Call for Proposals

Gay Men's Health Summit 2012
Resiliency, Activism, Advocacy

July 20-21, 2012
George Washington University, Washington, DC

DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2012

You are invited to propose an activity for the Gay Men’s Health Summit 2012, July 20-21, 2012, in Washington, DC. With the theme Resiliency, Activism, Advocacy, GMHS 2012 emphasizes the strengths of the gay male community and ways to marshal those strengths to explore, celebrate, and improve gay men’s health. The Gay Men’s Health Summits

Since 1999, Gay Men’s Health Summits have brought together diverse groups of gay, bi and trans men and their allies to explore and promote gay men’s health. Summit participants include health educators, medical providers, policy makers, activists, people with HIV, and members of many other communities. The Summits create space to bring your whole queer, sexy, radical, critical, fun-loving, healthy self to seek deeper understandings of health experientially, holistically, and communally.

What We Are Looking For

The Program Committee seeks to create a program that will help foster a strong, diverse, and visible grassroots movement among gay, bi and trans men, focused on strengthening our communities and tackling a range of health concerns that include, but are not limited to, HIV and AIDS.

We encourage formats with experiential components. We are interested in seeing proposals relating to any aspect of gay men’s health, including but not limited to the following topics:

Emerging issues in LGBT health policy • Community wellness • The Gay Men’s Health Agenda 2009: How far have we come? • Access • Gay men's health for the trans man • Frontiers in HIV/AIDS and STD prevention and care • Social media for health promotion • Bi men's health • Asset-based strategies • Career issues for the HIV positive • Faith-based providers and the LGBT/HIV community • Youth and elder strategies • Homelessness • Anal pleasure and health • Tobacco cessation programs • Discrimination and social isolation • Mainstreaming HIV care • Health care reform and the gay community • Breaking barriers to transgender health • Shame • Spiritual strategies towards community health • Self-care for the activist • LGBT immigrant health • Marriage equality as a health promotion strategy • Exploring diverse relationships and family structures • Relationships • Stigma and late entry to care • Staying positive when you’re positive • LGBT health data collection and research agenda • Race, class and gender issues within the gay community • Understanding HIV in a multi-cocktail world • Funding for gay men’s health • Sex education • Hate crimes: On the rise? • The arts and health • Exchange sex • Creating healthy gay communities • Unintended consequences: Stigma in HIV treatment and prevention efforts • Strengthening physical and emotional resilience • Intimacy • Truth behind HIV positive men who have sex with HIV positive men • Creativity as it relates to wellness • Body love

The Basics

Our proposed schedule anticipates 75-minute breakout sessions, but double sessions or other time lengths may be considered. We expect to have a variety of classrooms available at the George Washington University, so we should be able to accommodate your desired room set up. You may submit proposals for stand-alone sessions, or ask the Program Committee to combine your presentation/activity with others.

Submission Process

Please click here to use the online submission form. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2012.

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