Updated 8/12/06

This has been the most difficult page to keep updated. To simplify matters, conferences are listed in the months when they were last held. This doesn't mean that they are happening again or that they are happening this year in the same month. Links have been provided where possible to allow you to obtain further information about those conferences which most interest you.

In order to ensure that you aren't missing out on something in your area, please see the events page as well.

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2006

January

February

March

Trans-Evolution

Fifth Annual Philadelphia Trans-health Conference

Philadelphia's Fifth Annual Trans-health Conference proudly offers a space for transpeople and our allies, partners, and providers to come together to re-envision what health means for trans-folks.

http://www.trans-health.org/

The conference is FREE!

April

May

June

GenderQueer GENDERS Conference: June 30 - July 3, 2006

Presenting the uniquely GenderQueer G.E.N.D.E.R.S. Conference
GenderQueer Equality Now: Deconstructing Everything, Revitalizing S/spirits

June 30-July 3, 2006
Los Angeles, CA

Accepting submissions NOW: Read on for more details!

Interested in contributing? We are creating a truly integrated, unconventional, experiential artistic, spiritual, and academic conference, so please contact us for how to contribute. Submission guidelines and forms on the GQR website. Think "merging of spheres," "blurred lines," and "integration of mind, body, S/spirit."

Have an idea for how to make this conference great? Contact the organizers. What would YOU like to see, feel, and experience?

For more info, updates, and submission guidelines: http://www.genderqueerrevolution.org

Contact: webmaster@gqronline.org or genderqueerrevolution@gmail.com

Trans Unity

Held in Los Angeles at the Ed Gould Plaza and has been free in the past. The dates will more than likely be posted on the FTM Alliance website as June approaches.

July

Summer Institute

July 2 - 27, 2006

For further information follow the link --> http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SummerInstitute/

August

Queeruption 9

August 9 - 13, 2006 - Tel Aviv, Israel

http://www.queeruption.org/

September

FTM: A Gender Odyssey

Sept. 1 - 4, 2006

SEATTLE, WA: A Gender Odyssey is an upcoming national conference focused primarily on the lives of masculine-identified people who were assigned female gender at birth. It is an opportunity for us to gather together, share our experiences, speak our truths, and learn from one another in a spirit of celebration and community building.

A Gender Odyssey is open to anyone who is interested in the topics we will cover. Whether you are new to masculine identity, well established in your chosen gender, part of an FTM/ trans/genderqueer community because of the people you love, or simply questioning the role of gender in your life, this conference is for you.

www.transconference.org.

Southern Comfort Conference

September 19-24, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia

Check their website for further information regarding the conference http://www.sccatl.org

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SEX AND GENDER

October

San Diego Youth Pride

October 6-7, 2006

For further information check out www.sdpride.org for more info or Ren Petty, Director of San Diego Youth Pride

Lavendar Law

October 7-9 2006 - Washington D.C.
www.nlgla.org

Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference

October 20-21, 2006, UCLA, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA
For further information, please contact the UCLA LGBTS office at 310 206-0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/

Transitions in Academia: Increasing Transgender Inclusiveness on Campus

October 20, 2006 at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.

For further information, http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/wom

OUT for Work National LGBT and Ally Undergraduate Student Career Conference

October 21-22, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

For further information, http://www.outforwork.com

North American Conference on Bisexuality, Gender, and Sexual Diversity

October 27-29, 2006

Information available at http://www.transcendingboundaries.org

November

Models of Pride Annual Conference

Nov. 4, 2006

Sponsored by Friends of Project 10, Inc.

The annual Models of Pride (MOP) conference is a one-day conference for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) youth and their non-LGBT allies, ages 14-23.

http://www.modelsofpride.org/

American Public Health Association Annual Conference

November 4-8, 2006, Boston, MA

Contact:

Web: www.apha.org/meetings

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Caucus of Public Health Workers' web site: http://www.stophiv.pitt.edu/~lgbc/

Creating Change

November 8-12, 2006 , Kansas City, MO

The Creating Change(TM) conference attracts about 2,500 participants each year, and is the largest annual gathering of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement.

For further information, please see http://www.creatingchange.org, the official Web site of the Creating Change(TM) conference.

Creating Change is a registered trademark of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation.

December

2007

"Translating Identity Conference" hosted by University of Vermont in Burlingame, Vermont, 2007

Date To Be Announced. For further info: http://www.uvm.edu/~tic/

January

February

American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics

Lav Lgs XIV, February 9 -11, 2007

For further info: http://www.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/

Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Ally College Conference [MBBLGTACC]

February 13-15, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota

This conference brings together college students from throughout the Midwest to discuss about issues important to LGBTQ youth in the region and to foster activism and grassroots networking.

For further info: http://www.mblgtacc.org/

Western Regional LGBTQIA College Conference

Feb 16-18, 2007 at UC Riverside in Riverside, CA.

For further info: http://www.comeoutwest.org/

March

Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, 12th Annual Conference

March 13, 2007 from 9 A.M.-3:30 P.M.

For the 12th year, Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, Inc. (LIGALY) is holding its conference to provide youth, K-12 and university staff and administrators, youth counselors, and health care professionals with the opportunity to learn about the broad range of issues affecting GLBT youth.

For further info: http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/SOEAHS/soe_conf_0607.cfm

Forge Forward

March 29-April 1, 2007, Milwaukee, WI

The FORGE Forward 2007 Conference's philosophy is inclusion-focused. We value individuality, diversity, and complexity -- believing that together, all of us make a stronger, more supportive and vibrant community.

For further information contact:

conference@forge-forward.org | 414-559-2123 (phone)

www.forge-forward.org/conference

April

Annual IFGE Convention

April 19-15, 2007

www.ifge.org

The Power of One Conference

April 27-28, 2007

South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA

For further info: SPSCC

May

Saints & Sinners, Alternative Literary Festival

March 11-13, 2007, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA

For further info: http://www.sasfest.org/

June

Trans Unity

Typically held in June in Los Angeles , CA, at the Ed Gould Plaza. This event has been free in the past. The dates will more than likely be posted on the FTM Alliance website as June approaches.

July

August

September

October

November

December

Prior Conferences Held With No Dates Set for Future

California Transgender Leadership Summit, February 17 - 19, 2006

California Transgender Leadership Summit -- FIRST STATEWIDE TRANSGENDER LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

Dates: February 17-19, 2006 (Presidents Day Weekend)
Location: University of Southern California
Norman Topping Student Activities Center
Los Angeles, California

Registration: Free to attendees

Advancing civil rights for Transgender people through legislation is the focus of the first California Transgender Leadership Summit, to be held from Friday, Feb. 17 through Sunday Feb. 19 at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The goal of the Summit is to build skills and share resources, energy and optimism around issues of importance to transgender Californians. The summit will be sponsored by Equality California and the Transgender Equality Alliance and hosted by the University of Southern California's LGBT Center. Admission will be free. For information about the summit and to get involved. contact Danny Kirchoff, Manager of EQCA's Transgender Equality Project at 415.581.0005, 7# or by email at danny@eqca.org.

Intersex Symposium and Special Issue on Intersexuality

February 23, 2005

The Womens Law Journal of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Bodies Like Ours is pleased to present a day long symposium on intersexuality, tentatively scheduled to be held in New York City on February 23, 2005. The proceeds of the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Cardozo Womens Law Journal.

The symposium will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars, legal and medical practitioners, and intersex advocates.

To contact Bodies Like Ours about the symposium, please write us at info@bodieslikeours.org.

GenderQueer/QueerGenders Conference - Conversations between Artists, Activists & Academics

University of California, Santa Barbara

February 11, 12, and 13, 2005

GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a multidiscplinary, multimedia conference that will take place in Santa Barbara, CA, this coming February. It will be a forum for people who?ve been thinking about queerness and gender from different places (institutions, geographic locations, identities) and through different means (performance, scholarship, organizing, cultural politics, etc). The conference will bring together artists, scholars and activists as equal contributors to conduct workshops, exhibit and perform art, and present academic research. A priority of this conference is to reflect the diversity and complexity of gender expressions and the meanings gender has in different racial and cultural locations. To that end, we particularly encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people, and people with disabilities.

GenderQueer/QueerGenders will be a forum for discussing the multiplicity of queer gender identities as they are experienced and expressed simultaneously with race, region, class, access, ability and other identities. One catalyst for this project has been our collective frustration with the lack of certain critical discourses about intersections of genders and sexualities. Specifically, we are concerned about the limited discourse on ?emerging? queer genders including, for example, queer femininities, heterosexual queers, and the ways that gaps like these overlap with existing silences about race, class and privilege. We fear that these discourses are sometimes overshadowed by homogenizing ?conventional? narratives of genderqueer and transgender communities. We hope to create a space to theorize a wider range of queer genders more fully representative of our identities, communities, and political/artistic work.

Email address: gq_qg@riseup.net

Snailmail address:

True Spirit Conference

No conference was held from 2004 - 2006. It was traditionally held in February in prior years. www.true-spirit.org

Translating Identity

March 5, 2005

Translating Identity is a free conference focusing on gender and gender identities. Open to the public, this event hopes to reach out the University of Vermont, the Burlington community, and the nation as a whole to educate us all further about transgender issues. With multiple panels to choose from at any time, some panels will be directed towards trans people and others will be for those who are fairly unfamiliar with the transgender movement and the topic of gender identity.

This conference seeks to translate gender identity to both the queer community and its allies.

This conferece is open to the national public, but space is limited! Please register as soon as possible to guarantee your spot. Registration and attendance are free.

http://www.uvm.edu/~tic/

"Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice"

May 6-7, 2005 - New York City, NY

Summary:

The conference's educational goal is go beyond simple lessons about tolerance and gender diversity and engage participants in an advanced discussion of the experiences and political interests of different trans and related constituencies. 

Full description available at:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/transpolitics.htm
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/politicatrans.htm

Sonoma State University's first Queer Studies Student Research Conference

June 2005

Information is now online at http://www.sonoma.edu/campuslife/outatsonoma/

For further information contact, Out@sonoma

Please pass the word along to your students and friends and invite them to participate and attend.

Together in faith

August 5th - 7th, 2005

A National Multiracial, Multigenerational Conference for People of all Religions and Spiritualities Creating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender-Affirming Communities.

http://www.togetherinfaith.com

CRUCIBLE

The Transgender Spirituality Gathering

What is Crucible?

Crucibleis an annual transgender spirituality campout, where we explore the concept and practice of transgender as a spiritual path. Every year the transgender tribes come together on sacred ground in central Massachusetts; be with us as we delve into the Mysteries. Crucible is open to anyone who identifies anywhere on the transgender continuum--MTF, FTM, TG, TS, TV, CD, genderqueer, anything we left out--and their SOFFAs--and who is interested in trans-positive spirituality. Be prepared to respect the identity and beliefs of everyone; there will be no "gender policing". If you claim an identity, we take you at your word, and we ask that you do the same for all other participants.

What should I bring?

This is a camping event. Bring your tent, bedding, food, flashlight, bug repellent, sensible clothing, and ritual gear. There is a latrine and a primitive field kitchen.

Your Coordinators:

Raven Kaldera G/ Brenda Burke E
cauldronfarm@hotmail.com and beb252@hotmail.com

website: http://www.cauldronfarm.com

Queer Matters: An interdisciplinary conference

'Queer Matters' is a major international, interdisciplinary conference, organized by the School of Humanities at King's College London, with the involvement of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.

'Queer Matters' has been conceived with the aim of interrogating the Anglo-American divide in queer work (both in the academy and beyond), as well as providing a forum for international exchange on topics related to queer practices of all kinds. We envisage the event as an opportunity to take stock of the place of queer in contemporary British and American culture, to consider the differing discourses of queerness that arise in particular locales, and to address the theoretical and political issues that arise from such inquiries.

http://www.queermatters.org/

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