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Seeing the
change as
it's created
Big, young and liberating —
Creating Change workshops on
sexual liberation opened the eyes of
younger activists, reminded older
activists of forgotten lessons and
could be helpful indeed for the
'hetero-normative' population
Unless you were hiding under a rock, you
probably knew about Creating Change,
the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
conference that was held in Dallas last weekend.
If you didn't have the chance or the funds to at-
tend (it was not a cheap conference), I would like
to give you what might be called the 30,000-foot
view.
First, it was big.
More than 2,000 folks attended, and the action
was frenetic. The vast ballrooms of the Sheraton
Conference Center were often packed to standing
room with eager attendees. More
than one workshop I attended found
people sitting on the floor or leaning
against the walls, juggling their
notepads and laptops.
Second, it was young.
It was encouraging to me to see so
many young people with the kind of
energy to participate in activism. It
takes a lot of energy to stay engaged
and not become a cynical bystander.
Third, it was alphabet soup. Hardy Haberman
There were so many acronyms I Flagging Left
found myself making notes so I could
translate without stumbling onto any verbal
landmines. I was familiar with LGBT and even
pretty used to some folks adding a Q for queer.
However, I found a challenge deciphering the ad-
ditional letters being tacked on recently.
For example, I was confronted with this mouthful
in one workshop: LGBTQQIA. For the unenlight-
ened that means "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
queer, questioning, intersex and allied."
The most interesting thing I found was that the
track devoted to "Sexual Liberation" seemed to
be the best attended of the conference.
For those who may have forgotten, a big part
of who we are is our sexual orientation and that
implies that we actually have sex! Apparently,;
this was big news to some activists
a few years ago, and so the NGLTF
added a series of workshops to
help people understand that the
kind of sexual expression we have?
is different from the "hetero-nor-
mative" world (another new term I
learned this weekend).
The "Sexual Liberation" work-
shops were dedicated to the late Eric
Rofes, a proud gay leatherman who
was committed to not forgetting
how important queer identity and
sexuality is in our movement and
our lives. He was not content to assimilate into
the vanilla world in order to gain equal rights
and respect.
I only wish I had known him; I think we
would have had a lot in common.
Many of these workshops were about the
inner work each LGBTQ person does while fully
realizing their sexual identity. For many of the
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THE VOICE OF YOUTH | Gabriel with OutYouth Austin speaks during a plenary session on LGBT youth issues during the 2010 Creating Change conference in
Dallas. More than 2,000 people attended the conference. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
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