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PageOneQ The conference, to be held in Detroit from February 6 to February 10, 2008, will feature speakers such as NAACP chairman and equality advocate Julian Bond, and V. Eugene Robinson, the first openly gay ordained Episcopalian bishop. "We look forward to a truly wonderful Creating Change Conference this year," says Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman, "one that will inspire and refresh us all." Continues Foreman, "Creating Change will be our first national gathering since the nationwide mobilization of LGBT people to insist that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act be crafted to leave none of us behind." The entire press release can be read here on the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force website.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will celebrate 20 years of the Creating Change Conference, the nation's largest annual LGBT skills-building and strategy conference, in February of 2008. 30,000 movement leaders have been fostered by the Conference since its launch in 1988.
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Originally published on Wednesday November 14, 2007.