January 27–31, 2027
Creating Change: Radical Imagination, Building Our Destiny
Louisville, Kentucky
Join the nation’s foremost political, leadership, and skills-building gathering for the LGBTQ movement. Enjoy a mix of day-long institutes, keynote presentations, annual awards, and more than 100 workshops and caucuses.
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Key Dates to Remember:
Call for Ambassadors: April 15 – June 15Call for Proposals: June 15 – September 15- CC Registration & Host Hotel Booking Opens: July 15
- Proposal Accept/Decline Notices: November 5
- CC Schedule Announced: December 15
- CC Registration & Host Hotel Booking Closes: January 6
- Radical Welcome, First Timers Session, and Check-In Open: January 27
- Institutes and Workshops: January 28–30
- Morning Session and Radical Future Farewell: January 31
About Creating Change
Since 1988, Creating Change has generated opportunities for many thousands of committed people from around the country (and indeed, from around the world) to develop and hone their skills, celebrate victories, build community, and be inspired by visionaries of our LGBTQ+ movement and allied movements for justice and equity.
Attendees—nearly of third of whom identify as transgender or gender non-conforming, and over half as people of color—learn about the latest in research and strategies to secure LGBTQ+ rights, network to acquire best practices and new teaching techniques, and always come away from the experience feeling encouraged, inspired, motivated, challenged, and moved.
We are building a future where everyone is free to be themselves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we have made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ+ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go.
Through Creating Change and other advocacy programs, the National LGBTQ Task Force is training and mobilizing thousands of activists across the nation to deliver a world where you can be you.
About Our 2027 Theme
Radical Imagination: Building Our Destiny is a bold invitation to dream beyond the limits of the world as it exists today and to take collective responsibility for creating the future we know is possible. It is rooted in the belief that progress has never come from accepting the status quo, but from queer wisdom and communities courageous enough to envision something better, and queer imagination and ingenuity determined enough to build it together.
The freedoms, fairness, and democracy that exist today were never freely given; they were forged into being by those excluded from the country’s original promise. We are not asking ourselves to overlook our nation’s failures. We are calling on ourselves to forge a future worthy of its promise.
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We have the power to continue to fight for our democracy, and this will be an all-hands-on-deck effort for our rights.
Get active and stay active with the National LGBTQ Task Force! Ensure that your voice is heard by your elected officials, they must continue to feel pressure coming from us. We got us!
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