WORKSHOPS

The Conference annually hosts workshops led by students, faculty, and professionals alike to educate and motivate students to action. Workshop areas generally include education, activism, and social/networking opportunities. See a brief list of workshop titles here or check out the complete schedule with descriptions and presenter bios here.

Featured presenters

NEIL G. GIULIANO

Neil G. Giuliano serves as president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamati on (GLAAD). GLAAD is one of the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations, and the only one dedicated to ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of LGBT people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Mr. Giuliano joined GLAAD in September 2005. Prior to joining GLAAD, Mr. Giuliano was the mayor of Tempe, Arizona.

BEVERLY SECKINGER

Beverly Seckinger is an independent producer based in Tucson, Arizona. She is Professor and Interim Director of the School of Media Arts at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses in media production, documentary studies, and LGBT Studies. She is also a founding member of the university’s Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, and since 1993 has served as director of the Lesbian Looks Film & Video Series. Before joining the Media Arts faculty in 1991, she worked as a freelance producer in Philadelphia, and spent four years in Morocco, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later as a literacy researcher.

TERRANCE DEAN

Terrance Dean is an author, speaker, educator, and hip hop head. He is the author of the book Hiding In Hip Hop...On The Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood. Dean has worked in the entertainment industry in both television and fi lm for over 10 years with companies such as B.E.T., Savoy Television, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Buena Vista Television, Sony Pictures, and most recently MTV Networks. He is also the founder/creator of Men’s Empowerment, Inc. and cocreator of The Gathering of Men with Adeyemi Bandele.

MBLGTACC 2009 Workshop Titles Include:

• 32 Flavors and Then Some: Performing Queer Identities in Popular and Independent Music
• A New Brand of Kink
• A Voice of Many Colors: Empowering the Queer Youth of Color and Recognizing our Multiple Selves
• Acting Locally, Organizing Nationally, Thinking Globally
• Advocacy, Activism, and the Rest of Your Life
• Advocating for Justice: Past and Current Perspectives on Inclusion of Gender Identity and Expression in Higher Education Non-Discrimination Policies
• And He Ran Screaming
• Asexuality, Demisexuality, and General Orientation
• Battle of the (Same) Sexes: Communication and Power within Same-Sex Couples
• Being an Affective Ally
• Believing in God and Being Gay
• Bisexuality: Is There a Definition To Be Found?
• Civil and Uncivil Rights in the 21st Century
• Coming Face to Face: Changing Hearts and Minds
• Coming Out of the Cyber Closet: A Look into the Role of the Internet in the Lives of Gay Youth
• Coming Out to Family: Risks, Challenges and Protective Factors
• Coming to a Campus Near You: Gender Neutral Housing
• Counseling Skills for Student Leaders
• Cumulative Privilege: Implications for the LGBT Community and Allies
• Define Normal: Thomas Beatie’s Pregnancy and the (New?) Possibilities of Gender
• Developing and Sustaining a Campus Safe Zone Program: Triumphs, Challenges, and Visions for the Future
• Digital Storytelling for Social Change
• Does God Hate Fags? What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: An Inconvenient Truth for the Military and Veterans
• Eliminate Bullying: Creating and Using Your Story to Influence Social Policy
• Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know about Presenting Sexuality Panels but Didn’t Know Who or What to Ask: 20 Years of Experience Mostly Getting it Right
• Facebook Activism: Oxymoron or Vehicle for Change?
• Faeries of the New Millennium: A Non-Hetero Guide to Living Happily and Thankfully
• Financial Choices That Matter Most
• Finding Family: Love, Struggle and Humor in Making Our “Village”
• FREEHELD: Oscar Winning Film and Discussion
• From LGBT Latino/a Identity Formation to the Creation of el Barrio
• Gay Life and Activism Before Stonewall
• Gender This! Facing Trans: Inclusion, Advocacy, and Empowerment
• GenderQueerism 101: Breaking Down the Gender Binary
• Getting Into It: Exploring the Agents of and Against Consent in Intimate Relationships
• Hip Hop and Homophobia
• Historical GLBT Images in the Media: From Boys in the Band and Ellen to Brokeback Mountain and All My Children *with featured presenter Neil Giuliano
• How “Here” is Queer?: Mediated Identities in the 21st Century
• How Queer is Your College Library? Advocating for Inclusive Library Services and Collections for GLBT Students
• How to Support the Support Group: Skills for Student Leaders in the GLBT Community
• Implementing a Gender Neutral Campus Culture: Reports from the Field
• Into the Streets: A Proud History of Queer Advocacy and Activism
• Introduction to Polyamory with Panel Discussion/Q&A
• ISM: Racism, Sexism and Homophobia – Recognizing and Understanding the Connections
• Issues, Protocols, and Sex/Gender Dichotomies: Understanding the Medical Treatment and Management of Intersexuality/DSD
• IYG: 21 Years and Going Strong: How We Did It and How You CAN Do It Too
• Just Rescue
• Laramie Inside Out * with featured presenter Beverly Seckinger
• Laws, Lives, and Loves: Queer Histories and Identities
• LGBTQ Advisor Roundtable
• LGBTQ Literature and Life Within Academia
• Life Was a Cabaret: The Fall of Camp in Cinema, the Media, and Beyond
• Lost with a Moral Compass
• Lully, Corelli, and Handel: The Music and Cultures of Three Gay Composers
• Magnetic Couples: The Ins and Outs of Poz/Neg Relationships
• Making Our Voice Heard: Strategizing for Change on Faith-Based Campuses
• Male Bisexuality and Body Dissatisfaction: A Psychological Perspective
• Methamphetamine Abuse Among Men Who Have Sex with Other Men
• National Trends: The State of Higher Education for LGBT People
• One Class at a Time: Changing Your Campus Climate through Peer-Led Classroom Panel Discussions
• Open Admissions: Western Illinois University’s Official LGBT Student Orientation
• Organizing a Campus LGBTQ Film Series
• Organizing Queer Christianity: Reforming Protestant Churches
• Out and Active in the Residence Halls
• OUT and Open in the Workplace: Tools and Resources to Help You Find a Part-Time Job, Internship, or Career
• Out of the Closet and Living Out Loud Wearing My Combat Boots
• Putting the “T” in SupporT
• Queer Representations in a Post Gay World: Assimilation or Evolution?
• Queer Scholarship in the Straight School: Working Toward a Revolutionary Pedagogy
• Queerendipity: How to Be Out, Happy, and Secure in the Workplace
• Queering the Curriculum at Columbia College Chicago
• Queer-Positive Spirituality: Issues in Queer History and a Proposed Trajectory
• Responding to Bias-Motivated Incidents on Campus
• Rocking the Ship of State: How Student Activism Can Affect State Law and Government Policy
• Sex Education: What America Doesn’t Want You to Know
• Sex Pre-Op or Not
• Sex-Positive Responses to Anti -GLBT Attacks
• So you want to have a Queer Film Festival?
• Social Support and Career Self-Efficacy Among Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Persons
• Speakers’ Panels: Creating Open Forums in Classrooms
• Speaking Out Loud Against Violence
• Stop Being a Fag: Gender Performance and School Harassment
• Stories of Hope: Christian Stories that Demand Inclusion
• Student Leadership Roundtable-Open Discussion
• Surviving the Hot Seat: Protect Yourself and Share Your Story
• The Celluloid Cartridge: An Examination of Homosexuality in Video Games
• The Countertenor (1959-2009): Recordings, Personalities, and Their Reception
• The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How Did We Get Here and Where Do We Go Now?
• The Impact of Bias and Hate
• The Pornographic is Political: An Examination of Pornography’s Relevance for Lesbians and Transgender Individuals in the Web 2.0 Era
• The Rest is Still Unwritten: Knowing and Owning Our LGBTQ History
• Theorizing Queerness: An Introduction to Queer, Gender, and Sexuality Theories
• Transgender Film and Video, Representing Multiplicity
• U + Me = Eternity: Building Healthy Relationships in the LGBT Community
• Vampires as “The Other”
• Visibility, Creative Activism and Everyday Openness
• We Up In Here...Swagger Like Us! The Cultural Phenomenon of Hip Hop - Its Affect on Society in the 21st Century, and How LGBT Persons are Positively Affecting the Entertainment Industry *with featured presenter Terrance Dean
• What I Learned at Camp
• Whips, Nipple Clips & Candle Wax Part 1: Power Play and the Relationship Between Violence and Sex
• Whips, Nipple Clips & Candle Wax Part 2: A Beginner’s Guide to Power Play, BDSM, and Aggressive Sex
• Whose Rights Are We Fighting For? Making the Case for an Anti-Racist Queer Movement
• “You look like a Freak”: Influences of Gender on Societal Recognition
• ***For a complete list of workshops, including descriptions and presenters' bios, click here!***