Events: Saturday July 21st

8:00- 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:15 Morning Plenary: Intersections

In leadership development work and cross-movement community organizing, one of the frequent criticisms is that (white cisgendered) gay men are often unaware of their own privileges and often are the ones who make the most assumptions about other movements. Many gay men are active in many different movements for equality. Where do other social and equality movements intersect or cross over the work we are doing in the gay men’s health movement? We cannot achieve success as an isolated movement, so what is the internal work we need to do as individual gay men and as a movement in order to be more effective allies for different movements?

10:30-11:45 Concurrent Sessions

• Room 301: Is That a Microbicide in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Advances in HIV Prevention Research and How to Protect Ourselves [session details]
  
  
• Room 302: Preserving Our History, Empowering Health Advocates Today [session details]
  
  
• Room 307: It’s not Racism. It’s a Preference.” – A Dialogue on Race & Class [session details]
  
  
• Room 308: Effemiphobia and negative effects on identity, gender norms, and beliefs of masculinity among communities of Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) [session details]
  
  
• Room 404: Using "role play" dynamics for engaging gay and MSM Latino community members in HIV safe sex discussions for empowerment and development individual's resilience. [session details]
  
  
• Ballroom: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Present: 30 years of of PlayFair! [session details]
  
  
• Room 405: Gay Men and Mental Health [session details]

12:30 – 2:00 – Lunch

2:00 – 3:15 Concurrent Sessions

• Room 301: Perspectives on Peer-Based Community Health Promotion for Gay/Bi/Trans Men [session details]
  
  
• Room 302: Gay is Good: Building a National Health Movement by Healing Shame, Unveiling Joy and Improving Self-Esteem Sister Glo, Christopher Dyer, [session details]
  
  
• Room 307: Say it Loud! I’m Black, Gay and Proud!: Best Practices for Engaging MSM in HIV Clinical Research at Black Gay Prides [session details]
  
  
• Room 308: Youth Development and Positive Sexuality [session details]
  
  
• Room 404: Learning to Play Again [session details]
  
  
• Room 405: Recipe for Survival - Panel Discussion with Men HIV+ > 25 years [session details]
  
  
• Ballroom: National Strategy for Black Gay Youth in America: Youth at Hope, Not at Risk [session details]

3:45 – 5:00 Closing Gathering/Vision for the Future

5:00 TBD