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Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City

Jurek Wajdowicz With an introduction by Kate Clinton

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Welcome to the 2017

Creating Change Conference! We are excited to host our 29th Creating Change Conference in the City of Queerly Love. We invite you to join in this extraordinary conference experience and community in the spirit of love, curiosity, and respect for each other and our LGBTQ family. We offer a vision of how we can be together, inspired by other progressive convenings, as we co-create a learning community together at Creating Change.

The Creating Change Conference convenes and welcomes people of varying, diverse, and divergent political opinions and views and strategic focus. Our individual and collective capacity to hold multiple perspectives, even when we disagree, is a valuable movement-building tool. The Task Force invites you to join, with compassion and kindness, our conference community of activists, organizers, and advocates as we work to build the strongest possible LGBTQ and allied movement. We believe that we need each other to make progress. Creating Change is a space to bring our whole selves while bringing curiosity about other’s experiences and perspectives, and to share our own ideas, questions and experiences in order to move the LGBTQ movement forward. Creating Change is a space that allows for expressing political disagreements and differences while at the same time holding our respect for, and interdependence with, each other. We gather each year to grow and educate ourselves and each other and engage in dialogue that gives us room to celebrate our work together and to struggle and name the most difficult things. There will be moments that this will be hard to hear but our challenge is to stay open and to hear each other and to not shut down discussions or silence dissonant voices. We choose to honor the dignity and humanity of all people by celebrating their right to be who they are, to be whole. We challenge ourselves to recognize and disrupt power dynamics that have perpetually harmed people, particularly Black and brown people, for generations. We invite all of us to challenge our assumptions about each other and our complex identities. Creating Change brings together a diverse group of people that reaches far and wide into our communities. While being and embracing our full selves can be exhilarating, this can be overwhelming and challenging at times. We each have different and varied ways of taking care of ourselves. The Task Force and Creating Change staff have created spaces to support you emotionally, creatively, artistically and spiritually. Please visit the Art Studio Space and/or the Wellness Hub if you need a pause that refreshes. A Spiritual Care team will also be available in the Wellness Hub. Thank you for being with us in Philadelphia, the City of Queerly Love!

Our Values

INNOVATION

Love, Commitment & Compassion

JUSTICE & LIBERATION

Progressive Voice INTERSECTIONALITY

Centrality of Sex & Sexuality

Movement Sustainability Diversity & Inclusion

Grassroots

Power

ACTION

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TABLE OF

CONTENTS 1

Creating Change 2017 Welcome

Schedule at a Glance

Welcome 5 From the Executive Director Conference Sponsors 6 2017 Creating Change Sponsors Conference Information 9 Special Thank Yous 10 From the Conference Host Committee 11 Host Committee 13 Greetings from Elected Officials 18 Creating Welcoming Space for Everyone 18 A Guide to Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette 20 Trans Etiquette 20 HIV/AIDS Etiquette 26 Creating Accessibility General Information 31 Your and Your Badge, Protest Policy, No Guns at Creating Change 2017! First Timers’ Orientation, Wellness Hub 32 Get Tested, We Love Your Feedback, Child Care 33 Host Committee Services 35 Spiritual Gatherings 41 Exhibitors Conference Events 46 Plenary Programs 48 Award Honorees 58 Receptions and Special Events 60 Sessions By Topic 74

Wednesday Schedule of Sessions

Thursday Schedule of Sessions

Friday Schedule of Sessions 80 Academy Training Session 1, Workshop Session 1, Workshop Session 2 91 Academy Training Session 2, Workshop Session 3, Workshop Session 4 103 Caucus 1 Saturday Schedule of Sessions 109 Academy Training Session 3, Workshop Session 5, Workshop Session 6 120 Academy Training Session 4, Workshop Session 7, Workshop Session 8 134 Caucus 2 Sunday Schedule of Sessions 141 Workshop Session 9 National LGBTQ Task Force 144 Task Force Leadership Council 147 Task Force Board, National Action Council and Staff 149 We Say Their Names/Pulse Tribute/In Memoriam NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2017 9:00am – 6:30pm Day Long Racial Justice Institute 4:00pm – 9:00pm Wellness Hub Open House

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2017 9:00am – 6:00pm 9:00am – 6:00pm Noon - 4:00pm 6:00pm -10:00pm 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 10:00pm - Midnight

Art Studio Space Day Long Institutes Wellness Hub Wellness Hub David Bohnett CyberCenter Reception at Hard Rock Cafe 12 Step/Recovery Meeting First Timer’s Orientation Welcome to Philadelphia Reception * Exhibit Area Opening Plenary with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II Forward Together: The Prophetic Post Election Call to Action! Queerly Love Dance Party!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 9:00am – 6:00pm Art Studio Space 9:00am – 6:00pm HIV Testing 9:00am –12:15pm Leadership Academy Trainings 9:00am – 10:30 am Workshop Session 1 10:45am – 12:15 pm Workshop Session 2 Noon - 4:00pm Wellness Hub 12:30pm Muslim Friday Prayer Salat-ul Jumah 12:30pm – 2:30pm Convergence: Forging the Path to End HIV, with Lunch Service Plenary: The State of the Movement: Staff of the National LGBTQ Task Force 3:00pm – 6:15pm Leadership Academy Trainings 3:00pm – 4:30 pm Workshop Session 3 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm Workshop Session 4 6:00pm -10:00pm Wellness Hub 6:30pm – 7:30pm Caucuses and Networking Sessions Registration Tuesday, January 17 6:00pm – 10:00pm Wednesday, January 18 8:00am – 10:00pm Thursday, January 19 8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday, January 20 8:00am – 8:00pm Saturday, January 21 8:00am – 6:00pm Sunday, January 22 8:00am – 12:00 noon

7:00pm - Midnight Agents of Change Love Ball 2017 Doors at 7pm; Ball at 8pm 7:30pm Shabbat Celebration 7:30pm 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 8:30pm Receptions 9:00pm Friday Night Cruise

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2017 9:00am – 1:00pm Art Studio Space 9:00am – 6:00pm HIV Testing 9:00am – 12:15pm Leadership Academy Trainings 9:00am – 10:30 am Workshop Session 5 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Workshop Session 6 Noon - 4:00pm Wellness Hub 12:30pm – 2:30pm Philadelphia Women’s March, in solidarity with the DC Women’s March. A Creating Change contingent will march together. Join us! 3:00pm – 6:15pm Leadership Academy Trainings 3:00pm – 4:30 pm Workshop Session 7 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm Workshop Session 8 6:00pm -10:00pm Wellness Hub 6:30pm Art Studio Gallery 6:30pm – 7:30pm Caucuses and Networking Sessions 7:30pm 12 Step/Recovery Meeting 8:00pm MasQUEERade Youth Ball 9:00pm Boomers Dance! Made for Baby Boomers, Fun Enough for X’ers and Millennials

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2017 9:00am - 2:00pm 9:30am 9:30am –11:00am 11:30am – 1:00pm 2:00pm Exhibit Area Thursday, January 19 3:00 – 7:00pm Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21 8:30am – 7:30pm Sunday, January 22 8:00am – 3:00pm

Wellness Hub Trans* Revolutionary Love: An Interfaith Gathering to Close Creating Change 2017 Workshop Session 9 Brunch and Closing Plenary featuring Alex Newell Feedback Session with Conference Managers Child Care Thursday, January 19, Friday January 20 and Saturday, January 21 8:00am – 6:30pm Sunday, January 22 8:00am – 3:00pm

Greetings,

Welcome to the City of Queerly love and to the biggest LGBTQ family reunion in the world. The space where you can bring your entire self and “be you.” A place you’ll share with 4,000 other people just like you for four days of strategizing, training, mobilizing, togetherness and having fun.

We have heard our opponent’s plan — mass repeal of everything from food stamps for the very poor to Obamacare; mass deportations of immigrants; mass dehumanization of entire communities, and much, much more. This week we have an opportunity to plan together for a very different future than that envisioned by the Trumps and Pences of this world. We get to plan the next era of the LGBTQ movement and progress for all. To move deliberately and fiercely forward — to protect what we have achieved and to think even bigger and bolder about the next era of progressive change. We get to plan a better future for all, where we all experience freedom, justice, equality and equity — and we can push forward by standing together more than ever, and having each other’s backs. Who are the activists who will lead the movement to the next era of victories on these issues? While I don’t know their names, I know we are likely to meet them right here at Creating Change this week. Please have an excellent and transformative Creating Change. In solidarity,

Rea Carey Executive Director

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This week we have an opportunity to plan together for a very different future than that envisioned by the Trumps and Pences of this world. We get to plan the next era of the LGBTQ movement and progress for all.

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We thank and appreciate these organizations and people who helped make Creating Change 2017 a great success!

AARP ACLU of Pennsylvania African American Working Group AIDS United andbreathe.llc, Shannyn Vicente API Working Group Arcus Foundation The Art of Shaving Attic Youth Center B. W. Bastian Foundation Bacardi Better World Telecom Between the Lines Bishops and Elders Council Bolder Giving Campus Pride, Shane Windmeyer Casswood Insurance Agency CenterLink Chadwick Cipiti The City of Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney Color of Change, Rashad Robinson The COLOURS Organization Comcast/ NBCUniversal Cosmic Catering, Chef Peg Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

CREDO David Bohnett Foundation Delaware Valley Legacy Fund Doyle Printing E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation EMD Serono Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, Matt Foreman Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Ben Francisco Maulbeck Elegant Event Sitters, Tish Davis Equality Pennsylvania Everytown for Gun Safety Rae Fehring Lisa Fithian FosterThomas, Inc. Freedom for All Americans Freeman Foundation GALAEI: Queer Latin@ Social Justice Tamara Nelson Galinsky Gay Ad Network Gay City News General Mills & Larabar Gilead Sciences, Inc. G Philly H&R Block

The Harrington Agency Hilton Worldwide Ilene Goldstein Lisa Geduldig Jaime Grant Grindr Independence Business Alliance Institute for Welcoming Resources John C. Anderson Apartments Lambda Legal LGBT Center at University of Pennsylvania LGBT Elder Initiative LGBT Equality Alliance of Chester County LULAC Vanessa Macoy Marriott International Mazzoni Center The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation Morten Group and Mary Morten National Alliance on Mental Illness National Black Justice Coalition National Center for Transgender Equality National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects

National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce National SEED Project, Emmy Howe NTEN Out & Equal Office Depot Peace Corps Philadelphia Black Pride Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau/PHL Diversity Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers The Philadelphia Foundation Philadelphia Gay News Philly Pride Presents Planned Parenthood Chris Pollum Prochilo Health, Inc., Bill Mannion Production Solutions Queer Muslim Working Group Race Forward Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), Michael Adams and Serena Worthington Showtime

Site Services, Julie Augustine and Laurie Mirman Stonewall 50 / WorldPride 2019 The Strength Alliance, Philadelphia Talkspace TD Bank Roberto Tijerina TransLife Center Transgender Working Group Tzedek Social Justice Residence: A Program of the Amy Mandel & Katina Rodis Fund United Church of Christ Visit Philadelphia Jessica VonDyke Dave Wait Washington Blade Welcoming Church Program Leaders Wells Fargo West Chester University LGBTQA Services WET William Way LGBT Community Center Winston & Strawn LLP Woodhull Freedom Foundation

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Welcome all Creating Changers! On behalf of the Creating Change 2017 Host Committee, we warmly welcome you to our home city of Philadelphia, known affectionately as “The City of Brotherly Love” and for this week the “City of Queerly Love.” We are thrilled after 29 years to finally welcome Creating Change to our city-- the city of “Rocky” and cheesesteaks—but also a city with a long history of promoting freedom and equality, not only for early American revolutionaries, but also for LBGTQ revolutionaries. Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings led the first LGBTQ rights march in front of our Independence Hall in 1965. And in 1982 we fought to have sexual orientation protections on the book, which were followed by gender identity protections in 2002.

“ We are thrilled after

29 years to finally welcome Creating Change to our city-the city of “Rocky” and cheesesteaks— but also a city with a long history of promoting freedom and equality, not only for early American revolutionaries, but also for LBGTQ revolutionaries.

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And we continue this history of promoting LGBTQ liberties to this day. Philadelphia has claimed the number one spot on The Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index three years in a row for being the most supportive LGBTQ city nationwide, protecting LGBTQ people who live and work here. We constructed the nation’s largest affordable LGBTQ-friendly seniorhousing building, the John C. Anderson apartments—and many residents are on this Host Committee. After a long battle, our city removed gender ID markers from our public transit passes. We were the largest US city to offer trans* inclusive health benefits to our city employees, and in 2013 the first city in the country to offer an equality tax credit to businesses offering partner benefits and/or trans inclusive healthcare. In addition, we have one of the strongest Human Relations Commissions in the country, at the forefront of protecting people’s civil rights in 16 protected categories. Recently, in response to rising concerns about racism and discrimination in the LGBTQ community, the Philadelphia Human Relations Commissions held a public hearing and community forum. A report of the findings and recommendations will be released in late January 2017.

And just this fall, the state of Pennsylvania has awarded a $3 million dollar grant to provide affordable housing in Philadelphia for members of the LGBTQ community at risk of homelessness, particularly youth. So while Philadelphia has a historic commitment to equality, there is still so much work to be done together. Creating Change is an opportunity to join us in celebrating all that we’ve accomplished, and to roll up our sleeves to work side by side on the frontlines of the next battles for LGBTQ equality. Samantha Giusti Naiymah Sanchez Aneesah Smith Le Thomas Co-Chairs, Creating Change 2017 Host Committee

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CONFERENCE HOST

COMMITTEE Co-Chairs Samantha Giusti

Naiymah Sanchez

Aneesah Smith

Le Thomas

Tim Adams

Angel Gravely

Kyla Outen

Chip Alfred

Joniece Greer

Michael Palumbaro

Katherine Allen

David Griffith

Frank Potopa

Bailey Axe

Jessica Hartfield

B Proud

Graie Barash-Hagens

Jeff Haskins

Janice Rael

Bianca Bassett

Dynah Haubert

Ally Richman

Rebecca Bauer

Mare Helferty

Jeremy Rodriguez

Debbie Bazarsky

Kate Hinchey

Robyn Ryan

J. Nathan Bazzel

Kevin Hook

Carol Sadtler

Jesse Aaron Bee

KayKay Icon

Eran Sargent

Jordan Blenner

John James

Rachelle Schneider

Jamie Boschan

Michael Johnson

Steven Share

Alphonso Buie

Valerie Johnson

William Shelton

Logan G. Bryant

Steven Johnston

Miles Shore

Evan Burton

La’Seana Jones

Tami Sortman

Tiernan Campbell

Jess Kalup

Sebastian Sprague

Sarah Carter

Tationnah Katoure

Egypt Staley

V Chaudhry

Kim Keyack

Rachel Stevenson

Terri Clark

Richard Laboy

Brandon Szeker

Sherrie Cohen

Nance Lomax

Tiffany Thompson

Jason Culler

Whitney Lopez

Bryan J. Tillman

Annet Davis

Vanessa Lowe

Hel Tom

James Delmar

Brandon McLaren

Leonel Torres

Michael DeMarco

Ed Miller

Art Varela

Andrew Diamond

Kai Dorothy Mondloch

Suera Ward

Tim DiNardo

Celena Morrison

Phantazia Washington

Mark Dobbins

Emmy Morse

Robert Whitehead

Joey Fink

Anthony Morse

Everett Wilde

Juan Franco

Malik Muhammad

Aidan Williams

Laquesha Garland

Dawn Munro

Elizabeth Williams

Steven Getzow

Alyssa Mutryn

Tasha Wirth

Dionte Gill

Mariya Oneby

Tom Wilson Weinberg

Elicia Gonzales

Chanel Ortiz

Charles Young

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November 30, 2016 Greetings, I would like to formally welcome you to Philadelphia for the 2017 Creating Change Conference; the nation’s premier annual organizing and skills building conference for the LGBTQ social justice movement. This is the 29th year of the Creating Change Conference and we’re thrilled Philadelphia is hosting! This gathering of leading activists, both emerging voices and movement veterans, will find our city to be welcoming and accepting; providing the perfect setting to discuss the major issues facing the LGBTQ community. In Philadelphia we know that there is strength in diversity. This is why we have worked towards empowering our LGBTQ residents and addressing the issues affecting the community nationwide. In 2015 the people of Philadelphia voted to make the Office of LGBT Affairs a permanent fixture in our City Government. This past year groundbreaking discoveries regarding the treatment of HIV/AIDS were made at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. In these uncertain times, conferences like Creating Change have become more important than ever. Not only must we continue to fight for the advancement of rights but we must work to preserve the progress that has been made in regards to marriage equality, safer schools for students who identify as LGBTQ, and protections for members of the Trans Community. I hope you enjoy your stay and know that the people of Philadelphia stand with you! Best Wishes, James F. Kenney Mayor

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Welcome to Philadelphia! It is our pleasure to be hosting the 2017 Creating Change conference in our wonderful city of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. We are proud that the National LGBTQ Task Force has chosen Philadelphia for the convening of such a powerful network of LGBTQ+ community members and allies. In 1965 Philadelphia was the site of the first major U.S. protest for LGBTQ equality, and since then our city has been an ardent supporter of the movement for LGBT rights. There is no better place for this important gathering than Philadelphia, one of the leading gayfriendly destinations in the U.S. While we know that you’re here to learn and network, you’ll find plenty to explore and discover in Philadelphia no matter how much time you have to spare or what your interest. History galore? Absolutely. An abundance of art? All around you. Buzzed-about restaurants? Check. Tax-free shopping? On clothes and shoes, the answer is yes. There is something for every Creating Change conference attendee in Philadelphia—all easily accessible on foot but cabs and public transportation are easily available too. Pick up the Philadelphia Official Visitors GuideTM at your hotel to start mapping out your itinerary. And post your photos on social media during your stay using #discoverPHL. We wish you a productive, successful and enjoyable convention and invite you to come back again with family and friends. Sincerely,

Julie Coker Graham President & CEO, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau discoverPHL.com

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Creating A Positive Environment Creating Change is committed to creating a positive space for the LGBTQ community and our allies. We want everyone here to learn a lot, meet fabulous new people from all over the country, and feel good about talking and connecting with each other as we build a stronger movement. To that end, we want to remind everyone of guiding principles that are essential to maintaining respectful and safer space for each other. There are two fundamental principles to the Creating Change Conference: human rights and solidarity. Sexual harassment and other forms of violence strike at the heart of both. Harassment, violence and bigotry create feelings of fear, uneasiness, humiliation and discomfort. They are expressions of perceived power and superiority by the harasser over another person. Sometimes, even when our actions are not intentionally hurtful, what we say and do can hurt others or make them feel uncomfortable. Sexual harassment is a form of sexual violence. Sexual harassment is any unwanted attention of a sexual nature. Examples may include: • Remarks about appearance or personal life • Unwanted flirtations or advances • Offensive written or visual depictions like graffiti or degrading pictures • Touching someone without their permission (grabbing, hugging, petting, biting) • Unwanted sexual demands, pressure, propositions, or requests for sexual activities • Graphic comments about an individual’s body or dress • Verbal abuse, including sexual insults and name calling • Rewards for granting sexual favors or the withholding of rewards for refusing to grant sexual favors Many Creating Change attendees create and build social and sexual relationships while at the 18

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Conference. We want to remind you that, if you are thinking about hooking up, consent is essential. Please be sure that all involved have similar expectations. And please play safe! Creating Change is proud to host a beautiful and diverse LGBTQ and allied community where vibrant diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression is welcome. It is all of our responsibility to ensure that each member of our LGBTQ and ally family feels welcome and affirmed. Thank you for your help in ensuring that Creating Change is an environment where all participants feel welcome, comfortable and celebrated as members of the Creating Change family. If you feel harassed or threatened, please ask to speak with the Conference Director who can be contacted in the registration area located on the 5th floor of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

A Guide to Bisexual/Pansexual/Fluid Etiquette In 1990, “The Bisexual Manifesto” was published in Bay Area Bisexual Network’s national magazine, Anything That Moves. It reads in part: “Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders. Do not mistake our fluidity for confusion, irresponsibility, or an inability to commit. Do not equate promiscuity, infidelity, or unsafe sexual behavior with bisexuality. Those are human traits that cross all sexual orientations. Nothing should be assumed about anyone’s sexuality, including your own.” In 1991, black bisexual theorist and poet June Jordan called the bisexual movement a “mandate for revolutionary Americans planning to make it into the twenty-first century on the basis of the heart, on the basis of an honest human body, consecrated to every struggle for justice, every struggle for equality, every struggle for freedom.”

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The bisexual movement has a history that is erased as often as our identity is. We have political theorists and cultural workers like Jordan and others who have asserted our unique perspective within the context of social justice and have placed our sexual orientation at the center of our political analysis. Another significant aspect of the bi community is how people choose different personal identity labels to identify themselves within the bisexual spectrum, including these commonly used terms: pansexual, fluid, queer, multisexual, non-monosexual, omnisexual, and polysexual. In fact, there are some who prefer no labels. Personal identity labels can vary depending on the region, generation, and/or cultural background and can also be used to indicate a particular approach to critical theories on race, gender and sexuality. The term bisexual can be used both as a political identity and a label for the entire community aka “The B in LGBT.”

• Question your assumption of “bisexual privilege” and realize that research has shown bisexuals report much higher rates of stigma surrounding their sexuality than gay and lesbian counterparts.

Do’s and Don’ts For Supporting Bisexual Communities

• Do not insist that a gender nonconforming/ trans person or their partners must discard their bisexual identity label and use another label.

Being openly supportive of the bisexual community helps create a space where we can all be our full selves during the conference. To that end here are some pointers on being an ally to the B in LGBT: • Use inclusive language, instead of “gay rights” or “gay marriage” try “equal rights” and “marriage equality.” • Question the negativity associated with bisexual stereotypes. • Recognize that bisexuality is often invisibilized/delegitimized, so bi/pan/fluid people usually have to come out over and over, sometimes to the same people.

• Recognize that research shows that bisexual people have the highest level of sexual assault of all sexual orientations, a higher level of poverty, and higher mental and physical health disparities than their gay, lesbian and heterosexual counterparts. • Keep in mind that bisexual transgender individuals can experience intersections between biphobia and transphobia and also report higher levels of violence, poverty and poorer health in their lifetimes. • Recognize the way that specific relationships function is entirely independent of sexual orientation.

• Do not accuse someone of being transphobic or noninclusive of transgender and gender nonconforming people for using the label bisexual. This harms and erases trans/gender nonconforming bisexuals. • Recognize the way that specific relationships function is entirely 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.

• Respect people’s privacy and boundaries. Take a moment before asking questions and look into the assumptions behind them.

Thank you for respecting all the ways we can love each other! Enjoy the conference!

• Recognize that bisexual people often face similar discrimination and obstacles as gays and lesbians with regard to job security, healthcare, marriage, immigration, custody, visitation and adoption of children.

This document was originally compiled for Creating Change 2010 and has been revised by Ellyn Ruthstrom of the Bisexual Resource Center and Faith Cheltenham of BiNet USA. Special thanks to Aud Traher for additional insights.

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Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Etiquette and Inclusion Adapted from the 2002 Portland Creating Change Host Committee

To ensure that the transgender and gender nonconforming (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer and more) members of our community and movement feel included by all who attend Creating Change, please read and act upon the following. Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression but remember that a person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity. You cannot know the gender or sex of someone by their physical body, voice, or mannerisms. We consider it polite to ask: “What pronoun do you prefer?” or “How do you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words for anyone. When you are unsure of a person’s gender identity and you don’t have an opportunity to ask someone what words they prefer, try using that person’s name or gender-neutral phrases like “the person in the red shirt,” instead of “that woman or man.” If you have met a person before, and their gender expression is now different, be open to the fact that they may now be identifying as a different gender and feel good about asking politely about their identity. One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs is to designate restrooms gender neutral, which we have done here at Creating Change with educational signs. In bathrooms, many transgender people face harassment that can lead to anything from deep discomfort to arrest or death. Regardless of what bathroom you are in, please let everyone pee in peace. Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong. Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s privacy and boundaries and do not ask questions that you wouldn’t ask of anyone else. Do not make assumptions about other people’s gender identity or expression. Do respect and call people what they ask you to call them.

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If you make a mistake about someone’s pronoun simply make a correction and move on. Do not justify the misstep, over-apologize or beat yourself up. Educate yourself through books, web sites, and transgender-themed workshops. Then please join the many hardworking allies who are working to respond appropriately to transphobic situations. Respectful allies, who learn from and with transgender people and then educate others, are important for successful transgender liberation. Thank you for your help and have a great conference!

HIV/AIDS Etiquette at Creating Change…and In Your Life! HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Unlike some other viruses, the human body cannot get rid of HIV. That means that once you are diagnosed with HIV, you are HIV positive for life. HIV affects specific cells of the immune system, called CD4 cells, or T cells. Over time, HIV can destroy so many of these cells that the body can’t fight off infections and disease. When this happens, HIV infection leads to AIDS. No cure currently exists for HIV, but scientists are working hard to find one, and remain hopeful. In the early days of the epidemic, HIV/AIDS was a death sentence. Before the introduction of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) in the mid-1990s, people with HIV could progress to AIDS in just a few years. However, today, with proper medical care and strong support systems, those living with HIV can control their virus and even reverse much of the damage caused by HIV and dramatically prolong the lives of many HIV positive people to normal life expectancy and also lower their chance of spreading the virus to others. Despite these great strides, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is not over. Both HIV and AIDS are neither historic phenomena nor diseases that afflict only those

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living in developing countries. Since its discovery in 1981, 1.7 million people in the U.S. are estimated to have been infected with HIV, including over 619,000 who have already died from complications stemming from HIV or AIDS related illnesses. As of 2009, approximately 1.2 million people in the United States are currently living with HIV and HIV diagnoses have been reported in all 50 states, the District of Columbia as well as other U.S. territories and outlying areas. It is believed that an estimated 20% of all those living with HIV are currently unaware of their HIV status and that a person becomes infected with HIV every 9.5 minutes. HIV/AIDS is not spread by day-to-day contact. HIV/ AIDS is not spread through shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, a drinking fountain, a door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, cigarettes, pets, or insects. HIV is not spread through the air, and it does not live long outside the body. At Creating Change, you may meet someone who is HIV positive or someone living with AIDS. Should someone open up to you about HIV-positive status it is important to let that person set the tone for discussing their virus. While curiosity is natural, we ask that you avoid asking overly prying questions related to a HIV positive person’s status, such as, “How did you become positive?” Oftentimes, those living with HIV do not want to disclose the details of the circumstances that led to them becoming HIV positive (seroconversion) and asking such a question could be considered very intrusive. Also, we ask that you try to avoid using insensitive and degrading phrases such as “full-blown AIDS,” “AIDS victim,” “HIV sufferer,” or “diseased” when talking about HIV/AIDS. Such questions and terminology are degrading and fuel the stigmatization of those living with HIV/AIDS. Before being intimate, take a moment to speak with your partner(s) about HIV and other STIs. If you are unsure of your status, then be honest and say so. Better yet, take a moment and get tested together! Testing is available on site at Creating Change. Check the General Information section of the program book for more details. A helpful hint: when trying to learn a person’s status, avoid phrasing your

inquiry as, “Are you clean?” Using the term “clean” to denote an HIV-negative status strongly implies that being HIV-positive is “dirty,” adding to the stigma surrounding the virus. Instead ask, “What is your HIV status?” and go from there. Remember, regardless of status, it is always important to partake in safe sex practices. While at Creating Change, think about how you can model effective ally behavior that ends the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. One of the key ways to do so is as simple as washing your hands! Because people living with HIV/AIDS are more susceptible to the harmful effects of bacteria, viruses or other pathogens than those who are HIV-negative, we ask that if you aren’t feeling well or if you are sick that you try to model proper etiquette and take a sick day, rest up, and maintain a safe distance from others. Additionally, taking a few extra minutes to make sure you are practicing proper hand washing techniques and hand sanitization after using the bathroom to help minimize the spread of germs and ensure the well-being of everyone attending this year’s conference. Don’t assume that all HIV-positive people are alike and have similar needs and comfort levels in discussing their status. Because of widespread stigmatization and criminalization of HIV/AIDS in the United States, confidentiality is a paramount concern for many people living with HIV/AIDS. If you want to learn more about how to be an ally to an HIV positive person and make a difference for the accessibility needs of HIV positive people, talk to your friends who may identify as HIV positive. If you don’t know anyone who is openly HIV positive, consider participating in the HIV/AIDS track here at Creating Change and learn about the various policy, health, educational, and political needs and concerns of those living with HIV/AIDS. The National LGBTQ Task Force believes that everyone attending Creating Change deserves to be treated with dignity and respect that reflects our shared humanity. Therefore, we ask you to cherish the humanity of those who may be HIV-positive and help us work to defeat the stigma that exists around HIV/AIDS. Those living with HIV/AIDS are more than NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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just the virus or syndrome and deserve to be treated that way. As a result, should someone disclose their status to you, be prepared to respond with a confidential spirit, an open mind, and a willingness to care. Here is a challenge for you while at Creating Change: have three conversations about HIV/AIDS. Yes, go ahead and talk about HIV/AIDS! We thank you for attending this year’s Creating Change Conference and working to help our movement build a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and that creates equal opportunity for all of us, including those living with HIV and AIDS.

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CREATING ACCESSIBILITY The National LGBTQ Task Force and the Creating Change 2017 Host Committee strive to make Creating Change 2017 welcoming and accessible for attendees with disabilities. In the spirit of learning how our communities can be inclusive of and accessible to all people, we offer these guidelines for creating a community where people with disabilities 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 nondisabled 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. 26

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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. 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

CREATING ACCESSIBILITY a different pace or in a different way than you do. Don’t make assumptions 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 conditions. 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 throughout in the plenary space and in the meeting rooms. Please be prepared to move chairs to make room for people using wheelchairs, wherever 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 take your hallway conversations out of the middle of the hallway. 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 toward 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 either not use shampoo, soap, hair products, perfume, 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, scentsafer spaces are designated in the Grand Ballroom. If scents and chemicals present a barrier for you, please know that Creating Change is not yet a scent-free conference. If you smoke (or hang around people while they smoke) please do so only in the designated areas and away from entrances. When NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

CREATING ACCESSIBILITY 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. The Accessibility Table may be staffed during the Creating Change Conference. If you have questions, concerns or need assistance regarding access, please stop by the Accessibility Table adjacent to the conference registration area in the “8th Street Registration” on the Lobby Level. If no one is available, please seek assistance at the conference registration area. Please listen to the needs and stories of disabled 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. Educate yourself through books, web 28

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sites, and at the disability-related workshops at Creating Change. Then, please join the many hardworking allies who are working to respond appropriately to ableist situations. Please stop by the Accessibility Table adjacent to the conference registration area for: • Programs in large print. • Electric scooters and wheelchairs. • Viewing a large print grid schedule of events. • Assisted Listening Devices for use during the conference. Conference attendees utilizing ASL interpreting services can meet interpreters at the Accessibility Table adjacent to the registration area. If you want or need a place to hang out with disabled people, visit the Disabled Persons Hospitality Suite. Check the conference grid schedule for exact room number. Thanks for helping to make Creating Change a truly accessible event for all.

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GENERAL INFORMATION You and Your Badge

We are so happy that you are part of our family at Creating Change 2017! Please always wear your registration name badge when attending plenary sessions, workshops and caucuses, receptions and events. Wearing your badge is a friendly thing to do because it makes it easier for folks to call you by name. As well, the safety of all of us is a top priority: your name badge means you belong at Creating Change. Those without badges will be asked to retrieve them; or to purchase a new badge at Registration for an administrative fee of $5. Save yourself the inconvenience. Wear your badge. Thanks!

Protest Policy

The National LGBTQ Task Force encourages political expression as an essential principle in our LGBTQ movement for freedom, justice and equality. We welcome debate and dialogue as key elements of the Creating Change Conference, including nonviolent protest. The Task Force discourages the disruption of conference sessions, plenary sessions, meetings or exhibits that result in attendees not being able to fully participate in learning and educational opportunities available at Creating Change. We ask that this core principle of free exchange of ideas be respected as essential to the mission and spirit of the Creating Change Conference. For those who will be organizing protests within the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown during the Creating Change Conference, we ask you to inform the Conference Director (shyde@thetaskforce.org or 617.320.6635) and designate a contact person for your protest.

The National LGBTQ Task Force reserves the right to determine whether a demonstration is disruptive and/or detrimental to the conference programs at Creating Change. We seek to provide avenues for political expression while also balancing this with the needs of attendees, presenters, and exhibitors.

No Guns at Creating Change 2017! The National LGBTQ Task Force joins with the millions of people working to end gun violence. We ask, in the interest of everyone’s comfort and safety, that no guns be brought into our conference spaces, sessions, and gatherings. While a person with a “License to Carry Firearms” in Philadelphia may carry a handgun on public streets and public property of Philadelphia, we do not want guns at Creating Change! The presence of firearms creates discomfort, triggers trauma and can make many people feel more uncomfortable and threatened than safe. If any attendee is observed carrying a gun while participating in the Creating Change Conference, you will be asked to remove it from the premises. Thank you!

First Timers’ Orientation Thursday January 19, 7:00 PM Please check the grid schedule for location. First time at Creating Change? Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information that you need to quickly digest in order to make good choices about how to spend your time? Want some help? Come to the First Timers’ Orientation session with the Conference Director to get your questions answered by the expert!

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Protests within the hotel must be nonviolent “moving protests,” that is proceeding in a walking formation to avoid violations of Fire Code regulations regarding impeding the movements of others through the hotel and blocking doorways to meeting rooms;

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Hotels are not public spaces. The Philadelphia Marriott can report any protest to local law enforcement at their discretion.

Conference Suite I, Third Floor Feeling distress at Creating Change? The Wellness Hub is an intentional environment offered and lead by andbreathe.llc. at Creating Change 2017. Attendees are welcomed to The Wellness Hub for support with self-directed practices that promote the cultivation of their wellness during the conference.

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Wednesday 1/18 Thursday 1/19 Friday 1/20 Saturday 1/21 Sunday 1/22

4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Open House 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm -10:00 pm 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm -10:00 pm 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Love Yourself and Others! Get Tested and Learn about PrEP at Creating Change! Take advantage of the opportunity to take care of yourself by learning SPONSOR your status. We can defeat HIV/AIDS with testing and treatment. Let’s do it!

HIV Testing: You can access free HIV testing right here at Creating Change, offered by Philadelphia FIGHT. Philadelphia FIGHT is a comprehensive health services organization for people living with HIV/ AIDS and those at high risk. Philadelphia FIGHT’s HIV Counseling, Testing, Referral and Navigation (CTRN) team will be on site to provide the most up-to-date information about HIV to those who need it most. PrEP Action Center: Philadelphia FIGHT’s PrEP Navigators can support you in getting free or low-cost medication through a patient assistance program. Stop in for the latest information about PrEP options. PrEP is one pill, taken once a day, that will prevent you from becoming HIV+ by over 90%. We know this: PrEP works when you take it, it can’t work if you don’t. HIV Testing and the PrEP Action Center will be open on Friday, Jan. 20 and Saturday, Jan. 21 in Rooms 301 and 302.

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We Love Your Feedback

Our annual Creating Change Conference offers a rich and rigorous program of workshops, trainings, caucuses and networking sessions, meetings and social and spiritual gatherings. This year, our program includes 22 Day Long Institutes on Wednesday and Thursday, 20 sessions in the Leadership Academy, and over 250 workshop sessions and caucuses/networking sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Evaluation forms for each of these sessions are distributed and collected 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. Each attendee at Creating Change will receive an email from the Task Force in the days following the conference inviting 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. 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.

Child Care

Childcare services are provided by Elegant Event Sitters, Inc., an experienced agency specializing in event childcare. Please check in at the conference registration area on Level 5 for the exact room location of childcare. There is no charge for on-site childcare, but we ask that parents pick up children for lunch from Noon to 1 PM. Some activities will be provided by Elegant Event Sitters. Childcare is available: Thursday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM Friday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM Saturday 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM Sunday 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

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12 Step/Recovery

Keep your recovery going at Creating Change! The 12 Step/ Recovery Subcommittee of the Philadelphia CC17 Host Committee will host 12 Step meetings at the Creating Change Conference. We want everyone to have a safe space to retreat to during our amazing conference. During these three meetings, we will have guest speakers, round robin discussions and the option to networking over dinner after the meetings. We want to invite everyone from every fellowship to our meetings. During these meetings, we invite you to network and connect with other LGBTQIA individuals who are in recovery throughout this wonderful conference. Thursday: 6:30 PM Friday: 7:30 PM Saturday: 7:30 PM

Hospitality Suites: Thursday, Friday and Saturday Elder Hospitality Suite Thursday, Friday, Saturday The Elder Hospitality subcommittee honors and invites our wise and seasoned LGBTQ family of any age to stop by our suite for refreshment, relaxation, networking, and conversation, and rainbow crafts. Enjoy afternoon and evening programming that will include local musicians, fabulous historians talking about Philadelphia’s LGBTQ history (past and present), tour guides who will share the historical treasures of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, and a chance to meet the residents of John C. Anderson, Philadelphia’s LGBT friendly senior apartments. Please stop by the Elder Hospitality Suite to pick up a complete schedule of the exciting programming we have planned.

Transgender Hospitality Suite

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: 8 AM - 10 PM The City of Queerly Love wants to welcome all to the 2017 Creating Change Conference Transgender Hospitality Suite. We want to invite you to three days of community relaxing. The Suite will provide light refreshments throughout the days. The room is going to give you a calm relaxation period between workshops or whenever you need to get away. The suite will be dedicated to our transgender

pioneers past, present, and future to affirm that we are leaders. Programming for the suite is organized by the local Philadelphia transgender community members and we hope you enjoy the conference.

2017 Youth Hospitality Suite Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Philadelphia is ecstatic to welcome individuals 24 and under to the 2017 Youth Hospitality Suite! Join us for casual conversations around self-care, healthy relationships, coming out and more throughout the conference. Thursday night come out to play games and connect with other youth; Friday night bring forward your best poem (or song, or story, or…) for an open mic night, and don’t forget to come to this year’s MasQUEERade Youth Dance on Saturday night. Don’t have a mask? We’ve got you covered—drop by the Youth Hospitality Suite to create your own mask at any time! Not interested in programming? That’s okay! Our doors are always open for you to come and hang out, make crafts, meet new friends and reconnect with old buddies.

Disability Hospitality Suite

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8 AM – 8 PM We want to invite our LGBTQ community members who self identify as disabled to come enjoy space to relax and regroup during the conference. We want to offer individuals some art workshops and other fun activities that we all may enjoy together. This hospitality suite will give us an opportunity to be in a space where we can feel comfortable and learn some great activities that we can do at home. We will be serving refreshments during the hours of operation.

The Bisexual Hospitality Suite

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8 AM – 10 PM The Bisexual Hospitality suite warmly welcomes all non-monosexual individuals to join us for food, festivities, and respite. Our suite will provide small meals and light entertainment between sessions. Thursday evening stop by for games and meet some new friends, bring your singing voice or favorite poem for an open mic/karaoke on Friday and let s get crafty on Saturday making pride flags, bracelets, keychains, etc. There will be time to connect with others, participate in fun activities or just stop in to pick up some resources. Allies who wish to connect with the community in solidarity are welcome as well. NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

HOST COMMITTEE SERVICES People of Color Suite

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8 AM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 PM The People of Color suite openly invites all People of Color to indulge in refreshments, relaxation and restoration. From meditation to creative art, the POC suite is bringing LIFE in the City of Brotherly Love. Join us in Philadelphia for an opportunity to restore and empower your mind, body and spirit. The POC Suite will allow you to network and reconnect with friends while enjoying the fine arts. With entertainment and live performances, look no further, everything is in the POC suite!

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SPIRITUAL GATHERINGS Check the conference grid schedule to confirm locations.

Muslim Friday Prayer – Salaat-ul-Jumah

Friday, January 20, 12:30 PM 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. Led by Imam Tynan Power.

Shabbat Celebration

Friday, January 20, 7:30PM Shabbat Service: Join us as we come together as a community to welcome the Sabbath. No matter your background or religious affiliation, we invite you to a service filled with beautiful songs, heart filled prayers, and plenty of food for thought (and Challah bread to boot).

Organized by the Spiritual Needs Subcommittee of the 2017 Creating Change Host Committee. Trans* Revolutionary Love: An Interfaith Gathering to Close Creating Change 2017 Sunday, January 22, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Creating Change 2017 and Practice Spirit, Do Justice will conclude with a gathering to reflect and renew our commitment to the LGBTQ Movement for Equality and Justice for all. Trans* leaders representing a diversity of faith, thought and spiritual traditions will lead ritual, readings, and music that center the revolutionary power of love – for we know that our love is greater than fear. Organized by the Spiritual Needs Subcommittee of the 2017 Creating Change Host Committee and Faith Organizing staff at the National LGBTQ Task Force.

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PLENARY PROGRAMS Friday, January 20, 12:30 – 2:30 PM Lunch Service at 12:30 PM

Thursday, January 19, 8:00 PM

Convergence: Forging the Path

Forward Together: The Prophetic PostElection Call to Action!

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II

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Rev. Dr. Barber serves as President of the North Carolina NAACP and leads the Forward Together Moral Movement, an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations better known as “Moral Monday.” Forward Together is a multiracial movement to resist attacks by state governments on voting rights, public education, Medicaid, the environment, and the rights of women, labor, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community. This coalition inspired organizing across the nation. Rev. Dr. Barber’s call for Forward Together coalition actions is more important than ever before. Be lifted up; be inspired; and be ready to act.

The HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately impact gay and bisexual men, transgender women, youth ages 13-24 and communities of color. We’ve arrived at an important moment in our efforts to tackle HIV - the convergence of HIV prevention and treatment. Before us now is great potential to reach the goal of getting to zero - zero new infections, zero AIDS-related deaths, zero discrimination. To unlock this potential, we must address the powerful barrier of stigma impacting engagement in care for both HIV-negative and HIV-positive individuals. Join us

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for a dynamic plenary to explore how we can forge a new path that unifies and amplifies our efforts to end HIV. Together we can help stop the virus. Speakers: •

Phill Wilson, President and CEO, Black AIDS Institute

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Richard A. Elion, MD , Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, George Washington University

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Ken Williams, Blogger, Speaker and Activist, kenlikebarbie.com

Special Appearance by Todrick Hall

PLENARY PROGRAMS Friday, January 20, 1:30 PM

The State of the Movement Address: Staff of the National LGBTQ Task Force

A diverse group of Task Force staff will deliver the annual State of the Movement. These change makers will share their stories and the work they are doing to drive our movement forward to real freedom, justice and equality for all LGBTQ people and for a changed country. Together more than ever, as we meet the challenges of a Trump Administration, we need to elevate the power of our collective hope,

Saturday, Jan. 21, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Philadelphia Women’s March The plenary session today has been transformed! Please march with a contingent of Creating Change attendees to join the Philadelphia Women’s March, taking place in solidarity with marchers in Washington, DC for the Women’s March on Washington. Yes! We will take our strong LGBTQ spirits and good LGBTQ energy out of the Philadelphia Marriott and into the streets. We endured the rhetoric of this past election cycle that insulted, demonized, and threatened women, immigrants of all statuses, Jews and Muslims, LGBTQ people, Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault. Now more than ever, we continue the fight back against Trumpism. All are welcome at the Philadelphia Women’s March and in our Creating Change contingent.

The 2016 State of the Movement

resilience, and resistance for the work ahead to protect and

defend our communities and our LGBTQ family.

Sunday, January 22, 11:30 AM

Closing Plenary with Brunch: Alex Newell

Alex Newell, lifelong singer and entertainer, achieved national recognition with his star turn on the television show “Glee” in the recurring and memorably genderbending role of Unique Adams, a male-tofemale transgender character. Since Glee, he has worked with “Rather Be” stars Clean Bandit on their empowering track “Stronger;” guested on the Knocks’ dazzling dance single “Collect My Love” and issued a magnetic cover of Sigma’s “Nobody to Love.” Alex has appeared at many LGBTQ Pride events, and recently toured with Adam Lambert. Alex’s music has been featured on HBO’s Vinyl. In commemoration of the October 2016 National Gay Men’s HIV/ AIDS Awareness Day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Start Talking Stop HIV campaign released a

music video featuring Alex in his hit song Collect My Love to educate gay men about the many HIV prevention options available to them. One critic called Alex’s HIV education video “foot-stomping fabulous.”

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AWARD HONOREES The National LGBTQ Task Force has the great privilege to present awards recognizing the hard work and dedication of colleagues in our LGBTQ movement. These awards are presented collaboratively with the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals; the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund; and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). We thank these partners in lifting up activists who express their passionate commitments to social justice every day.

The Youth Leadership Award Hazel Edwards is a Philadelphia proud trans community advocate and youth leader. She conducts research and analyzes data to improve the school climate for transgender and gender nonconforming students in the Philadelphia School District. In 2016, Hazel co-authored the School District’s Policy 252, establishing protections for transgender and gender nonconforming students and has led trainings for teachers and administrators on how to best implement the policy. Hazel is an intern at The Attic Youth Center with the Justice League program, mobilizing LGBTQ youth of color to address systems that have negatively impacted their lives. As part of this work, Hazel has presented and led workshops across the Philadelphia region for hundreds of people on gender, sexuality, racism, and anti-oppression. Hazel also co-facilitates GenderRevolution, The Attic Youth Center’s support group for transgender and gender non-conforming youth. She is the only out transgender young person on the Mayor’s Youth Commission in Philadelphia, where she regularly speaks to the issues that impact LGBTQ youth of color in Philadelphia. Hazel is a member of the Youth Leadership Housing Advisory Committee which advises the City of Philadelphia on how to address youth homelessness. Hazel has been recognized for her work and advocacy with the awards and titles: the keynote speaker for Philadelphia Trans March 2016, the Girls Rock Philly 2016 PhillyRising Award, the Youth Rising Star Award at Philadelphia Trans March 2015, and Youth Grand Marshall for the 2014 Philadelphia Pride Parade.

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Haas, Jr. Award for Outstanding LGBTQ Leadership for Immigrant Rights

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Glenn D. Magpantay has been working in the social justice movement for 30 years and has been advocating for the rights and dignities of immigrants and new Americans for the past 20 years. As Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), he has stewarded the organization’s multifaceted immigrant rights work at the intersection of racial justice and queerness. Glenn’s campaign victories include: educating thousands of LGBT APIs in a dozen cities across the country about immigrant rights; unifying LGBT APIs to fight for legalization and a path to citizenship, expanded visas, and legal protections against racial profiling, detentions, and deportations; reaching out to LGBT API community in six Asian languages; telling the diverse stories of LGBT APIs to show how immigration laws and policies affect them; deploying organizers and activists in 19 cities to suburban malls, parks, bus stops, grocery stores and the zoo to talk one-on-one with people about immigration reform; delivering 10,000 postcards to Congress to support comprehensive immigration reform; organizing LGBT APIs to have 1,000 conversations with family and friends, who then made 800 phone calls to President Obama to take bold action on immigration reform; creating a legal referral program for LGBT API immigrants to get legal assistance; leading a national LGBT API amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court to tell the story of how of the nation’s immigration laws directly impact the LGBT community.

AWARD HONOREES Distinguished Achievement in the Profession Award Presented by the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals. Each year, the Consortium recognizes excellence in the field of LGBTQ student services. Dr. Luke Jensen has built much of the basic infrastructure that supports LGBTQ+ people and work at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work to establish dedicated resources within various campus units inspired Campus Pride to call Maryland the “Best of the Best” for several years. A higher education administrator for nearly three decades, Dr. Jensen chaired Maryland’s President’s Commission on LGBT Issues (1996), founded the LGBT Equity Center (1998), established the LGBT Scholarship Fund (1999), and was key in the establishment of the LGBT Studies Program (2002). Under his leadership, the LGBT Equity Center has grown from a tiny one-person office in the attic of a building on the edge of campus into vibrant hub of activity at the center of campus with three professional staff, graduate assistants, and student volunteers. Dr. Jensen represented the Consortium on the Board of Directors of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) for 11 years. His advocacy meant that LGBTQ+ people and issues were considered and included in each of the functional areas of Student Affairs as integral standards for quality in Higher Education. Dr. Jensen’s proudest moments have come at the success of his Associate Directors, past and present, three of whom have dedicated their careers to intersectional social justice projects.

SAGE Advocacy Award for Excellence in Leadership on Aging John C. Anderson Apartments, An LGBT Friendly Community

and makes it today a place of community building. The award-winning John C. Anderson Apartments offers 56 unites of highquality senior housing to low-income LGBT seniors. Through this award, SAGE acknowledges and honors those who conceived of, built and manage the project, (Mark Segal, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Fund, Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, and Pennrose Management Inc); the donors, funders and government officials who provided support; the William Way LGBT Community Center which provides programs and services; and the residents, who collectively model for the nation how to build community and take care of our own.

LGBTQ Media Award for Elevating the Voices of LGBTQ People Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) The National LGBTQ Task Force is proud to present Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) with the inaugural LGBTQ Media Award for its commitment to elevating the voices of LGBTQ people in Philadelphia and across the country. Founded in 1976, PGN is the oldest LGBTQ weekly newspaper in the country. For forty years, PGN has served as one of the region’s most trusted source of news and information. In 1993, Philadelphia Magazine honored PGA’s Mark Segal for his contributions to the LGBTQ community. Earlier this year, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton published an op-ed in PGN, which is the first time a major party nominee wrote an op-ed for an LGBTQ newspaper. We congratulate PGN Publisher Mark Segal and Editor Jen Colletta for 40 years of service to the LGBTQ community.

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RECEPTIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Events will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott, unless otherwise noted. Check the grid schedule for exact locations.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 National Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals Business Meeting 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Connect with colleagues, hear about the Consortium’s work, and celebrate a great year. We’ll also discuss our Annual Report.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 Art Studio Space – CC17 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Creating Change is thrilled to welcome you to Art Studio Space - Creating Change. Our creative expressions foster and reflect individual visions within our communities, through the banners we carry, the logos we brand for our organizations and the art we hang on our walls. Art Studio Space - CC17 is a collaborative space in which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own personal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC17. Weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! This year’s ASS will take place in a beautiful make shift loft-type setting with natural lighting and tall ceilings. The amazing ASS staff of Tamara Galinsky, Ilene Goldstein, Rae Fehring and Jessica Vondyke will be on hand to assist you with your whimsical and creative endeavors. Come on by! David Bohnett CyberCenter Reception 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM * Hard Rock Cafe (across the street from the Marriott) The reception is for LGBT Community Center leaders who already host a David Bohnett CyberCenter or for LGBT Community Center leaders who want to learn more. Come share experiences, network and talk to other David BohnettCyberCenter folks.

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Welcome to Philadelphia Reception 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM * Exhibit Area SPONSOR

Mix, mingle, and schmooze in the conference Exhibit Area. Meet old friends and make new ones! Complimentary appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages. Eat, drink, and be you! Sponsored by TD Bank. Queerly Love Dance Party! 10:00 PM - Midnight

Philly Dyke March is honored to host the FIRST EVER opening night dance party and to welcome the diverse community of CC17 attendees by showcasing Philly’s hospitality & LGBTQ history! We are excited to premiere this new space in Philly, a city that is committed to being a place where everyone is welcome to be exactly who they are and have a great time doing it. The dance will take place immediately after the Opening Plenary and DJ Niilo will be spinning until midnight! Please join us as we create community and dance to some of Philly’s hottest beats! (There will be a cash bar.)

FRIDAY JANUARY 20 Art Studio Space – CC17 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Art Studio Space - CC17 is a collaborative space in which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own personal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC17. Weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! The amazing ASS staff of Tamara Galinsky, Ilene Goldstein, Rae Fehring and Jessica Vondyke will be on hand to assist you with your whimsical and creative endeavors. Come on by! All Receptions at 8:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. Check the grid schedule for exact locations.

RECEPTIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Academy for Leadership and Action Reception: LGBTQ Joy as Radical Resistance! Meet and mingle as we celebrate the power of LGBTQ joy and artistry as radical resistance. Across the movement, organizers are confronted with enormous challenges -- from the unacceptable injustice and violence that people of color continue to face each day to the onslaught of religious exemption and antiTrans attacks in state legislatures. Join the Academy for Leadership and Action in an evening of Art, Heart, Laughter, Appreciation, and Community over food and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic). We will hear from folks working on the ground to disrupt the false narrative that faith is against LGBTQ people and that LGBTQ people are not people of faith. We’ll lift up our dreams and work for racial and gender justice as we recommit ourselves to the important work ahead to counter harm done in the name of religion. Come for REUNION+REFLECTION+REDEDICATION+REVELRY! Agents of Change Love Ball 2017 Doors at 7:00 PM; 8:00 PM - Midnight * Grand Ballroom Walk your categories and cheer on your friends at this House Mini-Ball. A drug and alcohol free space to raise HIV awareness. HIV testing provided at the Ball by Philadelphia FIGHT. $10 before 8 PM; $20 after 8 PM. No cover for Creating Change attendees, with badges. Presented by: Penelope Infiniti NYC, Angel Infiniti California, Grandfather Angel Infiniti Miami, Icon Alvernian Prestige Philadelphia. Featuring Icon MC Jay Blahnik and MC Athena Kahn.

The Friday Night Cruise 9:00 PM The Friday Night Cruise is for Creating Change attendees who are interested in meeting and/or hooking up with others at the conference. We are excited to again have a cash bar at the entrance this year! For folks who say: “I wish I had met you earlier in the conference!” You now have no excuse; this is your opportunity. We invite those who are “available” to attend and encourage the strong Creating Change Poly/NM contingent to come out in force! This Friday Night Cruise is an extravagant welcome to come and enjoy the great diversity of available, brilliant, adventurous Creating Change-goers. Using a modified speed-greeting format, the Friday Night Cruise will offer a chance to meet the multitudes of people in the room through quick introductions

and fun questions. Then small group conversations based on identity, age, and interest will be developed, providing an opportunity to talk more with individual(s) that caught your attention, ask questions, share interests, swap contact info, hook up, network and/ or organize across the room and across the country. Participation is flexible and everyone is welcome to attend inclusive of all identities and life experience. Program hosts will be on hand to facilitate the event, answer questions, and help with resources.

SATURDAY JANUARY 21 Art Studio Space – CC17 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM * Gallery Exhibit 6:30 PM Art Studio Space - CC17 is a collaborative space in which we draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave our own personal experiences within the LGBTQ movement. The possibilities are endless! Bring your artistic LGBTQ awesome selves to the Art Studio Space CC17. Weave some queer magic, or just relax and have some right brain fun! The amazing ASS staff of Tamara Galinsky, Ilene Goldstein, Rae Fehring and Jessica Vondyke will be on hand to assist you with your whimsical and creative endeavors. The Art Studio Space closes at 1:00 PM for its transformation into a Gallery showing works created by CC17 artists. Visit the Gallery at 6:30 PM. MasQUEERAde Ball for Youth 8:00 PM – Midnight * Grand Ballroom A special YOUTH PARTY for those 24 and under. It might be cold outside, but it’s hot in here! Come on in for fun and dancing. Free and open to all who are 24 and under. Need something a mask? Stop by the Youth Hospitality Suite to make a mask for Ball! No alcohol or drugs permitted. Hosted by The Attic Youth Center. Boomers Dance! Made for Baby Boomers, Fun Enough for X’ers and Millennials 9 PM – 12:00 Midnight be you, create change, dance.

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Aging and Ageism

Friday, January 20 Academy Session 1 Workshop Session 1 Workshop Session 2 Academy Session 2 Workshop Session 3 Workshop Session 4 Caucus 1

9:00 am-12:15 pm 9:00 am-10:30 am 10:45 am-12:15 pm 3:00 pm-6:15 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 4:45 pm-6:15 pm 6:30 pm-7:30 pm

Saturday, January 21 Academy Session 3 Workshop Session 5 Workshop Session 6 Academy Session 4 Workshop Session 7 Workshop Session 8 Caucus 2

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Sunday, January 22 Workshop Session 9

9:30 am-11:00 am

Session Skill Levels Fundamentals – Basic/entry level for new staff, board members, volunteers and activists, 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 – Typically, 2-5 years of experience. Content includes putting theory into practice, and practical application. Sessions deal with serious challenges or barriers to being effective. Some time is devoted to problem solving. Advanced – Typically, 5+ years of experience. Sessions tailored for lead volunteers and organizers, board chairs, executive directors and senior managers, and experienced lobbyists. Content includes advanced theory, organizational management, and best practices. In addition, advanced sessions can include case study examinations and high-level problem solving. All Audiences – Session is suitable for participants at all skill levels. 60

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Don’t Forget Stonewall: Building Age Inclusive LGBT Centers and Services Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Bridging Generations: Story Sharing with Young and Older Activists Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Elder Passion: Discussion and Reading from a Hot New Novel Caucus 1 • All Audiences Promoting the Health of LGBTQ Older Adult Populations, Specifically Communities of Color, Through Mobilization and Engagement Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies #BiggerThanBathrooms: Strategies for Organizing for Public Policy Wins in Chicago Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals Local Matters: Winning Municipal Nondiscrimination Campaigns Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Traveling While Trans: Protecting Your Rights and Keeping Yourself Safe Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence I Need IX: Organizing to End Sexual Violence Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals Hanging Out and Hooking Up in Trans* Communities Workshop Sessions 3&4 • All Audiences Hanging Out and Hooking Up Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Learnings from Orlando: Understanding and Responding to Violence in LGBTQ Communities of Color Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

SESSIONS BY TOPIC Queering Sexual Violence Prevention & Response for LGBTQIA+ Communities Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Supporting LGBTQ Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Art & Culture After Orlando + Every 28 Hours: Performance as Civic Engagement Workshop Sessions 1&2 • All Audiences Guerrilla Printmaking for the Revolution Workshop Sessions 1&2 • Ballroom 2017 LOVE IN THE CITY Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Songwriting for the LGBTQ Movement Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Queer Memoir Storytelling = Radical Act Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Ballroom Caucus: Agents of Change Love Mini Ball 2017 Reloaded Caucus 2 • All Audiences Trans Stories Matter: A Short Docs Showcase Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Bisexual Community & Issues Beyond Binaries: Identity, Sexuality And Movement Building Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Invisible Majority: Disparities Facing the Bisexual Community and How to Remedy Them Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Unifying Bisexual Community: Events for Visibility and Beyond Caucus 1 • All Audiences Starting and Growing Your Own Bisexual+ Support Group Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators BPFQ: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, Queer Intersecting Identities on College Campuses Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Community Means Everyone: Establishing LGBTQ+ Support Programs at Faith-Based Institutions Workshop Session 1 • Advanced “Take a Stand, Don’t Pay Lip Service:” Interpersonal Violence in College LGBTQ Communities Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Do Better: Creating Non- Oppressive QTSOC Spaces on Your Campus Workshop Session 3 • Advanced Resistance toward Resilience: QTPOC Professionals Navigating Job Transitions Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Developing the Queer Student Leader Caucus 1 • All Audiences Expanding Safe Zones: Creating Greater Capacity for Education Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate Inclusive SP(ACES): Making College/University LGBTQ+ Centers Ace Inclusive Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate From Student to Staff: Changing Roles Within a Campus Resource Center Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Mentoring Across Difference Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Supporting & Engaging LGBTQIA2S+ College Students in Rural Environments Caucus 2 • All Audiences Fostering Strong & Intentional Partnerships Between LGBTQ+ Student Services and Fraternity & Sorority Life Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

SESSIONS BY TOPIC The Power of Queer Peer Education Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

Jeh Johnson, Can You Hear Us Now? Organizing Against Islamophobia & Legalized Profiling Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate

College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students

Art of the Schmooze Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Activism on Campus: What Every Queer Student Needs to Know Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Building & Sustaining Coalitions to Prevent LGBTQIA+ Youth Suicide Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

#MyStoryOUTLoud: Centering the Voices of QTPoC for Campus Change Workshop Session 2 • Fundamentals

Squad Goals: Direct Action Organizing Thru a Black Queer Feminist Lens Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Creating and Maintaining LGBT Support Groups on College Campuses Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Coalition Building: How to create an effective coalition Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Home Away from Home: Finding Community as a College Student Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Asexual & Aromantic Spectrum Caucus Caucus 1 • Intermediate

Queering Greek Life: The Value of LGBT Sororities and Fraternities Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Biscuits & Bridge Building: Transformative Strategies for Intersectional Organizing in the South Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate

Mobilizing Undocuqueer Power to Guarantee Our Right to Education Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Not YOUR Average Sex Talk: Creating Peer-toPeer Sexual Education Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Quiet Queers: Advocacy through Passive Activism Workshop Session 8 • Fundamentals

Community Centers Beyond Preferred Pronouns: Creating Ethical Listening Spaces Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Community Organizing Civil Rights and LGBTQ Fusion Organizing in the South Workshop Sessions 1&2 • All Audiences 62

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Inclusive Movement Building: Deaf LGBTQ Solidarity Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Queer Asylum Seekers, Asylees and Refugees’ Social Network. Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Creating Safe Communities and Power Building in Rural Areas Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Lessons from the Field: Recruiting & Supporting Volunteer Teams Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals Nice Werk if You Can Get It Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Unlikely Allies: Building Coalitions Beyond LGBTQ Organizations Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences It Takes Two to Tango: Coaching for Success! Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate

SESSIONS BY TOPIC Ready to ROAR: Intro to Power and Oppression Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Queer Southern Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Criminal Justice Building Community with LGBTQ Prisoners Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate Criminalization of People Living with HIV Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Safewords Won’t Save Us: Transforming Responses to Abuse & Assault Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate LGBT Organizations Train Police to Be LGBT Sensitive Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals Building a Network for Formerly Incarcerated LGBTQ People Caucus 1 • All Audiences Policy Counsel and Litigators Round Table on Sex Work Decriminalization Caucus 1 • Advanced

But I’m queer! What Does Disability Have to Do With iIt? Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate Disability Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Economic Justice Building a Federal LGBTQ Poverty Policy Agenda Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Decriminalization of the Sex Trade: An Issue at the Intersections Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals Building Core Organizing Skills While Advocating for Debt Free College Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Fighting for Our Families: The Case for Paid Family and Medical Leave Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

Elections/Campaigns At the Table Making Changes: LGBTQ Leadership Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Protected & Served? Transgender People in the Criminal Legal System Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

Field of Dreams: How Field Experiments Are Shaping LGBTQ Movement Strategy Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Reentry: Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration for LGBTQ People and PLHIV Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Building a Winning Political Program to Advance your Interests Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Your Right To Remain Silent and Speak Out! Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

Strategies in the New Presidential Administration Workshop Session 4 •

Disability Justice

Prejudice Reduction - Lessons from Deep Canvassing Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

Physically Disabled LGBTQ Folks Navigating Queer Spaces Workshop Session 1 • Fundamentals Low Spoons*, Full Heart: Navigating Relationships with Chronic Illness/Disability Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Representation Matters: Running for Office as an Openly LGBT Candidate Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Families Proud Parents! Making Queer Family Connections Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Family Building Options for LGBTQ People Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

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Queerspawn Allyship and Movement Building Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Family Acceptance is a Public Health Issue Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences WE Define Family! Stories of Alternative Family <odels Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Loving with Our Whole Hearts: A Mother and Transgender Son Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

LGBTQ Fundraising Forum: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Innovative Approaches to Funding Grassroots Activism, Organizing, & Movement Building Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences Stop the Hamster Wheel of Work: Best Evaluation Practices for Non-Profits Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate

Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) Breaking ID Barriers: Community-based Support for Updated Identity Documents Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

POC Parents of LGBTQ Kids Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

The Task Force’s Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project. Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Fundraising/Resource Development

Becoming a Trans* Ally Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals

Fundraising from Foundations: An Update on the Field of LGBTQ Philanthropy Workshop Sessions 1&2 • Intermediate

Masc in the Mirror: Exploring Queer Masculinities Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

How Research is (Mis)used to Harm Transgender People Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Funding to Address LGBTQ Criminalization Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate Working with Foundations and Talking Through Challenges Workshop Session 3 • Intermediate Creating a Diverse Donor Base Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences How to Connect LGBT People to LGBT Organizations Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate 64

Using Social Media to Effectively Raise Dollars for Your Program/Organization Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate

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#CCFemme17: Our Bodies are Powerful Caucus 1 • All Audiences Trans Legal Services Network: Sharing Information to Support Our Communities Caucus 1 • All Audiences Feminism in the Non-Binary Community Caucus 1 • All Audiences Building Gender Justice Mindset for Youth in Your Community Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

SESSIONS BY TOPIC TRUTH: Challenging Media Narratives About Trans Youth Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Creating Safe Space for TransLatinas Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Increasing Transgender Visibility Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Breaking it Down! Peer Education and Transgender Rights Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate

Healing Our Wounds Workshop Session 3 • Fundamentals LGBTQ Immigrants and the Agencies that Stand By Them to Thrive Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Sex, Queers, and Health Equity: Creating a Community Action Plan Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Creating a Safer Community: Alternatives to Law Enforcement Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

Engaging, Centering, Teaching, & Mobilizing Young Queer & Trans Revolutionaries Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate

Trans Mental Health Survey Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

From Paper to Practice: State and Local Enactment of Federal Protections Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

History

Trans Women to the Front! Increasing Engagement & Supporting Leadership of Trans Women Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Be True 2 U! Resisting the Gender Police. Caucus 2 • All Audiences Gender Policing for Jesus: The Christian Right vs. Transgender Justice Workshop Session 9 • Intermediate

Health

Trans History: from the beginning till now Caucus 1 • All Audiences Black Gay Revolutionary: On the Life and Work of Joseph F. Beam Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences LGBTQ Latinxs: Organizing Our Community Through Preserving our Hxstory Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Readings by Queer Brown Voices Caucus 2 • All Audiences

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Advocating for LGBT Cultural Competence Requirements for Healthcare Providers Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Closing the Gaps: HIV Prevention with the Deaf Communities Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform: A Case Study Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Fighting the Impact of Religious Exemptions in LGBT Healthcare Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Bloody Discrimination: Ending the (De Facto) Ban on Queer Blood Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Decriminalizing HIV, Decriminalizing Bodies: From the grassroots to the capitol Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Walkin’ the Talk: Mobilizing Faith Communities for HIV Advocacy and Social Justice Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

SESSIONS BY TOPIC LGBTQ Latinx HIV Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences Developing the Next Generation of HIV Advocates & Activists Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

Labor Valuing Transgender Applicants and Employees: A Best Practices Guide for Employers Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Engaging the Trans Community in Care/PrEP Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate

Leadership Academy

Enhancing HIV Prevention Communication and Mobilization through Strategic Partnerships Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Creating a Culture of Storytelling Academy Session 1

Living with HIV: Activism Across Generations Caucus 2 • All Audiences

How to Create a 20K Person Faith network in your state Academy Session 1

Immigration Justice

Manifesting Abundance in Working Poor and Working Class Communities Academy Session 1

Crimmigration: How Criminalization of LGBTQ and Immigrant Communities Fuels Deportation Workshop Session 4 • Advanced

Movement Building: Power to Transform Academy Session 1

LGBT Groups Work Together: Undocumented Californians Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences The LGBTQ Activist Immigration Experience Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences “My friend told me...”: Immigration Myths in the Trans Community Caucus 2 • Fundamentals

International Issues US Foreign Policy on LGBTIQ Issues Post-Election Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Media, Religion, and Hope for LGBTQI People in Africa Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Challenging the Global Export of Homophobia & Transphobia Workshop Sessions 5&6 • All Audiences

Shifting the Frame: Moving to a Systemic Racism Conversation Academy Session 1 Building Strong Organizations: What’s Race Got To Do With It? Academy Session 2 Queer Muslim-Jewish Dialogue 2017 - Conflict and Collaboration: Affirming value in partnership and protest Academy Session 2 Stop Telling Me to Make it “Viral”: Practical Digital Media Strategy Academy Session 2 The Revolution Will Not Be Toxic: Centering Care in Movements for Change Academy Session 2 WhiteJesus NotComing: Decolonizing Spirit Academy Session 2 De-Centering Whiteness in Organizations Academy Session 3 Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum Academy Session 3

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Love in Action: Reparations & Justice Academy Session 3 Shifting Power in our Movements: Transformative Accountability and Communication Academy Session 3

Lesbian Community & Issues Old Lesbian Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences The L-Fund - responding to Lesbians in Crisis Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Racial and Economic Justice-You can’t have one without the other Academy Session 4

Femmes, Studs, and Stems: Does it Really Make a Difference? Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Advancing the Pipeline for QTPOC and TGQ Student Affairs Professionals Academy Session 4

Lesbian Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Organizing Across Class Differences in Our Movements and Organizations Academy Session 4

Media, Communications, and Messaging

Sexual Liberation at the Intersections Academy Session 4 The Work that Reconnects Academy Session 4

Legislative/Policy Initiatives Developing Statewide Alliances to Combat AntiTransgender Legislation and/or Initiatives Workshop Session 1 • Intermediate Why Leadership Matters Now More Than Ever: LGBTQ Leaders on the Political Front Line at the State & Local Level Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate Advocacy 101 Caucus 1 • Fundamentals Hack the Law: The Next Generation Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences LGBT Liaisons and Offices Within Government Institutions Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

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Getting to the Truth: How New Media & Multimedia Journalism is Helping Stories Go Viral Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Elevating the Voices of LGBTQ People in the Media Caucus 1 • All Audiences Lights, Camera, Action En Español Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate Telling Your Story as a Radical Act Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences Selfies, Snaps, and Instagrams: Using Photojournalism in the New Millennium to Share LGBTQ stories Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Military & Veterans Issues We Are Veterans Too! - LGBTQ Veterans Benefits and Entitlements Resource Workshop Caucus 2 • All Audiences

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Movement Building Queering Climate Change & Organizing for a Just Transition Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Treat Yo’ Self: the Necessity of Self Care 4 Advocates Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences You Can’t Sit Here: Unpacking Privilege in Movement Spaces Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Choosing Language that Liberates, Why Words Matter Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences The Evolution of Creating Change Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Movement Building in the LGBTQ Anti-Violence Field Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Culture Wars vs. Collective Liberation Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate What’s the Role of Democracy Initiatives Toward Building a Progressive LGBTQ Movement? Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Conversation with Jim Obergefell, US Supreme Court Marriage Equality Plaintiff Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Radical Redistribution in the South: How to leverage mainstream resources to empower grassroots change. Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences The Evolution of Creating Change Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences There Goes the Neighborhood: On Race, Class, Queerness, & Gentrification Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences ¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say? - Queer Liberation will not be in English Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences A Place at the Table: Expanding TGNC Policy Advocacy Participation Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Intersex Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences Queer Leaders of Color: Networks, Fellowship, and Confronting the Trump Presidency Caucus 2 • Advanced Radical Faerie Heart Circle Caucus 2 • All Audiences South Asian LGBTQ Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Creating Change for a Lifetime: the Power of Multi-issue Networks Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate

How to Become “Gay for Pay” Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

Taking on the NRA: How LGBTQ America Can Fight Gun Violence Workshop Session 6 •

Organizational Development

Transform California; Public Education to end Transphobia Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Creative Strategies to Advance LGBT Advocacy in Rural, Latinx and Low-Income Communities Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate 68

Effectively Engaging In Grassroots Organizing with Secular Advocates and Allies Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate

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Mission and Vision: Understanding the Differences; Designing Inclusion and Engagement Workshop Session 1 • Advanced Strategic Problem Solving: Practical Tools for Diagnosing and Solving Key Challenges Workshop Session 1 • Advanced

SESSIONS BY TOPIC Addressing Institutional Oppression: One NonProfit’s Journey to Creating and Using AntiOppression Framework Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Building Tech Solutions that Actually Solve Problems for Social Justice Non-profits Workshop Session 2 • Intermediate Organizational Culture and How It Affects The Social Justice Work We Do Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Reimagining Equity within Institutions: Moving Beyond the Individual Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate Sustainability Planning: Capacity Building for Healthy Leadership, Transitions, and Organizations Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Developing And Engaging With Authentic Trans Leadership Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Bridging Feminisms: Creating Trans-Affirming Feminist Social Justice Spaces Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

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“Friending Our Foes” an Open Debate on Being LGBT+ and Religion Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Engage Your Spirit: Harness the Movement and Empower Faith Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences Confronting Islamophobia in the LGBTQIA+ Community Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Faith and Family Acceptance in the API Community Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Are We There Yet? People of Faith and the Transgender Tipping point Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Healing Forward: Liberating our Faith Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Dia de los Muertos: Ritual for Spiritual Healing for the Grieving Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences In Times Such as These: Trans and GNC Seminarians (Re)Envisioning Ministry Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Secular Caucus: Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and Other Non-Believers Caucus 2 • All Audiences Intersectionality Bowling: Beyond the Frontera Caucus 1 • Fundamentals Metropolitan Community Church Meet Up Caucus 1 • All Audiences Pagan and Nature Spirituality Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences Queer Hindu Working Group Caucus 1 • All Audiences Creating Shared Values for Faith Based Collaboration Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences Cultivating Wholeness: Addressing the Spiritual Aspect of Transition for Transmasculine People of Color Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences LGBTQ Jewish Movement and Community Building: Queering the “Chosen People” Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate Digital Strategies For Faithful Action Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Intersections of Faith & Community Organizing in Communities of Color Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Transitioning our Faith Communities into Full Inclusion Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Becoming A Change Maker Inside the Christian Church Workshop Sessions 5&6 • All Audiences

Asian / South Asian / Southeast Asian / Pac. Is. Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Connecting at the Crossroads: Practical Steps to Intersectional Organizing Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate

Black Joy as Radical Resistance: People of Color Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Estamos Unidos: A Calling Through the Universal HeartBeat Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

Center Black Femmes, Women and Girls, or Else! Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Atheism 101: Working with the Nontheist Community Workshop Session 8 • Fundamentals Faith Communities: Strategies in the New Presidential Administration Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Queer/Trans and Spiritual: Creating an Authentic Path Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101 Workshop Session 6 • Fundamentals Privilege 101: Unpacking My Rainbow Knapsack Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Queer Activism in Spanish Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

The Sacred Clapback: LGBTQ Justice Organizing in Local Faith Communities Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Not Your Respectable QPOC: Resisting Respectability Politics in Queer Communities Workshop Session 8 • Intermediate

Queer Jewish Caucus: What Does an LGBTQ Jewish Identity Mean To You? Caucus 2 • All Audiences

This Love is Revolutionary: Black Love as Survival Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

United Church of Christ & Friends Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Racial Justice Race and Leadership in LGBT Organizations: Results of a Survey Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences To Pimp A Butterfly: Creating Movements too Good to Fund Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Uniting Latin@ Pride: A Roadmap Towards Intersectional Community Strengthening Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Building Queer Asian / South Asian Community and Movement Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

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#BlackGirlMagic Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences Navigating the Nonprofit Workplace as Queer/ Trans People of Color Caucus 2 • All Audiences QPOC Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences Two Spirit Talking Circle for Native American People Caucus 2 • All Audiences Queer Latinx: Confront Internalized Oppression and Occupy Healing Workshop Session 9 • All Audiences

SESSIONS BY TOPIC Religious Exemptions Legislation

Schools and Education, Grades K-12

Responding to Title IX Religious Exemptions: Advocacy Tools and Messaging Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences

Let’s Talk Race and Gender in Schools Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences

Talking Faith: Organizing with Religious Communities on RFRA Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Addressing Concerns, Fears, and Misconceptions about LGBTQ Students in Schools Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Sin, Sex, G-d and Government: HB1523 and the fight for “Religious Freedom” Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate

Beyond Inclusion: Advancing Comprehensive Sexuality Education that Reflects Youth Rights Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

Reproductive Justice

LGBT Educators Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Abortion clinics: a refuge for LGBTQ health care? Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences

Sexual Freedom

POC, Religious Exemptions, and the Shade of it All Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Reproductive Justice 101: A theory, framework, movement, and practice. Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate The Politics of the Closet: Queer Identity & Abortion Stigma Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Talk RJ To Me: Using the Power of Reproductive Justice to Broaden Your Audience Base Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Research and Policy Analysis Every Voice Counts! Results of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Breaking Down the Data: Understanding Research on the LGBT Community Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

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Shame, Desire, and Working for Justice Workshop Session 1 • All Audiences What’s It Take? Living and Loving in Long-term Relationships Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences Sexy Survivor Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Butch Femme Sexversations Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Mapping Our Desires Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Advanced Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus Caucus 1 • Advanced Becoming Sexual Liberators Caucus 1 • All Audiences Interracial Dating Caucus 1 • Intermediate A Place for Polyamorous/Non-Monogamous Communities in the LGBTIQA Movement Workshop Session 5 • Intermediate

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SESSIONS BY TOPIC Birds, Bees, Unicorns and Wolves: talking with children about sex to combat sexual abuse Workshop Session 5 • All Audiences

Healing from Suicide Grief in the Queer Community Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

Awkward Positions: Strategies 4 Youth/Studentfacing Staff to Create Sex Positive Spaces Workshop Session 6 • Intermediate

Youth Mix and Mingle! Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

Kink: Let’s Get Visual Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

#BrownBoiJoy: Prioritizing Our Self-Care and Healing Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Sex Positive Trans Sex Workshop Session 7 •

Self-care is an act of political warfare Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Sex Under Occupation Workshop Session 7 • Intermediate

Body Positive Gender Inclusive Yoga Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Relationship Builders: Laying the foundation and maintaining our structures Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Workplace

Sexy Crip Bodies Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Building Power in the Workplace through Diversity and Inclusion Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

Polyamory/Nonmonogamy for Beginners Caucus Caucus 2 • Fundamentals Sex & Sexuality Educator Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences You looking?: Trans/non-binary folks navigating gay cis male hookup apps Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Sports The Intersection Between Sports and LGBTQI Human Rights Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care Inhale, Exhale, Repeat: Self, Community and Movement Healing Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences Sex Workers’ Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences Social Service Provider Caucus Caucus 1 • All Audiences 72

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LGBTQ+ in Tech: Navigating and Queering the Tech Industry Caucus 1 • All Audiences Business of Change Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Youth How to School Adults 101: Understanding Adultism Workshop Session 2 • All Audiences A Youth Centered Approach to Social Change within Foster Care Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Young, Brown, Proud and OUT! Workshop Session 3 • All Audiences Getting Carded: Navigating ID Policies for LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness Workshop Session 4 • Intermediate Resisting Intersecting Oppressions as Young Queer Revolutionaries of Color Workshop Session 4 • All Audiences

SESSIONS BY TOPIC Working Together to Create Safe and Affirming Schools Caucus 1 • All Audiences

Youth Leadership in Advancing LGBT Youth Health and Rights, Domestically & Abroad Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

Postsecondary Pathways for LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences

Intersex Youth/Young Adult Panel Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences

Power to the Youth: Engaging and empowering youth leaders in shaping public policy and advocacy Workshop Session 6 • All Audiences Mental Health Practitioners: How to Support Trans and Gender Nonconforming Youth Workshop Session 7 • Fundamentals

TakeBreakMake: Media Arts with Queer Youth Workshop Session 8 • All Audiences Sexual Health for LGBTQ Youth Under State Care Caucus 2 • Intermediate Youth Leadership Caucus Caucus 2 • All Audiences

Thinking Out LOUD: Queer Youth Theater in Practice and Performance Workshop Session 7 • All Audiences

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DAY LONG INSTITUTES 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM The National LBGTQ Task Force proudly presents a robust program of 21 Day Long Institutes at Creating Change. All Institute presentations are 9 AM – 6 PM on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Racial Justice Institute: Building an Anti-Racist LGBTQ Movement! The Washington Consulting Group in partnership with the Task Force invite you to join us for a daylong Racial Justice Institute on Wednesday for all interested conference attendees. The agenda provides participants opportunities to explore the intersections of race and sexualities, power and privilege and how to integrate racial justice tools into our everyday work. Through a combination of storytelling, dynamic activities, conceptual frameworks and facilitated dialogue, we create a learning environment where activists, community leaders, change agents, students and teachers from across our movement can do the self work needed to be effective instruments in creating change. Lead facilitators: Dr. Jamie Washington, Dr. Becky Martinez, and Evangeline Weiss, Leadership Programs Director, National LGBTQ Task Force

this opening, will provide separate sessions for first timers, and returners so that we create the space for continued growth for all participants. Cycle of Oppression and Liberation: 10:45-12:30 pm Participants will be divided into privileged and minoritized communities of returners and new attendants. There are 4 workshops happening simultaneously: first-time and returning POC; and first-time and returning white attendees. Each session is designed to provide the foundation and tools for continued practice to engage dynamics of race effectively. Latecomers Table: If you arrive on site and want to Join the Racial Justice Institute after 10:30, please check in at the Latecomers table! Afternoon Breakout Sessions: 2:00-4:45 pm 1. Engaging race, gender identity, and sexual orientation across people of color communities 2. Exploring Whiteness and White Privilege 3. White People Practicing Skills of Effective Engagement 4. Engaging Race as Multiracial Person 5. Let’s Talk About It: Real Talk Across Race

THE RACIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE AGENDA:

6. Quieting the voices of internalized oppression and self care as people of color:

Morning Session: Welcome to Building an Anti-Racist LGBTQ Movement: 9:00-10:30

7. Race and Racism in Trans and Gender Queer Spaces

For ALL participants, an opportunity to deepen the level of authentic engagement about and across race and sexualities and building the foundational frameworks for effective engagement. The morning will also help participants decide how they will spend their time during the afternoon breakouts. Following

8. Towards a Racial Justice Practice: Creating Organizational Change

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9. Open Space 10. Taking Care of Self Closing – All Participants 5:00-5:30

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DAY LONG INSTITUTES 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM The Black Institute: What’s Next? A PostObama Era for Black LGBTQ/SGL People In the age of the Obama Presidency, our communities have witnessed great progress: the passage of federal hate crimes legislation; the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and open transgender service; a National HIV/ AIDS Strategy; and the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, we have also experienced many setbacks: the continued negative impact of the criminal justice system on our communities; the rise of overt racism and nationalist militias; and the rise of HIV/AIDS in our community. During the 2017 Black Institute, we will explore these triumphs and challenges, and work to plot the path forward in a post-Obama era. Organized by the National Black Justice Coalition

LGBTQ Campus Resource Professionals Institute The Institute, organized by the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals (the Consortium), provides professional development, skills building, and networking for those who have professional roles supporting LGBTQ people on college and university campuses. The Institute, intersectional in nature, is grounded in anti-racism and social justice principles and focuses on access, inclusion, and equity for LGBTQ students and employees in higher education. This session is designed for those who engage in, or plan to engage in, LGBTQ work on college campuses. The Institute is for Consortium members with limited space for nonmembers who are interested. To learn more about the Consortium, please visit our website at www. lgbtcampus.org.

Queer API Institute: Building a Queer Asian American & Pacific Islander Movement Join this movement-building Day Long Institute for Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) LGBTQ people. Network and get to know LGBTQ AAPI activists from all around the country! Come and learn

about our LGBTQ AAPI movement history and our place in racial justice movements. We will share how we navigate our unique cultural and family identities as LGBTQ AAPIs to build community, create visibility, organize our people, and shift power on the issues affecting us. We will lift up the voices of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern and Pacific Islander queer communities in the U.S. and the intersectional social justice movements that engage us. This Institute is intended only for Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander attendees.

Unión Equals Fuerza: Latinx Institute Acompáñenos para La Unión Hace La Fuerza Instituto Latinx en Philadelphia, la única reunión de individuos, aliados, y organizaciones Latinxs LGBTQ trabajando para nuestra liberación en los EEUU y el poder y activismo LGBTQ Latinx. La Unión Hace La Fuerza está dedicado a terminar con los prejuicios contra las personas LGBTQ, aumentar el entendimiento de la diversidad sexual y de género en la comunidad Latinx, y mejorar la calidad de vida de Latin@s LGBTQ y sus familias. Esta reunión bilingüe de un dia es parte capacitacion, parte sesión de estrategia nacional, parte construcción de redes y parte FIESTA. Unión=Fuerza es una celebración de de nuestras tradiciones culturales y también provocará conversaciones de situaciones críticas en nuestras comunidades y políticas emergentes e innovadoras. Participantes en La Unión Hace La Fuerza incluyen activistas comunitarios, líderes, estudiantes, académicos, oficiales del gobierno, artistas, y muchos más. Esta será nuestra cuarta reunión anual. Para más información, visite www.UnionFuerza.org Join us for Unión=Fuerza Latinx Institute, the only annual national gathering of Latinx LGBTQ people, allies, and organizations working toward our collective liberation in the US and the advancement of LGBTQ Latinx power and activism. Unión ‘Equals’ Fuerza is dedicated to ending LGBTQ prejudice, increasing understanding about sexual and gender diversity in Latinx communities, and improving the quality of life for LGBTQ Latin@s and our families. This bilingual one-day event is part training, part strategy session, part network building, and part PARTY! Unión=Fuerza is a celebration of our rich cultural traditions, which also will provoke conversations on issues critical to our communities and emerging, innovative policy discussions. Attendees include community advocates, leaders, students, academics, government officials, NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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artists, and more! This will be our fifth institute gathering participants from around the US. For more information, visit: www.UnionFuerza.org. Facilitators and Organizers: David M. Perez, LULAC; Francisco Dueñas, Lambda Legal; Elicia Gonzales, Philadelphia; Ana Andrea Molina, Organización Latina de Trans en Texas

HIV/AIDS & Our Emotional Health: An Interactive Seminar for People of all Statuses The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses unique stressors to those of all statuses. Whether you are HIV positive, or HIV negative in a high-risk population, stigma impacts our emotional and mental health. In this interactive seminar, which includes a panel and workshop, participants will hear from mental and emotional health workers in the field on how we need to be incorporating mental health, and be provided with tools to consider how emotional health can be built into their life and work in the field of HIV & AIDS. The purpose of this institute is to create a healing space for people to engage with the intersections of HIV/AIDS and mental health both personally and in their work. Participants will gain: Practical and tangible skills to address mental/emotional health; Knowledge about the ways the HIV/AIDS pandemic affects mental health personally and collectively; Strategies to move forward in our HIV/AIDS work to address stressors/ challenges impacting mental health; Strategies to integrate our spiritual practices in our mental health and wellness; Practice being in shared space with people living with HIV, people who are negative and folks with unknown status to explore mental health. Co-facilitators: Erica Woodland, founder of National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network; and Yolo Akili Robinson, founder of BEAM which envisions a “world where there are no barriers to black healing.”

Desire Mapping Institute Join us for the Day Long Desire Mapping Institute. Come to uncover or recover some part of yourself you’ve left behind; come to share or be silent; come and be amazed and buoyed by the strength and the courage of your peers. As our ancestor and movement trailblazer Audre Lorde wrote famously -- the erotic is power! Sex isn’t ‘beside the point’ in our activism, it is the bedrock of our authentic selves, 76

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and a critical source of strength that our enemies would have us betray and deny. Desire Mapping is a dynamic tool for sexual liberation that hinges on the idea that until we can claim our authentic desire -- and not simply capitulate to or parrot the ‘wants’ that others have designed and approved for us -- we cannot seek justice and re-make the world in the radical, generative ways that we must. In fact, the more we name and claim our erotic truths, the more our vision for true liberation thrives. Organizer and lead facilitator: Jaime Grant

Digital Strategy Training Institute At the eighth annual Digital Strategy Training Institute (DSTI), you will spend a day hearing from Ryan Davis (@RyanNewYork) and other experts about the latest digital tools and online advocacy strategies that you can incorporate into your work, how to find social media 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. Presenters: Allison Palmer, Kathy Plate, and Ryan Davis

Faith Support in the Majority: Countering Harm with Increased Capacity and Impact! People of faith and with faith, who support LGBTQ people in some way, have reached a majority; we are over 50% in the US. And, per PRRI polls, these supporters act like they are still in the minority. Come and dig in to discuss this phenomenon. Learn how we can counter the spiritual, emotional and political harm inflicted upon LGBQ and especially transgender and gender queer people. Discuss some best practices and take away tools to engage, organize and mobilize people with and of faith. Learn about specific ways we can inspire people of faith to be more visible; to build more community through education about gender justice and trans allyship; and to participate in effective and heart-felt advocacy actions that tell decision-makers the story of how our faith communities feel about LGBTQ non-discrimination protections. Presenters: Staff of the Faith Organizing Team at the National LGBTQ Task Force: Kathleen Campisano, Organizing Manager; Rev. Rodney McKenzie, Director; Victoria Kirby York, National Campaigns Director; Bri Sanders, Organizer; Camden Hargrove, Organizer; Carol Lautier, Senior Fellow Practice Spirit Do Justice

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A Harm Reduction Exploration of Alcohol and Drugs in the LGBTQ Community: Going Deeper Alcohol and substance use play significant roles in LGBTQ cultures and communities. Alcohol and drug use facilitate connection, exploration, and intimacy, as well as isolation and alienation. Rates of alcohol and substance use – as well as problematic use and dependence – are higher among LGBTQ communities, but stigma, shame and silence often inhibit honest reflection about alcohol/drugs and the LGBTQ community. This Institute will apply a harm reduction lens to the meanings and values, pleasures and dangers of substance use in LGBTQ spaces and social networks. Presenters: Staff of the Harm Reduction Coalition of New York City: Demetrius McCord, Jarad Ringer, Christopher Collazo

White People’s Institute for Ending Racism This is your day to unpack whiteness and white privilege. How does white privilege function in your life, you work, your family? The White People’s Institute is a space for people with white skin privilege to deepen our analysis, build our skills and make public commitments to end racism. This space will encourage participants to: develop a shared framework for recognizing systemic racism and the disparate ways that racism impacts us; explore how whiteness impacts our lives, and how our journeys with privilege have been similar and have differed as we embody intersections with sexuality, class, ability, age, nationality, and gender (among others); share practical tools for holding ourselves accountable individually and in community – in our workplaces, schools and universities, and faith communities; invest in a deeper vision of racial justice that is steeped in the self-interest of white liberatory consciousness; design and claim courageous commitments for Ending Racism. Presenter: Evangeline Weiss, Director of Leadership Programs, National LGBTQ Task Force

Intersectionally Trans: Building a Truly Inclusive Trans/GNC Movement The intention of this Day Long Institute is to create a space for activists and advocates to be able

to analyze and understand their own efforts and advocacy from a genuinely intersectional perspective. An integral part of this institute will be the relation between Trans/GNC movements and other social justice movements, with the goal of making our activism and actions ones that are truly intersectional in ways that account for disability, racism, classism, etc. The Institute will also include information about what the new Presidential administration means to trans people and how trans people can respond to the new administration’s actions. Presenter: Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, JD, Policy Counsel, Trans/GNC Justice Project Director, National LGBTQ Task Force

We Are Family! Family is at the root of all issues in the sexual freedom movement, whether family of birth or family of choice - from immigration to reproductive justice; incarceration and state violence to economic justice; adoption to emancipation; environmental justice to employment. Join us to explore the role of family in social justice issues, and to discuss ways to shift both the national conversation and the policies (like Religious Freedom Restoration Act) that impact our human right to family. Presenters: Ricci Levy, Woodhull Freedom Foundation; Carmen Vázquez, Woodhull Freedom Foundation Board of Directors; Monica Raye Simpson, Woodhull Freedom Foundation Board of Directors; Mandy Farsace, Woodhull Freedom Foundation; Christopher Smith, Woodhull Freedom Foundation Advisory Council

Aging Issues, Activism and the LGBT Movement LGBT elders are engaged in local and state advocacy struggles and serve as powerful spokespeople to educate the broader public about pervasive discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, education, medical care, and other aspects of their lives. Hear from LGBT activists and providers about how they work to build an ageinclusive activist movement, raise awareness, and advocate for change in their communities. Through interactive group workshops, storytelling and panels—audience members and presenters will share how they tackle issues of primary importance to LGBT elders and elders of color. Presenter/Organizer: Serena Worthington, Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE USA) NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Thriving: The Eric Rofes Legacy: Envisioning a Transformative Queer Movement Focused on Sex, Health, Politics, and Liberation Eric E. Rofes (1954-2006) was a key thinker and organizer of LGBT liberation movements in the United States and internationally. His life and activism were organized in what would be considered an intersectional frame: he believed that queer activism and lives had much to learn from the other worlds in which he lived, and his broad writing and thinking reflected a curiosity that sought to explore the similarities and differences between different movements. In this Day Long Institute, participants will hear short TED-talk-like presentations on the key issues that informed Rofes’ thinking, including youth suicide, education and charter schools, the sex lives of community organizers, queer feminism, trans liberation; LGBT health, and the power of community organizing. After the short presentations, we will consider the future-oriented legacy of Rofes’ work and how it might inform current thinking and organizing of queer liberation. Presenters: Trevor Hoppe, Ben Shepard, Charles Stephens, Chris Bartlett, Patrick Egan, Amber Hollibaugh, Jaime Grant, Mandy Carter, Beth Zemsky, Tony Valenzuela, Jim Pickett, Lex Rofes, Kevin Trimell Jones, Jewelle Gomez, Diane Sabin

YouthLink Institute: Youth Programming at Centers and in Communities This Day Long Institute, presented by CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers, is designed as a resource for staff working with LGBTQ youth programs. This session will provide professional development, skills building and networking for LGBTQ Community Centers’ and community organizations’ staff leading programming for LGBTQ youth. The Institute will be comprised of both presentations and interactive small and large group sessions. Be prepared to share your program highlights and best practices. Focus will be placed on (but not limited to) program development and evaluation, engaging and retaining youth participants, adult/parent participation, working with schools, program models, and involving youth in developing and implementing programs. Presenter: Denise Spivak, Senior Director of Programs and Outreach, CenterLink

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Intersectionality Beyond Binaries This Day Long Institute is a closed session for people with non-monosexual/non-monoromantic identities, which includes bi, pan, fluid, queer, omni, other identity labels, and people with no labels at all. We will bring to light the diversity within bi+ communities and the stories of those who struggle with invisibility within the movement. Our voices as activists reflect the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, trans antagonism, bi+ antagonism, ableism, immigrant antagonism, asexual and aromantic antagonism, and more. We will learn of our histories and frame our circumstances in a way that we build a map of our fight for visibility and inclusion. All non-monosexual/ non-monoromantic identities welcome! Come to our Day Long Institute! Be seen. Be heard. Be empowered and be beautiful! Facilitators: Apphia Kumar, co-founder of Birds of a Feather and Board Chair for SALGA-NYC, New York’s largest South Asian LGBTQ organization; Bri Carter, founder of (Bi)ased, a Georgia group for bisexual people of color

Campus Pride College Student Leader Institute There is a long history of LGBTQ organizing by college leaders. From the chapters of the Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s to Gay-StraightAlliances in the 1980s, Safe Zone programs in the 1990s, and queer/trans coalitions today, LGBTQ college students have a primary role in this movement. Campus Pride, the nation’s leading LGBTQ college organization, provides tools, resources, and back-up to college students on the grassroots level making positive change on college campuses throughout the country. Join us for the Campus Pride College Leader Institute focusing on enhancing leadership and organizing skills of college leaders. Participants will learn organizing strategies, gain access to resources specific to higher education, and develop action plans for making change all within a framework of intersectional justice. Come for a day of leadership development, skill building, and strategic dialogue and a unique opportunity to build solidarity with other college organizers across the US. Presenters: Campus Pride Leaders

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Police Violence and LGBTQ People and Communities Police violence and police reform efforts are issues that have been sweeping the nation for the past several years and LGBTQ people are often at the fore front in terms of organizing and policy as well as the deadly impacts police violence has against LGBTQ people, especially LGBTQ people of color. This Institute will allow participants to better understand the histories of LGBTQ police violence and organizing, national policy reform efforts and ways individuals and groups can engage in organizing in their local communities and beyond to better understand and address police violence impacting LGBTQ people. Facilitator/Organizer: Shelby Chestnut, Director of Organizing and Public Advocacy, New York City AntiViolence Project

Ally Institute Are you interested in learning how to respond to discriminatory, biased, or oppressive statements or behaviors? Do you want language and skills to be able to advocate for better policies and practices that promote LGBTQIA equity at your workplace, place of worship, or campus? Are you looking for activities and modules you can employ in workshops or trainings you lead? The Ally Institute aims to create a brave space for those engaged in allyship with LGBQTIA communities interested in gaining knowledge and skills in navigating allyship. Through a mix of facilitated activities, skill sharing, small group work, large group discussion, and a few surprises, attendees will learn key concepts for understanding and intentionally supporting LGBTQIA+ communities within a social justice framework and will be given opportunities to develop new advocacy tools, helping them become more effective agents of change in all areas of their lives. Organizer/Facilitator: Michael Grewe

Brave Space: Queering Safety in Youth Spaces Post-Orlando We live in a world that seems increasingly punctuated by violence, but communities and people of intersecting, oppressed identities -- who are disproportionately targets of violence -- know this is not a new phenomenon. In an age where even traditionally safe spaces have been touched by brutality, can we promise that our community

youth programs provide safety? Brave space is an emerging concept that seeks to empower and center traditionally disadvantaged people (e.g., youth, people of color, women, immigrants, gendernonconforming people, LGBTQ people, people from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, etc.). This Institute will explore the grounds for moving from a “safe” to a “brave” space for LGBTQ youth, including youth of intersecting identities, giving practical examples of how brave space ground rules can begin to create a culture shift in organizations. It will also provide an opportunity for young people in attendance to make actionable recommendations on how to improve programming so as to create a brave space and encourage more meaningful youth participation. This Institute is most appropriate for young people who attend youth programs and young adults who are transitioning from program attendees to staff. Organizers and facilitators: BAGLY: The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth and The Attic Youth Center, Philadelphia

Executive Director/CEO Institute How to Manage Tall When the World is Leaning Right A Trump/Pence Administration and a Republicancontrolled Congress change the landscape for LGBT/ progressive nonprofit organizations. Management, leadership and self-care will take on new meaning on top of all the usual demands – fundraising, board relations, recruitment, retention, motivating staff, etc.-- all while facing threats and often growing client/ constituency needs. How can we do it all and take care of ourselves in the process? This year’s Institute will include interactive small and large group sessions of relevance to nonprofit E.D.s/CEOs in this new political environment. Topics may include: the likely impact on our organizations and our communities— policies, laws, funding; how our work and organizational missions may need to change; legal parameters (C3, C4, H election); working in coalitions; how to lead in difficult times; and more. Come prepared to share your thoughts and experiences. This session is specifically for nonprofit Executive Directors/CEOs only. The Co-Conveners are four long-time nonprofit CEO’s: Marjorie Hill, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center; Lorri L. Jean, Los Angeles LGBT Center; Kate Kendell, National Center for Lesbian Rights; Terry Stone, CenterLink. NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Use this key on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to easily locate workshops related to the issue areas below! n Criminal Justice n Disability Justice n Economic Justice n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) n Immigration Justice n Practice Spirit Do Justice/ Faith Organizing n Racial Justice n Religious Exemptions Legislation n Reproductive Justice

ACADEMY SESSION 1 9:00 am – 12:15 pm All Academy Sessions 3 Hours Creating a Culture of Storytelling In this three-hour workshop, Morten Group, LLC President Mary F. Morten and Consulting Associate Vince Pagán will show participants how to use storytelling to advance the fundraising efforts of their organizations. The workshop will cover storytelling 101, explore storytelling as a tool for fundraising, and allow individuals to work together in verbal and written story sharing exercises to take steps and gain the tools necessary to build a culture of storytelling at their organizations. Presenters: Vince Pagan, Morten Group, LLC; Mary Morten, Morten Group, LLC

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How to Create a 20K Person Faith Network in Your State Basic fundamentals of organizing will be explored in relation to a specific very big goal - most people don’t realize that there are more people of faith supportive of LGBTQ people than there are opposed. The opposition is just better organized in showing their numbers in strategic places. We will connect social media action with on the ground in-person action. We will show how to connect geographical areas by asking people to do the same action in several places across a state. Using examples from Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia, we will introduce strategies and planning tools that get you to a stretch goal of 20K people! Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, National LGBTQ Task Force; Bri Sanders, National LGBTQ Task Force; Reese Rathjen, Believe Out Loud

Manifesting Abundance in Working Poor and Working Class Communities As people who have been targeted by capitalism and who live or have lived in working class and working poor communities, we sometimes tend to operate from a model of scarcity, believing that we must hold tightly to all that we possess. Join us as we explore exercises that will allow participants to mend the wounds scarcity has created, and gently invite participants to discover the expansive possibilities of living from a space of abundance. Using a range of intuitive exercises and imaginative practices, we will collectively uncover the possibilities of manifesting abundance and welcoming new beginnings in our lives. This workshop will give participants innovative strategies to create a movement culture grounded in access to our creativity, emotions and bodies that allows us to discover new ways to thrive in today’s challenging world. NOTE: This workshop is reserved for people who were raised working poor and/ or working class. Presenters: Kari Points; Danielle Stevens

Movement Building: Power to Transform We live in a critical moment. People are on the move demanding change. Dialogue about the range of systematic injustices is expanding, and the pace of the calls for justice is accelerating. Movements are developing that see the interconnection of issues and seek to transform the structures of how we live. How do we understand this moment? What does it mean for us, individually and collectively, to be in this movement

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moment? How do we leverage our power, including the power of our multiple identities and our connections across communities to achieve our purposes? Utilizing social movement theory and concrete examples in this participatory workshop, we will situate this current moment in the historical trajectory of progressive movement development and discuss the elements of power essential to transformational movement building and intersectional organizing practices. Key among these is the ability to name and frame what is happening in a way that ignites our deepest held values and shifts how people understand and respond to the challenges facing us. Presenters: Beth Zemsky, Zemsky Consulting

Shifting the Frame: Moving to a Systemic Racism Conversation Have you ever had an interaction or discussion of race that has turned into tears, guilt, shame, and centering the feelings of white people? If so, this workshop is for you! This workshop will equip participants with some useful tools and frameworks to shift our work on race and racism to focus on systems and solutions. Presenters: Malcolm Shanks, Race Forward; Araguaney Rodriguez Da Silva, Race Forward

WORKSHOP SESSION 1 & 2 9:00 am – 12:15 pm 3 Hour Sessions After Orlando + Every 28 Hours: Performance as Civic Engagement Art & Culture • All Audiences

This workshop will present a staged reading of excerpts from two recent play anthologies. One responds to the Orlando mass shooting and the other to the systemic violence experienced by black bodies in America. Participants are invited to a performance that demonstrates the use of theatre as a rapid response to engage through the arts in community building and promoting racial justice and LGBTQ rights. This workshop concludes with a panel discussion and space for participant responses. Presenters: Sidney Monroe, The Theater Offensive; Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Company

Guerrilla Printmaking for the Revolution Art & Culture • All Audiences

Black Lives Matter. Silence = Death. Love Trumps Hate. Propaganda plays a significant part in the movement. A strong simple clear visual message can bring national attention to a cause. In this workshop, you will learn to collaborate with a group of peers on a shared message. You will use an easy to replicate paper stencil technique to create striking posters/ signs that pack a visual punch for any protest or guerrilla poster action. You will have the opportunity to print and share your work at the conference. Limit 15 people for the workshop. Presenters: Wolfgang Bucher

Civil Rights and LGBTQ Fusion Organizing in the South Community Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will provide attendees with the tools needed to assess, engage with, organize and mobilize members of historically challenging communities. Participants will hear real world accounts of this style of culture shift work from those who were architects and implementers of successful campaigns in the South. A segment of this interactive session will also be dedicated learning about the importance of intersectionality in current organizing. From religious leaders to communities of color and “radical” organizations, attendees will learn how each are important in today’s multi-pronged fights with elected officials, policy makers, institutional leaders and communities of faith. Presenters: Bishop Tonyia Rawls, Freedom Center for Social Justice; Nijeeah Richardson, Freedom Center for Social Justice; Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Repairers of the Breach; Rev. Mykal Slack, Freedom Center for Social Justice

Fundraising from Foundations: An Update on the Field of LGBTQ Philanthropy Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

This session will dive deep into trends, gaps, and opportunities in LGBTQ foundation funding. Presenters from Funders for LGBTQ Issues will share data on the state of foundation funding benefitting LGBTQ communities and analyze trends in funding for trans communities, health, religious exemptions, and funding in the Midwest and the South. NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Additionally, a panel of funders will share perspectives on gaps and opportunities in LGBT philanthropy. Finally, participants will have small group discussions with funders to explore opportunities particular to their work. Presenters: Ben Francisco Maulbeck, Funders for LGBTQ Issues; Joy Messinger, Third Wave Fund; Kristina Wertz, Funders for LGBTQ Issues

WORKSHOP SESSION 1 9:00 am – 10:30 am I Need IX: Organizing to End Sexual Violence Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • Fundamentals

This workshop, by and for youth organizers, builds critical skills students need to fight sexual violence on campus. Participants will receive an intro to federal laws protecting student survivors (focused on LGBTQ survivors), explore the transformative role of Title IX in recentering anti-violence activism within a civil rights and survivor-centered framework, and strategize about the future of Title IX under Trump. Together, we’ll imagine tactics for youth action to end gender violence. Presenters: Sejal Singh, Know Your IX; Maddy Moore, Know Your IX

BPFQ: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, Queer Intersecting Identities on College Campuses College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

This session will provide an overview of language, terminology, and theory that pertains to nonmonosexual, bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and queer (BPFQ) students and engage attendees in the implications for campus climate, especially when part of the equation is the intersection of identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, ability, religion, etc). The intended audience is anyone wishing to learn more about those who fall beyond the L and G of LGBTQ. Presenters: Winnifred Paul, Winni Paul Consulting LLC

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Community Means Everyone: Establishing LGBTQ+ Support Programs at FaithBased Institutions College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • Advanced

How can faith-based institutions support LGBTQ+ identifying students? Using an example from a program of LGBTQ+ support at a faith-based institution, participants of this workshop will understand how to use student development and queer theory to frame a program of LGBTQ+ support at a faith-based institution, learn key strategies for gaining and communicating institutional buy-in, practice identifying institutional values, and recognize barriers to successful program implementation. Presenters: Laura Gentner, University of Dayton

Activism on Campus: What Every Queer Student Needs to Know College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

This workshop will inform attendees on how to bring about change on their college campus today. Participants will learn about student activism and the tools needed to make their campus more inclusive. Attendees will leave understanding the importance of building strong coalitions, navigate the university culture, being intentional in influencing policy change, and understanding one’s power. Presenters: Daniel Capote, Stonewall Pride Alliance; Gisela Vega, MPAS LGBTQA Initiatives at FIU

Jeh Johnson, Can You Hear Us Now? Organizing Against Islamophobia & Legalized Profiling Community Organizing • Intermediate

The Department of Homeland Security, led by Jeh Johnson, refuses to ban profiling. Following his lead, Islamophobic hate crimes have skyrocketed. How do we organize and fight back? We will brainstorm what profiling and surveillance look like in our own lives, communities and movements; dissect the policies that criminalize our people; and talk about how queer and trans people of color across the nation are confronting fighting back and building movement across our communities. Presenters: Sasha W., National Queer API Alliance (NQAPIA)

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Building Community with LGBTQ Prisoners

Decriminalization of the Sex Trade: An Issue at the Intersections

n Criminal Justice • Intermediate

n Economic Justice • Fundamentals

LGBTQ prisoners are a particularly vulnerable and often forgotten population; this workshop will give you the tools to reach out and provide support today! For two years, Stonewall Columbus has successfully worked inside local prisons and jails to facilitate community building that has had lasting impacts inside and out. Participants don’t need previous experience working with incarcerated populations. Attendees will leave with the ability to create and implement their own prison support programming and networks.

With barriers to traditional means of formal employment and services, the sex trade offers economic stability and economic justice for many, especially youth, in the LGBT community. However, criminalization increases exposure to the criminal justice system, and puts those involved in the sex trade at higher risk of violence, exploitation and police abuse. This panel will bring together advocates working at the federal and state level to discuss why decriminalization of sex work is a critical component of the next phase of LGBT liberation, as well as discuss diverse advocacy opportunities to achieve these goals for change.

Presenters: Riana Brewer, Stonewall Columbus; Liam Gallagher, Stonewall Columbus

Physically Disabled LGBTQ Folks Navigating Queer Spaces n Disability Justice • Fundamentals

This workshop will focus on how queer spaces are made inaccessible (or not accessible to begin with) and unsafe for physically disabled queer folks, and how we can go about changing that. We will look at the ways in which we organize and come together, how we exclude physically disabled queer folks, and how we can make spaces safe, accessible, and welcoming to physically disabled queer folks. Presenters: Dean Strauss; Casimir Henry

Building a Federal LGBTQ Poverty Policy Agenda n Economic Justice • All Audiences

Come and participate in the development of a federal policy agenda to tackle LGBTQ poverty. This workshop will be structured around critically engaging with a set of federal-level policy recommendations developed through consultations with over 200 activists, advocates, academics, and service providers addressing poverty in LGBTQ communities. The workshop will focus on identifying gaps and opportunities to strengthen the current policy recommendations, while exploring effective ways to mobilize LGBTQ organizations to prioritize addressing poverty. Presenters: Carla Sutherland, The Vaid Group; Tyrone Hanley, National Center for Lesbian Rights; Ashe McGovern, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia; Laura Durso, Center for American Progress

Presenters: Kate D’Adamo, Sex Workers Project; Victoria Roldan-Rodriguez, Trans/GNC Justice Project Director, The National LGBTQ Task Force; Joanna Cifredo, National Center for Transgender Equality; Kara Ingelhart, Lambda Legal

Proud Parents! Making Queer Family Connections Families • All Audiences

Raising children while being a part of the LGBTQ movement is a uniquely challenging and wonderful experience. As more and more of us become parents, how do we balance that with the many other facets of our activist lives? This facilitated discussion will provide an open space for parents and prospective parents to connect, ask questions and share experiences. Presenters: Alex Kent, SAGE; Jennifer Murray, UWMilwaukee LGBT Resource Center; Chris Tanaka, Stony Brook University

Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit Fundraising/Resource Development • All Audiences

This dynamic session introduces attendees to a systematic model for building sustainable funding for your organization. Learn to leave a legacy of passionate lifelong individual donors as you tailor the Benevon Model to your organization. Participants are encouraged to invite other staff, board, and volunteers to engage them in this practical and effective approach. Presenters: Terry Axelrod, Benevon NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Advocating for LGBT Cultural Competence Requirements for Healthcare Providers Health • All Audiences

LGBT individuals experience numerous barriers to quality healthcare, including healthcare providers’ perceptions and behaviors towards LGBT individuals. This workshop will help attendees become familiar with barriers to quality healthcare experienced by LGBT individuals and how LGBT cultural competence for healthcare providers can improve health outcomes among LGBT individuals. The workshop will discuss appropriate models of cultural competence for healthcare providers and how cultural competence training can address stigma in healthcare settings. Through small group exercises, participants will practice skills to engage healthcare providers and identify strategies to advocate for LGBT cultural competence training for healthcare providers in their state. Presenters: Ryan Meyer, National Coalition for LGBT Health; Benjamin Brooks

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Health • All Audiences

Interlocking systems of privilege and oppression create high-risk environments for LGBT people. Feelings of burdensomeness, isolation, and hopelessness, coupled with exposure to painful and provocative experiences leave LGBT people at high risk for experiencing mental health crisis and suicidal intensity. Queer people experiencing suicidal intensity are further marginalized by stigma.This training will teach participants a three step process to recognize suicidal intensity and connect to life-saving, culturally relevant resources. Presenters: Heidi Lightenburger, Carson J Spencer Foundation; Greta Martela, Trans Lifeline

Closing the Gaps: HIV Prevention With the Deaf Communities

Deaf community in any programs, and outreach efforts. Participants will acquire tools to provide more culturally competent care, resources for training to reduce these risks. Presenters: Jennifer Heiser, Deaf-REACH

Developing statewide alliances to combat anti-transgender legislation and/or initiatives Legislative/Policy Initiatives • Intermediate

Organizers from Washington State share the successes and trials of WA SAFE Alliance (Safety & Access for Everyone), a strategic network of locallyled regional chapters meeting the proponents of anti-transgender legislation head-on. Attendees will learn how to implement information-sharing strategies, found chapters across their state, focus on communities of color in their efforts, and foster new relationships in even the smallest communities to combat anti-LGBTQ bigotry and segregation. Presenters: Elayne Wylie, Gender Justice League; Jeremiah Allen, Pride Foundation

Queering Climate Change & Organizing for a Just Transition Movement Building • All Audiences

The interlocking violences experienced by LGBTQ people are deeply connected to the resource extraction and environmental degradation that drives ecological crises. As temperatures continue to rise, LGBTQ people are among those communities hit first and worst by climate change. Learn about the unique role that LGBTQ movements can play in building a just transition towards life-affirming economies for people and planet through the vision of the Just Transition movement and the principles of ResilienceBased Organizing. Presenters: Deseree Fontenot, Queer EcoJustice Project; Vanessa Raditz, Larkin Street Youth Services; Roya Banan, Rising Tides North America

HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

This workshop will highlight the lack of representation of Deaf communities in HIV prevention and education. Participants will gain an understanding of the barriers the Deaf communities face when attempting to access prevention and treatment, and the higher risks that result. Attendees will improve their existing prevention techniques to include the 84

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Treat Yo’ Self: The Necessity of Self Care 4 Advocates Movement Building • All Audiences

Have you experienced burn out? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Are you looking for a way to better support your employees who may be feeling

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burned out or overwhelmed? It’s time to detox and recharge. We have practical and effective information designed to increase productivity by empowering those that work so diligently for the movement. We will increase your level of understanding as it relates to self-maintenance and remind you that you are the most important tool in this body of work. So come and participate in the workshop so that we can see what’s in your toolbox that is essential to selfcare and what impedes it. There will be a plethora of motivating activities, a yoga and breathing demonstration, journaling for self-reflection and tips that focus on self-care. If you have any understanding of the importance of this topic, we expect to see you there. Share your experiences. Sharing is caring!!!! Presenters: Alicia Boykins, National LGBTQ Task Force; Candace Bond-Theriault, National LGBTQ Task Force; Dana Riceel

You Can’t Sit Here: Unpacking Privilege in Movement Spaces Movement Building • All Audiences

This interactive workshop will support participants in unpacking how perceptions of race, power and privilege show up and inform (both intentionally and unintentionally) the work we do as change agents. Through interactive group activities and guided discussions, participants will be provided an opportunity to explore new perspectives on how their allyship to marginalized communities can be more intentional and powerful. Presenters: Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Advocates for Youth

Mission and Vision: Understanding the Differences; Designing Inclusion and Engagement Organizational Development • Advanced

What are your vision and mission statements? No fair peeking. By heart: can you recite them? If not, chances are that your stakeholders have only a fuzzy understanding of your organization. But we can fix that. Learn and apply the why, what, how, and when of creating powerful vision and mission statements. Avoid pitfalls, incorporate key lessons about inclusion, engagement, and research. And get ready to roll up your sleeves and have fun. (And learn why that’s essential.) Presenters: Jason Lorber, Aplomb Consulting

Strategic Problem Solving: Practical Tools for Diagnosing and Solving Key Challenges Organizational Development • Advanced

Asking questions, scanning the landscape, understanding the internal systems, having enough learned and tacit knowledge to analyze and propose solutions are all critical components for effective leaders, advocates, organizers and so much more. Participants will learn new tools and participate in exercises to brush up skills on critical thinking and problem solving. Presenters: Sayre E. Reece, National LGBTQ Task Force; Rev. Rodney W. McKenzie, Jr., MDiv, National LGBTQ Task Force; Darlene Nipper, Rockwood Leadership Institute

“Friending Our Foes” an Open Debate on Being LGBT+ and Religion n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Atheist? Religious? Indifferent? This workshop will have participants debating the controversies that lie within these different perspectives all while learning healthy conversation tactics. There’s always more to everyone’s opinions. By discussing the controversies in our own community, participants will gain new universal ways of finding common ground with friends, family, and colleagues about difficult subjects regarding religion and beyond outside of Creating Change. Visit on the web: FriendingOurFoes.com / Follow on Twitter: @hakimian45 Presenters: Shaily Hakimian, Friending Our Foes (an open debate)

Engage Your Spirit: Harness the Movement and Empower Faith n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Harness the movement, empower faith, and build communities for those who are NOT in the conversation. Many LGBTQ people want to engage their spiritual lives, yet finding a community may be challenging. Why not take the best practices of justice movements and faith communities, mix it up with LGBTQ spiritual needs, and see what emerges? Yes, that is exactly what the workshop will do! All types of passionate, spiritually-minded people with, NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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or without, a particular faith tradition, are invited to come and discover ways to organize new types of faith and spiritual communities. Presenters: Rachelle Brown, Metropolitan Community Churches

Responding to Title IX Religious Exemptions: Advocacy Tools and Messaging n Religious Exemptions Legislation • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees strengthen their advocacy skills around responding to the wave of Title IX religious exemptions affecting sexual and gender minorities and access to reproductive healthcare on religious campuses. The session will integrate racial justice work throughout. Participants will learn how to craft legislation and lobby state legislatures, draft resolutions to present to professional and academic associations, and draft complaints to file with accreditation bodies and federal agencies. Attendees will leave with a toolkit and messaging for their own advocacy. Presenters: Paul Southwick, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP; Jordyn Sun, Soulforce

Shame, Desire, and Working for Justice Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Shame is an experience that can freeze us in our tracks before we can even start a conversation about it. But, this year, the Sex Track Faculty is taking Shame head on in this session, during which we’ll work to build participants’ capacity to recognize when Shame is active in our bodies, in our desires, in our relationships, and in our work to build a more just world. Join us for a fishbowl conversation of faculty telling some of our stories of catching our own moments of Shame followed by an interactive process for all participants to catalogue what happens when we are each in it and beginning to develop personalized strategies for what to do once we’re there. Presenters: Jack Harrison-Quintana, Grindr; Amelie Zurn; Debanuj Dasgupta, University of Connecticut; Andrea Jenkins, University of Minnesota

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WORKSHOP SESSION 2 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Don’t Forget Stonewall: Building Age Inclusive LGBT Centers and Services Aging and Ageism • All Audiences

LGBT organizations play a critical role in their communities, providing a safe haven for LGBT people who are not always welcomed elsewhere to gather, meet other people with similar experiences, celebrate their identities, and find support on a wide range of social, health and legal issues. Yet, many LGBT older adults do not feel welcomed in centers that are often appear youth focused. This interactive session will develop concreate suggestion for LGBT older adult inclusion. Presenters: Sherrill Wayland, SAGE Servies & Advocacy for GLBT Elders; Terri Clark, Action Wellness

#BiggerThanBathrooms: Strategies for Organizing for Public Policy Wins in Chicago Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies • Fundamentals

This workshop will provide attendees with exposure to and practice creating flexible public policy campaigns that energize their bases, strategies for developing compelling written and oral testimonies, telling their stories to elected officials and other decision makers, and creating awareness building campaigns through social and traditional media. Presenters will walk through the lessons learned from the Pride Action Tank’s (PAT’s) partnership with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and others to update Chicago’s Human Rights Ordinance in June 2016 to make it more transgender-inclusive. PAT’s Chicago Restroom Access Project launched at last year’s Creating Change. Presenters: Kim Hunt, Pride Action Tank; Mona Noriega, Chicago Commission on Human Relations; Kelly Saulsberry, Chicago Commission on Human Relations

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Beyond Binaries: Identity, Sexuality and Movement Building Bisexual Community & Issues • All Audiences

Who are we, anyway? Where do we fall on a sexuality continuum? How many of us feel we don’t fit onto the continuum? Are our romantic and sexual orientations the same? How do we label? How kinky are we? How monogamous? In this interactive workshop we will conduct an anonymous survey of those present, look at the results and use this information to strategize ways to become more effective activists. Presenters: Robyn Ochs, Boston Bisexual Women’s Network

“Take a Stand, Don’t Pay Lip Service:” Interpersonal Violence in College LGBTQ Communities College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

This interactive workshop will help attendees become familiar with LGBTQ students’ perceptions of interpersonal violence on campus and the cultural and institutional barriers they face in accessing campus resources. This workshop will also identify how intersecting identities create additional barriers to accessing resources. Participants will identify potential barriers at their own campuses and will leave with practical advice and ideas for improving access to resources for LGBTQ students who have experienced interpersonal violence. Presenters: Katie Chockley, University of Pennsylvania; Matthew Leroy, University of Pennsylvania; Erin Cross, LGBT Center, University of Pennsylvania; Giang Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania

#MyStoryOUTLoud: Centering the Voices of QTPoC for Campus Change College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • Fundamentals

#MyStoryOUTLoud utilizes the stories of QTPoC to raise awareness to the lack of intentional space provided for students that live at the intersections of race, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It is through the use of these candid accounts that we call for a “re”dedication from campus and school administrations to provide safe and supportive environments for the most marginalized students, in a time where identity and individuality are constantly

under attack. Students have the right to be safe, and campuses are obligated to deliver. Presenters: Wesley Thomas, Advocates for Youth

Art of the Schmooze Community Organizing • All Audiences

Welcome to Creating Change! Does it make sense to attend every activity and be the last one to leave? Hate starting conversations or often feel stuck in them? This engaging session will offer tips and tricks to help extroverts AND introverts work a room and make the most out of this conference including how to exit conversations gracefully. This workshop will benefit anyone who wants to sharpen their in person networking skills: community members, grassroots organizers, fundraising professionals, board members, senior management, and students. Attend to improve your ability to network and build relationships. Attend because your friend told you how fun (and informative) it was last year! Networking tips will be tweeted all week follow @RobbieSamuels #CC17. Presenters: Robbie Samuels, On the Schmooze podcast

Building & Sustaining Coalitions to Prevent LGBTQIA+ Youth Suicide Community Organizing • All Audiences

This session equips participants with skills needed for organizing LGBTQIA+ suicide prevention movements in their communities. Part one reviews suicide risk factors and discusses how they’re impacted by the intersections of race, ability, orientation and gender. Part two explores working with trauma survivors and developing self-care plans to prevent burnout. Part three teaches participants how to utilize Trevor’s suicide prevention policy toolkit to create safer schools for youth in their communities. Presenters: Leo Andujar, The Trevor Project; Amy Loudermilk, The Trevor Project

Criminalization of People Living with HIV n Criminal Justice • All Audiences

The criminal system has attempted to restrain sex and sexuality for centuries, and these laws have been disproportionately enforced against LGBT people of color. The criminalization of HIV is no exception. This workshop focuses on the many ways in which NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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PLHIV are criminalized, the ways the criminal law is increasing transmission risk and issues facing LGBTQ people in incarceration. Experts from the LGBT/HIV Federal Policy Working Group will lead an interactive discussion of these topics. Presenters: Meghan Maury, National LGBTQ Task Force; Candace Bond-Theriault, National LGBTQ Task Force; Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal; Tyrone Hanley, National Center for Lesbian Rights

Safewords Won’t Save Us: Transforming Responses to Abuse & Assault n Criminal Justice • Intermediate

What can we do when abuse and consent violations happen in our communities? What happens when we can’t, or shouldn’t, call the police? Bringing wideranging expertise from areas such as mediation, therapy, and sexuality activism, presenters will help participants gain concrete strategies, examples, and resources to support both individuals and communities in healing, accountability, and transformation beyond the carceral state. Our prisons are already full; let’s dive into other options to change the world! Presenters: Aida Manduley, LCSW, Women of Color Sexual Health Network; Andy Izenson, Esq., Diana Adams Law & Mediation, PLLC

Family Building Options for LGBTQ People Families • All Audiences

Thought of starting or growing your family? Attend this session for a detailed discussion and presentation about the many options for building a family for LGBTQ people. Presenters: Dr. Mark Leondires, Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut and Gay Parents To Be

Queerspawn Allyship and Movement Building Families • All Audiences

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provide examples of ways to include and support queerspawn in various institutional settings, and engage participants in strategic brainstorming on how to broaden their work to reach queerspawn. Presenters: Megan McKnight, COLAGE NYC; Jamie Larson, COLAGE NYC; Gabe Back-Gaal, COLAGE NYC

Breaking ID Barriers: Community-based Support for Updated Identity Documents n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Updating name and gender markers on IDs can be complicated and expensive, and local resources for navigating the system are scarce. In this workshop we identify name and gender change challenges and brainstorm how to build community support for the process. The presenters have successfully built community-centered programs in their home states and will share tips and lessons learned. Attendees will gain practical tools and inspiration for expanding name and gender change services back home. Presenters: Arli Christian, National Center for Transgender Equality; Crispin Torres, Transformative Justice Law Project; Olivia Hunt, Whitman-Walker Health; Michael David Battle, Garden of Peace Project

The Task Force’s Trans/Gender NonConforming Justice Project n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

The Task Force’s Trans/GNC Justice Project Director, Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán will be presenting on the project’s work over the last year, its current goals and priorities for the this new year. Attendees will learn about the TF’s current Trans/GNC justice priorities, and will be able to provide their input. Presenters: Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, Trans/GNC Justice Project Director, National LGBTQ Task Force

Fighting the Impact of Religious Exemptions in LGBT Healthcare Health • All Audiences

This workshop will explore ways that religious exemptions are impacting the care that LGBT individuals receive--from religious directives at Catholic hospitals to infertility laws in New Jersey to counseling refusal laws in Tennessee. Included in

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the workshop will be a discussion of ways the LGBT community can fight these discriminatory “religious liberty” laws at the state and federal levels. Presenters: Amanda Knief, American Atheists; Glenn Northern, Catholics for Choice

how the LGBTQ community can be influential and effective while out of power at the federal level. Presenters: Ruben Gonzales, Victory Institute; Reggie Greer, Victory Institute

Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform: A Case Study

Addressing Institutional Oppression: One Non-Profit’s Journey to Creating and Using An Anti-Oppression Framework

HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

Organizational Development • All Audiences

Through a case study of the Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform coalition, we hope to illustrate the critical need for HIV decriminalization in states across the country, showcase the intersection to the LGBT movement, and demonstrate that HIV decriminalization efforts are possible with a strategic plan, the right messaging, excellent organizing, and a consistent legislative approach.

This workshop will explore ways you can address institutional oppression at all levels of your organization. We’ll share information about the development and implementation of our own antioppression framework. Together we’ll discuss ways you can engage all stake holders in your organization and create policies and procedures that are rooted in anti-oppression values.

Presenters: Rick Zbur, Equality California; Brad Sears, Williams Institute; Catherine Hanssens, The Center for HIV Law and Policy; Scott Campbell, Elton John AIDS Foundation

Presenters: Suzy Salamy, Lolan Sevilla, Mia Mikowicz, Darlene S. Torres, all from the New York City Anti-Violence Project

Why Leadership Matters Now More Than Ever: LGBTQ Leaders on the Political Front Line at the State & Local Level Legislative/Policy Initiatives • Intermediate

As Barack Obama leaves office and Donald Trump assumes power, the strategy for advancing equality for the LGBTQ community will shift from working with the Executive Branch to activating and leveraging the influence of the 500+ openly LGBTQ elected and appointed officials serving across the country. This session will begin with a presentation on the (shady group of) individuals the new president is expected to appoint to key positions in the White House and throughout the federal bureaucracy, and what those appointments mean for LGBTQ Americans. Additionally, there will be an interactive panel discussion that features LGBTQ elected and appointed officials serving at the state and local level – leaders who are a part of a powerful network of political LGBTQ operatives seeking to safeguard our communities from targeted efforts by the Trump administration to roll back progress in addition to driving pro-LGBTQ policies. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the work Victory Institute is leading to foster more robust collaboration among LGBTQ elected and appointed officials as well as

Building Tech Solutions That Actually Solve Problems for Social Justice Nonprofits Organizational Development • Intermediate

“Our organization would like to create an entirely new platform, something like Facebook, so our members can connect and organize together. We want it to be mobile-ready and go viral,” said an executive director. “Okay, great, we can have that ready for you by next week,” said no technologist ever. (Or at least, not one we’d want to work with!) Imagine fulfilling this tall order. The organization will shoulder a huge and likely unexpected burden in trying to build this online community from scratch. And the question of who will maintain the software over time is no small problem. Creating custom software or a website that will require a high level of technical experience to maintain will likely not be sustainable for small nonprofits. It’s not enough to create a tech solution for the problem if the organization simply doesn’t have the capacity to implement it. An organization might desire a sophisticated piece of tech, but may be unclear how this tech fits into their overall mission and campaign strategy. Technologists should help organizations decipher whether they want a shiny new tool or whether they want to integrate an effective online strategy with their offline toolbox toward NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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winning their campaign goals. Sometimes necessity is the mother of (non)invention, pushing us to weave together existing technologies to find a utilitarian and affordable solution. Participants will understand the complexities related to building and maintaining technologies. Participants will get concrete tools to evaluate when it’s appropriate to seek new tech solutions or look for off the shelf solutions. Participants will learn about the shortcomings of technology in order to decide when it fits their mission and vision. Presenters: Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez, ThoughtWorks; Andrea Morales, ThoughtWorks

Confronting Islamophobia in the LGBTQIA+ Community n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Participants will learn more about the challenges faced by LGBT+ Muslims, and how the community can work to be as inclusive of LGBT+ Muslim folks as possible. This session will cover assorted micro and macroaggressions towards LGBT+ Muslims, particularly LGBT+ desi folks, as well as how to intervene if a group receives conflict as a result of accepting Muslims. Presenters: Noor Pervez, Rainbow Guard

Faith and Family Acceptance in the API Community n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This interactive workshop has three objectives: 1) to create a safe/scared space where we share, affirm and empower our experiences and realities as intergenerational API LGBTQ people and allies in the context of acceptance in our family and faith communities, 2) to network and build a coalition among intergenerational API LGBTQ people and allies to increase and strengthen visibility and advocacy in families and faith communities, and 3) to share resources for API LGBTQ advocacy in faithbased organizations, churches, and families, featuring resources focusing on Christian and Catholic contexts. Presenters: Jess Delegencia, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Network on Religion and Justice; Marsha Aizumi, PFLAG; Oneida Chi, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Network on Religion and Justice, Reformation Project; Danilo Cortez, New Heart Community Church

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Abortion Clinics: A Refuge for LGBTQ Health Care? n Reproductive Justice • All Audiences

What types of reproductive health care do you need? Did you know that some abortion clinics provide gender affirming care like hormone therapy? Did you know that comprehensive reproductive health clinics treat and prevent HIV and other STI/STD’s? Did you know that many abortion clinics have culturally competent healthcare providers? This workshop will look at the services abortion clinics and community health clinics provide for patients generally and specifically with regard to reproductive health services and LGBTQ affirming care. In this workshop, participants will engage in an interactive dialogue around what reproductive health care looks like for LGBTQ folks. Participants will leave with knowledge of LGBTQ affirming health clinics as well as ways to locate culturally competent LGBTQ specific reproductive healthcare. Presenters: Candace Bond-Theriault, National LGBTQ Task Force; Julie Gonen, National Center Lesbian Rights; Anthony J. Schaeffer, Allentown Women’s Center

What’s It Take? Living and Loving in Longterm Relationships Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

What makes long-term relationships work? A panel will kick off a dialogue about living & loving in longterm relationships. What it takes? What key skills and habits make some relationships last for years? Interactive portions have participants talking about: what they are looking for; how structural and systemic oppression impacts themselves and their relationship; how to create the foundation early on in to help ensure longevity; and how to support long-term relationships in our movement. Presenters: t. aaron hans

How to School Adults 101: Understanding Adultism Youth • All Audiences

Adultism is the systematic mistreatment of young people. This workshop seeks to educate participants on the impact of adultism and how to eliminate its presence in serving youth. By not making negative assumptions about the capabilities of young people simply based on their youthfulness, we can

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better respect and understand students holistically. Attendees will challenge their own notions of youth ability with an intersectional lens. Presenters: Kate Hoffman, Harriet Hancock LGBT Center; Dana Dixon

ACADEMY SESSION 2 3:00 pm – 6:15 pm All Academy Sessions 3 Hours Building Strong Organizations: What’s Race Got To Do With It? Organizations large and small are complex systems, our effectiveness and impact is directly related to how much attention we pay to how we do our work. Dynamics of race and racism exist in all our organizations whether they are visible to us or not. Leaders focused on building organizational capacity or increasing organizational effectiveness must embrace this reality if we hope to change the world. This session will be a space for organizational leaders to gain access to tools and work on realworld challenges in their effort to build, or even manage, strong organizations. Depending on where your organization is, you may need to put racial equity in the very center of your effort, or you may be ready to move forward with racial equity woven into every aspect of your organizational development process. Topics will include tools for understanding where your organization is in terms of racial equity and justice, exploration of how to find support or a consultant with the chops to help you grow stronger while integrating racial equity and how to do a course correction if you have not yet integrated racial equity into your organizational development work. Participants will work on their real-life challenges to gain understanding beyond the symptoms they see to the roots of their challenges, assess their needs using a race lens and what steps they can take immediately to integrate racial justice into their organizational development process. Presenters: Susan Mooney, The Generalist; Brigette Rouson, Rouson Associates

Queer Muslim-Jewish Dialogue 2017 Conflict and Collaboration: Affirming value in partnership and protest Interfaith work is always important, but developing communication avenues between queer Muslim and Jewish organizers can be particularly essential. Our shared queer identities can serve as a bridge to better understand, learn from, and appreciate each other’s organizing challenges and opportunities. For the last three years, Creating Change has been a platform for a safe and affirming dialogue between LGBTQ Jews and Muslims. In the past conferences we have begun building the trust and appreciation needed to unpack how our communities relate to one another. In the current climate of heightened divisive rhetoric in the media and by some public figures, it is vital for this dialogue to continue. This year we will focus on sharing best practices and building skills in 3 key areas: 1) Reaching at-risk LGBT people (especially youth) in ultra-religious communities. How do we create support/crisis/advocacy resources and programing for youth in communities that actively are hostile to these types of initiatives? Queer Muslim youth initiatives and Queer Orthodox Jewish initiatives will be compared, contrasted and given the opportunity to collaborate together. 2) Facilitating productive conversations in areas of geopolitical and cultural conflict. Can we leverage our “language of welcome” with conflict mediation skills in order better moderate triggering conversations about Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Israel/Palestine, and cultural responses to violence? Specific techniques include re-framing “us vs. them” narratives in communities of faith, creating a shared narrative from apparent differences and forging strategic alliances to advance a specific social and/or political objective. 3) Reviewing and practicing “Non Violent Communication” Skills. Presenters: Mordechai Levovitz and a Muslim Co-Presenter

Stop Telling Me to Make it “Viral”: Practical Digital Media Strategy We can’t teach you how to make a post go viral, but our workshop can help you establish a compelling digital presence for your organization or campaign. We’ll introduce messaging and branding (including

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graphics, photography, and basic design theory); discuss how to find and grow your audience, cover events, generate buzz and engagement, and measure impact. Finally, we’ll share how to build this multichannel digital strategy into your entire organization’s work and form external partnerships. Presenters: Kayley Whalen, National LGBTQ Task Force; Aaron Smith, Basic Rights Oregon; Gwen Emmons, Forward Together

The Revolution Will Not Be Toxic: Centering Care in Movements for Change Do you experience burnout or chronic fatigue in your activist work? Have you seen activists mistreating each other and writing it off because “the cause” is more important than the people involved? There’s another way. In this workshop we’ll talk about self-care and communal care as revolutionary acts, and learn skills to create care-centered movements for change. Come with an open heart and get ready to practice building the world we want to see. Presenters: LaLaina Romero, Alex Kapitan, Teo Drake, Transforming Hearts Collective; Lynn Young, Chicago Theological Seminary; L’Oreal Jackson, California Institute of the Arts

WORKSHOP SESSION 3 & 4 3:00 pm – 6:15 pm 3 Hour Sessions Hanging Out & Hooking Up in Trans* Communities Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • All Audiences

Sex should be fun and healthy but most sex ed curricula are not trans-inclusive, and don’t give transgender people the opportunity to openly discuss sex, dating, and hooking up. NCAVP offers this workshop to equip transgender communities with safety strategies for hanging out and hooking up. This workshop will focus on safer dating through exercises, role-plays, and discussion in a sexpositive atmosphere. It will provide skills and tools for asserting boundaries, recognizing unhealthy or unsafe behavior, understanding consent (both asking for and giving), the distinctions between BDSM and abuse, and identifying supporting resources when needed. NCAVP will provide participants with support to develop awareness of their own needs, wants, and boundaries, as well as those of potential partners.

WhiteJesus NotComing: Decolonizing Spirit

Presenters: LaLa Holston-Zannell, New City Anti-Violence Project; Shelby Chestnut, New City Anti-Violence Project

White Jesus won’t save us! This space is open to Queer/Trans Folks of Color ONLY who have ever wanted to map out exactly how white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy are in bed with Christian fundamentalism. Our project is to reclaim our Spirits - as artists, healers, organizers, political leaders, activists, people of faith, and more. Black+Brown solidarity is our best strategy to respond to the legacy of Christian supremacy on our bodies and spirits.

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Presenters: Yaz Nunez, Soulforce; Alba Onofrio, Soulforce; D.J. Hudson, Soulforce

Bridging Generations: Story Sharing with Young and Older Activists Aging and Ageism • All Audiences

In this participant-centered workshop, playwright, director and social activist Joan Lipkin shares techniques and exercises which will help us more effectively organize community actions and activism. Together, we will explore the idea of writing with the body by orally sharing stories and the concept of embodiment as a working model for democracy, exploring how we can ethically and creatively understand the experiences of others, especially across a generational divide. Presenters: Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Company

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Invisible Majority: Disparities Facing the Bisexual Community and How to Remedy Them Bisexual Community & Issues • All Audiences

This workshop will focus on the “invisible majority” of the LGBT community. It will provide an overview of current research on bisexual people to better understand those who comprise the largest share of the LGBT population. We will discuss how bias, stigma, discrimination, and invisibility combine to create serious negative outcomes for bisexual people. As a collective, through individual, small, and large group exercises, we will develop concrete recommendations for change in our own communities. Presenters: Heron Greenesmith, Movement Advancement Project; Lauren Beach, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Herukhuti, Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirit

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to meet these requirements. Presenters: Jay Vocu, Maija Kittleson Wilker, and Lynn Eggler, University of Minnesota, Morris LGBTQIA2S+ Programs

Squad Goals: Direct Action Organizing Thru a Black Queer Feminist Lens Community Organizing • All Audiences

Youth in Movement for Black Lives continue to construct a path to travel into a radical space of direct action and youth led social change. Bayard Rustin understood the necessity to be radically inclusive, especially when confronted with the intersection of racial, sexual, and gender oppression. This workshop will chronicle the work that Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) has been doing to use civil disobedience, transformative leadership development and direct action organizing as tools to further the movement. Presenters: Jonathan Lykes, BYP100; JeNae Taylor, BYP100; Fresco Steez, BYP100

College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • Advanced

LGBT Organizations Train Police to Be LGBT Sensitive

This interactive session will help attendees improve their existing advocacy and planning skills serving queer and trans students of color on campus. Together we will explore how our unique histories inform how we currently do our work on campus. Participants will work individually and in small groups to develop action plans for individual campuses. Additionally, we will trouble shoot common issues that occur regularly on campus.

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Presenters: Sheltreese McCoy, University of Wisconsin Madison

Creating and Maintaining LGBT Support Groups on College Campuses College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

This workshop will provide attendees with an opportunity to educate themselves about how to create, operate, and maintain student run LGBTQ+ support groups. Using the example provided of the creation and maintenance of the support group at the University of Minnesota, Morris, attendees will be able to gain insight into how to best fulfill student needs and how to work best with campus resources

Workshop attendees will learn engaging effective strategies to contact and encourage law enforcement officials to partner with attendees’ agencies or groups to set-up and deliver LGBTQ cultural and linguistic competency training for officers and supervisors. Compelling reasons to present to police as to why this training should be supported will be covered. Basic training framework and content will be explained. Attendees will create their own implementation action plan during the workshop. Presenters: Liz Bradbury, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center; Adrian Shanker, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center

At the Table Making Changes: LGBTQ Leadership Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences

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Field of Dreams: How Field Experiments Are Shaping LGBTQ Movement Strategy

Working with Foundations and Talking Through Challenges

Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences

Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

This past summer, organizers and advocates from across the country mobilized to conduct a large scale field experiment on LGBTQ rights, the first to ever be executed across multiple states. The project, the Summer of Action, recruited and trained organizers from four states to engage hundreds of volunteers to have thousands of conversations about why updating our nondiscrimination laws to include LGBTQ people is so important. Canvassers connected with voters to increase local familiarity with transgender people and better understand why transgender people should not face discrimination at work, in any public space, or while simply trying to use the restroom. Canvassers were trained on various methods to directly challenge anti-LGBTQ messages and data was collected on the effectiveness of each. The directors of the project will share not only the data collected from the project, but also the lessons learned throughout the process from project conception to execution. Then participants will work in small groups to brainstorm ideas for future field experiments and work through high-level project plans with the presenters.

This workshop will explore how non-profits maintain their own vision about their work, as well as the methods and strategies that they believe are best for executing the work, in the face of different opinions and desires coming from funders. Topics will include how to maintain a radical vision of our work, what is an ideal relationship between funder and grantee and how do we preserve integrity in the face of competing interests from funders.

Presenters: Alex Sheldon, Movement Advancement Project; Amanda McClain-Snipes, Equality Federation; Amy Mello, Freedom for All Americans

Funding to Address LGBTQ Criminalization Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

This session will explore the scope and character of foundation funding for LGBTQ criminal justice issues. Funders for LGBTQ Issues hopes to demystify where funding is coming from, what it’s supporting, and where there might be opportunities to increase resources for the fight against the criminalization of LGBTQ people. Following the presentation of data, advocates and funders familiar with the philanthropic landscape will respond with their thoughts on how best to bridge funding gaps and take advantage of emerging opportunities. A long Q&A will ensure participants get all their questions answered and leave feeling informed and empowered to raise money to fight for justice for LGBTQ people. Presenters: Judy Yu, Wellspring Advisors; Lyle Matthew Kan, Funders for LGBTQ Issues; Tyrone Hanley, National Center for Lesbian Rights

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Presenters: Amy Lavine, National LGTQ Task Force; Samantha Giusti, Delaware Valley Legacy Fund; Alyssa Mutryn, Attic Youth Center

Becoming a Trans* Ally n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • Fundamentals

Participants are invited to learn and engage with ally-focused practices through an intersectional lens that will develop usable skills for reference within everyday experiences and interactions. Becoming a Trans* Ally is designed to support individuals in understanding how to practice active allyship for trans* and gender nonconforming identities. Through multiple experiential exercises and facilitated discussions participants will address questions and confusions to direct their lives toward enacted social change. Presenters: MD Spicer-Sitzes and Kyle Sawyer, Building Allies

Masc in the Mirror : Exploring Queer Masculinities n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

We are seeking participants who identify as men and masculine of neutral, who are interested in unpacking, challenging and growing their own relationship to masculinity. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore and develop their own cognition and emotional intelligence around the intersections of their own masculinity and queerness, through a framework rooted in racial justice and class analysis. Utilizing small group dialogue and shared reflections, we will create a holding space for participants to develop their own knowledge about masculinity,

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and in the context of their own experiences, identify pathways forward. Presenters: Jameel Braddock, Georgetown University; Julian Haas, Georgetown University

Bloody Discrimination: Ending the (De Facto) Ban on Queer Blood Health • All Audiences

The massacre in Orlando--and the desire to donate blood in the wake of that tragedy--have rekindled calls for the government to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood. In 2015, the FDA modified their policy, but the policy does not go far enough. Current science supports a policy based upon individual risk behaviors. This workshop will give you the tools to make a difference in this debate and end this discriminatory policy. Presenters: Scott Schoettes, Lambda Legal; Francisco Duenas, Lambda Legal

Healing Our Wounds Health • Fundamentals

The right knowledge and skills could de-escalate a situation; maybe save a life. Many LGBTQ people and others who live rurally or in poverty face health care barriers. Due to discrimination, 28% of trans* people postpone or avoid health care. Prepare to make sound decisions in emergency situations when resources are scarce, delayed, or unavailable. Learn best practices for wounds, burns, and bruises; keep them from becoming significant and potentially life or limb threatening. NOLS Wilderness Medicine instructors teach skills and tools through hands-on training with moulage-simulated wounds to practice under realistic conditions and small groups to apply new skills. Presenters: Pete Ryan, NOLS Wilderness Medicine; Debra East, NOLS Wilderness Medicine

LGBTQ Immigrants and the Agencies That Stand By Them to Thrive Health • All Audiences

With over 80 countries around the world penalizing and persecuting LGBTQ individuals and many more offering little to no state protections, the United States has become a settlement of refuge for LGBTQ

individuals. This session is geared to examplify how Seattle Counseling Services and other LGBTQ & immigrant service providing, organizing and advocacy agencies have united to create a holistic safety net and track of opportunities to thrive for LGBTQ immigrants to integrate within critical community development spaces. Presenters: Carlos Padilla, Seattle Counseling Service; Ray Corona, Strategic Progressions; Cinthia Ana-Mariel Vazquez, Washington Dream Coalition; Francisco Matias, Virginia Mason Hospital

Decriminalizing HIV, Decriminalizing Bodies: From the Grassroots to the Capitol HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

This workshop will provide an overview of the current landscape of HIV criminalization laws and their effects on people living with HIV, specifically LGBTIQA people of color. In particular, this session will highlight the intersections between criminalization and violence against women with HIV, particularly gender-nonconforming and queer folks, and trans women of color. Additionally, the workshop will provide an overview of local and national efforts to repeal, reform, and abolish HIV criminalization laws, and will engage participants in strategy-generating activities that will benefit their advocacy efforts in their respective states and lift the work of grassroots organizations in their communities. Presenters: Cammie Dodson, Positive Women’s Network - USA; Christine Castro, New Voices, Pittsburgh; Sequoia Ayala, SisterLove, Inc.

Choosing Language that Liberates, Why Words Matter Movement Building • All Audiences

Come think about the daily language that we use in our communities, organizations, movements, and in our programs to talk about sexualities and gender diversity. Think: safe, preference, preferred, passing, non-conforming, tolerance etc. You bring the words that you hear in your communities, and we will talk about what does it mean and how does it impact the work that we do? And, what we can do differently, simply by changing our language! Presenters: t. aaron hans

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The Evolution of Creating Change Movement Building • All Audiences

Since Creating Change 2016, the Task Force has engaged many stakeholders in a wide-ranging discussion of our beloved Creating Change Conference. We have engaged through surveys, interviews, and focus groups. We also want to hear from folks attending this year’s conference. Tell us your ideas and suggestions for making the Creating Change Conference an even more meaningful and relevant national gathering of LGBTQ and allied activists and organizers. Whether this is your first time at Creating Change, or your 15th time at Creating Change, you have important thoughts and ideas about this movement-building event. Presenters: Evangeline Weiss, Leadership Programs Director, National LGBTQ Task Force; Jason Tester, Board of Directors, National LGBTQ Task Force

Organizational Culture and How It Affects The Social Justice Work We Do Organizational Development • All Audiences

This workshop will address how our organizational culture affects the social justice work that we do in the world by highlighting various aspects of workplace culture such as diversity and inclusion, collective mindfulness, and accountability within our organizations. Participants will become familiar with and learn how to improve various aspects of their own organizational culture while considering racial and gender equity within the workplace. Participants will be introduced to a variety of practical activities to foster healthy communication, collaborative team building, and collective accountability to establish a pleasant, inclusive, and diverse organizational culture. Presenters: Twiggy Pucci-Garcon, True Colors Fund; Christa Price, True Colors Fund

Are We There Yet? People of Faith and the Transgender Tipping point n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

While celebrations abound and transgender experiences seem to be on the tip of the media’s tongue, the lived experiences of the majority of trans and gender non-conforming folks, especially trans women of color, isn’t following suit. In the post Marriage Equality and post Caitlyn Jenner world this workshop will bring together transgender-identified 96

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religious leaders to discuss issues of power, privilege, and tokenization. We will seek a new way forward and work towards crystallizing our own ‘gender agenda’ in the face of continued exclusion. Please come with an openness to talk honestly about oppression and privilege within our own communities, to interrogate places where we hold privilege, and be willing to be held accountable in our responsibility to disrupt systems of privilege and marginalization. Presenters: Angel Collie, Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity; Mykal Slack, Freedom Center for Social Justice; Barbara Satin, National LGBTQ Task Force

Healing Forward: Liberating our Faith n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will teach faith leaders/faith organizers strategies that will help people deal with trauma. Participants will learn conversation tactics to address trauma, foster hope in times of tragedy and strategies for creating life-affirming plans for self/communitycare. Presenters: Cedric Harmon, Many Voices; Candy Holmes, Metropolitan Community Church

Race and Leadership in LGBT Organizations: Results of a Survey n Racial Justice • All Audiences

This session will present the preliminary findings from the 2016 Nonprofits, Leadership, and Race survey. It will focus on the 900+ LGBT respondents who were asked additional questions on their views of LGBT organizations, their leadership, and race. The session will include two commentators who will give their views of the survey findings. We will also ask those who attend to share their questions, comments, concerns and ideas to help us shape the final report. Presenters: Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Building Movement Project; Rebecca Fox, Wellspring Advisor; Clarence Patton, The Pipeline Project

To Pimp A Butterfly: Creating Movements too Good to Fund n Racial Justice • All Audiences

This interactive workshop will provide participants an overview of the organizing work being done by the Black and Brown Workers Collective (BBWC) and the Gran Varones (GV), two POC queer led Philadelphia-

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based movements. Through interactive group activities, this workshop will explore how the current funding processes and methodologies limit the reach and power of marginalized communities. We will share findings from the BBWC’s qualitative research and archival project and the Gran Varones multimedia storytelling project that has captured the voices of Black and Brown people from the HIV/AIDS nonprofit sector in Philadelphia and beyond. Through guided conversations, participants will: become more aware of how the current funding streams maintain systems of inequity; learn how the current structures of HIV/AIDS non-profits impact the lives and mental health of Black and Brown Workers; and learn how to use social media to organize communities. Presenters: Shani Akilah, Black & Brown Workers Collective; Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, Black & Brown Workers Collective; Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, The Gran Varones

Uniting Latin@ Pride: A Roadmap Towards Intersectional Community Strengthening n Racial Justice • All Audiences

This workshop will provide attendees with an action plan towards intersectional community strengthening around queer/trans Latinidad in their communities at home. Participants will learn to target existing community resources to promote intracommunity dialogue and strengthen relationships in ways that encourage respect, visibility and inclusivity for the LGBTQ Latin@ Community. Attendees will leave with a tool kit that will help them get started in creating a unified Latin@ pride initiative in their communities at home. Presenters: Karari Olvera, TransLatin@ Coalition; Crispin Torres, Lambda Legal; Jessica Carrillo, BUILD, Inc; Pedro Alonso Serrano, John H Stroger Hospital of Cook County

POC, Religious Exemptions, and the Shade of it All n Reproductive Justice • All Audiences

Conversations often do not present the harms that religious exemptions cause to communities of color and are often inaccessible. Since the Hobby Lobby decision in 2014, religious liberty arguments, legal decisions, and policy proposals have proliferated to detrimentally impact LGBTQ persons and women. This interactive workshop will provide attendees an understanding of religious exemptions, the forms

they take, and how they disproportionately impact people of color, particularly women and those from immigrant communities. Presenters: Gaby Garcia-Vera, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; Kira Shepherd, Public Rights/ Private Conscience Project

Let’s Talk Race and Gender in Schools Schools and Education, Grades K-12 • All Audiences

Historically, schooling is a system that holds inequities based on race, gender and sexual identity in place. Participants will look inward at how they were schooled to deal with diversity and connection, a necessary prelude to creating community/curricula that empower all children and families. Participants will explore strategies used by SEED leaders/teachers for creating spaces where all voices are valued. In the wake of the recent election, participants will address how student fears can be aired and honored in diverse settings using SEED’s methods of intentionally structured group conversation. Presenters: Emmy Howe, National SEED Project; Donald Burroughs, National SEED Project; Gail Cruise-Roberson, National SEED Project; Padraig (Pat) Hurley, National SEED Project

Sexy Survivor Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Join us for a creative and interactive dialogue around survivors of sexual abuse and how they have navigated safe, empowering sexually healthy lives. It is also a forum for partners and allies of survivors to gain tools in supporting sexy survivors. All too often, sex is altered, damaged and or complicated for survivors of sexual abuse. It takes time, patience and trial and error to figure out what works for us. This workshop is not a therapy session but a more of skill and strategy share. We hope to encourage success building and future dreaming dialogue as we all share stories and ideas of what has worked for sexy survivors. Presenters: Ignacio Rivera, The HEAL Project; Yoseñio Lewis; Renair Amin; Amita Swadhin, Mirror Memories

A Youth Centered Approach to Social Change within Foster Care Youth • All Audiences

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in the child welfare system to advocate for social change. This workshop will help participants to gain an understanding of a youth leadership model approach to advocacy within the child welfare system. Strategies gained will help raise awareness of the issues of LGBTQ youth within the system and will empower youth to use their voices and experiences to promote change. Presenters: Sarah Mikhail, The LGBT Community Center; Joshua Terefe, The LGBT Community Center; Amanda Hayden, The LGBT Community Center

Young, Brown, Proud and OUT! Youth • All Audiences

Stand up, represent and be yourself! This workshop is around coming out as LGBTQ+ person of color throughout history. In an interactive story and theater workshop, we will explore the process of coming out in society, and how it has changed in the passing years. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how we as young people of color navigate being out, proud and safe. Presenters: Nadine Jackson, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Dominique Davis, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Ginger Maldonado, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Paul Aviles, The NYC LGBT Community Center

WORKSHOP SESSION 4 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm Ballroom 2017 LOVE IN THE CITY Art & Culture • All Audiences

The house/ballroom community stems from a place of survival of LGBT people of color in the US. The houses that compose the community are selfsufficient and have existed since the 1940s, longer than many mainstream queer organizations. Their structure stems from what we know best, families; mother, father, and of course, the children, each with their own talent, gift and personal struggle. Want to know more? Join us as we bring life and give LIFE and LOVE to the ballroom community. Stick around, if time permits, our guest will show you a trick or two to slay your competitors at the Ball. Presenters: WC Angel Infiniti, Iconic House of Infiniti; Florida Father Angel Infiniti, Iconic House Of Infiniti; Lady Penelope Infiniti, Iconic House of Infiniti

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Resistance toward Resilience: QTPOC Professionals Navigating Job Transitions College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

This workshop highlights the experiences of queer and/or trans people of color (QTPOC) student affairs professionals who recently transitioned into a new work environment. Through witnessing QTPOC narratives and reflecting on privileges, participants will develop deeper self-awareness and professional competencies in supporting QTPOC colleagues who are navigating new professional spaces. There will be time for QTPOC participants to share their experiences in order to embody healing, authenticity, and resilience, and develop skills in self-advocacy. Presenters: Mark Chung Kwan Fan, University of Michigan; Christine Dolan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Home Away from Home: Finding Community as a College Student College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

This workshop will help the participants understand the needs of working with queer undergraduate students, and understanding the process in which they navigate the university. The presentation will discuss the varying needs of college students who identify on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, finding community, and how upper administration, faculty, staff, and student leaders can help through this process. Participants will learn how to create community within their spaces. They will understand the importance of advocacy, allyship, and how to create a culture of inclusion, access, and opportunity for a variety of students. Presenters: Sarah Cohen, Suffolk University Rainbow Alliance; Ben Shopper, Suffok University Diversity Peer Ed.; Ryan Wiken, Suffolk University Diversity Peer Ed.; Michelle Wallace, Urban Teaching Cohort

Beyond Preferred Pronouns: Creating Ethical Listening Spaces Community Centers • All Audiences

This workshop will offer a case for the necessity of an ethics of listening in environments of gender diversity. This workshop will actively work to move beyond the compulsory framework of “preferred gender pronouns” to create spaces where open-ended

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narrative and expression take place. Addressing current concerns with PGP’s from gender-variant communities, I will offer techniques that foster inclusive spaces where individuals from a wide spectrum of gender identities can share, express, and learn together. Presenters: Zooey Sophia Pook, LGBT+ Programs, New Mexico State University

Coalition Building: How to Create an Effective Coalition Community Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will focus on how community coalitions form and how they can be used to address issues specific to the LGBT community. Participants will hear from partners from the Strength Alliance Coalition located in Philadelphia, PA about how the coalition formed and has progressed since its inception. Then a brainstorming session will be held where participants can exchange ideas about coalition building in their communities and how to accomplish building an effective coalition. Presenters: Brandon McLaren, Resources for Human Development; Naiymah Sanchez; Lee Carson; Le Thomas

Building a Winning Political Program to Advance your Interests Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences

This panel will highlight Equality California’s Political Program as a highly successful model for statewide advocacy. Speakers will discuss strategies with LGBTQ voter registration, candidate endorsements, building and funding a successful election operation to support pro LGBTQ candidates, and the power and impact a successful political campaign can bring to legislative work. Following the initial discussion about California’s model, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. Presenters: Tony Hoang, Equality California; Allison VanKuiken, Equality California; Rick Zbur, Equality California; Brad Lundahl, Equality California

Strategies in the New Presidential Administration Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences

How have LGBTQ communities and organizations responded to the incoming Presidential Administration? What actions can we take to

preserve hard won LGBTQ protections? Are there any opportunities to move us forward, especially at the local and state levels? What are specific strategies to broaden and build our base in this critical time? In what ways can we organize for a broader LGBTQ social justice agenda that centers racial justice, criminal justice reform, reproductive freedom, immigrant justice, disability justice and economic equity? Also, how can we use resistance and resilience to confront rising incidents of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and violence? Let’s strategize and share information and ideas to better equip ourselves and our movement for what lies ahead. Presenters: Stacey Long Simmons, Director of Public Policy/Government Affairs, National LGBTQ Task Force

Creating a Diverse Donor Base Fundraising/Resource Development • All Audiences

Creating a diverse donor base to establish long-term sustainability for funding may seem like a heavy lift, but together we can explore several strategies to get us started. Diversifying your donor base means that you do not rely on only one source of income so as to create a stable base of supporters. This discussion on how we can reflect our communities in our donor base can help you broaden your pool of supporters. Presenters: Andrea “Andy” Durojaiye, National LGBTQ Task Force; Cindy Tomm, National LGBTQ Task Force; Saurabh Bajaj, National LGBTQ Task Force

How to Connect LGBT People to LGBT Organizations Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

Research shows that less than 5% of LGBT people donate to organizations in the LGBT movement and that number is even smaller among certain subsections of the population. So how can we increase the number of LGBT donors? And how can we retain the LGBT donors we already have? This panel aims to answer those questions and more by presenting new research findings on LGBT donors. It will highlight key findings from a series of in-depth analyses into the donation-related behaviors and opinions of several key subpopulations of the LGBT community - including LGBT women, LGBT people of color, LGBT millennials and older adults, LGBT people with high household wealth, among others. Presenters: Alex Sheldon, Movement Advancement Project (MAP) NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Using Social Media to Effectively Raise Dollars for Your Program/Organization Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

In this workshop, participants will learn and practice social media fundraising skills and become familiar with online platforms, including peer-to-peer fundraising. Critical social media skills (including Facebook ad buys) and how to craft short messaging to motivate donors to give will be shared. Skills learned are applicable to any size program or organization, including volunteer-led programs. Examples from the 2016 Give OUT Day will be shared. Attendees will leave with a fundraising media toolkit. Presenters: Francisco Buchting, Horizons Foundation; Nikole Pagan, Horizons Foundation; Roger Doughty, Horiozns Foundation; Ben Francisco Malbec, Funders for LGBTQ Issues

How Research is (Mis)used to Harm Transgender People n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Right wing organizations have been attempting to justify discrimination against transgender people in court and in public opinion by misusing science, and falsely representing themselves as experts on transgender people and their issues. This session will discuss how they are misusing science, and to what ends. It will also give concrete examples of how to mobilize the media, academia, and activists against pseudo-science. Presenters: Zack Ford, Center for American Progress; Erin Fitzgerald, Media Matters for America; Jacob Eleazer, SPARTA

Sex, Queers, and Health Equity: Creating a Community Action Plan Health • All Audiences

Our community deserves health equity - but in most LGBT communities across the US, Queer people experience serious health challenges - most are preventable or treatable through early detection. In this interactive workshop, we will share successful models for LGBT health promotion, sex positive public awareness campaigns that lead to LGBT health equity, and we will discuss opportunities for

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collaboration and funding to create community action plans to achieve LGBT health equity in individual communities. Presenters: Adrian Shanker, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center

Walkin’ the Talk: Mobilizing Faith Communities for HIV Advocacy and Social Justice HIV/AIDS • Intermediate

Advocacy by communities of faith is essential to ending the stigma, discrimination and inequity that perpetuate the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Attendees will obtain valuable insight and tools for faith-based organizations to mobilize in the fight against HIV/ AIDS, including an understanding of the dynamics of stigma and relevant laws and policies. Participants will leave with interactive exposure to the Framework for Dialogue – a dialogue used in joint actions by People Living with HIV and Religious Leaders. Presenters: Sabrina Rewald, National LGBTQ Task Force; Carol Lautier, National LGBTQ Task Force; Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, Executive Director, United Church of Chris HIV & AIDS Network; Rev. Anthony Sullivan Jr., HIV/ AIDS Community Consultant, United Church of Christ HIV/AIDS Network

Crimmigration: How Criminalization of LGBTQ and Immigrant Communities Fuels Deportation n Immigration Justice • Advanced

This workshop will teach participants how discrimination, profiling, and policing of immigrant and LGBTQ communities and the entanglement of local law enforcement with immigration enforcement puts LGBTQ immigrants at risk of detention and deportation. Participants will learn why ending the criminalization of immigrants is a key piece of criminal justice reform and the fight against mass incarceration. They will also and learn how they can support efforts to combat the criminalization of LGBTQ immigrants. Presenters: Sharita Gruberg, Center for American Progress; Zenén Jaimes Peréz, Texas Civil Rights Project; Isa Noyola, Transgender Law Center; Olga Tomchin, National Day Laborer Organizing Network

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US Foreign Policy on LGBTIQ Issues Post-Election International Issues • All Audiences

The workshop will discuss the impact of United States foreign policy on global LGBTIQ politics, exploring the opportunities and challenges in the new landscape after the elections. Presenters: Jessica Stern, OutRight Action International; Urooj Arshad, Advocates for Youth; Kenita Placide, Eastern Caribbean Alliance

Getting to the Truth: How New Media & Multimedia Journalism is Helping Stories Go Viral Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences

Are you a blogger? Multimedia journalist? An LGBTQ activist looking to use new media for social change? If so, this workshop is made for you. Join us as we discuss and demonstrate how to use the latest and most innovative tools in new media journalism. Participants will learn from multimedia journalists how to execute well-researched storytelling through new technologies, and learn how that technology is constantly evolving the tools journalists use to document new stories. We will dig into social media engagement techniques and take advantage of this viral form of communication to report stories. Attendees will leave with practical advice and tools for their own reporting and journalistic endeavors. Presenters: Michelle Garcia, Vox Media; Brian De Los Santos, Los Angeles Times; Jorge Amaro, National LGBTQ Task Force; Sunnivie Brydum, Religion Dispatches; Eric Walter, WHYY; Ernest Owens, Editor, G Philly

Movement Building in the LGBTQ AntiViolence Field Movement Building • All Audiences

The NCAVP Movement Building Committee convened leaders from the anti-violence movement over a two year period to share experiences from various parts of the United States and identify root causes of violence against transgender communities, LGBTQ communities of color, LGBTQ youth, and LGBTQ people with disabilities. This interactive panel of Movement Building Committee members will focus on the key issues impacting LGBTQ people of color, LGBTQ youth, LGBTQ people with disabilities, and Transngender and gender

non-conforming people and effective strategies for ending violence against these communities. Presenters: Jai’ Shavers, BreakOut!; Nico Fonseca, Audre Lorde Project; Sebastian Margaret, Equality New Mexico; Lala Zanell, New York City Anti-Violence Project

Reimagining Equity within Institutions: Moving Beyond the Individual Organizational Development • Intermediate

Exploring and examining whiteness, inequity, and systems of oppression within organizations can be quite an undertaking. Understanding the intersections between institutional policies and culture can transform that process and move both individuals and the institution forward. This workshop will provide frameworks for examining institutional culture and whiteness and will also help participants understand how individual training and transformation is also necessary to affect change in organizations. Presenters: Chris Haigh, True Change Associates; Tanya Williams, Authentic Coaching and Consulting

Sustainability Planning: Capacity Building for Healthy Leadership, Transitions, and Organizations Organizational Development • All Audiences

Is your organization ready for leadership change? Sustainability planning prepares an organization to weather the departure of key leaders, builds organizational capacity and strengthens leadership. Leadership transitions are pivotal moments in an organization’s lifecycle and can bring positive organizational change and growth if planned well. Workshop participants will gain an increased understanding of how to prepare for healthy transitions, tools for leadership transitions and sustainability planning, and steps for building organizational sustainability. Presenters: Hez Norton, Third Sector New England; Trina Jackson, Third Sector New England

Dia de los Muertos: Ritual for Spiritual Healing for the Grieving n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

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The workshop will share the cultural meaning and practices of the holiday in a respectful and nonappropriating presentation. Attendees will leave with the ability to adapt this practice for the communities they serve, as well as for personal use. Attendees are requested to bring a photo or memento of someone they wish to remember on the altar. These will be returned at the end of the session. Presenters: Rosa Manriquez, HRC

In Times Such as These: Trans and GNC Seminarians (Re)Envisioning Ministry n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

In this workshop, trans and gender non-conforming seminary students explore the meaning of ministry and activism in the context of social and political climates that are increasingly challenging for progressive religious voices. The workshop facilitators will discuss the unique challenges and roadblocks they personally experience in their pursuit of religious vocational training. Attendees will be led in discussion and activities that examine spiritual vocation and social justice. Presenters: Avery Belyeu; Damien Domenack; Joe Gabuya; Brent Lee Stanfield

Talking Faith: Organizing with Religious Communities on RFRA n Religious Exemptions Legislation • All Audiences

Target Participants: Leaders and organizers that are engaged in legislative campaigns against RFRAs and other anti-LGBTQ policies both locally and nationally, individuals who want to understand the language of faith used to discriminate against LGBTQ persons. The workshop will present: (1) Key religious concepts/ language used against LGBTQ persons, (2) examples of best practices/strategies used by faith-based and non-religious LGBTQ advocacy groups in engaging religious groups toward changing policies and laws that discriminate against LGBTQ persons, (3) developing organizing plans for local application and execution. A panel of speakers/organizers with expertise in organizing with faith communities is followed by breakout groups to develop organizing plans given a couple of scenarios presented by facilitators, and then shared by the groups to all workshop participants. Presenters: Israel Alvaran, Reconciling Ministries Network; Kathleen Campisano, National LGBTQ Task Force; Cole Parke, Political Research Associates

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Butch Femme Sexversations Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

We are making our mark as sex-positive advocates, and most importantly, we are doing it in a very Butch and Femme way, bold and unapologetically. Previous social gatherings have informed us about a huge need for real life sex talks and solutions that relate to the lives of Butch Femme women. Butch Femme Sexversations will allow participants to address the paralyzing taboos that can keep us from sexual freedom. We deserve the right to express our Butch or Femme selves, the right to consensual, raw sex and even their right to an orgasm. Are you still with me? We have lots to talk about. We have a lot to learn about each other. It’s time to speak the language of our sexuality, of our hearts and our culture. Presenters: Gabby Santos, In Our Own Voices; Tandra La Grone, In Our Own Voices

Mapping Our Desires Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Desire Matters. Claiming and acting on our desires creates a more sustainable life path for all of us as we work for social justice. Come listen to seasoned Mappers as they tell their stories of finding their maps of passion and sexuality. Then begin to excavate your own maps and find paths to sexual liberation. This workshop will provide you with an introduction to Desire Mapping, a tool for your life long journey to sexual empowerment and a changed, more just world. Presenters: Amelie Zurn and Sexual Justice Track Faculty

Inhale, Exhale, Repeat: Self, Community and Movement Healing Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

What happens when the protest is over and it’s about holding space for yourself and others? Healing, nourishing, grounding are powerful strategies to build the capacity of our communities. For years POC and native communities have worked to ensure that the all are nourished and their spirit is resilient. Join us as we explore strategies and tools that advocates can use in order to make sure they’re in this fight for the long haul. Presenters: Ikaika Regidor, GLSEN; Blair Franklin, GLSEN Baltimore

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Building Power in the Workplace Through Diversity and Inclusion Workplace • All Audiences

Have you been mistreated on the job? Have you seen others being mistreated? Do you want to do something about it? This is the workshop for you! This interactive workshop will develop strategies and tactics for building LGBTQ power in the workplace and building more diverse and inclusive workplaces for us all. Presenters: Jerame Davis, Pride at Work; Kim Frost, United Food and Commercial Workers; Michele Kessler, UFCW OUTReach

oppression and bring freedom to us all! Presenters: Hazel Edwards, The Attic Youth Center; Giana Graves, The Attic Youth Center; Micah Rodriguez, The Attic Youth Center

CAUCUS 1 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Elder Passion: Discussion & Reading from a Hot New Novel Aging and Ageism • All Audiences

Getting Carded: Navigating ID Policies for LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness Youth • Intermediate

Accurate and updated ID cards are critical for employment, educational programs, benefits, and interactions with law enforcement. While few people enjoy going to the DMV, for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness, getting ID can be almost impossible. High costs, parental consent rules, residency requirements, and outdated gender marker policies are just some of the barriers they experience. We will provide an overview of federal and state policy developments, discuss model policies, and invite workshop participants to share success stories and frustrations. Attendees will leave with ideas for policy improvements and strategies for advocacy in their own communities. Presenters: Shabab Mirza, Center for American Progress; Hannah Hussey, Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth; Arli Christian, National Center for Transgender Equality

Resisting Intersecting Oppressions as Young Queer Revolutionaries of Color Youth • All Audiences

In a world of #blacklivesmatter, gay marriage, and Laverne Cox, what does it mean to be an LGBTQ youth of color at the intersection of heterosexism, cissexism, racism, and adultism? What does the world we wish for look like? How can we get there? Drawing on our stories as queer youth of color, we will explore our understandings of intersectional identities and social justice, and collectively dream up ways of creating the change that’ll disrupt

In this interactive session, we’ll discuss the issues raised through a short reading from LILLIAN IN LOVE, a unique novel about the love affair of two older women in independent senior housing. Lillian comes out at 84; Sarah (79) is an old butch. They face the intersection of disability, ageism, and the homophobia of other residents. None of that stops their ardor and excitement. Support bars in the bathroom give the hand-held shower a whole new role. We’ll discuss the particular hurdles encountered by LGBTQ seniors, the first “out” generation! Presenters: Sue Katz, Wordsmith and Rebel

Unifying Bisexual Community: Events for Visibility and Beyond Bisexual Community & Issues • All Audiences

Bi Local is a bisexual rights and advocacy group in Columbus Ohio that is an affinity group of Equality Ohio. This session is an exploration of our work to increase visibility of bisexuals in our community through various events. We will share what events have been successful, beneficial partnerships and appealing to diversity of the bisexual community. Followed by a discussion to inspire participants and preparation to create events in their own community! Presenters: Kelly Francone, Bi Local; Stef Best, Bi Local

Developing the Queer Student Leader College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

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campuses. While many LGBTQIA-related centers are focused on providing supportive services and programming related to emergency assistance and mental health, it is increasingly important to also provide our future community leaders development opportunities. In this session, the facilitator and participants alike will share both their successful leadership programs and workshops created to empower the future generation of queer students to be active beyond campus. Participants will also have the opportunity to network with other higher education professionals. Presenters: Jamie Gonzales, University of Houston

Queering Greek Life: The Value of LGBT Sororities and Fraternities College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

This caucus will provide a venue for queer Greeks as well as those interested in Greek life to gather and discuss the challenges that arise when navigating the traditionally cis and heteronormative Greek (Sorority and Fraternity) system. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their challenges, share experiences and brainstorm possible solutions together as a large group as well as in focused breakout sessions in the second half of the caucus. Presenters: LaKeia Spady, Gamma Rho Lambda National Sorority; Alex Grandstaff, Gamma Rho Lambda; Maria Ferreira, Gamma Rho Lambda

Asexual & Aromantic Spectrum Caucus Community Organizing • Intermediate

This caucus is a space for asexual and aromantic spectrum people to come together, meet, share experiences, discuss how these identities affect them, how these identities and others intersect with one another, and organize. Based on the large turnout from last year, we will break into small discussion topic groups to share techniques for community organizing and activism, and provide space for in-depth, inperson ace and aro spec community discussions. Please note this is not for 101 questions, although curious allies are welcome to come listen, speak to organizers before or after the caucus, or join us in the suite. Presenters: Queenie Ace, The Asexual Agenda; Leah Miller, NYU Aces and Aros; Jovanna McCoy, Aces NYC

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Building a network for formerly incarcerated LGBTQ people n Criminal Justice • All Audiences

The purpose of this caucus is for formerly incarcerated LGBTQ/HIV people to meet and get to know each other. It’s purpose is to create a unique space for us. Our arrest, our conviction, our incarceration and our reentry caused trauma which did damage to our mental and physical well-being. We suffered like others in prison but suffered differently because of our LGBTQ/HIV status in prison. We need the opportunity to create a network of all of us across the country. Presenters: Evie Litwok, Witness to Mass Incarceration; Ashley Diamond; Zahara Green; Britta Schulte

Policy Counsel and Litigators Round Table on Sex Work Decriminalization n Criminal Justice • Advanced

This caucus will help attendees collectively strategize best practices for sex work decriminalization advocacy. Participants will share successful stepwise policy and litigation decriminalization (broadly defined, e.g., HIV, sex work, etc.) efforts in different cities, states, and at the federal level, then discuss how they could be replicated in different regions. Participants will debate different arguments regarding the constitutionality of laws that criminalize sex work. Participants will discuss meaningful differences between the trafficking and sex work and how those differences are and can be represented in statutory text. Attendees will leave with practical next steps for inter- and intra-organization work. Presenters: Kara Ingelhart, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; Kate D’Adamo, Sex Workers Project; Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, National LGBTQ Task Force; Joanna Cifredo, National Center for Transgender Equality

Low Spoons*, Full Heart: Navigating Relationships with Chronic Illness/ Disability n Disability Justice • All Audiences

This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on our roles, needs, and hopes while navigating relationships as a person with chronic illness and/or disability or as a person connected to those person(s). How do we stay connected to our self-worth, agency, and abundance in relationships when we’re facing the scarcity and limitations of living in a capitalist and

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ableist society? Through self-reflection, guided discussion, and group activities, participants will explore how disability justice can be practiced in our personal relationships. Presenters: Shawn Tristan

#CCFemme17: Our Bodies are Powerful n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Calling all femmes! Each year, we create this femme caucus to celebrate femme power and build femme community. We invite femmes of all sexualities, genders, identities, and experiences to this space. This year, our femme caucus will center body positivity. We’ll start with some dialogue and end with an exercise to show that femmes comes in all shapes, sizes, able, and non able bodies. So bring a towel or a robe, and participate at your comfort level as we connect and learn from one another. And finally, be sure to keep the dialogue going throughout the conference using #CCFemme17! Presenters: Alison Amyx, Believe Out Loud; LaSaia Wade, Tennessee Trans Journey Project

Trans Legal Services Network: Sharing Information to Support Our Communities n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Want to discuss ways to expand name and gender change services and other legal resources for transgender communities? Come learn about the exciting work of the Trans Legal Services Network and how we are improving and expanding access to legal services for transgender communities across the country! Meet current and interested Network members and share ideas on how the Network can best provide legal assistance, skill shares, and technical support for trans legal services. Presenters: Arli Christian, National Center for Transgender Equality

Feminism in the Non-Binary Community n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Feminism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality. In today’s third-wave feminism, intersectionality is more important than ever, but is there enough room

in this movement for non-binary identities? Pulling experiences from interviews with people of several identities in and outside of the LGBTQA community, participants in this one-hour caucus will discuss the intersectionality of these movements and leave with multiple perspectives on harnessing momentum and uniting for all-inclusive gender equality. Presenters: Davy Gerichten, West Chester University

Trans History: from the beginning till now History • All Audiences

This workshop is designed to talk about the history of the transgender movement, the importance of the transgender movement through time, and how our transgender history effects us today. If we don’t know where we came from, we cant know where we’re going, and this workshop will discuss the important times and individuals throughout history. Presenters: blue montana, Las Vegas LGBT Center

LGBTQ Latinx HIV Caucus HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

The LGBT Latino HIV Caucus invites LGBT Latinos working on HIV issues or interested in getting more involved in HIV issues to join us. The evening will create a space for participants to discuss their own work on HIV prevention and treatment and specific barriers and challenges that LGBT Latinos face related to HIV. The gathering is aimed at identifying potential opportunities for collaboration, building upon synergies to increase the number of LGBT Latinos working in the HIV field, and encouraging LGBT Latinoled organizations to access HIV funding. The caucus will connect attendees to opportunities to engage in networks and convenings dedicated to sharing best practices among LGBT Latinos to advance culturally competent tools to reduce new HIV infections and ensure HIV positive LGBT Latinos are in treatment. Presenters: David Pérez, League of United Latin American Citizens; Jorge Vidal, AIDS United; Alexa Rodriguez, Empoderate! Youth Center at La Clinica del Pueblo

Advocacy 101 Legislative/Policy Initiatives • Fundamentals

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your meeting agenda, and how to do follow-up. This session is best for folks who have never attended a lobby visit before and might want a little practice, or for folks who want to take a bigger role in meeting with elected officials at home. Presenters: Catherine Guerrier, NETWORK Lobby; Emma Tacke, NETWORK Lobby

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importance of cultural competency, language, and music as forms of authentic welcome. This workshop will help attendees be better informed on barriers of exclusion and how our identities intersect. In particular in the Latinx community in Orlando, Florida following Pulse, as related to issues of identity and services offered. Participants might leave tender, but energized. Presenters: Elivette Mendez Angulo, United Church of Christ; Roberto Ochoa, United Church of Christ

Lesbian Community & Issues • All Audiences

A discussion-centered caucus focused on topics such the joys and difficulties of being Old and Lesbian and how the intersections of oppressions such as sexism and racism impact Old Lesbians. This discussion will be guided by two long-time Old Lesbian activists. Cross-generational support from allies of all communities is welcome. Presenters: Ruth Debra, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change; Jan Griesinger, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change

Elevating the Voices of LGBTQ People in the Media Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees become familiar with and improve strategies for elevating the voices of LGBTQ people in the media. The media plays an important role in the way we understand sexuality and gender identity, but unfortunately LGBTQ people are drastically under-represented in media. A panel of LGBTQ reporters, editors, and producers will share strategies on how to ensure that the voices of LGBTQ people are included in various forms of media. Attendees will leave with practical advice and tools on how to elevate LGBTQ voices in their own newsroom. Presenters: Dawn Ennis, LGBTQ Nation; Ernest Owens, Philadelphia Magazine; Jorge Amaro, National LGBTQ Task Force; Sunnivie Brydum, Religion Dispatches; Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times; Tim Cwiek, Philadelphia Gay News

Intersectionality Bowling: Beyond the Frontera n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • Fundamentals

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Metropolitan Community Church Meet Up n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Join us during for a time of gathering with past and present MCC members and friends. We will use this time to connect, talk about what is most pressing in our movement, what we’ve heard throughout the conference, what has challenged us and how we might consider bringing information and ideas home. Presenters: Lauren Bennett, Metropolitan Community Churches; Angel Collie, Metropolitan Community Churches

Pagan and Nature Spirituality Caucus n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

A networking and organizing opportunity for individuals and clergy from Pagan, Heathen, Wiccan, Shamanic and Nature Based Spirituality communities. This session explores an understanding how the practices, structures and traditions of “minority religions” are being transformed by LGBTQIS consciousness. Presenters: Eric Eldritch, Open Hearth Foundation

Queer Hindu Working Group n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing

Asian / South Asian / Southeast Asian / Pac. Is. Caucus n Racial Justice • All Audiences

This caucus will be run as a networking session. The first 10 minutes will be for overall introductions as well other on-going national projects. Then the bulk of time will be dedicated for an introductory goaround for each attendee to introduce her/his/their

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self and her/his/their group and check-in about the conference. The last few minutes will be for an open question/answer/comment period. Presenters: Kevin Lam, QAPA/NQAPIA; Julia Rhee, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance/NQAPIA; Amanda Zhang, NQAPIA

Black Joy as Radical Resistance: People of Color Caucus Racial Justice • All Audiences

How do we as LGBTQI People of Color breathe as we are subjected to the daily assaults of black and brown bodies in our world? How do we muster the strength to organize and mobilize in the midst of state sanctioned violence? What is the role of joy as a strategy of radical resistance? Join this LGBTQ People of Color space as we come together to share our experiences, our hopes and our dreams for our world and for each other. Presenters: Rodney McKenzie, National LGBTQ Task Force; Bri Sanders, National LGBTQ Task Force; Candace Bond-Theriault, National LGBTQ Task Force; Alicia Boykins; Victoria Kirby York, National LGBTQ Task Force

Center Black Femmes, Women and Girls, or Else! n Racial Justice • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees become familiar with and improve their knowledge around the intersectional oppressions of black femmehood, womanhood and girlhood. Participants will be asked to unpack their misogynoir (Thank you Moya Bailey) when interacting and advocating for these groups. They will also learn about structures based in white, heteronormative values. Attendees will leave with practical action items to address individual and structure levels of racism and become better allies to black women, femmes and girls. Presenters: Krystal Leaphart, YWCA/NAACP; Desiree Luckey

Advanced Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus Sexual Freedom • Advanced

For the first time, we are offering separate caucuses to better meet the needs of the large number of folks interested in alternative relationship structures! The Advanced Polyamory/Nonmonogamy Caucus

provides an important affinity group and learning opportunity for those who are experienced in poly/ NM. Perhaps you have questions regarding raising a family in a poly context or supporting a partner through a breakup. Come to this session to talk it out with other experienced practitioners of poly/NM. Presenters: Robin Nussbaum, Sexual Liberation Collective; Daunasia Yancey, Sexual Liberation Collective; Asha Leong, Sexual Liberation Collective

Becoming Sexual Liberators Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Ever wonder what sexual liberation or sex positivity is all about? It might not be as scary as you think! Come hang out with members of the Sexual Liberation Collective, and together we’ll talk about what it means for each of us to choose to be sexual liberators of our own bodies, spirits, and relationships - and how this translates into our communities and work in the world. Come with an open heart and leave with a better sense of your next steps toward sexual healing and liberation. Presenters: Roan Coughtry, Sexual Liberation Collective; Alba Onofrio, Sexual Liberation Collective; Asha Leong, Sexual Liberation Collective

Interracial Dating Sexual Freedom • Intermediate

This is a closed training for people currently in an interracial relationship. How are we supporting each other in interracial relationships? What are we doing as a community to figure out interracial dating fits into our struggles? How does interracial dating effect our paths towards self and community love? How does the poly/monogs dichotomy effect interracial dating dynamics? How do we thrive in interracial relationships?

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Sex Workers’ Caucus Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

This caucus is intended as a space only for people who currently or have traded sex. This includes prostitution, escorting, cam modeling, adult films, stripping, sugar babying, or other “erotic” jobs. Whether you’ve traded sex for money, drugs or housing; with your dick, with your pussy or with your ass, all are welcome! Those who attend will have an NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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opportunity to network with others of similar (and differing) experiences, trade health tips, and learn about community-lead organizing throughout the country. Presenters: Derek Demeri, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance; Aisha Mohammed, Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliance; Arianna Lint, TransLatina Coalition

Social Service Provider Caucus Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

Calling all Social Workers, Case Managers, Therapists, Peer Educators, and Outreach Workers! This is our time to explore our role in movement building, and celebrate our work to create safer and healthier communities. This caucus creates a space for frontline staff to discuss issues related to boundary issues when working in small communities, self disclosure while working with clients with shared identities, and avoiding burnout while working in transphobic, homophobic and racist systems. Presenters: Laura Sorensen, Morris Home; Andrew Spiers, Morris Home; Kade Collins, Morris Home; Naiymah Sanchez, Formerly with Trans Health Information Project

LGBTQ+ in Tech: Navigating and Queering the Tech Industry Workplace • All Audiences

In this open, facilitated dialogue, attendees will share their personal experiences, concerns, and advice related to being queer in the tech industry (broadly defined: from IT to software engineering to nontechnical positions in tech settings). The discussion will center on the lived experiences of attendees, and will span industry, nonprofits, higher education, and the job search. Participants will leave feeling validated and empowered to tackle the field as their fully authentic selves! Presenters: Yael Kaufman

Working Together to Create Safe and Affirming Schools Youth • All Audiences

This caucus is a space to share strategies, experiences, and lessons learned in the struggle to make K-12 schools safer and more affirming for LGBTQ students. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the current trends in both affirming and harmful policies as well as how advocates have been working to support students through policy, organizing, and education. This workshop aims to be a facilitated discussion between local, state-wide, and national advocates to increase collaboration and coordination. Presenters: Tea Sefer, GLSEN; Andrew Peters, GLSEN

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of liberation with reparations being a central goal and necessary strategy in anti-racist work. Presenters: Durryle Brooks, Love and Justice, LLC; Evangeline Weiss, National LGBTQ Task Force

All Academy Sessions 3 Hours De-Centering Whiteness in Organizations A skill-share on the sometimes harrowing and always liberating nitty gritty process of de-centering whiteness and centering the leadership of People of Color in an organization. A workshop aimed at white organizational leaders, we’ll wrap our arms around the realistic processes and materials required to make this cultural shift. We’ll discuss crafting narratives that drive the work, fears, and staffing concerns (including us). Soulforce will offer three facilitated follow-up conversations with the cohort that attends so we make the work stick. People of Color welcome to attend. Presenters: Herrin Haven, Soulforce

Shifting Power in our Movements: Transformative Accountability and Communication Ever speak up against oppression in close relationships, organizations, or movement spaces, only to feel resistance or dismissed? Or try shifting an organization from within, only to burn out? We will unearth communication tactics that avoid accountability (like defensiveness or using identities as a shield), practice navigating hard conversations, and birth our own liberatory responses. Participants will share stories and solutions to reclaim power and move towards transformative accountability in our relationships, organizations, and movements. Presenters: Sasha W., To Speak A Song; Shreya Shah Saltwater, Social Justice Training & Consulting, LLC

Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum This workshop explores sex and gender through the lens of imperialism in U.S. history, analyzing what imperialism is and how it has evolved over time. The gender binary operates through white supremacy, and how it is constructed to maintain white cisgender men (and women) at the top of a hierarchy of people. We will then consider how it shows up in current LGBTQ organizing models, and what harm reduction looks like for our communities. Presenters: Malcolm Shanks; Khari Jackson, www. Wjkharij.com

Love in Action: Reparations & Justice Reparations at its best has been seen as economically unfeasible and at its worst, fantasy within contemporary American context. In contemporary political discourse, restitution for racial injustice and discrimination is not a desirable strategy within the context of white supremacy and systematic racism. To the contrary, this session will center the discussion of reparations as a necessary strategy for anti-racist work through the lens of love in action. The cumulative economic impact of racism on communities of color cannot be understated and must be remedied if we are to see achieve racial justice within this country. Therefore, this session will explore love as a practice

WORKSHOP SESSION 5 9:00 am – 10:30 am Local Matters: Winning Municipal Nondiscrimination Campaigns Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies • All Audiences

Despite the recent marriage equality win, LGBTQ people are still not equal under federal law, and are susceptible to discrimination in the workplace and in public places with little-to-no legal recourse. Local protections are now more important than ever! This session will draw from the experience of local advocates who worked on the Houston campaign, research conducted by Equality Federation on lessons learned from five recent campaigns, and Freedom for All Americans’ experience partnering with many of these campaigns. During this workshop, attendees will join interactive activities to practice nondiscrimination advocacy and explore local strategies for advancing LGBT nondiscrimination policies. Presenters: Brad Pritchett, ACLU of Texas; Katie Belanger, Freedom for All Americans; Ian Palmquist, Equality Federation NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Hanging Out and Hooking Up Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • All Audiences

Most sex ed curricula do not allow LGBTQ people to have the opportunity to openly discuss sex, dating, and hooking up. NCAVP offers this reality-based workshop to equip LGBTQ communities, especially youth, with safety strategies for hanging out and hooking up. This workshop will focus on safer dating through exercises and discussion. NCAVP will provide participants with support to develop awareness of their own needs, wants, and boundaries, as well as those of potential partners. Presenters: Lisa Gilmore, Illinois Accountability Initiative; Melissa Brown, Kansas City Anti-Violence Project; Tre’Andre Valentine, The Network/La Red

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Biscuits & Bridge Building: Transformative Strategies for Intersectional Organizing in the South Community Organizing • Intermediate

Interested in exploring strategies for effective organizing in the South? Curious about how the lessons we’ve learned in this region could strengthen your own work? Using real examples collected in the process of working for LGBTQ equality, racial justice, voter engagement, language justice, sexual violence prevention, intersectional K-12 education, and inclusive religious communities, facilitators will share what they have learned while working in the South. Attendees will experience and participate in the Southern Simulation, an exercise designed to gain practice at Southern coalition building. Presenters: Tzedek Fellows 2016-2017, Mandel Rodis Fund; Mandy Carter, Southerners on New Ground and National Black Justice Coalition

Art & Culture • All Audiences

In this 90-minute workshop, a group of six people (maximum) will address the power of music to build community and inspire activism. By the end of the session we will have written a song as a gift to the LGBTQ community and attendees of the conference. It may be an anthem, a hymn, a satire or a comic ditty. It may be a fugue or a rap or a ballad. The group will decide and create it together. Attendees may bring musical instruments to the workshop. Musical experience is welcome but not necessary. Presenters: Tom Wilson Weinberg

Expanding Safe Zones: Creating Greater Capacity for Education College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • Intermediate

Safe Zones and similar educational programs can be found in an increasing number of institutions, but often the work of facilitating such workshops is left to one or two people within a large institution. This workshop will focus on expanding the capacity for education through effective recruitment, training, and development of facilitators. Participants will leave with an action plan for expanding capacity for education and resources for doing so within their institution. Presenters: Kayla Lisenby, Wake Forest University

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Inclusive Movement Building: Deaf LGBTQ Solidarity Community Organizing • All Audiences

In this interactive and informative session, participants will be introduced to some of the key issues Deaf LGBTQ communities face. Deaf LGBTQ history and demographics, intersectionality, common misconceptions and stereotypes, and how the lack of communication access inhibits participation in LGBTQ movements will be covered. Participants will leave with tools on how to better create accessible spaces within their programs, services, and outreach efforts. Where to obtain and how to find funding for ASL interpreters will also be covered. Presenters: Drago Renteria, Deaf Queer Resource Center; Melissa Kelley, San Diego Pride; MJ Jones, Gallaudet University; Jennifer Heiser, Deaf-REACH

Queer Asylum Seekers, Asylees and Refugees’ Social Network Community Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees become familiar with and improve their existing advocacy skills around LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers, Asylees, and Refugees. Participants will practice their advocacy about queer and trans migration, and social support networks in

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terms of where and what structures do exist. What is missing? What are the barriers, opportunities, and recommendations in this time of transition? What do the LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers, Asylees and Refugees need? Presenters: Mirza Shams; Elizabeth Harrison

Protected & Served? Transgender people in the criminal legal system n Criminal Justice • All Audiences

Transgender people of color are disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated compared to their cisgender counterparts. After focusing on our work in Texas advocating for Passion Star - an AfricanAmerican transgender woman, who has been repeatedly raped and assaulted while housed in male prions over 14 years - we will engage attendees in an interactive session and discuss ways to further address and combat this epidemic. Attendees will take away action plans to continue and/or begin this work in their respective locations. Presenters: Omar Narvaez, Lambda Legal; Melinda McKew, Lambda Legal; Demoya Gordon, Lambda Legal

Building Core Organizing Skills While Advocating for Debt Free College n Economic Justice • All Audiences

This workshop will use the Debt Free College campaign as a laboratory for learning best practices for the core organizing skills of telling an effective story. Then, shape your story into an effective advocacy message for social media, lobby visits, calls to legislators, and organizing their communities. The Debt Free College campaign is an economic and racial justice campaign aimed at restoring a system of affordable higher education. To learn more visit www. debtfreecollege.org. Presenters: Causten Rodriguez-Wollerman, DEMOS

Fighting for Our Families: The Case for Paid Family and Medical Leave n Economic Justice • All Audiences

A high energy and interactive workshop flushing out the intersections between economic, reproductive, and LGBTQ justice through games, dialog, and

small group breakouts. As our community becomes more empowered, we see an ever growing need for dialogue and education about paid family medical leave and our communities’ ability to construct families and provide caregiving to our families in ways that are representative of our lives. Presenters: Gaby Garcia-Vera, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; Jerame Davis, Pride at Work; Preston Van Vliet, LGBTQ Work-Family Project; Marianne Bellesorte, Vice President of Policy, Strategy, and Communications at PathWays PA

Family Acceptance is a Public Health Issue Families • All Audiences

While we invest significant resources to alleviate homelessness, suicide, and HIV, family acceptance is often a low priority. We know the value of supportive families on health impacts. Families are not just people in need of support but valuable change agents and leaders. This workshop will be an opportunity to learn about family acceptance work and brainstorm ways to build a national movement of families advocating for their LGBTQ children. We will develop strategies for activating a broad range of constituencies and building family leadership. Presenters: Maritza Martinez, Somos Familia; Janette Alvarez, University of California San Francisco; Laurin Mayeno, Out Proud Families

LGBTQ Fundraising Forum: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate Fundraising/Resource Development • All Audiences

This workshop, specifically designed for those who fundraise for LGBTQ organizations (Executive Directors, Development Directors/Coordinators, Board and Committee Members) will focus on how we can best raise funds for our organization or cause. Participants will share with peers about how they are raising funds for LGBTQ organizations, discuss different fundraising strategies, and connect with each other to share ideas and resources. Presenters: Alyssa Mutryn, The Attic Youth Center; Samantha Giusti, Delaware Valley Legacy Fund; Perry Monastero, Mazzoni Center; Shana McMahan, William Way Community Center

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Building Gender Justice Mindset for Youth in Your Community n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

California is the only state that has passed laws to protect LGBT youth from discrimination, promoting transgender rights in schools and mandating a teaching curriculum regarding LGBT history. Translating policy into practice takes time and strategic planning. This session will provide participants with ideas, structures and systems developed in one city, Santa Cruz, California, that involves the entire community towards creating a gender justice mindset for youth. Participants will leave this session with a plan to apply in any community about ways to create a better climate of gender justice for youth. Presenters: Lesley Reid-Harrison, The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz; Alex Santana, The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz; Ron Indra, Safe Schools Project; Stuart Rosenstein, Queer Youth Task Force

TRUTH: Challenging Media Narratives About Trans Youth n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Join youth leaders from TRUTH, a collaboration between Transgender Law Center and GSA Network, in building a movement to challenge stereotypes about what it means to be young and trans. Through videos, selfie campaigns and other media projects, TRUTH empowers trans and gender nonconforming youth to share our stories authentically and effectively in order to affect change and create community. Craft and practice your own story or learn how to support the work of others! Presenters: Juniper Cordova-Goff, GSA Network

non-profit leaders looking to take HIV-inclusive organizations and initiative to the next level. Presenters: Noel Gordon, Human Rights Campaign

LGBT Groups Work Together: Undocumented Californians n Immigration Justice • All Audiences

This panel discussion will help attendees understand why the LGBT community should care about immigration issues. More specifically, this panel will show how LGBT centers in California are working together to expand capacities to provide services to LGBT and non-LGBT undocumented Californians. Presenters: Robert Rodriguez, Equality California; Laura Kanter, Gay and Lesbian Center Orange County; Rebekah Hook-Held, San Diego LGBT Community Center; Tami Martin, Equality California

Media, Religion, and Hope for LGBTQI People in Africa International Issues • All Audiences

LGBTQI people in Rwanda, Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Liberia use TV news, smart phones, YouTube and more to tell the stories of African sexual minorities who are also people of faith. They are challenging hate mongers like Scott Lively and Rick Warren with his message of Christian domination. Facilitators work directly with LGBTQI people in East and West Africa on economic development, progressive theology and collaboration. Freedom is coming! Presenters: Joseph Tolton, The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Ann Craig, The Fellowship Global; Dennis Akpono, Reconciling Ministries Network

Hack the Law: The Next Generation Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences

Developing the Next Generation of HIV Advocates & Activists HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

Youth leadership is critical to ending the HIV and AIDS epidemic once and for all. But how do we ensure the next generation of AIDS advocates and activists has the skills needed to be successful? This workshop will share lessons learned from the HRC Foundation’s HIV 360° Fellowship Program, a unique, capacity-building fellowship program for young, 112

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With a new President entering the White House, and new staff at Federal Agencies across the government, how can we work together to keep moving regulatory policy forward? Our team of policy nerds will chat about what we’re doing to prepare the new Administration to hit the ground running on LGBTQ policies and will brainstorm with you about how you can move policies through state agencies to create systemic change. Presenters: Meghan Maury, National LGBTQ Task Force; Tryone Hanley, National Center for Lesbian Rights; Sharita Gruberg, Center for American Progress

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Lights, Camera, Action En Español Media, Communications, and Messaging • Intermediate

Spanish-language and Latino media provide great vehicles for helping Latinx understand their LGBT neighbors and friends. Effective media work, however, requires preparation. This workshop is for those with intermediate to advanced Spanish fluency, to help build skills and confidence. The workshop is the second part to LGBTQ Activism in Spanish. Presenters: Francisco Francisco Dueñas, Lambda Legal; Monica Trasandes, GLAAD

Culture Wars vs. Collective Liberation Movement Building • Intermediate

While the Left works to actualize a vision of collective liberation, where struggles for LGBTQ rights, racial justice, indigenous sovereignty, disability justice, prison abolition, immigrant rights, and abortion access are understood to be fundamentally linked, the Right is effectively exploiting the borders of our communities, fragmenting our movements and our beings. Join a team of seasoned opposition experts and activists to learn more about how to resist the Right’s manipulation and cultivate radically inclusive intersectional power. Presenters: Cole Parke, Political Research Associates; May Sifuentes, Program Officer, Planned Parenthood Global; Erin Fitzgerald, Media Matters

What’s the Role of Democracy Initiatives Toward Building a Progressive LGBTQ Movement? Movement Building • All Audiences Presenters: Stacey Long Simmons, National LGBTQ Task Force

Creating Shared Values for Faith Based Collaboration n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Join us to improve your skills to create and grow diverse and inclusive faith coalitions working against religious exemptions legislation and/or religious based bigotry. Exchange skills to ground your faith based collaborations in shared values and identify the pitfalls or blind spots that leave those most vulnerable in our community behind.

Leave with collective wisdom to begin or strengthen collaborative faith work in their local landscape. Presenters: Joey Lopez, More Light Presbyterians; Rodney McKenzie, National LGBTQ Task Force; Melissa McQueen, Many Voices; Reese Rathjen, Believe Out Loud

Cultivating Wholeness: Addressing the Spiritual Aspect of Transition for transmasculine People of Color n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees who are POC to explore through discussion Trans-masculinity, Transition (all levels) and Spirituality. Participants will exchange thoughts, ideas and what is working for them around recognizing transition as a spiritual process, identifying constraints and limitations, useful support systems and beliefs, and continuation in maturing spiritually and physically. After closing with a guided meditation, attendees will leave with solid ideas, useful information and an over sense of positive spiritual and physical self-awareness on their journey as Trans-Masculine Spiritual Beings. Presenters: Asher Kolieboi, United Church of Christ; Yunus Coleman

LGBTQ Jewish Movement and Community Building: Queering the “Chosen People” n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • Intermediate

Is there a national Queer Jewish Movement? Should there be? What is the relationship between Jewish LGBTQ organizing work and social justice activism? How do we reconcile pride in Jewish peoplehood with greater intersectional power struggles. Join leaders from major LGBTQ Jewish organizations throughout the country to examine these questions and more. We will explore how best to make Jewish Spaces welcoming to Queer constituents, and share best practices on engaging Queer spaces with Jewish Life. Find out what Queer Jewish projects are in the works. We will also review what you want in a LGBT Jewish movement and what it should stand for. Be ready to work together on building strategies that best leverage the expertise and energy of our diverse communities. Presenters: Mordechai Levovitz, JQY; Joanna Ware, Keshet; Halley Cohen, GLOE DC; Asher Gellis, JQ International NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Building Queer Asian / South Asian Community and Movement n Racial Justice • All Audiences

Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander (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. Leaders of LGBTQ AAPI organizations will showcase local multilingual education campaigns to counter anti-gay bias and organizing campaigns for immigrants’ rights and marriage equality. Participants will discuss ways to build a queer AAPI movement. Presenters: Glenn Magpantay, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA); Benjamin Chou, Asian Queers United for Action (AQUA)-DC; Jenny Le, Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (QAPA); André Jennings, Kush-DC

Sin, Sex, G-d and Government: HB1523 and the fight for “Religious Freedom” n Religious Exemptions Legislation • Intermediate

This workshop will help attendees become more skilled in articulating an argument for LGBTQ Religious Freedom by studying the arguments used in court to expose the unconstitutionality of Mississippi’s religious exemption law AND the ways that LGBTQ people are responding to these type of discriminatory laws across the country. More nuanced messaging will help us all change the narrative around “Sin, Sex, G-d and Government” (even in our most conservative states). Participants will use the lessons learned in the legal and cultural battle against HB1523 as a way to defeat similar laws as they are proposed in other states. Attendees will leave with a new framework for discussing LGBTQ concerns not just as matter of equality and justice but in the context of religious liberty for all. Presenters: Martin Allen, ACLU of Mississippi; Erik Fleming, ACLU of Mississippi

Reproductive Justice 101: A Theory, Framework, Movement, and Practice n Reproductive Justice • Intermediate

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framework, key conditions and concepts, and key movement-building approaches. Identify individual and collective advocacy strategies towards policy shift and sustainable culture change at the local, state and national level. Interactively distinguish between reproductive health, rights, and justice frameworks. Identify issue-based entry-points to Reproductive Justice at the central intersections of race, gender, sexuality and more while unpacking the politics of allyship and co-optation. Presenters: Lexi White, New Voices for Repro Justice, Philadelphia

A Place for Polyamorous/Nonmonogamous 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 polyamorous/nonmonogamous (poly/NM) communities are working 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 movements. We will examine issues of “outness,” inclusion in LGBTIQA movements, and strategies for raising poly/NM concerns within your own work. Presenters: Robin Nussbaum, Sexual Liberation Collective; Cavanaugh Quick, Sexual Liberation Collective; Asha Leong, Sexual Liberation Collective; Ariel Vegosen, Sexual Liberation Collective

Birds, Bees, Unicorns and Wolves: Talking With Children About Sex to Combat Sexual Abuse Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Queer parents or parents who have queer or gender variant children: at what age do parents discuss this uncomfortable but imperative topic of sex? In a time where sex education in public schools is almost eradicated, how are young people obtaining these vital tools? What is age appropriate? How do we re-construct the social narrative on love, sex and relationships to our children? How do we engage with our children in their personal and social understanding of (acceptable) sex? Come together in understand the power of COMPREHENSIVE sex education for children and youth as a tool of power

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and a mechanism to combat child sexual abuse. Join this workshop if you have questions, want to share your sex-ed ideas or if you need support in the exciting, complicated but necessary tips on “the talk.” Presenters: Ignacio Rivera, The HEAL Project

WORKSHOP SESSION 6 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Traveling While Trans: Protecting Your Rights and Keeping Yourself Safe Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies • All Audiences

Join a discussion with attorneys and LGBTQ activists on the additional concerns and obstacles transgender individuals can expect when travelling domestically and internationally. We will focus on areas of additional concern for transgender individuals, including tips on how to prepare for the airport, updating documents, what happens during scans and pat-downs, legal rights and protections, how to file complaints against TSA or CBP, traveling on immigration documents, and examples of personal experiences. Presenters: Olivia Hunt, Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services; Rachel See, National Labor Relations Board; Denise Hunter, Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services; Alexa Rodriguez, La Clinica del Pueblo

Learnings from Orlando: Understanding and Responding to violence in LGBTQ Communities of Color. Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • All Audiences

During this workshop presenters will discuss the intersections of Latinx and Queer identities in the context of interpersonal, family and community violence. The speakers will share some of their lessons learned from responding, from a technical assistance perspective, to the Orlando mass shootings. They will engage the audience in assessing the possible impact of practices that are not culturally appropriate when responding to acts of violence that target specific communities. Additionally, presenters

will demonstrate the need for building and sustaining culturally relevant partnerships to effectively respond to violence. Presenters: Heidi Notario, National Latin@ Network, Casa de Esperanza; Pierre Berastain, National Latin@ Network, Casa de Esperanza

Queer Memoir Storytelling = Radical Act Art & Culture • All Audiences

This workshop will introduce participants to the concepts of radical queer storytelling as used by the founders of Queer Memoir in their events. Participants will have a chance to participate in a radical storytelling mini workshop and story share and will leave with the skills needed to apply the tenets of radical storytelling/listening to their own activism and cultural work. Presenters: Kelli Dunham, Co-Founder Queer Memoir

Inclusive SP(ACES): Making College/ University LGBTQ+ Centers Ace Inclusive College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • Intermediate

The purpose of this workshop is to learn how to be an ally of the asexual community by learning basic terminology, history and needs of the community, available resources, and methods of being an ally specific to doing LGBTQ+ work with college students. Participants will leave workshop with a detailed action plan catered to their home institution, resources, and colleagues’ contacts to complete this work when back at work. Presenters: Jo Teut, UWCX OEDI; Tristan Vaught, IUPUI LGBTQ+ Center

Mobilizing Undocuqueer Power to Guarantee Our Right to Education College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

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scholarships will provide background on their campaigns, facilitate discussion and encourage mobilization towards the development of student initiated fees aimed at funding scholarships for undocumented students. Presenters: Luis Gomez, Undocumented Students and Allies at IIT; Hector Lopez Gonzalez, Undocumented Students and Allies at IIT

Creating Safe Communities and Power Building in Rural Areas Community Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop will show how to create safe places and build power in rural areas through art and organizing. Workshop attendees will leave with tools and develop a plan that will teach the community how to care for its LGBTQ+ citizens, identify and develop LGBTQ+ leaders, create support systems, and build political power and visibility. Presenters: Cammie Pavesic, Add The Words; Juli Stratton, North Idaho Pride Alliance; Jenny Seibert, PFLAG

Lessons from the Field: Recruiting & Supporting Volunteer Teams Community Organizing • Fundamentals

It takes people power to make the magic happen and yet, where does the magic come from and what happens when the magic doesn’t work? Truth is, it’s not magic at all. Come explore successful and unsuccessful case studies of recruiting and supporting volunteer teams and leaders at the local, state and national level on LGBTQ and economic justice issues. Participants will learn tools and practice creating plans to implement with their teams working for social change back home. Presenters: Sayre E. Reece, National LGBTQ Task Force; Amanda Devecka-Rinear, New Jersey Organizing Project

Nice Werk if You Can Get It Community Organizing • All Audiences

BAGLY, a 36-year old youth-led, adult supported social support organization has built a promising comprehensive, client-centered, model for addressing sexual health disparities among young queer and trans people of color who are engaged in Boston’s Ballroom Community. This workshop will provide an exploration into BAGLY’s strategies, 116

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successes, and challenges as we build a community of care with members of Boston’s house and ball scene. We hope to inspire and catalyze replication by other organizations that wish to support and werk with local Ballroom communities. Presenters: Aaron Gonzales, BAGLY; Athena Vaugn, BAGLY

Unlikely Allies: Building Coalitions Beyond LGBTQ Organizations Community Organizing • All Audiences

In this workshop, workshop leaders and participants alike will draw upon our experiences working with allies in multiracial, multi-issue coalitions to affect change at the local and state level. Our focus will be on identifying strategies for building effective, durable relationships with constituencies outside of LGBTQ-identified organizations. For our LGBTQ focused organizations to achieve campaigns wins, we must regularly engage potential allies who are nonLGBTQ constituencies. Presenters: Cedric Lawson, The Leadership Conference Education Fund; Erik Lampmann, Young People For (YP4)

But I’m Queer! What does Disability Have to Do With It? n Disability Justice • Intermediate

But I’m queer! What does Disability have to do with it? Well, here’s the thing, plenty of disabled/ chronically ill folks are an integral part of LGBTQ community, history, resistance and culture. Yet still we exist relegated to margins and the cracks of even progressive LBGTQ community and organizing. Truth is as a movement we can’t effectively fight racism, transphobia, sexism, or be in solidarity with immigration and Sovereignty struggles without a working understanding of Ableism. Why? Because it works as a mechanism of white supremacy, colonialism, eugenics, sexual violence, capitalism and the state control of bodies. Not exactly sure how this is true? Come find out! Become part of a growing movement of progressive LBGTQ communities working to deliberately integrate an anti-ableism practice into the core of their work. Build the analysis and skills to move beyond charity, tragedy or equality and towards disability justice. Presenters: Sebastian Margaret, Equality New Mexico (EQNM); Myra Lleneras, Equality New Mexico

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Creating Safe Space for TransLatinas n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

El/La Para TransLatinas is a holistic social justice, violence and HIV prevention program for transgender Latinas (translatinas) in the Mission District of San Francisco. During this time we would like to share our journey of survival as we have fought to stay open in order to provide critical services for our community. Join us to hear our stories and to also learn how to be a more effective ally to our trans community. Presenters: Susana Caceres, El/La Para TransLatinas; Sthefany Baustia, El/La Para TransLatinas; Julia Cepeda, El/La Para TransLatinas; Lluvia Chavez

LGBT Liaisons and Offices within Government Institutions Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences

This workshop will examine the use of LGBT liaisons/ LGBT offices within government institutions to create change. As individuals and communities continue the work towards equality, development within government institutions is critical to advancing overall progress and dismantling barriers to governmental resources faced by underserved communities and unsafe and oppressive systems. Learn how to create and/or use LGBT liaisons and offices within your city and/or state. Presenters: Nellie Fitzpatrick, Director of LGBT Affairs, Mayor’s Office, City of Philadelphia

Increasing Transgender Visibility n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

The L-Fund - Responding to Lesbians in Crisis

This workshop will help attendees develop a project designed to enhance and elevate the voices and stories of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the communities where they live. Participants will be provided with a template that they can tailor to their city or state to build a transgender visibility project that will positively impact the public narrative where they live.

Lesbian Community & Issues • All Audiences

Presenters: Brad Pritchett, ACLU of Texas; Lou Weaver, Equality Texas

Due to disparities in women’s income and Lesbians’ lack of family support network many Lesbians have nowhere to turn when crises occur. The usual social service agencies leave huge gaps. The main objective in this workshop is to help Lesbian communities organize to form similar organizations to the L-Fund and to stimulate ideas on how to do this in various communities with an emphasis on diversity and compassion. Presenters: Ruth Debra, The L-Fund

Engaging the Trans Community in Care/ PrEP HIV/AIDS • Intermediate

This workshop is an interactive discussion covering healthcare issues regarding the trans community. Attendees will learn how to use more inclusive language and provide comprehensive healthcare to all gender identities, specifically HIV+ programs. This workshop will cover trans inclusive healthcare, behavioral health services, and HIV care/prevention programs. Presenters: Lucas Wehle, Metro Wellness & Community Centers; Kiala Emmons, Metro Wellness & Community Centers

Conversation with Jim Obergefell, US Supreme Court Marriage Equality Plaintiff Movement Building • All Audiences

A moderator facilitated conversation with Jim Obergefell, US Supreme Court marriage equality plaintiff about his 20 year relationship with John Arthur, how that relationship became a case that successfully challenged marriage discrimination, his decision to dedicate his life to LGBTQ equality, and future movement challenges. The conversation will include audience questions and Love Wins book signing. Presenters: Jim Obergefell; Malcolm Lazin, Equality Forum

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Creating Change for a Lifetime: the Power of Multi-issue Networks Movement Building • Intermediate

We’ll discuss the life of Creating Change veteran Eric Rofes to explore how to build a powerful cohort of organizers and friends who will work alongside you for a lifetime. Eric E. Rofes died in 2006 after a decades of helping to build networks of queer people who fought for social justice. His writings and activism explore a range of topics including sexual politics, women’s reproductive health, racism and whiteness, educational policy, youth suicide, LGBT health, leather culture, and queer feminism. We’ll explore how this intersectional approach can be utilized by you to thrive as an activist for the long-term. Presenters: Chris Bartlett, William Way LGBT Community Center; Jaime Grant, Global Trans Research & Advocacy Project

Taking on the NRA: How LGBTQ America Can Fight Gun Violence Movement Building • All Audiences

For decades, LGBTQ Americans have been subjected to senseless violence and relentless attacks. But when a lone gunman terrorized Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, the global queer community was shaken by the magnitude of the human toll inflicted on central Florida’s LGBTQ and Latino communities. After reflecting on the Orlando tragedy, learn how you can become a leader in your community to beat the NRA in your own backyard. At this session, hear from leading organizers and activists who are building a winning movement to protect people of color and LGBTQ communities from gun violence. Learn from recent gun safety victories in states previously controlled by the gun lobby and get ready for the next four years in Congress. Together we will highlight some of the best organizing and advocacy practices and review fresh polling and messaging research in the movement to combat gun violence. Presenters: Kevin Call, Everytown for Gun Safety; Lizzie Ulmer, Everytown for Gun Safety; Luis Rodriguez, Everytown for Gun Safety

Transform California: Public Education to end Transphobia Movement Building • All Audiences

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development and movement building to create accepting and affirming communities for Trans and GNC folks across California. We will be workshopping outreach and base building strategies, sharing our media messaging research and ways you can apply it in your state, and talking about tips and tricks for building and sustaining a broad base coalition. Presenters: Elliott Fukui, Transgender Law Center; Isa Noyola, Transgender Law Center; Tony Huang, Equality California; Allison VanKuiken, Equality California

Digital Strategies For Faithful Action n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Share the good news that people of faith affirm LGBTQ people! As the religious right continues to erase LGBTQ-affirming people of faith, it is more important now than ever before to amplify affirming faith values using the power of digital media. Drawing from Believe Out Loud’s success as the leading platform for Christian faith and LGBTQ advocacy, participants will learn how to build a successful, values-based digital strategy on any online network. Come prepared to take an active role as we explore how to engage our communities online and lead them to take faithful action for LGBTQ justice. Presenters: Alison Amyx, Believe Out Loud; Reese Rathjen, Believe Out Loud; Chrissy Etienne, Believe Out Loud

Intersections of Faith & Community Organizing in Communities of Color n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Organizing within communities of color often demands a smart faith organizing strategy and plan. This is often complicated by the politics of LGBTQ affirmation and discrimination within many people of color religious communities. This workshop will tackle some of those complexities through a lively panel discussion with experts in the field followed by interactive small group strategy planning. Whether it’s access to resources, representation, or being outright left out of the conversation, this workshop will help create opportunities for collaboration and talk about ways to leverage your impact in your community. Presenters: Nelson Mendoza, Reconciling Ministries Network; Bri Sanders, National LGBTQ Task Force; Victoria Kirby York, National LGBTQ Task Force

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Transitioning our Faith Communities into Full Inclusion

The Politics of the Closet: Queer Identity & Abortion Stigma

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n Reproductive Justice • All Audiences

This workshop addresses activism for trans inclusion in faith communities, advocating that such work must always be multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multilingual. Through concrete examples of curricula, conferences, workshops, and rituals in faith contexts, the presenters will help guide you toward reframing your own activism and resources in a way that supports trans inclusion that is not bound by Christocentrism and white privilege. We offer a multiplicity of tools with which to do this work.

What exactly is stigma? Where did it come from? Why is it so powerful? This workshop will explore these questions and unpack the connection between stigma and “the closet” by looking at the lived experiences of those who seek abortion services and those who are LGBTQ. This session will begin by exploring the politics of stigma. Participants will engage in honest and confidential conversation about stigma and what the role that the closet plays in our everyday lives. Participants will leave with an action plan of how to dismantle the politics of the closet and disrupt any shame related to one’s identity and bodily choices.

Presenters: Rev. Jakob Hero, Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies; Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman, Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies; Rev. Carla Roland, Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies; Rev. Florentino Cordova, Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies

Latino (LGBT) Community Outreach 101 n Racial Justice • Fundamentals

The US Latin@ population has both grown, as well as migrated to states that had not previously seen Latin@ communities. This workshop is designed to help LGBT activist and organizations begin and/or strengthen their Latin@ outreach efforts. Let’s increase your capacity to both meet the needs of LGBT Latin@s, as well as collaborate and build relationships with your larger Latin@ communities. Presenters: Francisco Duenas, Lambda Legal

Privilege 101: Unpacking My Rainbow Knapsack n Racial Justice • All Audiences

When marginalized people can recognize their privilege in other areas they can really create change. This session will reintroduce concepts such as Intersectionality, privilege and oppression, allowing participants to analyze the theory, dissect their own privileges and make realistic action plans for change. We will share space and challenge each other to raise our voices, speak out in the face of discrimination, and stand in true solidarity with each other. Presenters: Aneesah Smith, West Chester University, CoChair Creating Change 2017 Host Committee

Presenters: Candace Bond-Theriault, National LGBTQ Task Force; Camilla Taylor, Lambda Legal; Kersha Deibel, We Testify Abortion Storytelling, President, DC Abortion Fund

Every Voice Counts! Results of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Research and Policy Analysis • All Audiences

The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey is the largest study ever conducted of trans, genderqueer, and non-binary people in the U.S., with nearly 28,000 participants. The recently released survey report will give advocates, researchers, policymakers, and the general public vital updated information about the experiences of transgender people in the U.S. Join this workshop to learn about the results of the survey. Attendees will discuss results and advocacy related to issues impacting transgender people. Presenters: Sandy James, National Center for Transgender Equality; Ignacio Rivera, The HEAL Project; Jody Herman, The Williams Institute

Addressing Concerns, Fears, and Misconceptions about LGBTQ Students in Schools Schools and Education, Grades K-12 • All Audiences

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implement transgender and gender nonconforming inclusive policies. Participants will hear real life examples about how local advocates have won and take with them model policies that are currently implemented in towns and cities across the country. Presenters: Tea Sefer, GLSEN; Andrew Peters, GLSEN

Awkward Positions: Strategies4 Youth/ Student-facing Staff to Create Sex Positive Spaces Sexual Freedom • Intermediate

This workshop will provide youth or student-facing professionals with tools to create sex positive spaces and cultures at their community organizations/ centers, high schools, Colleges and universities, while navigating the intricacies of performing authority figure roles and navigating organizational bureaucracy. Presenters advocate for approaches to talking about sex and play in ways that emphasizes consent, gender-inclusive language, wants, and desire. They will provide a working definition of sex positivity, which includes addressing the experience of those who identify as trans*, those who practice celibacy/abstinence, those who identify within the asexuality spectrum, and those who have experienced sexual violence. Presenters: Celiany Rivera-Velázquez, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón; Laura Pérez-Fabián

Youth • All Audiences

Many groups know how important it is to center the voices of young LGBTQ folks in our movement. From setting our policy goals to speaking with media and decision-makers, youth leadership is essential at every level if we want to have a representative, inclusive, and sustainable movement. But figuring out how to effectively engage youth in program planning, goal setting, strategy development, and can be challenging. If you want to learn about using a youth leadership council model in your group, or if you already use this model and want to dive deeper into the best practices and common challenges, then this session is for you! Our session will be co-facilitated by adult staff and youth leaders from the Youth Justice Board, a youth leadership and public policy program that empowers high school youth to study and improve issues in the criminal justice system that affect their communities. Presenters: Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, Center for Court Innovation

ACADEMY SESSION 4 3:00 pm – 6:15 pm All Academy Sessions 3 Hours

Postsecondary Pathways for LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Racial and Economic Justice-You can’t have one without the other

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This session will first explore the weaknesses of separating economic justice from racial justice. Second, we will offer a framework for integrating the two issues effectively. Lastly, there will be example policies and a discussion of what’s possible in the emerging political climate. Let’s examine racial and economic justice, how you can’t have one without the other and learn practical strategies for accomplishing both.

How can youth, service providers, LGBTQ community organizations, and public officials bridge the gap between high school and postsecondary success for system-involved youth? We will share success stories from Youth Empowerment Program (YEP), a high school equivalency program for out-of-school youth, and hear from a child welfare advocate who is himself an alumnus of the Texas foster care system. Participants will leave with an understanding of federal and state programs to support educational attainment for this population, ideas for new program models, and advocacy strategies to bring back to their communities. Presenters: Shabab Mirza, Center for American Progress; Kristopher Sharp, Administration for Children and Families; Adrian Brenneman, Youth Empowerment Project

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Advancing the Pipeline for QTPOC and TGQ Student Affairs Professionals A growing number of new professionals are queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) and trans/genderqueer (TGQ). As we look to senior professionals, including directors, deans, vice

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presidents, and presidents, the demographics become increasingly white, cisgender men. In this academy session, we will discuss these demographic and power dynamics in our profession, addressing cisgender and white privilege and how it affects QTPOC and TGQ professionals and the field as a whole. Through panels, caucus spaces, and large group discussion, we will brainstorm and share promising practices for recruiting, hiring, supporting, and retaining QTPOC and TGQ professionals in higher education. During the session, we will start by discussing the professional pipeline what it is, how it operates, and its historical context; there will then be two simultaneous panels. One panel will be with white, cis supervisors of QTPOC and TGQ new professionals, who will talk about facilitating the professional pipeline through recruitment and retention of these new professionals, and the supervisor’s role in supporting QTPOC and TGQ professionals’ advancement in the field. The second panel will be with QTPOC and TGQ Directors, Deans, and Vice Presidents, who will discuss their experiences in the professional pipeline and what it meant for them to advance in the field. After the panels, there will be a series of caucus spaces that attendees can self-select into to further delve into the discussion. Finally, we will come back together to talk about how we can impact hiring practices in student affairs generally. We hope that this academy session will fuel interest in creating a document that would identify how to best facilitate the professional pipeline, and could then be shared with campus human resource departments and hiring firms to make a significant impact on the field of student affairs. Presenters: Al Forbes, Pomona College; Brianna Serrano, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Van Bailey, University of Miami; Christine Dolan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizing Across Class Differences in Our Movements and Organizations If you’ve ever worked or organized with people from different socio-economic class backgrounds than yourself, you may have felt as though you’re operating in different languages...and you’re right. This interactive workshop examines the vital role our personal class backgrounds hold in our movements and workplaces, from donor relations to organizational culture. We’ll explore the challenges and leave with communication and action tools

to support the health of our work environments, organizing efforts, and selves. Presenters: Lyndon Cudlitz, Pride Center of the Capital Region; Cavanaugh Quick, Pride Center of the Capital Region; Deidre Dumpson, Pride Center of the Capital Region

Sexual Liberation at the Intersections Providing space for folks to bring their whole, multifaceted selves, we will use embodied practices and small group breakouts to create empowered narratives that further our sexual liberation. We will explore how our cultural, religious, and social experiences as raced, classed, and gendered people have impacted our bodies and sexualities. Not only will we unpack the messages we receive, we will create practical steps to manifest our truest sexual desires. Presenters: Alba Onofrio, Sexual Liberation Collective; Roan Coughtry, Sexual Liberation Collective; Asha Leong, Sexual Liberation Collective

The Work that Reconnects Based on the works of deep ecologist Joanna Macy, join us for experiential learning through “The Work That Reconnects.” By uncovering and releasing grief, denial, and hopelessness about the future, we can reconnect with active hope, deliver our gifts and take effective action for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Presenters: Iden Campbell, The Campbell Center; Mark Davis, Pink and Blues

WORKSHOP SESSION 7 & 8 3:00 pm – 6:15 pm 3 Hour Sessions Challenging the Global Export of Homophobia & Transphobia International Issues • All Audiences

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LGBTQI activists as we move into this new era. This interactive workshop has three sections. The first section is an exploration of how the political, religious, and economic elements of the US Right are coordinated in the global export of homophobia and transphobia. This exploration will include a global mapping exercise where participants literally move around the world via a map identifying the exporters of hate, their organizations and ties across the world, and the local LGBTQI groups who are experiencing the harm and countering it. The second section is an exploration of strategies for change and how people in the US can make a difference within their context, plus actions of international solidarity. Participants will learn about international LGBTQI groups via narratives with an overview of local and international resistance to these dangerous neocolonial trends such as the SMUG vs. Scott Lively case. The third section is a collective dialogue about the ethics of international solidarity and an exploration of culturally-sensitive responses that do not repeat colonialism or racism -- cultural humility, accountability and effective strategies of working together to create a world that is free and equal. Presenters: Michael Adee, Global Faith and Justice Project; Cole Parke, Political Research Associates; Haven Herrin, Soulforce; Evelyn Schlatter, Southern Poverty Law Center

Becoming A Change Maker Inside the Christian Church n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Rather than leave a sex-negative church, armed with biblical knowledge and a cultural critique, we can become change makers instead. Diverse facilitators who are straight allies and queer Christian clergy and sexologists, will focus specifically on Church teachings and assumptions that undermine the power and legitimacy of sexual minorities, and teach participants to develop both their own reasoned, faith-informed and biblically-grounded responses and a strategic plan for their own specific faith environment. Presenters: Beverly Dale, Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith; Naomi Leapheart, Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith; Jennie Brogan, Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith; Amanda Nicholson, Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith

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WORKSHOP SESSION 7 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Promoting the Health of LGBTQ Older Adult Populations, Specifically Communities of Color, Through Mobilization and Engagement Aging and Ageism • All Audiences

This workshop will empower attendees to promote community practice and engagement and utilize research to promote the health and well-being of midlife and older LGBTQ populations, with specific attention to communities of color. Participants will learn about sexual orientation and gender identity disparities in health outcomes, how older adults and communities of color are often underserved, and how evidence can be used to further mobilize and support communities. Participants will practice these newly acquired skills in a small group setting. Attendees will leave the session with practical skills that they can use in advocacy as well as research environments. Presenters: Shilpen Patel, University of Washington; Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, University of Washington; Aundaray Guess, Griot Circle; Katherine Acey, Griot Circle

Queering Sexual Violence Prevention & Response for LGBTQIA+ Communities Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • All Audiences

What would it look like to have sexual violence prevention and response services that center LGBTQIA+ people? Volunteers, nonprofit professionals, healthcare workers, university faculty/ staff, and others engaged in this work are often fighting an uphill battle to transform cultures that have long centered white cis straight able-bodied women as victims/survivors. Participants and facilitators are invited to share our struggles and triumphs, exchange strategies and best practices, envision liberatory futures, and build networks to support each other in ending sexual violence in our communities. Presenters: Jess McDonald, Our VOICE; Romeo Jackson, University of Utah

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Starting and Growing Your Own Bisexual+ Support Group Bisexual Community & Issues • Fundamentals

This interactive workshop will focus on how to launch and maintain your own bisexual+ (e.g. bi, pan, fluid, queer, no label), peer-facilitated support group. Participants will learn about bisexual+ health disparities and the need for these types of groups, general topics or issues discussed within these groups, managing basic logistics, and handling common pitfalls or challenges. Participants will also have time to discuss facilitation-related challenges or concerns and brainstorm ideas on how to address them. Presenters: Julia Canfield, Bisexual Resource Center; Kate Estrop, Bisexual Resource Center

From Student to Staff: Changing Roles Within a Campus Resource Center College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • Fundamentals

Students who work in campus LGBTQ resource centers often move into graduate or full-time positions within their center or at another school. Individuals who move from a student to a non-student position may face challenges in establishing themselves in their new role. This workshop will invite participants to share experiences, aspirations, or plans in moving from a student staff position within a campus resource center to a non-student staff role. Through conversation and storytelling, attendees will collaborate to identify challenges and develop strategies to respond in their new roles. Participants will brainstorm support systems to engage in this process. Presenters: Kirsten Keith, Portland State University; Craig Leets, Portland State University; Melanie Altaras, Portland State University

Not YOUR Average Sex Talk: Creating Peer-to-Peer Sexual Education College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • All Audiences

This session will support college aged activists in developing inclusive and accessible, peer-topeer sexual education programs for their own

communities. Participants will learn tools to effectively plan, develop, and disseminate queer and disability inclusive sexual education information on their own campuses. Working with other student activists, participants will create action plans and leave the session prepared to share sexual health knowledge and resources with their peers. Presenters: Lex Loro, Not Your Average Sex Talk; Emmett Patterson, Not Your Average Sex Talk

Prejudice Reduction - Lessons from Deep Canvassing Elections/Campaigns • All Audiences

When local nondiscrimination laws are challenged at the ballot box, we lose half the time. In many cases, these are winnable campaigns, but we wait until too late to prepare.This doesn’t have to be the case. The deep canvassing model not only gains us votes, but also reduces prejudice in a long lasting way. This session will offer insight and best practices for deep canvassing, and explore integrating persuasion programs into our organizations. Presenters: Justin Klecha, SAVE; Tony Lima, SAVE

WE Define Family! Stories of Alternative Family Models Families • All Audiences

A storytelling/sharing session exploring two examples of alternative families with non-traditional parenting in a world clinging to the ideology of hetero-normative parenting. While messaging on marriage and child rearing has often centered on a hetero-normative model, LGBTQ families come in infinite varieties. Increasingly, people are willing to discuss relationship and parenting arrangements that do not fit into a traditional mold. Alternative family models confront issues of race, legal protections, working with straight allies, and non-traditional parenting. We will openly tell our stories, interact with the session. Bring your suggestions, bring your questions and be ready to be part of a dynamic discussion about defining our own families. Presenters: Juile Childs, National LGBTQ Task Force; Andrew Solomon, National LGBTQ Task Force Board of DIrectors

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Breaking it Down! Peer Education and Transgender Rights

The LGBTQ Activist Immigration Experience

n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • Intermediate

n Immigration Justice • All Audiences

This interactive workshop will build upon the attendees existing knowledge and peer advocacy skills to develop community/peer support resources that increase peoples access to vital legal information. This workshop will create a space for attendees to visualize the landscape of the legal rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people. Participants will share resources, peer advocacy and support strategies and challenges. Attendees with leave with the tools to support trans and gender nonconforming members of their communities to better navigate identity document changes, discrimination and health care access issues. Presenters: Danny Kirchoff, Transgender Law Center; Jade Mora, Transgender Law Center

Engaging, Centering, Teaching, & Mobilizing Young Queer & Trans Revolutionaries n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • Intermediate

This youth-led workshop from Gender Revolution 8 will demonstrate some of the many ways to utilize and grow the talents and passions of queer and trans youth to further social justice. You’ll leave with a new understanding of effective youth engagement and a concrete, real-world framework for developing youth leadership in your own community. Come hear a cadre of young activists tell you how best to motivate, mobilize, and teach them! Presenters: Ty Gale, Gender Revolution 8; Zeam Porter, Gender Revolution 8; Andrew Weston, Gender Revolution 8; Billy Navarro, Jr., Gender Revolution 8

Black Gay Revolutionary: On the Life and Work of Joseph F. Beam History • All Audiences

Joseph F. Beam was a writer, activist and editor of In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Published in 1986, this historic work, gave voice and visibility to a generation of black gay men. “Black Gay Revolutionary” will explore the legacy and impact of Joseph Beam and how his work and voice is still relevant today. Presenters: Charles Stephens, Counter Narrative Project

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As we enter a new era under a Trump Administration, many LGBTQ immigrants are facing an uncertain future in the United States. This panel will address the rights of queer immigrants in the U.S. and explore avenues for activism in a challenging political environment. Meet LGBTQ rights activists who fought for equality in their countries of origin before being forced to flee to the U.S. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of international LGBTQ rights advocacy, and U.S. immigration policy. Presenters: Aaron C. Morris, Immigration Equality

Telling Your Story as a Radical Act Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences

Sharing narratives can be a powerful tool that challenges prejudices and potentially create allies. Your essay in a local newspaper about experiencing conversion therapy can sway a parent who may be weighing that course for their own newly out child. Your novel could humanize the real experiences of a trans person, and give a reader hope that their life can indeed get better. No matter your passion or whether it is fiction or nonfiction, telling your story can be a radical act. Panelists will help attendees examine their own life experiences and bring them one step closer to putting their own story out into the world. Attendees of this interactive workshop will receive personalized attention to help shape their stories. Presenters: Michelle Garcia, Vox.com; Mathew Rodriguez, Mic.com, Modern Loss; John Paul Brammer, Buzzfeed & the Guardian

Creative Strategies to Advance LGBT Advocacy in Rural, Latinx and Low-Income Communities Movement Building • Intermediate

This session will equip participants with inspiration and a roadmap for achieving change in hard-to-reach communities, such as rural, economically struggling and predominantly Latinx regions. Seasoned leaders who have made progress in conservative rural communities will share their stories and key insights. They will lead exercises to help participants create a road map for greater, more effective LGBTQ advocacy. Through an interactive workshop,

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participants will identify (1) the challenges in their communities, (2) local emerging LGBTQ leaders (emphasis on young, POC, and low-income leaders most impacted), (3) individual and organizational allies, (4) potential resources, and (5) next steps. Presenters: Lisa Cisneros, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.; Miranda Mossey, EpiCenter; Roselyn Macias, Conexiones; Dean Welliver, Dolores Huerta Foundation

Effectively Engaging In Grassroots Organizing with Secular Advocates and Allies Movement Building • Intermediate

This workshop will help attendees build their grassroots organizing skills, both online and off, especially as it relates to engaging secular advocates, atheists, and other non-believers in LGBTQ justice, reproductive justice and stopping laws that manipulate “religious freedom” to promote discrimination. Facilitators will draw on their experiences organizing in the secular movement on college campuses and in communities around the country, interfaith work, and engaging in other intersectional Progressive organizing. Attendees will learn about best practices and possible pitfalls when engaging with secular advocates and building bridges, and will engage in exercises to build their skills. They will leave with tools to organize their own communities to build a stronger voice for freedom, justice, cooperation, and equality. Presenters: Nick Stancato, Secular Student Alliance; Tori Rehr, Secular Student Alliance; Kayley Whalen, National LGBTQ Task Force; Debbie Goddard, Center for Inquiry

Radical Redistribution in the South: How to Leverage Mainstream Resources to Empower Grassroots Change Movement Building • All Audiences

We believe that organizers on the front lines of the Southern LGBTQ movement can transform our region--but they need the funding and support to do so. This workshop is intended for anyone committed to supporting grassroots groups and leaders that are isolated or under-resourced due to geography or demographics. Bringing lessons from the Southern Equality Fund, this session will engage participants around concrete strategies to shape a Southern LGTBQ movement where resources are distributed

equitably. Medium to large non-profits and Funders are especially encouraged to attend. Presenters: Britney Nesbit, Campaign for Southern Equality; Chloe Stuber, Campaign for Southern Equality; Dr. S. Nicole Cathey; Femi Shittu

The Evolution of Creating Change Movement Building • All Audiences

There Goes the Neighborhood: On Race, Class, Queerness, & Gentrification Movement Building • All Audiences

We all have to live somewhere. And our work, whether we view it as “neighborhood-based” or not, occurs in and affects that the place around us. Philadelphia is just one example of a changing economic landscape-where land is in contention and dynamics of rapid development, gentrification, and displacement of low income, people of color, and immigrant communities are playing out every day. LGBTQ people have a role in those dynamics. Some of us are on the front lines, struggling to hold onto safe, accessible, and affordable homes and community spaces. Others have the privilege to choose whether or not to engage. This workshop is intended to create space for dialogue about how we, as intersecting LGBTQ communities, bring our full selves (or not) to the neighborhoods around us. But beyond that, the goal of this workshop is to develop shared anti-racist values for how we live, work, play, and put down roots and how those values can translate into solidarity with other social justice movements. Presenters: Amy Laura Cahn, Public Interest Law Center NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Connecting at the Crossroads: Practical Steps to Intersectional Organizing n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • Intermediate

This course will introduce principles, precepts and practices that create intersectional mass movements composed of a broad spectrum of human identities (e.g. backgrounds, ages, beliefs, etc.) that do not attack “the other” or marginalize groups of people. Presenters: Gwen Thomas, African American Working Group

Estamos Unidos: A Calling Through the Universal HeartBeat n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop is led in honor and remembrance of the victims from PULSE Orlando. It is an interactive space that utilizes art, culture, and ancestral knowledge to heal. Participants will learn how to create their own unique, divine, and sacred callings from the soul to reach a closer relationship to spirit. The workshop is an invitation to dismantle the notions of not being “Latinx Enough” and reclaim ones own power. Participants will be called to reflect on the depths of their own intersecting identities and cultivate their own style for healing. This workshop is led by using the power of voice and rhythm in two main forms; storytelling and the cajon, a percussion instrument based from Peru. This workshop is a calling for the community to move forward into unity despite the variety of perception for oppression. This is a Latinx centered space, all POC are welcomed to attend. Presenters: Syd Arrojo

Beyond Inclusion: Advancing Comprehensive Sexuality Education that Reflects Youth Rights Schools and Education, Grades K-12 • Fundamentals

Through participant engagement, this workshop will provide an overview of the current state of sex ed in the United States. Participants will learn and discuss how comprehensive sexuality education can provide a foundation to promote the sexual health needs and rights of young people and not just prevent “risks, infections, or pregnancy.” Attendees will gain an understanding of how to engage in efforts to support comprehensive sexuality education policies that advance gender and reproductive justice. Presenters: Jesseca Boyer, SIECUS; Diana Thu-Thao Rhodes, Advocates for Youth

Kink: Let’s Get Visual Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Zip up your boots and grab your paddle, we’re going on an adventure! This workshop establishes ground rules about safety and consent in kink, with a fun twist. We’ll feature kink demonstrations! This will feature pre-determined participants but you’ll be able to see every knot and every swing of the flogger. Bring your question and rumors and we’ll set the record straight. We’re here to educate potential kinksters on how to stay safe and consensual! Presenters: Jules Seabright, Kink Underground International; Greer Williams, Kink Underground International; Nathan Coffing, Kink Underground International; Tesha Davis, Kink Underground International

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Queer Activism in Spanish In most Queer Latin@ activist efforts English is the default language. However, many Latin@ community members are Spanish-dominant and prefer to engage civic and cultural issues in Spanish. This workshop is designed as an extended and interactive conversation on LGBT activism in Spanish. How do you pronounce “Latinx” or “Queer”? How do you come out in Spanish? We will share resources, best practices and confer around the needs of LGBT activism in Spanish.

Come to talk about bodies, language, behaviors, and desires (and cumming!) – all presented with trans*, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people in mind. Our communities have particular concerns, as well as special opportunities for fun and frolic, that are often left out of mainstream Sex Ed. We’ll talk about what can be adapted for our bodies and how to do it. Here’s a chance to learn about the care, feeding, and delight of your tingly bits (and/or those of your partner) in a safe and trans-positive environment. All who identify at Trans, genderqueer and gender nonconforming are welcome.

Presenters: Francisco Duenas, Lambda Legal; Monica Trasandes, GLAAD

Presenters: Tobi Hill-Meyer; S. Bear Bergman, Ask Bear & Flamingo Rampant Books

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Sex Under Occupation Sexual Freedom • Intermediate

This panel will address where sex and sexuality meet how people experience, negotiate, and survive occupation. At the same time as many are criminalized because of their sexual practices and/ or work, occupations use sex and the control of who can have it, when, and how as tools of violence, terror, and control. Along with the normal violence of occupation come normal and abnormal resistance & rebellion built on hook-up apps, in bedrooms, and at bathhouses as well as in public squares. This panel will provoke discussion of how we keep ourselves whole, rebellious, and sexy in times of war. Presenters: Malcolm Shanks, Race Forward

Mental Health Practitioners: How to Support Trans and Gender Nonconforming Youth Youth • Fundamentals

This workshop supports mental health practitioners to provide exceptional care when working with transgender and gender nonconforming youth from a healing justice lens. Participants will share methods of working with youth around gender identity and transition care while centering and empowering youth in the process. Attendees will explore the clinical use of global review questions, hormone recommendations, and will question practices that perpetuate the pathologization of trans and gender nonconforming people, and more specifically youth. Presenters: Alex Jackson Nelson, RECLAIM

Healing from Suicide Grief in the Queer Community

Thinking Out LOUD: Queer Youth Theater in Practice and Performance

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Youth • All Audiences

Queer populations are disproportionately effected by many types of violence, including violence that is selfinflicted.This 90 minute introductory workshop will explore different ways that queer communities can safely address suicide losses by learning about what healthy grief looks like, creating community responses and safe memorialization, and how to support one another throughout the journey to healing.

This youth-led workshop will include a performance by ensemble members of LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater. We will share excerpts from Thinking Out Loud, an original play about queer youth experiences with mental health and racial injustice. Following the performance, ensemble members will lead participants in games and activities from LOUD’s process that are designed to build community and shared political analysis through creative expression. Youth are especially encouraged to attend but everyone is welcome. No prior experience necessary. Content warning: The performance includes discussion of sexual assault, mental illness, suicide, white supremacy and violence experienced by queer youth.

Presenters: Heidi Lightenburger, Carson J Spencer Foundation; Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, Carson J Spencer Foundation

Youth Mix and Mingle! Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

Are you a youth attending Creating Change? Come check out our mix and mingle and get to know other youth participants from across the nation via games and activities! Presenters: Paul Aviles, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Ginger Maldonado, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Nadine Jackson, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Dominique Davis, The NYC LGBT Community Center

Presenters: Rachel Lee, LOUD; indee mitchell, LOUD; Latrice Reed, LOUD; Rashaad “Kashh” Delaney, LOUD

Youth Leadership in Advancing LGBT Youth Health and Rights, Domestically & Abroad Youth • Fundamentals

Youth activists from around the world working to advance school based sex-ed, visibility of young women of color in reproductive rights and justice, international LGBT advocacy, and other sexual and reproductive health and rights related work will share their stories of what it means to be a person of color in queer liberation work. Presenters: Wesley Thomas, Advocates for Youth NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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WORKSHOP SESSION 8 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm Supporting LGBTQ Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence • All Audiences

This interactive workshop will help attendees become familiar with the dynamics of LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and how to support survivors. Participants will gain knowledge of LGBTQ specific IPV issues, including the importance of addressing particular factors in the LGBTQ context. Participants will leave with an increased awareness and knowledge of LGBTQ IPV and with specific tools that may be helpful in supporting LGBTQ IPV survivors. Presenters: Melissa Brown, Kansas City Anti-Violence Project; Mary Case, Los Angeles LGBT Center; Emily Waters, NCAVP

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Mentoring Across Difference College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” These words by Audre Lorde underscore the importance of difference, but how does difference show up in mentorship? How does power and privilege impact mentoring relationships? These are a few questions we will seek to answer in this program. This workshop will help mentors gain skills and tracts to serve more wholly in their roles through personal storytelling, research, and action planning. Presenters: Romeo Jackson, University of Utah; Molly Holmes, Northern Illinois University

Quiet Queers: Advocacy through Passive Activism College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students • Fundamentals

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how to continue the conversations beyond initial interactions. Through both small-group discussions and an interactive presentation, attendees will learn how to navigate the structure of their college’s administration and engage students in the work that they are doing. Presenters: Mickey Capps, University of Minnesota Morris; Lynn Eggler, University of Minnesota Morris

It Takes Two to Tango: Coaching for Success! Community Organizing • Intermediate

How much more effective could you be and how many fewer mistakes could you make by bouncing your thoughts off of a trusted, competent and committed coaching partner? Turns out, too many to list! Participants will learn and practice practical models for successful peer coaching, as well as strategies and tactics for coaching volunteers working for social change. Feedback loops are essential to success for every role. Come alone or better yet, bring along your future or current peer coach. Presenters: Sayre E. Reece, National LGBTQ Task Force; Amanda Devecka-Rinear, New Jersey Organizing Project

Ready to ROAR: Intro to Power and Oppression Community Organizing • All Audiences

Are you an LGBTQ+ young person? Interested in learning more about systems of oppression? Come participate in activities and discussions regarding issues and problems in our communities, what systems are at play and how we as young people can use our voices and skills to create change. Presenters: Ginger Maldonado, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Nadine Jackson, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Dominique Davis, The NYC LGBT Community Center; Paul Aviles, The NYC LGBT Community Center

Reentry: Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration for LGBTQ People and PLHIV n Criminal Justice • All Audiences

LGBTQ people and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), especially those who are people of color, are significantly overrepresented in all aspects of the penal system, from policing and adjudication to incarceration and community supervision. While

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our community has begun to work on policing and incarceration, we’ve done less to ensure services are available for LGBTQ people in reentry. Come brainstorm with advocates about how we can shift this dynamic at all levels of the reentry continuum of care by moving forward advocacy informed by people who have been incarcerated. Presenters: Meghan Maury, National LGBTQ Task Force; Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal; Kara Inglehart, Lambda Legal; Shelby Chestnut, NYC Anti-Violence Project

Representation Matters: Running for Office as an Openly LGBT Candidate Elections/Campaigns • Intermediate

There are six openly bisexual/gay members of Congress. There’s one openly lesbian Senator. Do you have what it takes to be next? We are at a critical juncture in our movement and we need more openly LGBT people representing us. Representation matters and nearly 75% of states that are facing anti-LGBT legislation have only one or no LGBT elected officials. This workshop will provide you with tools to asses if you’re ready to run, underline strategies for victory, and highlight why it’s especially important for more transgender folks, people of color, and millennials to become serious political candidates. Presenters: Sheila Isong, Victory Institute; Ana Flores, Victory Institute

Loving with Our Whole Hearts: A Mother and Transgender Son

From Paper to Practice: State and Local Enactment of Federal Protections n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Over the last eight years, the federal government has passed numerous regulations and policies protecting LGBT people in schools, housing, healthcare, and more. But are we seeing the benefits of this progress at a state and local level? Come learn about federal protections and discuss the successes and challenges of state advocates in enacting and enforcing those protections at a local level. Presenters: Arli Christian, National Center for Transgender Equality; Aaron Potenza, Garden State Equality; Kell Wilkinson, Equality Pennsylvania; Chanel Haley, Georgia Equality

Trans Women to the Front! Increasing Engagement & Supporting Leadership of Trans Women n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

In Trans Women to the Front!, we will examine the barriers that prevent trans women from engaging in leadership roles as well as provide strategies to increase engagement and support trans women as leaders. This workshop will provide participants with a toolkit that will help to guide users to develop a plan to increase engagement and support leadership of trans women in their community or agency. Presenters: Lisa Phillips, Mazzoni Center; Celena Morrison, Mazzoni Center

Families • All Audiences

A mother and her transgender son share the lessons that they have learned about what it means to live and love with their whole hearts. In their stories, they hope participants will discover how they can overcome obstacles and create better relationships with their families. There will be time to work in small groups to discuss lessons learned and time to select lessons to implement immediately. Our goal is participants walk away inspired. Presenters: Marsha Aizumi, PFLAG National; Aiden Aizumi, PFLAG Pasadena

LGBTQ Latinxs: Organizing our community through preserving our Hxstory History • All Audiences

Our stories are powerful. Our experiences are the fabric of our narrative. Our hxstory informs our future. This workshop will help attendees to become familiar with organizing our Latinx community through hxstorical preservation of our stories, creating oral hxstories, developing and presenting LGBTQ hxstory exhibits, and helping the broader community understand the richness of our community while

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mobilizing trough social justice. Participants will participate and learn how document and preserve their local narratives from presenters who will share mobilization strategies from the Latino LGBT History Project, one of the only and oldest archival Latinx LGBTQ organizations in the country. Presenters: Jose Plaza, Latino GLBT History Project; Jose Gutierrez, Latino GLBT History Project; Eric Palladini, Latino GLBT History Project; Cristina Calvillo-Rivera, Latino GLBT History Project

to hear Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán of the Task Force and Teresa Rainey of the DC OHR discuss this guide and how to apply it towards trans justice in workplaces. Presenters: Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, National LGBTQ Task Force; Teresa Rainey, DC Office of Human Rights

¿Qué Dijeron?/What Did They Say? Queer Liberation will not be in English Movement Building • All Audiences

Enhancing HIV Prevention Communication and Mobilization through Strategic Partnerships HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

Partnering and Communicating Together to Act Against AIDS (PACT) is a new five-year partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 15 national organizations to support the dissemination of Act Against AIDS campaign materials and implementation of national engagement efforts focusing on HIV prevention. PACT members consist of civic and social organizations, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-serving organizations, and media organizations. These organizations have demonstrated leadership experience and historical influence to effectively reach the populations most disproportionately affected by HIV, including African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, gay men and/or transgender people. Participants who attend the session will hear from a panel of PACT members and learn about key planned PACT efforts and future opportunities for partnerships. Presenters: David Pérez, League of United Latin American Citizens; Francisco Ruiz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Venton C. Jones, Jr., National Black Justice Coalition; Jorge Vidal, AIDS United

Valuing Transgender Applicants and Employees: A Best Practices Guide for Employers Labor • All Audiences

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In what language do you dream in? Think in? Sing Karaoke in? In what language do you express your feelings of love, anger, or passion? Creating multilingual spaces where folks can express themselves in their own language and be understood is critical when doing social justice work. Our LGBTQ community--along with the rest of the U.S.--is quickly changing and becoming more and more diverse. More and more people are coming out of the closet and we don’t all share the same cultures, experiences or languages. This workshop will focus on the politics and principles of language justice and multilingual organizing by sharing our experiences and best practices as interpreters, organizers, and LGBTQ leaders working for Queer Liberation in our lifetime. Presenters: Roberto Tijerina, Southerners On New Ground; Salem Acuna, Southerners On New Ground

A Place at the Table: Expanding TGNC Policy Advocacy Participation Movement Building • All Audiences

This workshop is only for people who identify as TGNC. The workshop will be focused on addressing how to ensure that local TGNC leadership and especially TGNC leadership of color have a place at the table in any local, state and federal policy advocacy that involves TGNC people. This workshop will explore the lack of local TGNC representation in the policy work currently being done and the barriers that prevent full local TGNC participation. This workshop will explore strategies and solutions to ensure that local leadership is armed with a full understanding of the policy opportunities available on multiple levels of policy advocacy. Presenters: Kris Hayashi, Transgender Law Center; Isa Noyola, Transgender Law Center; Jill Marcellus, Transgender Law Center; Sasha Buchert, Transgender Law Center

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Developing And Engaging With Authentic Trans Leadership Organizational Development • All Audiences

This workshop will engage participants in understanding how to overcome the current barriers to sustaining and supporting authentic trans leadership in the LGBTQ and Progressive movements. Participants will engage in exercises to understand their own privilege and will learn tools to move from that understanding to taking action to advance trans leadership development in their organizations, their workplaces and their communities. It will focus particularly on the challenges faced by trans leaders with multiple marginalized identities including trans people with disabilities, trans people who are HIV positive, trans women of color, trans immigrants, and trans people in the South. Presenters: Kayley Whalen, National LGBTQ Task Force; Arianna Lint, Trans Latina Coalition; LaLa Zannell, New York City Anti Violence Project; Lydia Brown

Atheism 101: Working with the Nontheist Community n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • Fundamentals

There is considerable overlap between the LGBT and nontheistic communities on issues of public policy, social justice, and belief (and nonbelief). However, prejudice and misunderstandings about atheists, agnostics, and humanists persist within the LGBT community and vice versa. We aim to shine a light on the realities of the nontheistic community, the lived experiences that many of our community have had with organized religion, and why the LGBT community and the nontheistic community must work together. Too often, members of each community are forced to set aside one of their primary identities in order to work in the intersection of religion and LGBT activism. We aim to equip nontheistic LGBT activists with the tools they need to embrace their nontheistic identity. Furthermore, we will break down stereotypes about atheists for interfaith activists within the LGBT community. Participants will work in small groups to develop inclusive language and programming for multi-’faith’ events. In addition, attendees will share their experiences with multi-’faith’ organizing and work together to develop solutions to real-world

problems they have encountered when attempting such activism. We will demonstrate and practice inclusive organizing approaches to ensure that the nonbelievers in our community aren’t left behind or forced back into another closet when seeking to bridge the gap between religious communities and the LGBT community. Presenters: Nick Fish, American Atheists

Faith Communities: Strategies in the New Presidential Administration n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

Faith will be critical over the next four years – religion will be used to harm marganilized people in the United States and abroad. How can LGBTQ faith leaders, communities and organizations respond to the incoming new Presidential Administration? What are the ways Faith Communities can resist likely attacks on LGBTQ rights, people of color, reproductive justice, immigrant rights, Muslim people, low-income people and the Affordable Health Care Act? Where are the opportunities to move us forward, especially at the local and state levels and within congregations? How can we broaden and build our base in this critical time? Let’s strategize and share information and ideas to equip our Faith Communities for the challenging road ahead. Presenters: Faith Organizing Staff, National LGBTQ Task Force

Queer/Trans and Spiritual: Creating an Authentic Path n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

As people who often see more than our fair share of hardship, we need a place to go when we hit our knees--what keeps us going? Do you struggle with being openly spiritual in LGBTQ space? Do you struggle with being openly LGBTQ in spiritual/ religious space? Come share in a conversation about what’s possible within and beyond organized religion and how we can ground ourselves and our justice work in a place of faith. Presenters: Alex Kapitan; Lynn Young; LeLaina Romero; Teo Drake

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The Sacred Clapback: LGBTQ Justice Organizing in Local Faith Communities n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This workshop empowers LGBTQ people of faith to engage laypeople and clergy in conversation and action for LGBTQ justice. Participants will map power networks, resources, and risks involved in their “just faith” work. They’ll learn strategies for dialoguing about faith, gender, sexuality, and civic rights. Through role play, participants will develop inclusive responses to common ways conservatives and progressives oppose or stall justice. Participants will go home with practical, faith-full tools for doing justice locally. Presenters: Keisha E. McKenzie, McKenzie Consulting Group & A Just Faith; Naomi Christine Leapheart, The UCC, TFAM, POWER, A Just Faith; Verdell A. Wright, Howard University & A Just Faith; Carol Lautier, National LGBTQ Task Force & A Just Faith

Not Your Respectable QPOC: Resisting Respectability Politics in Queer Communities n Racial Justice • Intermediate

It’s tough out here, y’all. We wonder if we’ll ever be free to be our most authentic selves without pressure to be polite, apolitical, well-educated, gender-conforming, palatable to white people, and to otherwise live up to the standards of a dominant group. These attempts to prove our humanity can be exhausting and nobody’s got time for that. Join us to explore how we as QPOC can thrive without watering down our identities for other’s approval. Presenters: Ariel Eure; Kris Smith

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Talk RJ To Me: Using the power of Reproductive Justice to broaden your audience base n Reproductive Justice • All Audiences

This workshop will help attendees become familiar and improve their existing communications and messaging skills around Reproductive Justice issues. Participants will identify opportunities in which language, phrasing, and data on “taboo” issues can be used directed towards a variety of audiences. Participants will learn alternative ways of thinking about the recipients of their messages and practice communication and messaging skills in order to move their specific agenda forward. Attendees will leave with talking points, tips, and tricks on how to write messages for their organizations that adhere to their agenda but adapt to their specific audience base. Presenters: Stephanie Castro, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; Siobhan Dingwall, Ms. Foundation for Women; Catalina Velazquez, Consult Catalina

Breaking Down the Data: Understanding Research on the LGBT Community Research and Policy Analysis • All Audiences

From research on same-sex parents to articles on transgender kids, it seems like new research on LGBT people is being published every day. Have you ever wondered whether or not they get it right? In this hands-on session, you’ll get a chance to walk through “hot off the presses” research articles with the goal of understanding how the research was done, what it actually found, and what the limitations are. As a result, you will be a better consumer of research and will be able to translate that research into your advocacy! We’ll be focusing on LGBT-related papers that have received media coverage over the past year. Presenters: Naomi Goldberg, Movement Advancement Project; Alex Sheldon, Movement Advancement Project; Jody Herman, Williams Institute

n Racial Justice • All Audiences

Those of us in the movement are experiencing endless demands, exhaustion and death threats alongside some of the most exhilarating possibilities, creative resistance and intimate solidarities of our lives. How can we sustain one another in the face of structural anti-Black violence and the daily indifference of the non-Black masses? If there was ever a time to grow and cherish Black love, this is it. Presenters: Ashleigh Shackelford, Black Futurism; Daunasia Yancey,

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Relationship Builders: Laying the Foundation and Maintaining Our Structures Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Are you referred to as having an alternative relationship? Are you polyamorous, a relationship anarchist, in a Leather family, in a non-sexual life partnership, have unconventional Dominant/ submissive dynamic(s), is kink or found/chosen family

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your primary source of relationship? LGBTQI people have been crafty in the way of demolishing what hasn’t worked for us and reconstructing creative, new, dynamic ways of loving, finding community, survival, pro-creation, and spiritual intimacy. We are tearing down condemned homes, discovering new foundation, crafting new structures and rebuilding on our terms. We are the builders! How do we maintain our structures--within or outside state affirmation? How do we make sure we are creating the foundations we need for the house we want to live in? Join us as we intentionally name and lay the groundwork for sustaining what we want to or have built. Presenters: Ignacio Rivera

Self-Care is an Act of Political Warfare Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

Audre Lorde said “caring for myself is not selfindulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” This workshop will help attendees make connections between social justice, self-love, and self-care. Participants will explore how messages impact their views of self and how these connect to oppression. Participants will practice sharing positive self-affirmations and learn techniques for practicing self-care. Attendees will leave with tools to commit political warfare, as expressed by Lorde. Presenters: Elicia Gonzales; Jayleen Galarza, Shippensburg University

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Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Workplace • All Audiences

HIV Positive people and those of us navigating disabilities are often desexualized and pathologized. This workshop is a claiming for all of us who move through our sexual worlds differently due to a ‘diagnosis’ or a hidden condition. Let’s come together and explore our hotness, our deepest desires, our embodied passions and the ways we connect intimately, spiritually and sexually. Come be in community and witness, or share the gift of your experience with the group. All bodies and abilities are welcome in this intentional space. Together let’s celebrate our sexy crip bodies and learn from each other.

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is the world’s premier nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace equality. Drawing on our 20 year history of collaborating with top Fortune 1,000 corporations, we will show you how align your passion for advocacy with your professional goals and how best to maximize and leverage partnerships with companies to advance philanthropy and volunteerism within your organization.

Presenters: Jaime Grant; Debanuj Dasgupta, University of Connecticut; Renair Amin

Presenters: Daniel Lawrence Smith, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates; Arti Sharma, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates; Isabel Porras, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates

Intersex Youth/Young Adult Panel #BrownBoiJoy: Prioritizing Our Self-Care and Healing Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

This is an interactive workshop for people who identify as a person of color and masculine of center to create healing and provide collective survival tools. We will explore what self-care is and the role it plays in our lives. We will examine how to practice healthy self-care as masculine folx. How we can center our self-care in a system not built for us. Participants will be given a space for brown boi joy to be used as a tool for collective liberation. Presenters: Jae Shepherd; Eli Chi; Charles Buchanan

Youth • All Audiences

interACT Youth is a group of intersex advocates in their teens and twenties, working to raise intersex awareness and create change. This panel will allow for intersex youth and young adults to share their experiences, raise awareness about particular struggles and issues intersex young people face, and advocate for change. Participants will learn how to best support the needs of the intersex community and the goals of the intersex movement through intersex people sharing their stories. There will be a question & answer section at the end of the session for respectful dialogue. Presenters: Axel Keating, interACT; Elena Hight, interACT; Emily Quinn, interACT; Ali Crivelli, interACT NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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TakeBreakMake: Media Arts with Queer Youth Youth • All Audiences

This workshop is about TakeBreakMake, an afterschool, youth media based project for high school students in Columbia, South Carolina. Participants will learn about the unique challenges faced by queer youth in the South from the youth perspective. The structure for the workshop is part screening, part discussion, and part collaboration, as the young artists discuss their work and lead the group through a creative exercise. Attendees will leave with resources and knowledge of how to bring these creative projects to their own communities. Presenters: O.K. Keyes, Virginia Commonwealth University; Mahkia Greene, Nickelodeon Theatre; Danny Flores; Cas Skinner; Dana Dixon; Scotti Jones

CAUCUS 2 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Ballroom Caucus: Agents of Change Love Mini Ball 2017 Reloaded Art & Culture • All Audiences

Did you have fun at the ball? Did you walk? Were you confused by some of the terminology, categories, and vernacular? No shade but sometimes we just need someone to explain what it all means. This caucus is also a space to have an honest discussion about the state of HIV in the community, the murder of our transgender mothers, sisters and daughters, homelessness, survival sex, the underground economy and drug use among other hot topics impacting the community. Remember children, LOVE IS THE MESSAGE, please leave the shade outside. If we are to continue surviving and thriving as a community and building strong houses we need to continue laying down strong foundations. Presenters: WC Angel Infiniti; WC Angel Infiniti

Trans Stories Matter: A Short Docs Showcase Art & Culture • All Audiences

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moments with a kinky organizer, a genderqueer latinx, and more. Trans people of color share our own experiences of love, relationships, family, sexuality, trauma and art-making. After viewing a sampler of four shorts in 60 minutes, join filmmaking collaborators in a round table discussion about our hopes for the future of transgender media representations. Presenters: André Pérez, America in Transition; Karari Olvera-Orozco, Trans Latin@ Coalition; Tiommi Luckett, Wellness Project

Supporting & Engaging LGBTQIA2S+ College Students in Rural Environments College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

LGBTQIA2S+ advocates in rural areas experience unique challenges and opportunities, have unique insights, and have had to think more creatively to find resources, develop partnerships, and locate spaces. This caucus will be a time to come together to share experiences regarding programs that have worked and practices that have allowed communities to flourish. It will also allow us to create a network of LGBTQIA2S+ rural communities that will contribute to fruitful collaborations in the future. Presenters: Adrienne Conley, University of Minnesota Morris

Queer Southern Caucus Community Organizing • All Audiences

This caucus is for folks wanting to discuss and strategize the unique challenges faced by community organizers in the American South. There are two main goals of this caucus: (a) to brainstorm solutions for complex issues that arise for queer Southerns both in terms of geography and intersectionality and (b) to network and create a support system for different organizations and organizers doing work in the South. By the end of this session, the hope is that participants will have more confidence and support in approaching some of the urgent issues facing our communities. Presenters: O.K. Keyes, Virginia Commonwealth University; Kate Hoffman, Harriet Hancock LGBT Center; Mahkia Green

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Disability Caucus n Disability Justice • All Audiences

This is a caucus specifically for attendees who identify as disabled or having a disability, meant for people to share and discuss their experiences around being queer and disabled. This is an ableism-free safe space meant for healing and bonding. While it’s a disabilitycentric space, abled personal attendants (including if that personal attendant is the person’s partner) and children are welcome. Presenters: Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, National LGBTQ Task Force

POC Parents of LGBTQ Kids Caucus Families • All Audiences

Join your fellow POC Parents with LGBTQ kids as we explore and celebrate what it means to be blessed with a LGBTQ child. There are not many spaces to openly meet and discuss our unique experiences as parent of color, this caucus will be an opportunity to build community and share experiences. We will create a space for participants to discuss their own work in their communities and share resources. Presenters: Maritza Martinez, Somos Familia

Be True 2 U! Resisting the Gender Police n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • All Audiences

Tired of people telling you about what girls and boys do? Tired of people telling you to choose a gender anyway? The gender police are everywhere and they want you to conform. Clap back with pride and purpose. In this workshop participants will learn how to recognize, and develop ways to resist peer pressure and gender policing. Presenters: Sebastian Sprague M.Ed.

Readings by Queer Brown Voices History • All Audiences

The co-editors will briefly introduce themselves and the activists present that are featured in the book. They will discuss the importance of oral histories and personal narratives to illustrate their importance in gaining understanding of the role of Latinx LGBTQ people within the larger LGBTQI social movements. The two co-editors and activists from the book will share stories from Queer Brown Voices. Participants

are encouraged to come with their own personal stories to share. Participants will be asked to introduce themselves and those willing to share their stories. The main purpose is to illustrate how personal stories of then and now have similarities and can help bridge differences and understanding across two or more generations of activists. Presenters: Leti Gomez; Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University; David Acosta, GALAEI; Laura Esquivel, Hispanic Federation

Living with HIV: Activism Across Generations HIV/AIDS • All Audiences

From the beginning of the epidemic, those affected by HIV were among the most stigmatized populations in American society. More recently, the epidemic has impacted our youth, especially our gay youth of color. Stigma about HIV continues to impact behavior and the availability of effective prevention and treatment strategies. For decades, activists have marched and shouted on the front lines to destigmatize HIV, challenging the notions of homophobia, sexism, and racism. Over time, people living with HIV have become active participants in their own treatment and care. Panelists will share their stories of activism and how change is happening across generations. Presenters: Terri Clark, Action Wellness; Jorian Rivera, GALAEI; Keith Carter, LGBT Elder Initiative; Jay Johnson, Action Wellness

“My friend told me...”: Immigration Myths in the Trans Community n Immigration Justice • Fundamentals

The U.S. immigration legal system is filled with complexities and severe consequences for failure to adhere to the letter of the law. These high stakes can create anxiety for undocumented trans folks interested in learning about their options for legal status while also fearing worst-case scenarios the stories of which often proliferate in immigrant communities. In a discussion led by advocates and immigration law experts, participants will gain knowledge of legal rights and strategies for empowering immigrant communities to access legal resources. Presenters: Denise Hunter, Whitman-Walker Health; Connor Cory, Whitman-Walker Health; Alexa Rodriguez, La Clinica del Pueblo NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Femmes, Studs, and Stems: Does it Really Make a Difference? Lesbian Community & Issues • All Audiences

Microaggressions impact our ability to be effective change agents and thought leaders within the LGBT community. Often, we miss opportunities to connect and effect positive change because of our own biases and hang-ups when it comes to gender expression. This 60 minute caucus will provide participants with tips and techniques for avoiding microaggressions in their grassroots organizing and activism through understanding the historical context of gender expression, and the impact of labels in our decision-making processes. Attendees will leave this session with new understanding of the impact of microaggressions and how to address this seemingly benign form of oppression in their advocacy work. Presenters: Brandynicole Brooks, Eban Consulting; Tiera Craig

Lesbian Caucus Lesbian Community & Issues • All Audiences

This will be a lesbian caucus open to all women who identify anywhere on the spectrum of female. Are you a lively, loving and laughing Lesbian? If so, join us at the LESBIAN Caucus to enjoy a healthy exchange of information that will empower and uplift those that participate. Our hope is that women from various ethnic backgrounds will partake in an effort to provide as much diversity as possible to the platform. Celebrating the things that bind us together sets the tone for inclusion, acceptance and harmony. Presenters: Alicia Boykins, National LGBTQ Task Force; Amy Lavine, National LGBTQ Task Force

Selfies, Snaps, and Instagrams: Using Photojournalism in the New Millennium to Share LGBTQ stories Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can an LGBTQ advocate truly deliver a message of social change through photography? This panel of photographers and journalists will share best practices on how to tell a compelling story through

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photography. Presenters will also share examples of striking images and photos that have captivated audiences worldwide. Attendees will leave with practical advice and tools for their own professional aspirations in the field of photojournalism. Presenters: Jorge Amaro, National LGBTQ Task Force; Jamilah King, Mic; Brian De Los Santos, Los Angeles Times

We Are Veterans Too! - LGBTQ Veterans Benefits and Entitlements Resource Workshop Military & Veterans Issues • All Audiences

This caucus aims to provide resource, advocacy, and training to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Veterans. We will ensure that LGBT veterans understand all benefits and entitlements due to them and their families. We will introduce and provide resources through the VA Medical Centers, Veterans Benefits Administration, Legal Aid organizations, Employment and Training organizations, and all other available resources to serve LGBT veterans and their families. We will also provide resources for social organizations and events to maintain and rebuild comradary among Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen in a safe and affirming environment. Presenters: Tiera Craig, Kappa Xi Omega Sorority, Inc.

Intersex Caucus Movement Building • All Audiences

This caucus will allow for the intersex community to come together, discuss the priorities of the intersex movement, and plan for future projects, actions, and change-making. This session will allow for intersex people to share the projects, initiatives, and actions they are working on, prioritize the work in the movement that needs to be done, boost each other’s accomplishments and achievements, and share skills and techniques for effective change-making. It will also serve as a space for intersex people to meet, connect with one another, heal together through activism and advocacy, and support each other. Presenters: Kimberly Zieselman, interACT; Alesdair Ittleson, interACT; Ranma Kumayama, interACT; Suz Temko, interACT

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Queer Leaders of Color: Networks, Fellowship, and Confronting the Trump Presidency Movement Building • Advanced

Established and aspiring queer leaders of color are on the frontlines of responding to challenges and opportunities facing America’s most diverse, dynamic, and rapidly growing communities. Under a Trump Presidency, we will be confronted with even more challenges, and will have to react personally and professionally, and do so simultaneously. In this community conversation we look at the role of queer leaders of color in shaping the movement and dialogue at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. We explore the pipelines at white-centered LGBTQ, Black/Brown-centered, QPOC-centered organizations; mentorship, peer fellowship, and networking; and maximizing resources and networks, particularly in confronting heightened challenges under Trump. Presenters: Kenrick Ross, Urban+Out

Radical Faerie Heart Circle

LGBTQ and Questioning people of all ages, from the subcontinent and diaspora, share our unique experiences, discuss unmet needs, and make personal and professional connections. Presenters: Nishan Bhaumik, Anti-Violence Project; Sasha W., NQAPIA; Mala Nagarajan

Queer Jewish Caucus: What does an LGBTQ Jewish Identity Mean To You? n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

How does being LGBTQ and Jewish shape our identities? Are we Queer Jews or Are We Jewish Queers ? Does it even matter? What does it mean to you to be Jewish? Does being LGBTQ affect our perspective on Jewish issues such as Israel? Marriage? Social Justice? Bagels? Streisand? Should Queer Jews try to date other Queer Jews? What are the issues that come up in interfaith Queer Relationships? Let’s explore, affirm and question our identities together in this stimulating open discussion. Presenters: Rachael Fried, JQY; Mordechai Levovitz, JQY; Shaily Hakimian

Movement Building • All Audiences

Yoooohooooo!!! This is call for a Radical Faerie “Heart Circle” that is open to faeries and those interested in faerie traditions. Heart Circles are a tradition of the Radical Faerie community where we speak and listen in heart centered space. A talisman is passed from person to person and you are invited to speak from your heart about your feelings/thoughts/ experiences while others listen. At Creating Change we offer this quiet space for expression and reflection. The process is warm, welcoming and simple ... a challenging part, may be, being prepared to turn off your cell phones for the duration of the circle. Presenters: Eric Eldritch, Radical Faeries; Chris Bartlett, Radical Faeries

South Asian LGBTQ Caucus Movement Building • All Audiences

As part of the fasting growing demographic in the U.S., South Asian Americans represent diverse ethnic, cultural, religious, linguistic, and political groups with unique, intersectional identities and migration histories with heritage from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. In this interactive caucus, South Asian

Secular Caucus: Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and Other Non-Believers n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

This caucus provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges identifying as both queer and nonbelieving, and for those of us who do to connect with one another. We will address how to build better bridges between the secular and LGBT movements and elevate the voices of nonbelievers. Anyone who is curious is welcome to join, but it will be considered a safe space to discuss nonreligious identities and the challenges of navigating a religion-dominated culture. Presenters: Zack Ford, ThinkProgress.org

United Church of Christ & Friends Caucus n Practice Spirit Do Justice/Faith Organizing • All Audiences

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#BlackGirlMagic Caucus n Racial Justice • All Audiences

Where can Black girls, femmes, queers, and gender oppressed folks find their strength, safety, and empowerment? The emergence of #BlackGirlMagic has challenged the false and disparaging narratives and ideologies that harm us. The hashtag has grown from being an individual self identification tool and evolved into a global movement for empowerment. This caucus will bring us together to inspire each other, and cultivate collective growth and empowerment. Presenters: Ashleigh Shackelford, Black Futurism; Daunasia Yancey; Brittany Braithwaite

Navigating the Nonprofit Workplace as Queer/Trans People of Color n Racial Justice • All Audiences

Whether we spend our days coordinating national programs, writing grant proposals, or tweeting for our organizations, QTPOC comprise a significant part of the nonprofit workforce. But our labor, which is so valuable to our organizations, is not unlimited. How do daily microaggressions change the way we experience burnout? What strategies for self and community care can we use to sustain ourselves in our work? Join us in this generative caucus as we share our strategies for resiliency across movements. This session is open to queer and trans People of Color working in nonprofit social justice organizations. Presenters: Mateo Medina, Civil Liberties & Public Policy (CLPP)

QPOC Caucus n Racial Justice • All Audiences

Please join us to create a Queer People of Color (QPOC) space for individuals and organizations interested in fostering unity, community, leadership and activism among Queer People of Color through educational and social collaborations. This is an informal space dedicated to building supportive relationships to advance QPOC activism. Meet members of the Unión Equals Fuerza: Latino/a Institute, The Black Institute: Healing, Healthy and WHOLE, AAPI: Building a Queer Asian American/ South Asian Movement, and other Queer People

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of Color attending Creating Change and Lambda Legal’s Diversity & Inclusion Department. Presenters: David Pérez, League of United Latin American Citizens; Geneva Musgrave, Lambda Legal; Sasha W., National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance; Francisco Dueñas, Lambda Legal

Two Spirit Talking Circle for Native American People n Racial Justice • All Audiences

All Native American and First Nations two spirit people are invited to join their peers for a talking circle during the conference. The circle will focus on sharing experiences, building community and supporting each other. Presenters: Rebecca Nagle, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture

LGBT Educators Caucus Schools and Education, Grades K-12 • All Audiences

Calling all educators to a caucus designed for educators in K-12 settings as well as College Administrators. This participant-led, fully interactive caucus will provide a space for those engaged in education to share best practices, seek peer input, and discuss issues related to learning environments for LGBT students, working with student affinity clubs, and supporting students in their path to higher education. Everything from advising GSA and Diversity clubs, support in college counseling, creating safe spaces, establishing anti-bias and LGBT inclusive classroom environments will be discussed. Participants currently engaged in this work will be encouraged to use their own experiences to raise solutions and concerns. Attendees will leave with practical advice and a new network of peers to lean on going forward. Presenters: Jordan Pascucci, Baldwin School

Polyamory/Nonmonogamy for Beginners Caucus Sexual Freedom • Fundamentals

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alternative relationship structures. The session will be facilitated by a couple of experienced individuals and provides a safe, non-judgmental space for folks to meet, network with others, ask questions, and share ideas. Presenters: Robin Nussbaum, Sexual Liberation Collective; Aaron Eckhardt, Sexual Liberation Collective; Cavanaugh Quick, Sexual Liberation Collective

Sex & Sexuality Educator Caucus Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

Calling ALL Sexuality Educators! Join us to collectively vision what a queer, radical sex education agenda could look like. We invite anyone who considers themselves a sexuality educator: high school curriculum designers, sex party hosts, patient educators, reproductive justice advocates, BDSM demonstrators, pleasure amplifiers, peer group facilitators, and more! Together we will: learn from and across our differences, plant the seeds of new collaborations, and envision new possibilities for radicalizing and queering our sex education. Presenters: Leah Roberts, Vanderbilt University; Lyndsey Godwin, Vanderbilt Divinity School; Alba Onofrio, Sexual Liberation Collective

You looking?: Trans/Non-binary Folks Navigating Gay Cis Male Hookup Apps Sexual Freedom • All Audiences

This caucus is meant to serve as a closed affinity group space for trans and non-binary folks navigating the waters of hook up apps that primarily serve gay/bi/queer cis men, such as Grindr and Scruff. We welcome trans and non-binary folks who have former experiences and/or potential interest as well. Participants will get a chance to discuss experiences navigating cissexism/transmisogyny and their intersections with racism/ableism/etc. on these apps, exchange strategies for hook up safety, build community, and celebrate our sexualities in an affirming space. Presenters: Jess McDonald, Our VOICE; Romeo Jackson, University of Utah

The Intersection Between Sports and LGBTQI Human Rights Sports • All Audiences

The caucus will explore the status of LGBTQI movements in sports as the heteronormative climate is challenged. An assembly of professionals in the field, from sports administrators to athletes and policy makers will explore the status of the LGBTQI sports movements from a perspective of human rights, inclusivity and opportunity. Policies such as Gender Identification models and Title IX will be explored for discourse with the ultimate goal of creating change for LGBTQI athletes. Presenters: Lynare Robbins, World OutGames Miami

Body Positive Gender Inclusive Yoga Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care • All Audiences

This workshop will allow attendees to participate in mindfulness based practices as a self care tool, stressing the importance of gender inclusivity, body positivity, and accessibility in group fitness. The workshop will begin with a short discussion regarding de-colonization of yoga, with an overview of its historical progression and the variations that exist in the centuries old practice. Attendees will have the option of participating in a gentle chair yoga practice in preparation for a brief mindfulness meditation. Attendees will leave with the tools to practice mindfulness at home to promote centeredness in our cis/het normative world. Presenters: Lynda Selegean, West Chester University

Sexual Health for LGBTQ Youth Under State Care Youth • Intermediate

This workshop will highlight the shortcomings of a “Sex. Ed.” paradigm and address the pressing need for comprehensive, medically accurate, and queeraffirming sexual health care and sexual health literacy from culturally competent staff for youth under state care. Attendees will develop talking points to advocate for the sexual health needs of LGBTQ youth under state care and create strategic plans to effect change in their home states. Presenters: Pepis Rodriguez, The Center for HIV Law & Policy

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Youth Leadership Caucus Youth • All Audiences

If you want to talk about youth leadership, this caucus is for you! For an hour, we’ll bring together youth leaders and adults who want to improve the way their organization engages youth leaders for a conversation focused on mutual learning and growth. Our session will explore the strategies we’re using (or wish we were using) in our youth leadership work; opportunities and challenges we are facing; strategies, resources, and best practices; youth perspectives on what works well for them; and space

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to dive in to some of the thorny topics that we rarely have time to think deeply about with like-minded organizers (like how to center youth voices without co-opting or tokenizing? or how adults can build trust if they’re also a mandated reporter? or how to balance meaningful autonomy for youth leaders with organizational constraints?). Our caucus will be cofacilitated by adult staff and high school aged youth involved the Youth Justice Board, a public policy and youth leadership program where high school students study the criminal justice system and fight for changes to help their communities. Presenters: Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, Center for Court Innovation

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WORKSHOP SESSION 9 9:30 am – 11:00 am Fostering Strong & Intentional Partnerships Between LGBTQ+ Student Services and Fraternity & Sorority Life College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

Greek letter organizations are often seen as exclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals; however, campus administrators serving LGBTQ+ students may miss a critical constituency group if Greek affiliated LGBTQ+ students are overlooked. By sharing tips gleaned from a successful, long-term partnership between an LGBTQ+ student center and a fraternity & sorority life office, we hope to engage fellow campus administrators in understanding the value of these partnerships and in strategizing for ways to leverage them on their own campuses. Presenters: Chelsea Fullerton, Lehigh University; Carter Gilbert, Lehigh University; Scott Burden, Lehigh University; J. Corey Gant, Lehigh University

The Power of Queer Peer Education College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ Administrators • All Audiences

When I was understaffed and overwhelmed with programming requests--Peer Education (PE) transformed my department. We developed exceptional Queer student leaders, trained them thoroughly and advocated for funds to employ them. Power is in the voice of students that educate other students, the program will improve campus climate and develop your students. Join us for an informative dialogue and interactive campus assessment to learn if a component of Peer Education could be right for your campus! Presenters: Aneesah Smith, West Chester University; Malik Muhammad, Bloomsburg University

Your Right To Remain Silent and Speak Out! n Criminal Justice • All Audiences

Everyone in the United States has rights under the U.S. Constitution when interacting with the police and in court. We hear in popular culture about the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney, and the right to free speech. This interactive workshop will help participants understand and advocate for their rights during interactions with police and in court, with a focus on the disproportionate policing of people of color and LGBT people. Presenters: Ethan Rice, Lambda Legal; Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal; Edwin Tablada, Lambda Legal

Innovative Approaches to Funding Grassroots Activism, Organizing, & Movement Building Fundraising/Resource Development • All Audiences

Are you a grassroots or nonprofit organization interested in applying for foundation funding but don’t know where to start? Do you work at a foundation but want to learn new ways to support LGBTQI movement builders? Join us for an interactive conversation to hear lessons we’ve learned doing rapid response and community-based funding for LGBTQI communities and get your funding questions answered by foundation staff. All skill levels are welcome. Presenters: Joy Messinger, Third Wave Fund

Stop the Hamster Wheel of Work: Best Evaluation Practices for Non-Profits Fundraising/Resource Development • Intermediate

This workshop will explore best practices around evaluating and assessing organizational impact. In particular, how best to evaluate and measure the impact of advocacy, policy and organizing work within the LGBTQ Movement as well as the broader progressive movement. This will include both quantitative and qualitative measurement strategies. Participants will share and explore both opportunities and challenges to create a culture where “Think. Act. Evaluate” is valued and embraced in their organization. Presenters: Amy Lavine, National LGBTQ Task Force; Sayre Reece, National LGBTQ Task Force NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017

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Gender Policing for Jesus: The Christian Right vs. Transgender Justice n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) • Intermediate

U.S. media has labeled this a “transgender tipping point,” as if to say transphobia is coming to an end. Yet legal and cultural gains have been met with increasingly intense, targeted backlash as the Christian Right reframes transgender people as the new scapegoats of the culture wars. Presenters address concrete threats playing out in schools and state houses across the country, and how it all relates to the current epidemic of societal and state violence against transgender communities. Collectively, we will also examine and explore examples of effective resistance! Presenters: Kris Hiyashi, Transgender Law Center; Cole Parke, Political Research Associates; Tope Fadiran, Political Research Associates; Reese Rathjen, Believe Out Loud

Creating a Safer Community: Alternatives to Law Enforcement Health • All Audiences

LGBTQ communities, particularly individuals of color, face daily trauma, stigma, and systemic oppression in many areas, from family rejection to lack of quality health care. Through this training, participants will learn about social, economic, and health disparities, and explore how these negative experiences increase risk of unnecessary and negative law enforcement interactions, changes community members can implement to minimize this risk, and what alternatives to law enforcement exist to create safer, healthier communities. Presenters: Jason Vail Cruz, TERROS, Inc; Isaac Akapnitis, TERROS, Inc

Trans Mental Health Survey Health • All Audiences

This workshop will feature an overview of suicide prevention in the trans community from Trans Lifeline, the latest research into the contributing factors that can lead to suicide for trans and gender nonconforming people and the Trans Mental Health Survey, a partnership between The National LGBTQ Task Force and Trans Lifeline to create the most comprehensive survey of mental health in the transgender community. 142

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Presenters: Nina Chaubal, Trans Lifeline; Greta Martela, Trans Lifeline; Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, National LGBTQ Task Force

How to Become “Gay for Pay” Movement Building • All Audiences

Are you contemplating a career in the LGBTQ movement? Then this is the workshop for you! Through practical information and tips as well as anecdotes from people working in the movement now, we’ll help you decide whether a “queer career” is right for you, learn how to be the best candidate you can be, and begin to develop a personal action plan for reaching your goals. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so bring your questions! Presenters: Alex Kent, SAGE; Alicia Boykins, National LGBTQ Task Force

Bridging Feminisms: Creating TransAffirming Feminist Social Justice Spaces Organizational Development • All Audiences

Throughout the country, women’s/feminist organizations grapple with how to affirm transgender communities. It is important that these spaces intentionally explore the intrinsic connections their histories and missions share with transgender communities and determine how they want to be accountable to these connections. Typically when this issue emerges, these groups become resistant or paralyzed which can result in stumbling over policies, making arbitrary decisions, or falling back on legal definitions and perceived notions of safe space. Therapy Center of Philadelphia (TCP) is a mental health non-profit in Philadelphia that began this process four years ago. While philosophically aligned, TCP hadn’t wrestled with the implications of expanding our mission. TCP offered educational trainings and hard discussions and, in 2013, TCP staff and board voted to become fully trans-affirming. TCP committed to be accountable around divisive histories trans communities and people of color experience with feminist spaces and mental health providers. We will provide a framework for how to grapple with hard questions that emerge and share the importance of using a racial justice lens to address the intersectionality of identities when doing this work. Presenters: Alison Gerig, Therapy Center of Philadelphia; Jaymie Campbell, Therapy Center of Philadelphia

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Queer Latinx: Confront Internalized Oppression and Occupy Healing n Racial Justice • All Audiences

All people, regardless of personal, cultural, and social history, internalize values and beliefs of the world they have been raised in. When these values and beliefs foster profound limitation and self doubt, this is often referred to as internalized oppression-a process by which people come to accept and internalize the inaccurate myths and stereotypes they have been exposed to. In this workshop we will explore the politics of exclusion impacting Queer Latinx experiences. Moreover we’ll discuss how Queer Latinx understand their intersectional experiences across race, gender, and sexuality through the lens of colorism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

We will continue the ﬁght . . . . . . and we won’t give up!

Presenters: Michael Diaz, Latino Commission on AIDS

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LEADERSHIP COUNCIL We extend a heartfelt thanks to our Leadership Council members for their continued support of the Task Force and the Task Force Action Fund. Leadership Council members make an annual gift of $1,500 or more and give the Task Force the flexibility to build grassroots LGBTQ political power across the nation. If we have inadvertently omitted or incorrectly listed your name, please contact Saurabh Bajaj, Chief Development Officer, at sbajaj@thetaskforce.org. Current Leadership Council Donors as of December 1, 2016.

President’s Circle $100,000.00 + Andrew W. Solomon & John Habich Solomon Howard Solomon & Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Jim Tyrrell & Roger Thomson Vice President’s Circle $50,000.00 + Bacardi USA Inc. Communications Workers of America Gilead Sciences, Inc. James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen If/When/How Merrill Lynch Weston F. Milliken Stanley Newman & Brian Rosenthal Mark M. Sexton & Kirk Wallace Showtime Networks Inc. Henry van Ameringen & Eric Galloway Wells Fargo Executive’s Circle $25,000.00 + The Art of Shaving Brinker International Coca-Cola Refreshments Rev. Janet Edwards Liebe & Seth Gadinsky Hilton Worldwide Steven D. Holley Amy C. Mandel & Katina E. Rodis Miami Beach Visitor & Convention Authority David B. Rosenauer & Rex Walker Emily Rosenberg & Darlene deManicor Bobby M. Taylor Sara Whitman Ambassador’s Circle $10,000.00 + AARP AIDS United Anonymous

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Berger Singerman, PA Attorneys at Law Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP Otts Bolisay & Kenneth Thompson Bradley R. Carlson Carnival Foundation Suman Chakraborty City Of Miami Beach Comcast/NBCUniversal Oliver Davis Francisco de León & James M. Foreman EMD Serono Nina Feirer Florida Blue Kevin D. Gonzalez Jeff & Kate Haas Mary E. Harper & Marigene Arnold Rose Hayes Tracy Hewat Craig G. Hoffman & Alber Lauber David A. Holmes & Anthony Montoya JPMorgan Chase Kaiser Permanente Wood Kinnard & Alberto A. Arias Eugene Kapaloski Jody Laine & Shad Reinstein The Miami Foundation Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Leigh Morgan & Sarah Moseley Morgan Stanley Michael H. Morris & Richard Blinkal Office Depot James G. Pepper Thomas A. Raffin Joan & Roberta Schaeffer Elizabeth Scott Mark A. Smithe & William Forrest Bobby Taylor United Church of Christ Wachovia Financial Center

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Director’s Circle $5,000.00 + 2377 Collins Resort, L.P. Akerman LLP Alexander Aickin & Jason Tester John M. Allen & Stephen P. Orlando Ralph Alpert Susan E. Anderson & Jo Zeimet Anonymous Shiv Bajaj & Shobha Bajaj Alvin H. Baum, Jr. & Robert Holgate Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod Boucher Brothers Rebecca Brinkman & Margaret A. Burd David Carugati & Michael W. Larkin City of Miami Beach Color of Change Margaret Conway & Rea Carey David Bohnett Foundation Pamela H. David & Cheryl Lazar DCI Group LLC Richard Egure & Giuseppe Vaccaro Florida Power & Light Company Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Grindr LLC Glenda A. Guess & James E. Guess William Hahne/ Hahne Real Estate Jason Heffner & John Davis John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Paul N. Kelly James Law & Joseph Avena Matthew Marks & Jack Bankowsky Menin Hospitality Laurie Mirman Sandra Nathan, Ph.D. & Glenda Dunmore Katy Neuster & Thad Kurowski / Neusteter Colorado Company

Paul F. Oostenbrug, M.D. & Jeremiah F. Kelly Planned Parenthood Joanne Roberts & Karin J. Mitchell Russell David Roybal Ryder Charitable Foundation Jeremy Rye Josue Santiago & Matt Dzwonkiewicz Elliott R. Sernel & Larry Falconio The Shore Club Audrey Sokoloff & Tim Hosking Linton Stables & Gregory N. Brown Ronna Stamm, Paul Lehman, and Jonathan Lehman Mark Steinberg & Dennis Edwards James O. Stepp & Peter K. Zimmer Ann F. Thomas & Daniel L. Rabinowitz James T. Timmons Roy & Diana Vagelos Duffy Violante & Edward W. Snowdon, Jr. Visit Denver Carla F. Wallace Advocate’s Circle $2,500.00 +

Mario Acosta, Jr. & Christopher A. Russell Steven K. Aurand Avalon Consulting Group, Inc. Zahir Babvani Ira Baer & Andrew Tabatchnick Glenn Barcheski & William Dollaway C. David Bedford Frank Benedetti & Thomas G. Trowbridge Bercow Radell & Fernandez, P.A. David Bernard & Charles D. Urstadt Leslie & Matthew Bosson Laura Butzel & David S. Berg Lisa Corrin Meg Coward & Sarah Schwartz-Sax George J. DeBolt

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Ruth E. Eisenberg & Letitia A. Gomez Scott L. Ellis & Scott Drummond Richter Elser Eric Estes Joseph Evall & Richard B. Lynn, M.D. Joseph Falk Keith A. Goodman Reverend J. B. Guess & Jim Therrien Steven C. Hill & Jonathan A. Herz David W. Knapp Michael E. Koetting & Stephen Saletan Rendall Laroche & David Laudon Thomas A. Lehrer Mark P. Leondires, M.D. & Gregory Zola Frederick MacIntyre Shail Maingi James D. Marks & Mark Scott Veronica McCaffrey & Barbara Frank Barbara J. Meislin Joyce Newstat & Susan E. Lowenberg Hez Norton & Arrington Chamblis Joseph D. O’Gorman Loren Ostrow & Brian Newkirk Shilpen Patel, M.D. John Peters Surbhi & Pervez Pir Production Solutions Peter S. Reed & Alden Y. Warner, III Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A. Juan C. Rodriguez & David J. Price Lee Rubin & Jim Walker Michael Schneider & Dr. Russell Sassani Andrew I. Shore SOBE Miami LLC Palace Cheryl Swannack & Nancy D. Polikoff Andrew Tagliabue & Mark Jones Joaquin J. Tamayo & Ruben J. Gonzales Tampico Beverages The Trevor Project, Inc. Ultraviolet Gary Unzeitig Gordon VeneKlasen Beth L. Zemsky/Beth Zemsky Family Foundation

Delegate’s Circle $1,500.00 +

Alan Acosta & Thomas Gratz Dr. Marcy Adelman Rene Amaral & Scott Vaughan Christopher Andrew Charles W. Andrews Sydney Andrews Ronald Akanowicz & Duane Bonlie

David Augustine & Robert Depew Jeff Bailey & John T. Lillis Saurabh Bajaj Clara J. Basile James Baulding & Eugene Simpson Zachary D. Bauer & Doug Pearce Marc L. Baum Helen H. Beekman & William B. Beekman David Beitzel & Darren Walker Michael D. Bennett & Juan J. Battle James L. Bennett & Terry L. VanDen Hoek Scott Bennett Alan J. Bernstein & Family Kenneth Bierman Marsha C. Botzer Johnda Boyce Melanie Braman Robin Brand Carol Bresnahan & Michelle Stecker Kathleen Campisano & Sayre E. Reece Jason Carey George Castrataro & Jason Cook Daniel Chadburn & Thomas W. Nichols Yatin Chawathe & Thomas Zambito Chadwick Cipiti Art Coleman & Christopher T. Lyon Kate Clinton & Urvashi Vaid Candy S. Cox & Debra L. Peevey Nicole & Wayne Cypen Mark Daley Bobbi Dalley Tim Dang & Darrel Cummings Donald Davis Thomas R. Day Jeff & Todd Delmay John D’Emilio Robert P. Denny Joseph De Santis-Richard & Erik Richard Victor Diaz-Herzman & Kris Castellano Lisa J. Drapkin & Debbie Lewis Christopher Dunham Megan & Courtney EimermanWallace Kevin J. Farrelly & Stephen Klein Naomi Fine & Kathy Levinson Dwight Foley Naomi E. Metz & Jennifer Foley Kevin Foley-Littell & Stephen Littell Jason Franklin Annette Gardner & Isela Castillo Terry Garrett & Ronald Mittan Peggy Giammattei & Shawn Giammattei Mark Gilbert

Janine Hackett & Robin M. Bergen E. Monique Hall Catherine Halligan & Zoon Nguyen John Hamilton Michael Hard & Chinita Hard Monisha Harrell & Tami Olson Hugh Harris & Eduardo Morales Carol M.Haas Jeff Hawkins & Janet Strauss Vincent Healy Jason Heffner & John Davis Mark Henderson & Bruce Wolfe Stephen E. Herbits Bryan Hlavinka & David Theisen Elaine & Arie Hochberg Gregory H. Hoffman & Brad Jones Steven A. Honley Jim Hooker Ernest C. Hopkins Cindy Houston & Rete Carie Chris Huff-Williams & Josh Huff-Williams H. Scott Huizenga Lawrence R. Hyer Harold L. Ivey Lorri L. Jean & Gina M. Calvelli Frank H. Jernigan & Andrew Faulk Kent Johnson & Cody Blomberg Sandra K. Johnson & Jean Chagnon Arthur L. Johnston & Jose Pena Michael J. Kaplan Mitchell Karp Kaufman Rossin + Co Mark Kirby & Jerry S. Chasen Robert W. Kuhn John M. LeBedda II & Steven Jacobs Franklin Levine Daniel Ling & Lee J. Obruzut Stacey L. Long Simmons & Tracy Simmons Jonathan Lubin & Mark T. King Richard Lynch Dara Major & Bobbie Dowd Hermes Mallea & Carey Maloney Gary Martin & Patrick Owens Camille Massey & Gillie Holme Matthew McClellan Mark McDermott & Yuval David Jade P. McGleughlin & Sue Hyde Rev. Rodney W. McKenzie, Jr. Steven Z. Mena Tony Mendoza & Jeffrey P. Oliverio Robert F. Miailovich Miami Marlins, L.P. Charles R. Middleton, Ph.D. & John S. Geary The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation Rick Mohn & Steven C. Baines

Mary Morten & Willa Taylor Heidi J. Musser & Anna M. Moretto Carlos Noble & Georgia Noble Phil E. Oxman & Harvey Zuckman Andrew Passeri & Yacoub Habib Mehool Patel Peace Corps David A. Phillips Mona Pittenger Marjorie Press Shawn Purcell William B. Quade & Paul Rolli Erick Rivero Cindy T. Rizzo Rashad Robinson William Rodgers & Gary Kuchta Room for All, Inc. Jimmy Ruiz & Matthew Capucini Robert Salem & Mark Mockensturm Donna & Phillip Satow Marianne G. Seggerman Paul Sekhri & Mark Gude Peter J. Shomer Robert J. Skolaski & Steven Maginnis Albert G. Smith & Joseph Castrovinci Frank Stiriti Aaron Strauss Todd R. Stuart & Jeff Burke Kerry Sulkowicz & Sandra Leong Linda Swartz & Jessica Seaton Frederick Tan Janice Thom & Mary Ann Moran A. V. Thompson & Kenneth Smith Julia & Samuel Thoron Andrew Tobias Jeffrey G. Ubelhor & Chris Seigler Terry L. VanDen Hoek & James L. Bennett Valentine Vigil-Fennell & Klayton Fennell Jeremy D. VanHooser Alex Volckhausen Dianna Ward & Carol Frazee Olive F. Watson & Joanna Grover-Watson Gerald Wentland & Jean Paul Michaud David M. Wertheimer & Paul Beaudet Andrew Wilson William Wilson & Richard Wall Jeffrey Wolk Vince Wong The Woods Fund of Chicago Rodney Yoder & Michael J. Piore Peg Yorkin Rabbi Barbara J. Zacky Amelie S. Zurn-Galinsky

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LEADERSHIP COUNCIL NATIONAL CORPORATE PARTNERS We thank our national corporate partners for their generous support. Com Gilead Sciences Grey Goose Hilton Worldwide Office Depot Showtime Wells Fargo

$25,000.00 + The Moriah Fund $10,000.00 + B. W. Bastian Foundation The David Geffen Foundation The Johnson Family Foundation Swanee Hunt Alternatives $5,000.00 + David Bohnett Foundation Legacy Circle The Task Force thanks the following people for naming the Task Force as a beneficiary in their estate planning.

FOUNDATIONS $100,000.00 + Anonymous (2) The Arcus Foundation Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund The Ford Foundation Marguerite Casey Foundation The NoVo Foundation $50,000.00 + E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation The Gill Foundation If/When/How MAC AIDS Fund Wells Fargo Foundation

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David I. Abramson Alan Ace* Clarence E Anderson* Barckley Family Trust Michael Bath William M. Beachler William Bebermeyer* Bertram H. Behrens* Em Olivia Bevis* LeClair Bissell* David A. Bjork Marsha C. Botzer Thomas Boyd Matthew Brown Jennifer M. Buchwald Phillip A. Bulliner* Margaret A. Burd Susan Burnside John L. Chamness, Jr.* Julie A. Childs Stephen D. Clover* Gerald & Veronica Colfer* Winifred Cottrel* David E. Dassey James A. Davidson* Donald E. Davis George J. DeBolt Craig M. Desoer James N. Devillier* Sarah A. Douglas Ross Draegert Alice Dyer*

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Bert Easter Orton L. Ehrlinger* Jonathan Elwell* Luke F. Farrell* John P. Fludas* Richard Fremont-Smith* Stephen A. Glassman Joe Goenaga Mary E. Harper John R. Harper* Daniel A. Harris Sheila Healy John R. Hoffman* Richard Homan* Earle Raymond Hopkins* John Hubschmitt Rachel Hurst Kent J. Johnson Steven D. Kaeser* Robert L. Kehoe* Ronald Kendall Kenneth E. Kesselring* Linda Ketner Harold D. Kooden Kayeton J. Kurowski* Marilyn Lamkay Craig H. Lindhurst* Dr. Norma Jack Lindsey Peggy Lipschultz Lester H. London James W. Lundberg* Ed Madden Joseph J. Maio* Donna Marburger Ellen Martin Wayne McCaughan* Rita A. McGaughey* Sean Melton Lawrence J. Messenger* Henry D. Messer* Naomi Metz Robert F. Miailovich John H. Moe George Nemeth* James Nonnemaker Fleet E. Nuttall* John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary* Lee Ormsbee Julia Lorillard Pell* John Perez David Lee Peterson* Neil B. Pomerenke* Ken Ranftle Charles W. Robbins

Anthony Rominske Lee S Ross* Harry R. Rowe, M.D.* Russell D. Roybal William A.K. Ryan* James E. Rolls* Kenneth Sancier* Heather C. Sargeant J. Schmidt* Harry Seagal* Marianne G. Seggerman Karl-Ludwig Selig* Elliott R. Sernel Dale Norris Shaw* Larry Siegel* Andrew Solomon Michael Staeb Robert J. Starshak* William J. Stein James L. Tanner* David J. Thomas Marc A. Triebwasser* Josef Van Der Kar* Loet VanDerveen Donald E. Watson* Scott Weber Ric Weiland* Robert S. White* Harry K. Willwater Edith S. Windsor Douglas Wingo Jacob Lee Withers, Jr.* Craig J. Witt* Walt Witcover* Benton Wong Roy Glenn Wood* James B. Wozniak* Morgan Young* Beth Zemsky William Zilko* Daniel R. Zillmann Jaroslav E. Zivney* Harvey Zuckman *deceased If you intend to name the Task Force in your estate plans or would like to learn more about planned giving options, please contact Saurabh Bajaj, Chief Development Officer, at sbajaj@thetaskforce.org.

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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS

The National LGBTQ Task Force Board of Directors, September 2016

Hez Norton (Co-Chair) Boston, MA

Roger Thomson (Co-Chair) Miami Beach, FL

Naomi Metz (Secretary) Santa Rosa, CA

Suman Chakraborty (Treasurer) New York, NY

______________________ Bradley Carlson* Miami Beach, FL

Courtney EimermanWallace**

Monisha Harrell* (Action Fund Secretary/Treasurer)

Washington, DC

Seattle, WA

Liebe Gadinsky

Rose Hayes

Miami Beach, FL

San Francisco, CA

Rev. J. Bennett Guess

Jeffery Hoyle

Cleveland, OH

Denver, CO

E. Monique Hall (Action Fund Chair)**

Eddy Morales**

Washington, DC

Mary Harper

Portland, OR

Shilpen Patel, MD Seattle, WA

Rashad Robinson New York, NY

Mark Sexton** New York, NY

Andrew Solomon** New York, NY

Jason Tester

Sandra Nathan

San Francisco, CA

Oakland, CA

Ken Thompson

Kalamazoo, MI

Seattle, WA

* serves on both c3 & c4

** serves on c4 only

NATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL John M. Allen

Donald E. Davis

Kevin D. Gonzalez

Cindy T. Rizzo

Susan E. Anderson

Victor E. Diaz-Herman

Mario Guerrero

Christopher A. Russell

Anthony Aragon

Ruth E. Eisenberg

Kierra Johnson

Michelle Stecker

Alan Bernstein

Matt Foreman

Jody Laine

Alfonso Wenker

David Bowers

William Forrest

Cordey Lash

Beth L. Zemsky

Margaret A. Burd

Ruben J. Gonzales

Chad Richter

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The 2016 National LGBTQ Task Force Staff

STAFF Academy for Leadership and Action Rodney McKenzie, Jr. Director of the Academy for Leadership and Action

Kathleen Campisano Faith and States Organizing Manager

Shanequa Davis Field Organizer

Camden Hargrove Field Organizer

Victoria Kirby York

National Campaigns Director, Religious Exemptions and Welcoming Movements

Carol Lautier Senior Faith Fellow

Naomi Leapheart Faith Work Director

Bri Sanders Field Organizer

Barbara Satin

Assistant Faith Work Director

Communications, Marketing and Branding Mark Daley

Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

Jorge Amaro

Media and Public Relations Director

Alex Breitman

Executive

Saurabh Bajaj

Rea Carey

Public Policy and Government Affairs

Russell Roybal

Stacey Long Simmons, Esq.

Chief Development Officer

Michael Bath Events Director

Abu Barrie

Development Associate

Andy Durojaiye

Marketing Director

Membership Giving Manager

Justin Motley

Amy Lavine

Communications Intern

Kayley Whalen

Digital Strategies and Social Media Manager

Creating Change

Foundation Giving Manager

Donnie Luehring

Marketing and Development Coordinator

Colin Lovell

Sue Hyde

Data Integration Manager

Director of Creating Change

Lisa Mercado

Mel Braman

Events Manager

Conference Coordinator

Ruben Rosen

Victoria Kim Creating Change Intern

Daniel Moberg

Special Events Intern

Cindy Tomm

Major Gifts Officer

Leadership Programs Manager

Janice Thom

Evangeline Weiss

Tony Uceda

Leadership Programs Director

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Development

Director of Operations National Major Gifts Officer

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Executive Director Deputy Executive Director

Sayre E. Reece Senior Strategist

Cliffie Bailey

Program Coordinator

Julie Childs

Special Assistant to the Executive Director

Finance and Administration

Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs

Candace BondTheriault Policy Counsel, Reproductive Rights/ Health/Justice

Meghan Maury Senior Policy Counsel and Criminal and Economic Justice Project Director

Brian A. Johnson

Taissa Morimoto

Alicia S. Boykins, PHR & SHRM-CP

Sabrina Rewald

Chief Financial Officer

Public Policy and Government Affairs Fellow

Director of Human Resources

Reproductive Justice Fellow

Mike Lloyd

Victoria Rodriquez Roldan

Dana Riceel

Policy Counsel, Trans/ GNC Justice Project Director

Accounting Manager Finance and Administration Intern

Rick Mohn

Senior Finance & Administrative Services Manager

IN MEMORIAM

In Loving Memory, We Say Their Names Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Killed by Violence in 2016

Noony Norwood, 30 Richmond VA, Nov. 6

Amos Beede, 38 Burlington VT, May 25

Sierra/Simon Bush, 18 Idaho City ID, Oct. 22

Mercedes Successful, 32 Haines City FL, May 15

Brandi Bledsoe, 32 Cleveland OH, Oct. 8

Tyreece “Reecey” Walker, 32 Wichita KS, May 1

Jazz Alford, 30 Birmingham AL, Sept. 23

Keyonna Blakeney, 22 Rockville MD, April 16

Crystal Edmonds, 32 Baltimore MD, Sept. 16

Shante Isaac, 34 Houston TX, April 10

T.T Chicago IL, Sept. 11

Quartney Davia Dawsonn-Yochum, 32 Los Angeles CA, March 23

Lexxi T. Sironen, 43 Waterville ME, Sept. 6

Kedarie/Kandicee Johnson, 16 Burlington IA, March 2

Rae’lynn Thomas, 28 Columbus OH, Aug. 10

Demarkis Stansberry, 30 Baton Rouge LA, Feb. 27

Erykah Tijerina, 36 El Paso TX, Aug. 8

Maya Young, 24 Philadelphia PA, Feb. 20

Skye Mockabee, 26 Cleveland OH, July 30

Veronica Banks Cano Philadelphia PA, Feb. 19

Dee Whigham, 25 Biloxi MS, July 23

Kayden Clarke, 24 Mesa AZ, Feb. 4

Deeniquia Dodds, 22 Washington DC, July 13

Jasmine Sierra Bakersfield CA, Jan. 22

“Goddess” Diamond, 20 New Orleans LA, June 5

Monica Loera Austin TX, Jan. 22

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IN MEMORIAM Tom Barbera Passionate gay, labor, and disability activist; co-founder of Boston’s Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network; a founder of Pride at Work and a member of its National Executive Board; dedicated member of SEIU and the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.

Longtime Minneapolis gay activist; founder of the LGBT newspaper GLC Voice; known as the queen of guerrilla theater, Campbell once brought a cream pie to an AIDS-related meeting and dressed as a campy Lady Liberty to protest the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a right-wing and antiLGBTQ Christian minister.

Black bisexual activist, scholar, theologian, and provost and professor of cultural studies at the Starr King School for the Ministry; groundbreaking early advocate to mobilize leaders of faith to HIV advocacy and action; faculty member at Howard University’s divinity school where he taught one of the first courses on HIV and was active in ACT UP; author of the liturgy Invocation of Remembrance, Healing and Empowerment in a Time of AIDS; contributor to Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men; keynote speaker at the 1995 Creating Change Conference where he thrilled the audience with an intersectional vision of queer and HIV activism and praise and honor for all bodies.

Bryn Kelly

Prince

HIV+ trans woman writer of fiction, essays, columns, and book reviews; author of a now-classic short story, “Other Balms, Other Gileads,” which was published in Time Is Not a Line: Reflections on HIV/AIDS.

Iconoclast, gender bent, sexually ambiguous musical artist who recorded what was for many the sound track of the 1980s and 1990s.

Jeanne Cordova

A founder of the feminist prosex movement; stalwart ally to LGBTQ people; creator of Down There Press; founded Good Vibrations in 1977, a San Francisco sex shop by, for, and about women.

Tim Campbell

Butch Chicana Lesbian Feminist Outlaw; innovative feminist, activist, journalist, publisher and LGBT media figure; former Catholic nun; founder of The Lesbian Tide (1971) that gave voice to new generations of lesbian activists; author of the memoir When We Were Outlaws; prior to her death, donated $2 million to the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

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Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahmani Farajaje

Joani Blank

Michelle Cliff Jamaican-American writer/ activist/professor whose quest was to give voice to suppressed histories; her article “Notes on Speechlessness,” 1978, set

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the tone for all her subsequent work; her first book, Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise, 1980, explored her own identity as a light-skinned black lesbian; longtime partner of Adrienne Rich who died in 2012. Jeffrey Montgomery Legendary and beloved Detroit gay activist and leader; lost his partner to anti-gay violence and forged a movement to end it; co-founder of the Triangle Foundation in 1991; co-founder of National Coalition of AntiViolence Programs; leading expert on anti-LGBTQ murders; nationally debunked the so-called gay-panic defense, an invented temporary insanity brought on by assumed sexual interest in presumed heterosexual men; campaigned vigorously to end police harassment of gay men in semi-public cruising areas; attended numerous Creating Change Conferences where he taught strategies, tactics and messaging. Juan Gabriel El Divo de Juarez, gay Mexican singer/songwriter who performed outside of the confining expectations of gender and sexuality and, with his visibility, broke ground for many LGBTQ Mexicans; composer of “Amor Eterno,” an anthem for mourning families. The Lady Chablis (Brenda Dale Knox) Transgender performer helped bring attention to Savannah’s LGBTQ community through the book and film Midnight in

IN MEMORIAM the Garden of Good and Evil. Beloved icon at Club One in Savannah whose book, Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah, was published in 1997. Alexis Arquette Transgender actor whose transition was documented in the film Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother; film and television appearances include The Wedding Singer, Friends, Felicity, and Xena: Warrior Princess. Edward Albee Considered to be the foremost American playwright of his generation; author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; preceded in death by his partner, the sculptor Jonathan Thomas. Marie J. Kuda Leading chronicler of lesbian community and lives in Chicago and the Midwest; organizer of five Lesbian Writers Conferences, 1974 – 1978; founder of Womanpress.

Cheryl Courtney-Evans

Herb Hamsher

Executive Director of Atlanta’s Transgender Individuals Living Their Truth; participated in Transgender Lobby Days in Washington, DC; recipient of the 2012 Pioneer Award, presented by the Transfaith In Color Conference & the Freedom Center for Social Justice.

Television manager and producer; actress Judith Light’s manager; Point Foundation board member and mentor.

Mark Thompson Journalist, senior editor at The Advocate, and author of Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. Life partner and husband of the late Rev. Malcolm Boyd. John Michael Gray Massachusetts activist and one-half of the Hat Sisters; with his husband, Tim O’Connor, appeared at innumerable LGBTQ and HIV-related fundraising events in Boston and Provincetown.

Rev. Gregory Dell Chicago-area Methodist minister who stood trial for marrying same-sex couples. He was found guilty and suspended from his ministry, but later was reappointed. Janet Reno The country’s first woman U.S. attorney general; dispatched Federal civil rights mediators to Ovett, Mississippi in 1994 to defend the rights of Brenda and Wanda Henson, lesbian couple and founders of Camp Sister Spirit, a sanctuary for lesbians and feminists. David Schneider Heart and soul of New York City’s Heritage of Pride with three decades of service; Board CoChair 2007 – 2009; director of Stonewall 50, a commemoration of the Stonewall Riots to be held in New York City in 2019.

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