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Creating Change starts this week
National LGBTQ Task Force holds 33rd annual conference
The 33rd annual Creating Change Conference hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force is Jan. 28-31 and this year will be its first-ever virtual conference due to the pandemic.
Creating Change is the largest LGBTQ activist conference in the country, drawing participants nationally to connect and share knowledge, skills, and a commitment to ensuring equity for the LGBTQ community.
This year’s event features keynote speeches by award-winning queer Latina and Mojave-American poet Natalie Diaz, the Tobagonian-American entertainer and activist best known for her role as “Elektra Abundance” on the FX-series “Pose,” Dominique Jackson, and Black feminist author and women’s rights activist, Adrienne Maree Brown.
The diverse group of honorees this year include transgender advocate “Mama Gloria” Allen, self-described Puerto Rican butch dyke labor organizer Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, immigrant rights activist Javier Hernandez and leather leadership awardee Gayle Rubin.
To register for this event, which also includes featured talent Big Freedia, visit thetaskforce.org.
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Washington Improv Theatre hosts ‘The Queeries’
Event to celebrate queer DMV talent and pop culture camp
The Washington Improv Theatre, along with the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC, will team up to host “The Queeries!” on Friday, April 26 at 9:30 p.m. at Studio Theatre.
The event will celebrate Queer DMV talent and pop culture camp. With a mixture of audience-submitted nominations and blatantly undemocratically declared winners, “The Queeries!” mimics LGBTQ life itself: unfair, but far more fun than the alternative.
The event will be co-hosted by Birdie and Butchie, who have invited some of their favorite bent winos, D.C. “D-listers,” former Senate staffers, and other stars to sashay down the lavender carpet for the selfie-strewn party of the year.
Tickets are just $15 and can be purchased on WITV’s website.
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Drag Underground returns
Indiana Bones, Bombalicious Eklaver, Shi-Queeta Lee, Cake Pop! to perform
Dupont Underground and the Washington Blade have teamed up to host “Drag Underground” on Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Dupont Underground.
Performers include Indiana Bones, Bombalicious Eklaver, Shi-Queeta Lee and Cake Pop.
Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased on Eventbrite.
The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is set for Saturday, April 27 at the Washington Hilton with Colin Jost serving as emcee.
President Biden is scheduled to speak and numerous celebrities are expected around D.C. all weekend for related parties and events.
The Washington Blade is the only LGBTQ outlet that is a member of the Association and is hosting a table of VIPs, including actor Billy Porter and Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).
“We look forward to the Dinner each year to celebrate our press freedoms and to thank a range of allies and supporters for their work on behalf of the LGBTQ movement,” said Blade Editor Kevin Naff.
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