Category Archives: Creating Change 2010

My last day at CC10 was wonderful, but sad.  I made some new contacts and was sad to say “good bye” so soon. The Closing Plenary Session was great, especially with Vogue Evolution.  They tore up the stage with great energy.  I like the Q&A with the group.  I was ready to start making someContinue reading “wrap up about CC10”

An urgent meeting for details on passing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was held at Creating Change. I came away with a renewed sense of how anyone can do the work to get ENDA passed and a long list of suggestions to help. If you’ve been following ENDA news, you may have recently felt discouragedContinue reading “Let's work to pass ENDA NOW!”

An urgent meeting for details on passing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was held at Creating Change. I came away with a renewed sense of how anyone can do the work to get ENDA passed and a long list of suggestions to help. If you’ve been following ENDA news, you may have recently felt discouragedContinue reading “Let's work to pass ENDA NOW!”

Another thing I absolutely LOVE about Creating Change is the way that we take over a hotel and turn it into a very, very queer space for those 5 or 6 days.  I love the way the hotel sports bar/restaurant becomes a queer bar…and yes queer bar, not gay bar, because there’s this beautiful mixContinue reading “queer bodies, queer spaces, post Creating Change culture shock”

Campus Progress, Youth First Texas, OUTmedia, Campus Pride, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, and the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network sponsored an amazing event last night at Creating Change.  Kit Yan and Vidur Kapur were the big celebrity draws, but the queer youth at the conference stole the show. Youth First Texas folks put on a fabulousContinue reading “Amazing Mas-queer-ade ball”

On Friday I went to a workshop entitled “HIV/AIDs as we grow older” put on by SAGE, ACRIA and GMHC. Sage- Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders http://www.sageusa.org/index.cfm ACRIA- AIDS Community Research Initiative of America http://www.acria.org/ GMHC- Gay Men’s Health Crisis http://www.gmhc.org/ All of these are amazing orgs, you should checkContinue reading “HIV infection rates in people over 50 are huge and rapidly growing”

There are so many beautiful things that happen at Creating Change.  One of them is what I like to call the impromptu mini-sessions.  You know, those ones that take place during the wait in line for an elevator or downstairs in the hotel lobby in between sessions that can turn into some of the mostContinue reading “impromptu collaborating on bi & trans issues in the hotel sports bar”