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All photos by Linda Kliewer, Out and Out Productions
| Rev. Penny Nixon, pastor of San Francisco Metropolitan Community Church, Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of Tikkun and Rev. Phil Lawson, veteran of the civil rights movement, speak at Empowering People of Faith to Create Change, a pre-conference institute during the Task Force Creating Change Conference. The institute brought together people from across the spectrum of religion to change the dialogue on faith and LGBT issues. |
| Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman rallied more than 2,500 LGBT rights advocates during his keynote speech Moving Forward: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Agenda for 2006, in which he presented a strategic blueprint for the national LGBT community. |
| Author and activist Helen Zia electrified the crowd, especially the strong Asian Pacific American contingent, at the morning plenary with her speech, denouncing the right wing’s labeling of dissenters as ‘evil.’ |
| Mary Kay Henry, executive vice president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), gave a plenary address today in which she called for stronger ties between the LGBT community and the labor movement. |
H. Alexander Robinson, strategic director of the National Black Justice Coalition, presents at Wolves in Wedding Dresses: How Conservatives are Using Same-Sex Marriage to Pit African-Americans against LGBT Americans
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| A full house of LGBT rights activists had the rare experience of ‘eavesdropping’ on a dialogue between Urvashi Vaid and John D’Emilio, two of the LGBT rights movement’s preeminent thinkers. |
| John d'Emilio: “We are up against the unequal distribution of the gains of our movement.” |
| Urvashi Vaid: “Neither protest nor politics will end the oppression of LGBT people. We must make a cultural shift, a shift that changes the moral values of our society.” |
| Empress Jose Sarria I, the Widow Norton: “A thinking queen is a dangerous queen... United we stand, or divided they will catch us, one by one.” |
| The Task Force's Russell Roybal presents the Creating Change Award to Andy Marra. |
| Matt Foreman presents the Allan Morrow Community Service Award to Regina Shavers. |
| Assemblymember Mark Leno presents the Creating Change Award to Marina Gatto. |
| Bishop Yvette Flunder electrifies the crowd. |
