Transgender Activist Janet Mock to Give Keynote at LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Confe

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Pierre R. Berastaín
Student, Harvard Divinity School; Director of Media Relations, Hispanic Black Gay Coalition; Co-Chair, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transexual Domestic Violence Coalition

Transgender Activist Janet Mock to Give Keynote at LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference
Posted: 08/30/2012 3:05 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pierre-r-berastain/janet-mock-lgbtq-youth-empowerment-conference_b_1841281.html

Janet Mock, People.com Staff Editor and nationally renowned transgender activist, will give the keynote address at the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition's 2012 LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference. The free conference, which takes place Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., educates and inspires LGBTQ youth of color under the age of 25 to use their ideas, knowledge, and skills so that they can create personal and social change.

Mock, a transgender woman of color, uses media as a platform to explore and challenge "society's limited portrait of womanhood." Her #GirlsLikeUs campaign empowers trans women to speak up and out about their experiences and lives.

With school back in session, the LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference is an important opportunity to create dialogue about what it takes to help LGBTQ youth of color be informed and aware of resources, make healthy and safe decisions about the way they live their lives, and feel supported by the greater community.