Program Sessions OverviewSession 3 – Saturday 3:30pm - 4:40pm• Art and Activism: Photography, Protest and the Queer Community• Cumming in Between the Binary: Sluts Reclaiming Bisexual Territories• HIV Testing and Information provided by BIENESTAR Human Services• How Fluid Is Your Rainbow?• How To Take Over Your Student Government• Icons of a Queer• I'm Gonna POP!: Renegotiating Self-Inflicted Substance Abuse in the QueerCommunity• Immigration, Privacy and Transgender Rights• Multiracial/Multiethnic Queer Caucus• Poetry as Activism• Rainbow Pride Youth -- Grassroots and Lessons Learned• Redefining Heteronormativity: Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage through ColoredEyes• Spirituality, Sexuality and the Christian ReligionSession 4 – Saturday 4:50pm - 6:00pm• Arts of Identity: The History of Queer Flag & Fan Dancing• GenderQueer Caucus• “God & Gays: Bridging the Gap” Film Screening• HIV Testing and Information provided by BIENESTAR Human Services• Into the Streets: The Stonewall Riots and Gay Pride• LGBTQ Youth: Out of the Rainbow• Love Shouldn't Hurt• Polyamorous Relationships Are So GAY• QPOC Strategies and Community• Reaching Out: Facilitating GLBTQQ Workshops in the CommunitySession 5 – Sunday 9:15am - 10:45am• The Biblical Texts of Terror and Passages of Promise for the GLBTIA Community• The “Challenge of Being” for Transsexuals and Everyone Else• Facing Trans: Inclusion, Advocacy, and Empowerment• GET OUT!© - A Game About the Coming Out Process• HIV and the Latino Community• Immigration and the LGBTQ Community• Increasing Diversity: Implementing Institutional Change on Campus• (In)Visibilities: Queer and LGBT Cultures in Spain• Know Your Rights! Workers Unite!• Small Campus Community BuildingPage 11
Program DescriptionsSession 1 – Saturday 9:00am - 10:10amBreaking the Silence: LGBTQ Foster Youth Tell Their Stories (Film & Dialogue) ARTS 335Raquel Rivera, Child Protective Services, Big Brothers Big Sisters, M.Raquel.Rivera@gmail.comThis workshop will address the need for change in the foster care and juvenile justice system regarding thetreatment and care of queer and transgender youth; address the need for mentor programs, outreach programs,and the call for adult volunteers. There will be a short film of powerful tales of both the successes and failures ofthe foster care system in the form of ten short digital stories told by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender andQueer Foster Youth.Building Broader Transgender Programming on Campus HMNSS 1401Toby Beauchamp, UC Davis Graduate Student, LGBT Resource Center, beauchamp@ucdavis.eduLooking for program ideas specific to transgender awareness and education on your campus? This panel willoffer ideas and suggestions for both active and passive programming, discuss possible obstacles and facilitategroup brainstorming. Panel members are part of the UC Davis Trans Action Committee and have coordinatedUCD Trans Action Week for the past three years.Cuiloni & Patlache: Exploring Queer Indigenous Roots HMNSS 1402Luis Enrique Flores, UC Berkeley Alum, lflores@berkeley.eduWestern academia incessantly feeds us binary and dualities in regards to sexuality(ies) and gender(s) discourses.Male/female. Man/Woman. Hetero/homo/sexual. What about a third/fourth gender? Being between gender(s)? Orhaving no gender? What does it mean to be GenderQueer? - which rests outside the labels of homosexual, gay,lesbian, and queer. Using a queer, Mesoamerican framework, looking at queer indigenous scholars, works,narratives, and folklore, as well as personal anecdotes and touching upon issues of colonialism, this workshop willcollectively discuss how queer indigenity has influence modern constructions of sexuality, gender, and class,while exploring our Queer/Indigenous roots and attempting to productively tackle identity politics. Allies areencouraged, but please recognize your privilege(s).Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, Don't Harass: Why We Need To Get Militant HMNSS 1403Matthew Spire, Undergraduate Student, vcmattsucr@aol.comThe United States military's ban on openly bisexual, gay, and lesbian service members is known as "Don't Ask,Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, Don't Harass". This presentation will examine the history of the policy and how it isunconstitutional. Learn ways that service members as well as their supporters can take action to repeal this policyand allow openly bisexual, gay, and lesbian people to serve in the United States military.HIV Testing and Information provided by BIENESTAR Human Services HMNSS 1407The Ivory Tower: A [Re]focus on White Supremacy in the Queer Community WATKINS 1000Sabrina Alimahomed, UC Riverside, Sociology Graduate Student, alimahomed@aol.comKeith Harris, UC Riverside, English FacultyTamara Ho, UC Riverside, Women's Studies FacultyLorena Macias, UC Riverside Graduate StudentDylan Rodriguez, UC Riverside, Ethnic Studies FacultyShruti Sinha, UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate StudentWhat is White Supremacy? And more importantly, how does it pertain to the Queer Community? Are racerelations really eliminated through Queer Bonds? Or is there a larger problem that needs to be addressed? ThisPage 12
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