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Events: Friday July 20th

8:00- 9:00 Registration

9:00 10:00 Opening Gathering

10:15- 11:30 Concurrent Sessions

  • Room 301 : Survival Tips for Queer Community Educators in a Straight World [session details]

  • Room 302: Selling It: A Panel Exploring Successes and Challenges with Setting Boundaries in Client-Sexworker Relationships: [session details]

  • Room 307: HIV: Thirty years of fear and stigma: How do we move forward? [session details]

  • Room 308: Getting There from Here The Ongoing Effects of Crystal Meth on Gay Men & the Use of Harm Reduction & Abstinence-Based Interventions in Treatment [session details]

  • Room 311: Coming Out after 65: Health implications for Gay Male Elders [session details]

  • Room 405: Celebrating male diversity: emotional support & community building with trans-men. [session details]

11:45 1:00 Hot Topic/Round Robin Lunch in Main Ballroom

1:15 2:30 Concurrent Sessions

  • Room 301: Community Taking Care of Community [session details]

  • Room 302: The Institutional Piece: LGBT Health Advocacy in Hospitals & Health Schools [session details]

  • Room 307: A 'Queer Golden Rule'? [session details]

  • Room 308: Seattle Bathhouses: Coalition Building and Needs Assessment: [session details]

  • Room 311: Magical Transformations: work done by, for and with Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Immigrants [session details]

  • Room 404: Men Becoming Parents [session details]

  • Room 402: Reinventing The Wheel: Prevention, Healing & Examining Gay Mens Wellness Through An Artistic Lens [session details]

  • Room 405: I AM... Powerful - Using Empowerment to Decrease the Spread of HIV among YMSM of color in Philadelphia [session details]

3:00 4:15 Concurrent Sessions

  • Room 301: Repackaging the Condom Question: Using Sexually Explicit Messaging to Inform and Eroticize Condom Use Among Men MSM [session details]

  • Room 302: Addiction in the Gay/Queer Community. Denial, Stigma, Support, and Recovery. Beieng a SoBear: Gay, Bi, & Trans-men embracing Masculinity, Recovery and Community. [session details]

  • Room 307: Bears Do Yoga: Organizing and Connecting Community to Health Through Yoga [session details]

  • Room 308: This Is My Story: Testimony as a Tool of Resistance of Gay Men of Faith/Faiths Working Together Against HIV/AIDS! [session details]

  • Room 311: Making Sense of Numbers: Research Essentials for Understanding Sexual Identity [session details]

  • Room 404: Bareback to the Future [session details]

  • Room 405: Introduction to Leather - Learning and understanding Leather, BDSM and power exchange relationships [session details]

  • Room 402: Not Quite Ready to Quit, Motivating Gay and HIV Positive Men to Quit Smoking

4:30 5:45 Afternoon Plenary: The Gay Mens Health Movement: Past, Present and Future

The Gay Mens health movement has made many strides since the first summit in 1999. As we move into a new decade, there are many challenges facing the movement and opportunities to expand on its growth. Join a panel of experts for a reflection on the movement, the current state of health among gay and bisexual men and the transgender community; and a discussion on how to build and sustain the movement.

Bear Happy Hour at Rock and Roll Hotel
Join us for a night of fun at the Rock and Roll Hotel from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
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