Join a community of learning and activism!

Register to participate in #StillWeLead, a community and professional development experience designed to help community leaders and organizations better serve and support the LGBTQ+ community.

Sessions take place the last Wednesday of each month, beginning March 31, 2021.

Each session will focus on key areas impacting our LGBTQ+ community and our responsibility as leaders within our organizations to support and foster an intersectional social justice movement.

Registration is free for community members and organizations.

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#StillWeLead is a powerful statement about the resilience, struggles, celebrations, visibility, and pride that exist within our community. In spite of extreme adversity facing members of the LGBTQ+ community, we must come together to support, love, resist, learn, educate, and thrive. Through community partnership, engagement, and leadership, #StillWeLead seeks to empower others by providing the community an opportunity to elevate the voices of the movement.

Consider making a donation today. Your gift will help grow collaborative advocacy, outreach, education, and programming in support of our intersectional community, expand access to programs to ensure inclusivity, secure resources to meet accessibility needs, and provide tools to help assist in volunteer recruitment, training, and recognition of organization and community leaders.

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Upcoming Sessions

Session #6

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A MOVEMENT OF OPINION

We will engage in courageous conversations on how to work together in a movement where some opinions don’t feel like they can co-exist. We will find ways to acknowledge and understand the complexities of our intersections.

Session #7

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT

Past Sessions

Session #1

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7 PM

CULTIVATING THE VOICES OF OUR MOVEMENT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

We want to cultivate the voices of our youth, lift the voices of our most marginalized, and rediscover the voices of our elders.  It is crucial to understand where the LGBTQ+ movement began and how our history informs our present. We will create a space to discuss our current struggles and provide opportunities to build a better future.

Guest Panelists

Session #2

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7 PM

OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN AN INTERSECTIONAL SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT

Join us as we collectively identify our biases and acknowledge the racism and sexism that exists within the LGBTQ+ community. In tonight’s session, we will take a deep dive into understanding the inherent differences between equality and equity, the challenges that these distinctions present, and the ways to implement best practices to honor our collective identities.

Guest Panelists

Photo of Kim Baker. Kim is wearing a poke-a-dot button down shirt.
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Kim Baker

(She, Her, Hers) - Board Member

Session #3

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 7 PM

INVESTING IN OUR HEALTH

In this conversation we will discuss how to allocate resources to invest in the services and support needs of those populations who are most in need. We will discuss the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and LGBTQ+ community and how is relates to the current Covid-19 pandemic. We will talk about how investments in our healthcare system and accessibility to those resources greatly impact our movement.

If you have already registered for a previous session, you no longer need to register. Simply RSVP to each scheduled session on your calendar. Only new StillWe Lead series participants need to register.

Presenter

Special Guest

Paul Kawata, Executive Director for NMAC

Session #4

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 7 PM

UPLIFTING THE VOICES OF OUR LGBTQ+ ELDERS

This panel will provide open and organic dialog across the community to further the discussion on lifting the voices of our most marginalized and rediscover the voices of our elders. It is crucial to understand where the LGBTQ+ movement began and how our history informs our present. We would like to extend an invitation to you to represent your perspective in this community discussion.

Guest Panelists

Session #5

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 7 PM

TO BE INCLUSIVE IS TO BE ACCESSIBLE

Tonight we will cover the experiences of the disability community in the Pride context. Approximately ¼ of our total adult population have a disability. Keeping that in mind, we must also recognize that the disability community intersects with every other identity. Our discussion tonight will cover these experiences in the pride/LGBTQIA+ context.

Guest Panelists

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