Even if — especially if — you have never connected with other people who have/had LGBT parents, please seriously consider coming to the Act OUT conference in Dallas in October.

If you have additional questions about the information below, contact COLAGE directly at colage@colage.org.

COLAGE Call for Proposals
Act OUT: The National LGBT Family Conference
Oct. 27-29, 2006
Fairmont Hotel
Dallas, Texas

COLAGE is thrilled to announce our partnership with Family Pride on ACT OUT: The National LGBT Family Conference. This fall, hundreds of youth and adults with LGBT parents, LGBT parents and our allies will come together in Dallas for a weekend of education, empowerment, and celebration. We are looking for strong, innovative, dynamic, challenging and fresh proposals for workshops/activities that will engage young adult and/or adults who have one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender parent/s.

All proposals must clearly have and explicitly state a connection to queerspawn and related issues and be proposed by people who themselves have one or more LGBT parent/s. People of color; youth (under 25); people with disabilities; low-income people and people from diverse queerspawn family backgrounds are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

The deadline for submitting proposals is June 26th, 2006.

We are particularly interested in proposals that look at (in no order):

*Leadership and Activism Skill Building for Youth and Adults with LGBT Parents
*Connections between queerspawn and other issues of social justice and areas of oppression including but not limited to race, class, family background, sex, gender identity, transphobia, disability, etc.
*Movement building and skill building particularly as it relates to topics of current import to the LGBT and family movements, ie same-sex marriage, adoption, safe schools, family formation, reproductive rights, etc.

We also highly value workshops that are creative in format and experiential in nature. COLAGE appreciates sessions that use games, art, drama, video, and other mediums to further the discussion.

Proposals must include:

*A one page detailed description of presentation, including how it connects and relates to queerspawn and related issues; the topics and activities the presentation will include as well as relevant experience of presenter(s).
*An abstract/description of your session that is no more than 75 words.
*Specific format of workshop/presentation (i.e., lecture with question and answer, discussion group, brief presentation with discussion/activity, etc.)
*A list of all resources needed: audio/visual equipment, power point, spatial requirements, limit of people, etc.
*A bio and contact information for each presenter, including information about their family background and demographic information (Age, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Race)

Email your proposal to meredith@colage.org.

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