As specific scheduling is finalized, this page will be updated with the link to our virtual event page

• Attendees Log in  |  Explore the Agenda | Review Workshops & Presenter Bios  |  Review the Sponsors with Whom You’d Like to Connect

• Welcome Remarks  |  Hero of the Year  |  Volunteer of the Year  |  Guest Speakers

• A Snapshot of Saturday Workshops:
  • How to Organize a Neighborhood Cleanup –  It’s Easy and Fun!
  • Parentage – How to protect Your Family Through Adoption, Pre-Birth Orders, Parentage Orders and Estate Planning
  • Keeping Your Cool – The Ins and Outs of Yelling For All Ages
  • Coping During COVID –  For You, For Your Family
  • The Medical AND Emotional Intersections of Reproductive Technology for the LGBTQ Community
  • Building Your Family with Donors and Surrogates – the Medical and Legal Considerations
  • Older Child Adoption – Opening Your Heart and Your Home
  • From Ovulation to Lactation, What Does This Have to do with Starting My Family?  A Primer on the Reproductive Basics in Same-Sex Family Building
  • Inclusive Fitness – Body Positivity, Body Image, Accessibility
  • Use of Donor Sperm for the LGTBQ+ Community
  • Planning Together for Your Family’s Financial Future
  • It Is More Than Hair – Why Black Hair Care is So Important
  • Doula 101: What is a Doula, Why Do I Need One, and How to Afford One!
  • Regulate Through Writing: Helping Our Young People Survive Uncertain Times
  • Uncomfortable Conversations in Adoptive Households –  Including Outside Perceptions, Race, Birth Family Connections and Being in an LGBTQ+ Family
  • Renewing Our Idea of “Health”  –  Let’s Liberate the Body! Health at Every Size, the Diet Industry, and Supporting Your Family without Reinforcing Body Oppression
  • Who Am I? Identity 101  – Let’s Explore Identity, Privilege, What We Might Overlook, What Privileges It Comes With, and What Parts of Identity You May Overlook.  This is for Everyone.
  • Parenting Strategies that Support LGBTQ Mental Health and Resilience
  • Positively Vibrant: Reflections on How our LGBTQ Identities Have Positively Impacted Our Lives
  • How to Choose a Donor – Some Basic, but not Widely Known, Facts About Choosing the Donor for the Best Chance of Having a Healthy Child
  • Parent Panel – A Discussion with LGBTQ+ Parents “What I Have Learned Through This Journey”
  • Gender Roles outside of the heteronormative

As details are finalized, this page will be immediately updated.  This will include workshop descriptions, presenter bios, and more.  Information subject to change.

Note:  After last year’s conference, attendee feedback indicated a preference for added time and opportunity for real (as real as possible) connection and interaction, which has been incorporated this year.