we will share
sion for First Nations / Two Sprit/Indigenous folks & allies.
what we have learned from two unique organizing projects in
Presenters: Coya Artichoker; Paulina Hernandez, Co-Director, CA - one within African American Protestants and the other La-
Southerners on New Ground, New Market, TN; Melissa Hoskins; tino/Latina Catholics. There will also be an opportunity for you
Melissa Pope to develop working ideas based on your local knowledge and
context.
Latin@ Pride: Beyond Circuit Parties and Parades
Presenters: Samuel Chu, California Faith for Equality, Los Ange-
Community Organizing/People of Color • All Audiences
les, CA; Lisa Powell, California Faith for Equality, Los Angeles, CA
This workshop will provide a framework for utilizing self-actual-
ized and self-organized spaces as an integral tool and funda-
Moving Swing Voters on Marriage Equality
mental ethic of planning a successful Latin@ Pride. We will dis-
Marriage • All Audiences
cuss how women, gender queer and trans folks, artists, people
This workshop is designed for state leaders, field organizers,
living with HIV/AIDS, and other segments of the queer Latin@
and anyone working to win marriage equality in their state.
community first build power and organize themselves, through
Whether you’re planning to go through the legislature or will be
events specific to Latin@ Pride, as a best practice and power
faced with a ballot measure campaign, this workshop is an im-
building strategy in organizing Latin@ Pride.
portant step in reaching your goal. California, Oregon and Maine
Presenters: Keri Aulita, Boston Pride, MA; Brandon Lacy Campos, will share their lessons learned from the work they’re currently
Center for Media Justice, Oakland, CA; Noris Chavarria, Unid@s, doing to build support for marriage equality by teaching volun-
NY, NY; Wilfred Labiosa, Somos Latinos, Medford, MA teers to talk with middle voters face-to-face.
Presenters: Milton Davis, Equality California; Betsy Smith, Ex-
LGBT Labor 101 - The Union Difference ecutive Director, Equality Maine, Portland, ME; Ali Vander Zan-
Labor • All Audiences
den, Equality Maine; Thomas Wheatley, Basic Rights Oregon,
What is the union difference for LGBTQ workers? Whether you
are a union member yourself or an ally of labor, this introduc-
OurSafety OurSelves: LGBTSTGNC Communities of
tory session will help you understand how and why workers
Color Creating Innovative Anti-Violence Strategies
form unions, how building power and solidarity helps LGBTQ
Community Organizing • All Audiences
workers fight poverty, racism, homophobia and transphobia in
LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, and
the workplace. We will discuss both case study examples and
Gender Non Conforming) people of color face bias violence and
policy initiatives in support of workers’ rights.
police violence on a daily basis, but often are unable to rely on
Presenters: Tom Barbera, SEIU Lavender Caucus; Cleve Jones, police or the criminal justice system for protection. In this inter-
UNITE-HERE; Stan Kiino, Pride at Work Association of Flight active, hands-on workshop the Safe OUTside the system Col-
Attendants; Peggy Shorey lective will guide participants through a process of creating inno-
vative community based strategies on preventing, intervening,
LGBTQ Mental Health: A Priority Issue and repairing the harm from anti-LGBTSTGNC hate violence.
Health • All Audiences
Presenter: Chelsea Johnson-Long, Safe OUTside the System
This interactive workshop seeks to increase the priority placed
Collective (A project of the Audre Lorde Project), Brooklyn, NY
on mental health issues within the LGBTQ change agenda. It
will help participants better understand LGBTQ mental health
problems, and improve their ability to address these problems

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Palestinian Queers/US Queers: What is our relationship?
International Issues • All Audiences
Town Meeting on the question of the relationship between the
US LGBT Community and the emerging activist Palestinian
LGBT movement. Queer Palestinians in Israel and the West
Bank have been creating autonomous Lesbian and LGBT orga-
nizations for the last few years, yet US queers have little knowl-
edge or understanding of what the needs, real experiences and
goals of these activists are. Join us for an open Town Meeting
conversation about growing up and coming out Palestinian and
the specific challenges and strengths of these new movements.
Presenters: Sarah Schulman, Author and Activist, New York,
NY; Abeer Mansour, Resource Development and Networking
Coordinator, Aswat, Haifa; Haneen Maikey, Director, alQaws,
Jerusalem/Ramallah
Practical Research & Program Evaluation:
Tools you Need to Secure Funding and Build
a Solid Foundation for Your Organization
Organizational Development • Advanced
The recession has made securing funding for our organizations
even more competitive. Most funders require evidenced- based
proposals that incorporate program evaluation. Additionally,
evaluation helps us better understand the reach and impact of
our programs. We will review fundamental methods of conduct-
ing research and program evaluation. Through discussion and
real-world case studies, participants will assess their organiza-
tional needs and capacity to conduct research and evaluation
and how it can help achieve strategic plan objectives.
Presenter: Jason Cianciotto, Tucson, AZ
Queering Reproductive Justice: The Intersection of
Reproductive Health and LGBTQ Liberation
Health • All Audiences
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people have
been a part of movements for reproductive justice and sexual
liberation for as long as these movements have existed. This
workshop will help participants understand the connections be-
tween the movement for reproductive justice and LGBTQ lib-
eration and identify advocacy areas.
Presenters: Veronica Bayetti Flores, National Latina Institute
for Reproductive Health, NY; Jessica Gonzalez-Flores, National
Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, New York, NY
Strategic Storytelling
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Storytelling happens wherever two or more are
gathered. Strategic storytelling is one of the most
powerful tools we as faith-based community organizers have
to get the “movable middle” moving toward full inclusion. This
workshop will train you to tell your own stories strategically,
compellingly, and efficiently, honing stories into powerful, two-
minute instruments for persuasion. We will focus on integrating
your own stories with talking points and positive frames for en-
gaging the church to achieve the full welcome and inclusion of
all. When we tell our stories to even one other person, the Holy
Spirit is most certainly present. When we inspire that person to
tell two or three others, justice begins to roll.
Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, Senior Field Organizer, Na-
tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Los Angeles, CA; Ross Mur-
ray, Minneapolis, MN; Trystan Reese, National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force; Vicki Wunsch, Institute for Welcoming Resources
The Creation and Development of
a LGBT Health Center, PRIDE Clinic
Health • Intermediate
LGBT patients face challenges in obtaining culturally appropri-
ate health care services. The majority of LGBT people obtain
care outside of LGBT Health centers. There are 12 LGBT Health
Centers in the United States. This session will discuss the pro-
cess of developing and implementing the newest of those clin-
ics, the PRIDE Clinic at MetroHealth Medical Center. The PRIDE
Clinic at MetroHealth Medical Center is the only LGBT health
center in the state of Ohio.
Presenter: Henry Ng, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
The Path Forward on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal
Military/Veterans Issues • All Audiences
This discussion will enable attendees to learn more about re-
cent developments on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, as well
as the path forward. Participants will exchange perspectives on
the legislative and legal fights and discuss how the LGBT com-
munity can remain involved with repeal efforts and implementa-
tion in the future.
Presenter: Jeremy Wilson-Simerman, Legislative Manager,
SLDN, Washington, DC
The State of Higher Education for LGBTQQ People
Campus • All Audiences
In a 2003 study the climate on college campuses was found to
be less than welcoming for LGBT people (e.g., 42% were the
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target of harassment). In 2009, a follow-up study re-examines
the campus climate for LGBT people. Given the increase in
LGBT inclusive policies, curricular and co-curricular programs,
and services, has the climate changed? This program will en-
gage participants in a review of the results of the project and
offer recommendations to address the challenges unearthed in
the report.
Presenter: Sue Rankin, Assistant Professor of Education, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Uganda-the Armageddon of the Culture Wars
Faith & Spirituality • All Audiences
The Culture Wars have found a “proxy” nation (Uganda) to play
out a very dangerous scenario -a world without LGBT people
and their allies. This workshop is designed to show the ben-
efits of successful coalition-building within countries, secular
and religious resources and the vital importance of international
awareness and collaborative efforts to win global equality. Is
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Uganda a reflection of a reactive past or a wake-up call for ev-
eryone’s future?
Presenters: Frank Mugisha, Sexual Minorities Uganda - SMUG;
Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, St. Paul’s Foundation for International
Reconciliation; Pastor Joseph Tolton, Rehobeth Church
When Health Care Isn’t Caring: Examining Health Care
Discrimination among LGBT and HIV Communities
Health • All Audiences
This workshop will highlight key findings from Lambda Legal’s
unprecedented survey on health care disparities and discrimina-
tion faced by LGBT people and people with HIV. By chronicling
the barriers faced by our communities, this session will explore
the connections between the health care reform movement and
the rights of LGBT and HIV affected communities, and identify
key recommendations for health care institutions; federal, state,
and local governments; and individuals and communities to act
upon.
Presenter: Beverly Tillery, Director of Community Education and
Advocacy, Lambda Legal, New York, NY
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Workshop Session 8
Saturday, February 5 • 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm
“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 Is-
lander (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, capacity, and challenges. Presenters will show-
case local multilingual education campaigns to counter anti-gay
bias and organizing campaigns for immigrants rights and mar-
riage equality. Representatives of some of the nation’s leading
LGBTQ AAPI organizations will provide current information and
on-the-ground analysis of their work.
Presenters: Jonipher Kwong, API Equality LA, Los Angeles,
CA; Glenn D. Magpantay, Co-Director, National Queer Asian
Pacific Islander Alliance, New York, NY; Chong Moua, Shades
of Yellow, Minneapolis, MN; Laurent Widjaya, QPA and Hotpot,
Philadelphia, PA
Activating an Employee Resource Group for Advocacy
Workplace • Fundamentals
ERGs of many corporations are not nearly as active as they
could be. This session aims to inform and empower members
of ERGs about how they can become more directly involved in
their communities, in their own corporations, and build greater
participation and enthusiasm in their ERG. Community mem-
bers are also encouraged to attend this session to learn about
utilizing potential teams of volunteers from ERGs for local proj-
ects. Part of this discussion will also be on best practices of
self-identification in the workplace.
Presenters: Pat Baillie, Associate Director of Training, Out &
Equal Workplace Advocates, San Francisco, CA; Dee Diego,
Marketing Manager, Segment Marketing, Ameriprise Financial
Inc; Jani Lopez, US Business Affairs, Shell Oil Company; Angele
“Q” Wilson, Senior Program Associate, Out & Equal Workplace
Advocates, San Francisco, CA
Art as Social Change
Art & Culture • All Audiences
Art as social change. Every major social change push incor-
porates art to reach the masses. Using art to inform, connect
community and move change impacts people on multiple lev-
els. Learn how to use social change principles to incorporate
actual change.
Presenters: roxanne anderson, Rare Productions, Minneapo-
lis, MN; Rochelle James, RARE Productions, Minneapolis, MN;
Yoseñio V. Lewis, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, San Fran-
cisco, CA
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Building a Statewide Interfaith
Network for Equality
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Interested in organizing a statewide religious coali-
tion for LGBT equality? Already in the process and have ques-
tions? Searching for ideas and tools on how to launch and
sustain such an effort? California Faith for Equality, one of the
nation’s largest efforts of its kind, will share stories and lessons
about the “why” and “how” of building an effective organization.
Presenter: Samuel Chu, California Faith for Equality, Los Angeles, CA
Disability and Racial Justice
Disability • All Audiences
Join the Disability Justice Collective for a pair of conversations:
one for disabled people of color (DPOC), the other for white
disabled people. The conversation for DPOC will create inten-
tional DPOC space to connect and talk about our concerns as
people who are often left out of racial justice and disability rights
movements, agendas and communities. What would we like
racial justice and disability rights movements to know; what are
our priorities? How do we build better together as DPOC and
work to support each other as POC from many different back-
grounds, histories and cultures who experience racism in differ-
ent ways? How do we support each other as disabled people
with different disabilities? And how do we work to hold our
complexities around class, immigration, parenting, age, gender,
sexuality, histories of violence, and more? How do white su-
premacy, ableism, and other forms of power and privilege play
out in our worlds? What do our communities need to be whole
and thrive? The conversation for white disabled people will be-
gin with the knowledge that the disability rights movement has
rallied for decades against shame, isolation, and the grinding
realities of ableism. And at the same time, we have evolved as
a predominately single-issue movement that is informed by a
white, middle-class agenda. Lacking the analysis, tools, or the
access to acquire them, racism persists in our struggle as white
disabled people to have ableism recognized as a core social
justice issue and impacts our capacity to build collective strat-
egy with other liberation movements. Within a facilitated, cross-
disability-positive, and non-judgmental space, we will examine
how white privilege and white supremacy play out in disability
communities across all our differences. What do we need to
prioritize white anti-racism work and learn to be aware of and
dismantle white privilege? How do we support and challenge
each other and white disability communities? This conversation
will focus on skill sharing, reflection, challenge, and change.
Presenters: Eli Clare, Author, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queer-
ness, and Liberation; Sebastian Margaret, Community Activist;
Mia Mingus, Atlanta, GA
Exploring the Intersections Between Bisexual and
Transgender Identities and Organizing
Gender Issues • Advanced
This workshop will invite participants to engage with the edges
of intersections between transgender and bisexual identities
and organizing. The presenters will offer some working defini-
tions, but participants are expected to have knowledge/experi-
ence of B and T identities and communities. This workshop’s
objective is to offer a safe space to build our capacity for more
inclusive transgender and bisexual communities, including chal-
lenging the binary assumptions upon which much of current
queer social justice organizing rests.
Presenters: Lauren Beach, Bisexual Organizing Project, Min-
neapolis, MN; Dr. Alex Iantaffi, University of Minnesota School of
Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
Fighting Islamophobia and Homophobia:
Building Solidarity in Oppressed
Communities
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • Intermediate
As a social activist of change, you obviously are concerned
about the blatant xenophobia and bigotry surrounding the Mus-
lim community in the US. Yet, as an LGBTIQ person, you may
not have access or opportunity to approach this community.
This session will discuss barriers of communication, ways to
build solidarity, provide tools to organize, and outreach to the
Muslim community effectively and strategically. Prerequisite: if
you are unfamiliar with Islam, review website: http://www.islam-
icfinder.org/faq/list.php
Presenter: Farheen Harkeem, Minneapolis, MN
Innovations in the Field: Positive Health Project’s
Model for Engaging Transgender Women of Color
Health • Fundamentals
This workshop will draw out existing data on transgender health
and corresponding risk factors to contextualize Positive Health
Project’s peer-led model and provide strategies for other agen-
cies seeking to shape or improve methodology for working with
transgender women of color in a public health/harm reduction
framework.
Presenters: Rev. Moshay Moses, Positive Health Project, New
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York, NY; Amu Ptah, Positive Health Project, New York, NY
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 and to 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; Arleen Fernandez, Marketing
and Community Education Assistant, Lambda Legal
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Learning as We Build (Building as We Learn):
Creating a Guide for Sustaining Queer Womyn of Color
Organizations
Organizational Development/People of Color • Fundamentals
There is a rich herstory of collective grassroots organizing that
speaks to the resiliency and survival within communities of queer
womyn of color. As a community that embodies the struggles
of being silenced, invisible, and marginalized, the healing work
of grassroots organizing and organizational building has left
imprints of strength and resistance for generations of queer
womyn of color to carry on. This workshop aims to examine this
herstory and the present day examples of healthy and sustain-
able collective organizing in an effort to build a resource of tools
and strategies for our survival and fight! The main objective is
to create a communal dialogue around organizations and local
collective efforts that address: Invisibility; Board development
and structure; Finding your political voice; and Building healthy
alliances. The overall aim of the workshop is to create a guide
for building and sustaining healthy grassroots organizations and
collectives that heal.
Presenters: Ladi’Sasha Jones, Elements Organization, New
York, NY; Kimberley Watson, Philadelphia, PA
LGBT Labor International Cooperation
Labor • All Audiences
This workshop will help attendees define how LGBT issues and
labor issues are international. Participants will discuss LGBT or-
ganizational relations to labor unions in an international context
and then share examples of LGBT labor’s participation on inter-
national LGBT, non-LGBT and labor organizational issues. At-
tendees will leave with a sense of how to increase international
focus of existing organizations and options for new organiza-
tional entities and increased LGBT member-level participation.
Presenter: Michael Roskey, SEIU Lavender Caucus
LGBT Youth and Federal Policy Issues
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • All Audiences
This workshop will provide an overview of the many federal pol-
icy issues currently affecting LGBT youth. Panelists will briefly
discuss the policy issues affecting LGBT youth including safe
schools, comprehensive sexuality education, housing/out-of-
home care, federal data collection, and transgender youth is-
sues. Participants will then develop and share effective advo-
cacy messages and actions related to these issues.
Presenters: Brad Jacklin, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
Washington, DC; Eric Masten, GLSEN, Silver Spring, MD; Dave
Reynolds, The Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA; Harper Jean
Tobin, Policy Council, National Center for Transgender Equality,
Washington, DC
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LGBTQ Youth of Color, Homelessness,
and the Sex Trades: LGBTQ Responses to
Anti-Trafficking Initiatives, Coercion, and Harm
Youth • All Audiences
What effects are anti-trafficking initiatives focused on youth in-
volvement in the sex trades having on the significant numbers
of LGBTQ youth who are homeless, many of whom trade sex
for money, shelter, food, clothing and other survival needs, or
are profiled as sex workers? Join anti-violence projects and LG-
BTQ community organizations from across the country as we
discuss and develop responses to these initiatives which truly
meet the needs of LGBTQ youth and adults.
Presenters: Shira Hassan, Young Women’s Empowerment
Project, Chicago, IL; Roz Lee, Arcus Foundation, New York, NY;
Maryse Mitchell-Brody, National Coalition of Anti-Violence Pro-
grams/NYC AVP, New York, NY; Andrea Ritchie, Brooklyn, NY
Livin’ to the T, Struggle, Issues and Triumphs
as Young Adult Transpersons
Transgender Community & Issues • Intermediate
This session focuses on issues involving the young adult popu-
lation of the transgender community. Conversations will cover
access issues (healthcare, education, employment etc.), social
support, the LGBT community and language. Participate in a
session that will leave you with a greater insight on young adult
transgender struggles, battles, and triumphs and discover how
to help the vision for more successful transgender living.
Presenters: Lexi Absit, San Francisco, CA; K.D Miller, Cincinnati,
OH; Tylar Thompson, Cincinnati, OH
Motivating Policy Change:
How to Talk to Your State Representative and Senator
Legislative/Legal Reform and Public Policy • Fundamentals
This workshop will teach attendees how to make in-district and
capitol lobby visits to their state representative and senator. At-
tendees will learn the importance of establishing relationships
with their elected officials and why their stories must be shared.
It is these conversations about real people’s lives that will ul-
timately motivate policy changes to eliminate discrimination
based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
Presenters: Lindsey Marsh, Equality Texas, Austin, TX; Paul Tran
Negotiating Consent
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
Negotiating consent is a phrase often left out of our conversa-
tions about sexual liberation. When we think of love, romance,
relationships, sex and fucking, other thoughts and frameworks
come to mind. Fireworks, cruising, a dozen roses, and unspo-
ken chemistry are the cornerstones of navigating sex and in-
timacy. But in the real world, we know that getting what we
desire and working to make a just and vibrant exchange within
sexual dynamics doesn’t just happen. We have to talk, discuss,
negotiate and be held accountable for our all of our desires
both spoken and unspoken. This of course is easier said than
done in a world where love has many languages; where race,
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gender and class oppression abound and where many of us ties, faith traditions, and geographic and demographic settings.
are recovering from trauma. Join us for a workshop on how to While the demographic of aging explodes in the United States,
navigate the complex world of consent, safety and getting what older LGBTQ people remain an often invisible or unwelcome
you desire. issue in LGBT communities. These dynamics are exacerbated
in communities of faith that are sometimes hostile, frequently
Presenters: Jack Harrison, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
ambiguous, and often uninformed about the experiences, chal-
Washington, DC; Ignacio Rivera, Consultant, Brooklyn, NY; Amelie
lenges and gifts of LGBTQ elders. This workshop will examine
Zurn, Lesbian Health Activist and Therapist, Washington, DC
the impact of these intersectional issues upon a queer spiritual-
OurSafety OurSelves: LGBTSTGNC Communities of Color ity, as well as the work that needs to happen in welcoming and
LGBT faith settings.
Creating Innovative Anti-Violence Strategies (Continued)
Community Organizing • All Audiences Presenters: Amber Hollibaugh, Interim Executive Director,
Queers for Economic Justice, New York, NY; Rev. Roland
Queer Identity & Intersectionality Stringfellow, Multi-Racial/Multi-Cultural Institute with Black and
Gender Issues • All Audiences White Men Together, Berkeley, CA; Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson,
Through fun, immersive, and engaging exercises this workshop Metropolitan Community Church, Sarasota, FL; Carol Wise,
will offer participants the opportunity to explore and investigate Brethren Mennonite Council
the concept of queer identity as a tool for social change. Par-
ticipants will gain a deeper understanding of the role identity The Sweet Spot: Case studies of Successful
plays in creating allyship, and will leave with skills to engage in Organization/Blogger/Grassroots Collaboration
conversations about queer identity and intersectionality through Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
the framework of social justice education. This workshop will teach the tricks of the trade for achieving
positive organization/blog/grassroots activist collaboration. It
Presenters: Justin Adkins, Williams College, Williamstown, MA;
will focus on case studies of smart, effective activism that hit
Maru Gonzalez, University of Massachusetts Amherst; C. Anders
the “sweet spot” of (a) advancing LGBT equality (b) highlighting
Minter, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Daniel O’Donoghue,
an organization’s or activist’s work, and (c) supporting LGBT
Amherst, MA
blog media, often at little or no cost to anyone. Participants will
also learn best practices for other effective ways of interacting
Taking Care of Our Own: with blogs, such as working directly with blog readers, grabbing
Our Community’s Response to Caregiving bloggers’ interest in a story, understanding blog business mod-
Aging • All Audiences
els and how to take advantage of them, and more. This work-
As LGBT baby boomers confront their own aging futures (as well
shop is intended for both those just starting out in collaborative
as taking care of family members and loved ones), communities
work as well as those with experience who’d like to see some
across the country have responded by developing innovative
good case studies.
models of caring for our biological and logical families. Through
recent research, anecdotal evidence and interactive discussion Presenter: Adam Bink, Openleft.com, Washington, DC
this workshop will highlight the unique needs of LGBT caregiv-
ers and the inequity of current federal policy as well as provide Trans Feminism
successful caregiving strategies to incorporate in our lives and Transgender Community & Issues • All Audiences

communities
Presenters: Scott French, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders
(SAGE), New York, NY; Sherrill Wayland, SAGE, St Louis, MO
The Possibilities of Faith Work
In An Aging LGBTQ Community
Practice Spirit, Do Justice • All Audiences
Two questions are at the heart of this workshop
about LGBTQ faith and aging. The first explores the unique role
that spirituality may play for aging or elder community mem-
bers. The second question examines the distinctive role that
LGBTQ welcoming and LGBT faith communities can play as
baby boomers age and we confront the fact that our communi-
ty has always had many elder members. Within these questions
this workshop will explore the ways that our aging is shaped
and impacted by the intersection of the multiple identities that
we bring to it: our race, class, genders, physical and mental
abilities and challenges, HIV status, erotic identities, spirituali-
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This workshop explores the links between transgender, queer,
and feminist activism and organizing, with a focus on the impor-
tance of making women’s and all-genders queer spaces trans
women-inclusive and supportive. The facilitators will address
transmisogyny, ally work, and the role of gender and gender
justice in the feminist and queer justice movements.
Presenters: Gina DeVries; Rachel Zall, Project Manager, Mas-
sachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Boston, MA
We CAN Create Fully
Transgender Inclusive Organizations!
Organizational Development • Fundamentals
Most LGB(T) groups have embraced transgender people and
issues, but many groups have done so with incomplete results.
Whether your LGB(T) organization is an advocacy, faith-based,
support, or direct services organization, there are common prin-
ciples that can help you fully integrate transgender people into
your organizations mission, power structure, and work. Join the

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authors of “Opening the Door to the Inclusion of Transgender
People: The Nine Keys to Making LGBT Organizations Fully-In-
clusive” for a lively presentation and discussion of how to make
our organizations fully inclusive.
Presenters: Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Di-
rector, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC;
Justin Tanis, Program Manager, National Center for Transgen-
der Equality, Woodbridge, VA
What Does It Mean Not to Discriminate
Against Transgender Students?
Campus • Intermediate
A rapidly growing number of colleges and universities have add-
ed “gender identity/expression” to their nondiscrimination poli-
cies, but the effects of this change on the institutions and their
transgender students have not been examined. This program
will present the findings of the first large-scale study of the ex-
tent to which a campus transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination
policy has led to other transgender-supportive policy changes,
such as providing gender-neutral facilities, health insurance
coverage for transitioning students, and transgender-related
programming.
Presenter: Genny Beemyn, Director, Stonewall Center, Univer-
sity of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA
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Caucus 2
Saturday, February 5 • 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Building Bridges To Wholeness -
Next Strategies for LGBT Jewish
Movement Building
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
The LGBT Jewish Movement Building Convening brought to-
gether 100 activists representing 40 LGBT Jewish groups and
programs. Eight months later, what’s next for LGBT Jewish
activism and community? How can we concretely work on
movement building strategies together that best leverage the
expertise and energy of our diverse communities? Join this
open conversation and strategy caucus with attendees of the
Berkeley convening and new voices invested in LGBT Jewish
organizing and movement building.
Presenter: Gregg Drinkwater, Co-Director, Mosaic: The National
Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Denver, CO
Caucus for State/Local Transgender Advocacy
Transgender Community & Issues
This caucus is for transgender and allied activists working on
the state/local level advancing transgender equality. Facilitated
by members of the Trans Advocacy Network, which works to
bring together state and/or city-based transgender advocacy,
legal, and/or political organizations for networking, organizing,
and resource sharing. Activities include: capturing a snapshot
of the transgender advocacy work and small group discussions
based on policy areas in order to share strategies, resources,
and skills with fellow participants.
Presenters: Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law
Center, San Francisco, CA; Lisa Scheps, Transgender Advo-
cates of Central Texas, Austin, TX; Gunner Scott, Director, Mas-
sachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), Boston, MA;
Jaan Williams, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Fran-
cisco, CA
Community Caucus: Healthy Spaces
Health
Community connectedness is directly connected to health and
happiness for all people. Attend the caucus to engage in mean-
ingful and productive conversation, networking, and action plan
creation on the topic of community space. Share insights and
strategies on how to improve the health of all our LGBTQ com-
munities by examining existing spaces, resources, and starting
an envisioning process.
Presenters: Dr. Alex Iantaffi, University of Minnesota School
of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN; Ani Koch, Rainbow Health
Initiative, Minneapolis, MN; Keith Pederson, Division of Epide-
miology and Community Health School of Public Health, Min-
neapolis, MN
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Getting it From All Sides: Rethinking HIV Advocacy
and Prevention Outside of the Condom Box
AIDS/HIV
How has HIV prevention and advocacy in the twenty first cen-
tury changed? With HIV infections rising among young gay and
bi men, it is time to re-evaluate how HIV prevention is working
or not working. The Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) public policy
department strives to address HIV prevention in the policy arena
by looking beyond the condom message. This session is an
opportunity to share our policy objectives and hear from the
Creating Change community.
Presenters: Amy Brugh, Minnesota AIDS Project, Minneapo-
lis, MN; Kate Nelson, Minnesota AIDS Project, Minneapolis, MN
Getting Media Attention for Your Issue
Communications, Media and Messaging
The dream of any activist is to get the media to pay attention
to their issue. We can provide strategies and tactics on how to
accomplish this.
Presenters: Joe Bodell, MN Progressive Project; Eric Pusey,
MN Progressive Project
Growing older with the Epidemic: HIV and Aging
Aging
As we approach the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, about
one-third of all people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States
are 50 years of age or older, a figure that will grow to one-half
by 2015. Aging with HIV brings a set of complex issues to table.
Some are common to those faced by the management of any
chronic condition or late-in-life illness, which present a growing
challenge to the health and human services system across all
sectors, at all levels. Participants will learn: what we know about
the biological impact of HIV on aging bodies (including mortality,
drug interactions, and impacts on the heart, brain and liver) and
co-morbidities; the context in which older adults with HIV live,
including the multi-faceted impact of HIV and sexuality-related
stigma; social service and healthcare programs designed to
care for older adults and people living with HIV; how the health
care reform act will impact people with HIV; and policy rec-
ommendations to better prepare the country to care for older
adults with HIV.
Presenters: John Johnson, SAGE, Washington, DC; Robert
Valadez, GMHC, New York, NY
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 Advo-
cacy, New York, NY
It’s All About Me: Queer Spirituality
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Join Debra Davis, a two spirited woman, as she
facilitates a dialogue focusing on spirituality as a
piece of our lives. When it comes to your spirituality, “It IS, all
about you!” Your beliefs and how you feel about those are only
about you and this discussion will center around who we are as
good and wonderful people. Many times our contact with orga-
nized religion is very negative and we are led to feel like there
is something wrong with us. We are ALL good people. Let’s
talk together and share. This session is NOT about Religion. It’s
about you and your spirituality. Come, share and experience on
a spiritual and “love based” level.
Presenter: Debra Davis, Gender Education Center, Maple Grove, MN
Kink & 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 lov-
ers of pain and pleasure. We’ll all be here, queer and fabulous.
Presenters: Francisco De León; Ignacio Rivera, Consultant,
Brooklyn, NY
Labor Caucus
Labor
All LGBTQ and allied union members are invited to join us to
meet your brothers and sisters in the labor movement, discuss
strategic campaigns and how we can work in greater solidarity.
Presenters: Donna Cartwright, Director, Pride at Work, AFL-
CIO, Cliffside Park, NJ; Cleve Jones, UNITE-HERE ; Stan Kiino,
Pride at Work Association of Flight Attendants; Peggy Shorey
Life After DADT: Military Service
for LGBT Personnel in the Post-Ban Era
Military/Veterans Issues
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The ban against truthful service in the United States military by
LGBT service members will soon end, but that does not mean
there will not be many difficult issues faced by LGB service
members, and the Transgender issue has not been addressed
at all. This discussion will focus on areas of challenge yet to be
faced by LGBT personnel and look at some of the ways that
other nations have allowed transgender personnel to serve in
the military.
Presenter: Danny Ingram, American Veterans for Equal Rights,
Decatur, GA
Negotiating Queer Identities of People of Color
on the U.S./Mexico Border
People of Color
Located on the El Paso, Juarez border, El Paso is a multicultural
city that is predominantly Hispanic. Steps away from the most
violent city in the world where femicides are an everyday oc-
currence, the drug war contributes to the rising toll in murders,
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and where human trafficking takes place, queers must con- Public Policies that Impact LGBTQ Communities: The
front these issues and homophobia. This caucus will engage LGBTQ Policy Journal of the Harvard Kennedy School
students in intellectual conversations about issues concerning Research and Policy
queer people of color, with an emphasis on the borderlands. This caucus is an opportunity for policy directors and policy
Presenters: Ambar Calvillo, Queer Student Alliance, El Paso, professionals to come together and discuss public policies
TX; Cristina Rivera, Queer Student Alliance, El Paso, TX; Jesus that impact LGBTQ communities. It will also be an opportu-
Smith, Queer Student Alliance, El Paso, TX; Jeanie Tran, Queer nity for attendees to learn about the inaugural issue and one of
Student Alliance, El Paso, TX a kind LGBTQ Policy Journal of the Harvard Kennedy School.
The journal is a forum which will explore the impact of public
Pagan and Queer policy decisions on LGBTQ communities, individuals and allies
Practice Spirit, Do Justice and aims to provide new insight into policy dilemmas and solu-
Our spiritual lives affect our actions in all parts of tions from a uniquely LGBTQ perspective. While this caucus is
our lives. I’d like to provide a time and place for geared towards policy directors, all are encouraged and wel-
LGBT people who follow Pagan and Wiccan spiritualities to come to join the discussion about how policy affects all of us!
network, share ideas and goals, inform each other about new Presenter: Sorbrique Grant, LGBTQ Policy Journal of the Har-
issues and projects and identify other people who share their vard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
orientations. Pagans and Witches are sometimes isolated, even
in their home communities, and especially if they are LGBT. Be- Queer Muslim Caucus
ing part of two minorities can be very stressful. While the Pa- Practice Spirit, Do Justice
gan communities tend to be less homophobic and more open Whether you’re culturally, religiously or politically
to sexual and gender differences than the culture as a whole, “Muslim,” we invite you to attend this caucus to
there are still issues to be resolved and problems to be dealt meet other LGBT Muslims attending Creating Change. We’ll
with. Meeting with others who share the same situation can be discuss the challenges facing our community, share individual
good for both morale and creating realistic solutions. I see this experiences of being queer and Muslim, and strategize on how
as a time when we can find other people to help us feel more to build progressive and inclusive Muslim communities.
supported in our paths, and by sharing ideas, resolve difficulties
that we might not be able to with our current resources. I see Presenter: Faisal Alam, Founder & Director, Al-Fatiha Foundation
myself as a facilitator in this process, rather than a presenter of (LGBTIQ Muslims), Washington, DC
new information.
Queering Butch/Femme: What does it mean in 2011?
Presenter: Magenta Griffith Gender Issues
The conversation on Butch/Femme and their associations with
Parenting Queerly particular kinds of gender identities and expressions contrib-
Families utes to the foundational place that Butch and Femme hold in
Families come in all different shapes and sizes and experiences! the queer vernacular. This caucus will offer an opportunity to
This caucus will be a space for people who are raising children discuss the ways in which these identities have evolved over
(of all ages) to come together for support and community. It the years alongside the course of increased visibility and self-
will be a self directed space where participants determine the awareness for our LGBTQA communities. Specifically, what
conversation, although there will be a facilitator to support the does it mean to be butch and/or femme in 2011?
process. Come share your experiences and learn from others
who are also parenting. What are our common struggles and Presenters: Lauren Adamski, Program Coordinator, LGBT
challenges? And how do we integrate our family life in to activ- Resource Center @ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; Lauren
ism or community work? Hannahs, Graduate Assistant, LGBT Resource Center @ Syra-
cuse University, Syracuse, NY
Presenters: Andrea Giron, Texas Council on Family Violence,
Austin, TX; Carter Klenk, NY Reina de mi Misma/Queen of Myself:
Las Krudas d’ Cuba
Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus International Issues
Sexual Freedom Whether you are a university administrator, a student or an
The Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus provides an important advocate who is passionate about gender/sexuality, racial dis-
affinity group for those who aren’t monogamous. The session courses and international issues, this is a must-watch docu-
provides a safe, non-judgmental space for folks to meet, net-
mentary! The film explores the queer work of Las Krudas, an
work with others, ask questions, and share ideas. all-women hip hop trio from Cuba currently living in the United
Presenters: Timothy Gardner, Northwoods Radical Faeries, States. They exemplify the intricate ways in which Caribbean
Bethlehem, PA; Robin Nussbaum, Coordinator, Oneonta Gender women embody the everyday sociopolitical, economic and cul-
& Sexuality Resource Center, Oneonta, NY tural negotiations that occur within and in between nations. A
good chance to become more familiar with stories and experi-

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ences of artists who are not often given attention in the main-
stream LGBT community, in communities of color, and certainly
not in larger society.
Presenter: Ceilany Rivera, Office of LGBT Student Services, NY, NY
SAGENet Affiliate Caucus
Aging
In this caucus session, LGBT older adults and providers will work
together with SAGENet Affiliate members to create a snapshot
of important LGBT older adult advocacy and service initiatives
occurring throughout the country. Everyone in the room will
have the opportunity to participate by sharing their knowledge
of new and established programs and advocacy initiatives.
Presenters: Sherrill Wayland, Sage, St Louis, MO; Serena
Worthington, Director of Community Advocacy and Capacity
Building, SAGE, Chicago, IL
Sassy in the South
Community Organizing
Raised in the South? Do you continue to work, live, love, and
organize in the South? Fed up with people’s misconceptions
of the South, while being frustrated by the obstacles of being
a queer organizer there? If you answered yes to any of these
questions, this is the place for you. We invite Southern organiz-
ers to join us as we discuss the particular gifts and challenges
of the queer organizing in the American South.
Presenters: Laci Adams, MoSAIC (Methodist Students for an
All Inclusive Church), Atlanta, GA; Caleb Bishop White, MoSAIC
(Methodist Students for an All Inclusive Church), Atlanta, GA;
Joey Lopez, MoSAIC (Methodist Students for an All Inclusive
Church)
Sex Worker Caucus
Sexual Freedom
Presenter: Gina de Vries, San Francisco, CA
Small Town LGBT Film (or Arts) Festival
Art & Culture
This caucus is designed mostly for those who are running and or-
ganizing LGBT-Centered Arts (Film/Music/Art/Theater) Festivals,
as a site where we can meet, support each other, and exchange
practical tools towards arts organizing. Those interested in start-
ing a new arts festival are also welcome but the caucus is de-
signed at the intermediate level to enable a methods exchange.
Presenter: Raymond Rea, Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Fest,
Fargo, ND
Strength for the Journey:
A Reflective Workshop
Practice Spirit, Do Justice
Many of us come to this gathering hungry for an
opportunity for reflective work. This workshop will provide a space
for safe, supportive exploration. Breaking down our fears and
acknowledging our strengths will help give us the tools to make
change in our lives. This reflective workshop will involve small group
discussion, meditation, and writing. Blank journals will be provided
as a workbook to guide us in the work of feeling solid on our path.
Presenter: Samuel Lurie, Transgender Training and Advocacy,
Hinesburg, VT
The Joy of Authenticity - Voices from the Spectrum:
Trans Adults, Children and Their Families
Transgender Community & Issues
This session aims to educate participants about the diversity
of transgender experience for individuals of all ages, and sen-
sitize them to identify myths and false stereotypes about trans
people. Participants will name and examine these myths, watch
PFLAG’s 22-minute film looking at the joy of authenticity in the
trans path, then deconstruct how false perceptions and as-
sumptions impact their LGBT activism and trans inclusivity; then
learn how to create new, positive outcomes!
Presenters: Jean Hodges, Chairperson, SAFE Schools Coali-
tion, community member, PFLAG, Boulder, CO; Gus Spheeris,
Filmmaker, Boulder, CO
Trans and Genderqueer Youth Caucus
Transgender Community & Issues
Come to a fun interactive caucus facilitated by the Trans Youth
Support Network (TYSN) to discuss the challenges and experi-
ences of being young, trans, and/or genderqueer for people
between the ages of 13- 25. Come meet other fierce and fun
young trans and genderqueer folks, make new friends, and find
others to enjoy the rest of the conference with!
Presenters: Aria Ayers, Trans Youth Support Network, Minne-
apolis, MN; NeeCee Taylor, District 202, Minneapolis, MN
Unid@s: Estamos Presente. The Latino LGBT Caucus
Community Organizing/People of Color
This Latino LGBT caucus, Unid@s: Estamos Presente, will allow
activists from around the country to connect, network, hear and
saturday Sessions
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.
Presenter: Jorge Cestou, Unid@s, Chicago, IL
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 is a closed session for First
Nations/Two Sprit/Indigenous - identified people only.
Presenters: Coya Artichoker; Paulina Hernandez, Co-Direc-
tor, Southerners on New Ground, New Market, TN; Melissa
Hoskins; Melissa Pope
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What Responsibility Does Higher Education Have
In The Development Of LGBTQA Students Of Color?
School Issues/Campus
Higher education has historically ignored the needs of LGBTQA
students, and more often LGBTQA students of color. This ses-
sion will address the how and why and what environments of
higher learning can do to include LGBTQA student of color.
Presenters: Debra Daniels, Womens Resource Center, Uni-
versity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Cathy Martinez, LGBT Re-
source Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Your Brilliant Queer Writing Career
Art & Culture
An investigation of how a front-and-center queer identity in lit-
erature can be both a hindrance and a boon to both writing and
writing careers.
Presenter: Michelle Tea, RADAR Productions, San Francisco, CA
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Sunday, February 6 • 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Best Practices on Corporate External Relations
and Current Political Landscape in Minnesota
Workplace • All Audiences
This session will address best practices of corporate external
relations with the LGBT community. Representatives from Best
Buy, Target and General Mills will discuss corporate policies re-
garding external relations with the LGBT community and what
each company has done to better engage the community. The
second portion of this discussion will focus on the current po-
litical landscape in Minnesota and how individuals can become
more directly involved in their community and within their com-
panies for greater LGBT advocacy.
Presenters: Lee Anderson, State & Local Government Relations,
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN; Daniel Duty, Director, Enterprise
Strategy, Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN; Monica Meyer,
Executive Director, OutFront Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Julie
Owen, SVP Connected World Strategies/Executive Sponsor,
Best Buy Pride Employee Business Network, Minneapolis, MN
Best Practices: Anti-Bullying & Harassment Work
in Rural Communities
School Issues • All Audiences
Reaching out to and connecting with schools in rural communi-
ties around providing safe spaces for LGBTQQ youth can pres-
ent challenges that differ from more urban-based communities.
In this session, participants will identify new strategies for build-
ing collaborative relationships with schools and organizations
in their state; discuss best practices in safe schools work in
rural communities; and create a national network of like minded
professionals.
Presenters: Saben Littlefield, Outright Vermont, Burlington, VT;
Melissa Murray, Outright Vermont, Burlington, VT
Cultivating Butch Pride
Gender Issues • Intermediate
Everyone has their own gender paths, and butches are no dif-
ferent. Some butches feel they have a decreased visibility in re-
cent years. This workshop will focus on reclaiming butch pride,
strengthening our community, and creating allies.
Presenter: Emily Heath, West Dover, VT
Engaging & Mobilizing Communities of Color
on the LGBT Agenda
People of Color • Fundamentals
This workshop will explore the relationship between communi-
ties of color and the mainstream LGBT community. Emphasis
will be placed on the recent successes and failures of the LGBT
community to rally and incorporate communities of color into
the movement for same sex equality. Reasons why commu-
nities of colors generally don’t embrace the LGBT movement
will be explored and best practices for engaging and mobilizing
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a unique demographic will be shared. This workshop will also
focus on what one organization is doing to help eliminate ho-
mophobia and racism simultaneously.
Presenters: Uriah Bell, Board Member, Hispanic Black Gay
Coalition, Boston, MA; Corey Yarbrough, Hispanic Black Gay
Coalition (HBGC), Boston, MA
Extreme Transgender Inclusion: Taking it to the Next Level
Organizational Development • Fundamentals
Are you ready to really fix your LGBT organization’s failings on
trans-inclusion? Are you tired of trans issues and needs being
pushed to the side? This workshop is neither for the faint of
heart nor for those who just want to complain—it is for people
who really want to tackle the lack of true trans-inclusion in their
organization and realize that they must be part of the solution.
Join the authors of “Opening the Door to the Inclusion of Trans-
gender People: The Nine Keys to Making LGBT Organizations
Fully-Inclusive” who will help you get off your @$$ and help you
identify the necessary fixes for your LGBT organization.
Presenters: Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Di-
rector, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC;
Justin Tanis, Program Manager, National Center for Transgen-
der Equality, Woodbridge, VA
Gay Male Desire
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
This workshop is intended to open up dialogue about gay male
sexuality today across race and class. We will consider our
relationship as men to the larger sexual liberation movement
and the relationship of our sexuality to the greater LGBT rights
movement. This session is open to all who identify as gay men.
Presenters: Francisco De León; Kenyon Farrow; Jack Harrison,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, DC
How to Become “Gay for Pay” -
Inroads to a Queer Career
Movement Building • Intermediate
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: Tom Bourdon, LGBT Center Bolles House Tufts
University, Medford, MA; Andy Garcia, The Pipeline Project,
New York, NY; Alex Kent, SAGE: Services & Advocacy for GLBT
Elders, New York, NY
Inclusive Curriculum and Messaging:
Making the Change We Want to See
Communications, Media and Messaging • All Audiences
It is no coincidence that conservative activists jump on LGBT-
inclusive school curriculum as a way to rally the troops and fight
marriage, workplace or other equality movements. It is easy to
misrepresent family diversity or anti-bullying curriculum, and many
parents and administrators are uncomfortable even considering
the subject. In the past, we watched as the successes of educa-
tional training and policy work were road blocked by small groups
of conservative activists who know the combination of the words
“gay” and “your children” would strike fear in the hearts of many
parents. Through several recent initiatives, we have been able to
refine our messaging about school issues and develop tested
strategies to help educators stand their ground when faced with
public opposition over LGBT-inclusive curriculum or policies. This
workshop will present these new insights in the context of help-
ing participants advocate for curriculum that has been proven to
decrease anti- gay bullying and increase positive perceptions of
LGBT people. Participants will develop an advanced understand-
ing of successful messages and organizing strategies to reframe
the debate about LGBT issues and schools. The lessons learned
will help participants minimize and respond to pushback, no mat-
ter what they are fighting for.
Presenters: Carolyn Laub, Executive Director, Gay-Straight Al-
liance Network, San Francisco, CA; Ryan Schwartz, Humming-
bird Inc. TX; Amy Simon, Goodwin Simon Research Strategies;
Jessi Tebben, Minneapolis Public Schools
Keeping Committed Volunteers
in the Era of the Facebook “Maybe”
Community Organizing • All Audiences
As social media is increasingly integral to communication, this
session will discuss best practices volunteer managers use to
best engage and retain volunteers. Keeping volunteers commit-
ted when Facebook gives you an option of responding “maybe.”
Focusing volunteers’ attention when there are so many “sparkly
distractions” in today’s vibrantly interconnected world. Instilling
Sunday Sessions
pride in your volunteers via successful social media messages.
This session will help participants who manage volunteers ex-
amine their retention efforts and how to refine tools for retention
including successful social media messages.
Presenters: Tim Marburger, The Aliveness Project, Minneapolis,
MN; Monica Travis, The Aliveness Project, Minneapolis, MN
Making Spaces/Taking Space
Disability • Intermediate
Making spaces inclusive, welcoming and usable to all requires
a great deal more thoughtfulness and planning than many peo-
ple realize. Using a Social Ecology model to frame the discus-
sion, we’ll discuss and problem-solve ways to create inclusiv-
ity and build your organizational capacity by making your literal
space—rooms, buildings, meetings and events—usable to the
constituencies you hope to take space (and take their places) in
your organization.
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Presenters: S. Bear Bergman, Theater Artist, Author, Activist,
Toronto, CA; Steve Nail, Portland, OR
OLOC Caucus
Aging • All Audiences
Lesbians 60 and over caucus: an opportunity for old lesbians
to meet, share activism experiences, and share experiences
with ageism and resistance to it in a safe environment with their
peers. The hour will be spent with each attendee spending 3-4
minutes sharing followed by group conversation.
Presenter: Rev. Jan Griesinger, Co-Director - Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change, Athens, OH
Pennsylvania Caucus & Strategy Session
Movement Building
Pennsylvanians are invited to join Equality Pennsylvania, Penn-
sylvania Diversity Network, and the Equality Partners of Western
Pennsylvania for a caucus and strategy session to explore and
identify advocacy needed on a regional and statewide basis.
Whether you are a seasoned community leader or a first time
activist, we need your voice to help steer Pennsylvania in the
direction of equality.
Presenters: Jason Crighton, Equality Partners of Western
Pennsylvania; Ted Martin, Equality PA; Adrian Shanker, Penn-
sylvania Diversity Network Commissioner; Brian Sims, Equality
PA, Philadelphia, PA
Promoting LGBTA Youth Leadership
through Social and Educational Programming
Youth • Intermediate
This workshop will help participants prepare for including youth-
orientated programming and promote youth leadership within
their organizations. Attendees will be oriented to salient issues
LGBT youth often face and given the opportunity to develop
ideas for social and educational youth-directed events. Re-
sources and troubleshooting tips will also be provided. Activities
include planning a “youth night” and “youth leadership work-
shop.” Current youth leaders will be present to discuss their
experiences planning and participating in these events.
Presenters: Eric Anderson, Boise State University, Boise, ID;
Alejandra Ayon, Boise State University, Boise, ID; Gary Bell, Boise college campuses can be hard, but this workshop will arm you
State University, Boise, ID; Marisol Cervantes, Boise State Uni-
versity, Boise, ID; Amy Garver, Boise State University, Boise, ID
Our Bodies, Our Sex
Sexual Freedom • All Audiences
How we experience our bodies has everything to do with how
we experience pleasure and envision a just world where true lib- Presenters: Jamie Royce, Loveland, OH; Kimmins Southard,
eration is possible. Whose bodies are seen as sexy and “wor- Cincinnati, OH
thy” of sexual pleasure? Whose bodies are seen as “unworthy”
or oversexed and thus policed? Whose are commercialized?
How do we claim our bodies and our sexual desire in a world so
bent on us hating our queerness and hating our embodiment of
queer desire? Come join this lively exchange.
Presenter: Caitlin Breedlove, Monique Meadows, Roberto Tijerna
Social Justice Demands Good Governance:
How to Optimize Your Group’s Governance
to Match Your Queer Mission
Organizational Development • Intermediate
This workshop will provide an overview of best governance
practices and required documentation for student groups, for-
profit corporations, non-profit corporations, 501(c)(3) and 501(c)
(4) organizations from a social justice viewpoint. Participants
will engage in individual and group discussions to determine if
their group’s governance structure matches their organization’s
purpose. Afterwards, participants will create a strategic gover-
nance plan to optimize their organization’s structure to fit their
group’s mission, goals, and values.
Presenters: Lauren Beach, Bisexual Organizing Project, Min-
neapolis, MN; James Larsen, CPA, Strategic Planning Consul-
tant, Bisexual Organizing Project, Prairie, MN
The Exploitation of Queers:
Pinkwashing, Palestine and our Joint Struggles
People of Color • All Audiences
The language and ideology of LGBT equality and rights is cur-
rently being used by the U.S. and Israeli governments to mask
racism, colonialism, and the oppression of Palestinian people,
while furthering Islamophobia. In this workshop we will learn
the history of this tactic, known as Pinkwashing. We will look
at campaigns that challenge Pinkwashing, further Palestinian
liberation and support indigenous sovereignty. We will explore
methods of integrating international solidarity into our work for
queer liberation.
Presenters: Dunya Alwan, Director, Birthright Unplugged, San
Francisco, CA; Celia Kutz, International Anti-Zionist Jewish Net-
work, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; Jessica Rosenberg, Inter-
national Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Twin Cities, Minneapolis,
MN; K. Flo Razowsky
Trans Survival Guide:
Initiating Transgender Activism at our Schools
Sunday Sessions
Campus • All Audiences
LGB and T, but how exactly can you include that T in your col-
lege campus activist group? Initiating transgender activism on
with all that you need to provide resources for transgender stu-
dents and work for policy changes to make your college cam-
pus more transgender inclusive. Learn the basics of gender and
sexuality terminology, identify areas of concern for transgender
students on college campus and make a Trans Survival Guide
for your school.
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Andrew Solomon
Cambridge, MA Vice Co-Chair David da Silva Cornell New York, NY
New York, NY Los Angeles, CA
Miami Beach, FL
Miami, FL Ken Thompson
Alan J. Bernstein • Mario Guerrero Seattle, WA
Minneapolis, MN Vice Co-Chair Sacramento, CA
West Hollywood, CA R. Peter Wharton
Craig Hoffman •• Miami Beach, FL
The mission of the National Gay Robert Salem Washington, DC
and Lesbian Task Force is to build Secretary Hope Wine, Psy.D.
Duane C. Ingram • Miami Beach, FL
the grassroots power of the lesbian, Toledo, OH
Philadelphia, PA
gay,bisexualandtransgender(LGBT) William Forrest Vince Wong
community. We do this by training Kierra Johnson Los Angeles, CA
Treasurer
activists, equipping state and local Chicago, IL Washington, DC
organizations with the skills needed • Serves on the National Gay
to organize broad-based campaigns Liebe Gadinsky Jeff Kerzman (aka Sydney Andrews) and Lesbian Task Force and the
Denver, Colorado Task Force Action Fund boards
to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and Member at Large
Miami Beach, FL Eric von Kuersteiner •
advance pro-LGBT legislation, and •• Serves on the Task Force Action
New York, NY
building the organizational capacity Michelle Stecker Fund board only
of our movement. Our Policy Institute, Member at Large Sandra Nathan
the movement’s premier think tank, Ewing, NJ Washington, DC
provides research and policy analysis
to support the struggle for complete Staff
equality and to counter right-wing
lies. As part of a broader social jus- Academy for Administration & Development
tice movement, we work to create Leadership and Action Finance David Alexander
a nation that respects the diversity Dan Hawes Brian Johnson Director of Institutional Giving
of human expression and identity Director Chief Financial Officer
Michael Bath
and creates opportunity for all.
Sarah E. Reece Sandi Greene Special Events Manager
Deputy Director Director of Human Resources
Alex Breitman
Rebecca Ahuja Mike Lloyd Special Events Manager
Staff Senior Field Organizer Accounting Manager
Dave Cook
Executive Office Kathleen Campisano Charles E. Matiella Development Coordinator
Senior Field Organizer Senior Technology Manager
Rea Carey Matthew Dalton
Executive Director Rodrigo Lehtinen Rick Mohn Development Intern
Field Organizer Senior Finance &
Darlene Nipper Administrative Services Manager Anabel Evora
Deputy Executive Director David Lohman Major Gifts Officer
IWR and Faith Work Coordinator Barney Thomas Jr.
Russell Roybal Finance Associate Cynde Horne
Deputy Executive Director Moof Mayeda Assistant Director of Major Gifts
of External Relations Senior Field Organizer Policy Institute Colin Lovell
Cliffie Bailey Trina Olson Jack Harrison Database Administrator
Executive Assistant Senior Training Manager Vaid Fellow
Lisa Mercado
Julie Childs Trystan Reese Public Policy & Special Events Coordinator
Executive Assistant Field Organizer
Government Affairs Mardell (Mardi) Moore
Scott Skywalker Frost Barbara Satin Laurie Young Membership Manager
Executive Office Board Liaison IWR and Faith Work Associate Director Janice Thom
Daniel Pino Rev. Rebecca Voelkel Director of Operations
Executive Assistant Program Director, Stacey R. Long
Institute for Welcoming Resources Federal Legislative Director Sue Lee Troutman
Director of Individual Giving
Evangeline Weiss Brad Jacklin
Leadership Programs Director Program Manager, Dorrit Tulane Walsh
New Beginning Initiative Senior Web Manager
Causten Wollerman
Field Organizer Vanessa Macoy
Program Associate,
Creating Change New Beginning Initiative
Sue Hyde
Director Lisa Mottet
Transgender Civil Rights Project Director
Marta Alvarado
Conference and Meetings Manager

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 In Memoriam

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force remembers and

honors colleagues and leaders whom we have lost in the past year.

Flo McGarrell Jill Johnston

January 2010 in the Haitian Earthquake September 2010
Director of Fanal Otenik Sant D’A Jakmel (FOSAJ) Social cultural critic, author of
and artist Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution

Midge Costanza Martin Kazu Hiraga

March 2010 September 2010
Public Liaison, Carter Administration; organized historic Staff member of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
White House meeting with LGBT activists, March 1977 1992 – 1994; ASL interpreter and advocate for
the deaf and hard of hearing
Rev. Robert Carter
March 2010 Raymond Castro
Roman Catholic priest who came out in 1970s; October 2010
a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City

Dorothy Height Fred Goldhaber

April 2010 November 2010
President, National Council of Negro Women; First teacher at the Harvey Milk School in Manhattan,
civil rights leader; pioneer; inspiration to all a haven for LGBT students

Harry Wieder Laura Hershey

April 2010 November 2010
Advocate for LGBT rights and disabled people; Beloved champion of rights for the disabled,
ACT UP member writer and poet

Marc Berkley David Becker

April 2010 November 2010
Nightlife impresario; co-founder of the gay magazine HX Social Justice Philanthropist; Art Scholar and Curator

Renae Ogletree Shelly Bauman

April 2010 November 2010
Visionary, bridge builder, loved and Founder of legendary gay bar Shelly’s Leg, Seattle
listened to young people
Michael Portantino
Michael Collins December 2010
June 2010 Publisher of San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times
Radio broadcaster; leader of the
National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Adele Starr
December 2010
Durand Robinson Founder of the Los Angeles chapter of
August 2010 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays;
Organizer of Atlanta’s annual Black Gay Pride; PFLAG’s first national president
co-owner of Traxx
The Task Force family grieves with and for our loved ones who
suffered attacks, some resulting in loss of life, motivated by hatred
Terry Kuseske and bigotry. We are especially mindful this year of friends and
September 2010 loved ones who took their own lives after suffering abuse and
Openly gay city commissioner and LGBT rights leader, harassment. Those of us who are young, gender non-conforming,
Kalamazoo, Michigan and people of color are especially vulnerable in a society that
devalues our lives. We commit to building a world where all of
us can thrive and be who we are, fully, without fear.

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