Session Format
All Atlanta Black Pride workshops are training or prepared presentations with stated and specific learning objectives. These workshop sessions are teaching/learning sessions in which attendees gain useful information, skills, and technical assistance about a specific topic.
On the Request for Proposals form, you will be asked to choose one of these three formats for your proposed workshop.
- 60-minute Caucus. A time for affinity groups or people working on similar projects to gather and exchange ideas, network and build community or an opportunity to convene a group of interested participants to discuss a specific topic.
- 90-minute Workshop. These sessions are ideal for topics that can be effectively covered in 90 minutes and do not require extra time for small group breakouts.
- 2-hour Lunch and Learn. These sessions are ideal for advanced level training and workshops requiring additional time for attendee participation and lunch is served during the workshop.
Topic Areas
For Atlanta Black Pride 2021, the Committee especially seeks session proposals that address the following eight topic areas. These topic areas reflect critical community issues that have come forth in the context of the current Administration.
- Campus Equality
- Criminal and Social Justice Reform
- Democracy and Civic Engagement
- Economic Inequality and Poverty
- Faith and Spirituality
- Health Care Access
- Mental Health Disparities
- Non-Discrimination Protections
- Young Black and Gay in America
All session proposals in any topic area should also reflect one or more of these LGBTQ+ justice frames:
- Racial Justice;
- Economic Justice;
- Gender Justice inclusive of Trans/GNC people.
Please be explicit in your program book description language about how your session would address one or more of these justice frames.
While the Committee seeks proposals within the eight focus areas (**), you may submit a proposal on any topic listed below.
The Committee acknowledges that any proposed session may overlap two or more session topics; do your best to choose the topic area that you think most accurately represents your session. You will be able to select one (and only one) of these topic areas for your proposed session:
- Aging and Ageism
- Anti-Violence, including Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
- Art & Culture
- Bisexual Community & Issues
- **Campus Equality
- College Campus Issues and Organizing for Students
- College Campus Issues and Organizing for LGBTQ+ Administrators
- Community Centers
- Community Organizing
- **Criminal Justice
- **Democracy & Civic Engagement
- Disability Justice
- Domestic Violence
- **Economic Inequality & Poverty
- **Faith & Spirituality
- Families
- Fundraising/Resource Development
- Gay Male Community & Issues
- Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice)
- **Health Care Access
- History
- HIV
- Immigration International Issues Labor
- Legislative/Policy Initiatives
- Lesbian Community & Issues
- Media, Communications, and Messaging
- Mental Health
- Military & Veterans Issues
- Movement Building
- **Non-Discrimination Protections
- Organizational Development
- Racial Justice
- Religious Exemptions Legislation
- Reproductive Justice Research and Policy Analysis Schools and Education, Grades K-12
- Sexual Freedom
- Surviving, Thriving, and Self Care
- Workplace
- **Young Black and Gay in America
- Youth Empowerment
Proposal Review
Proposals received by Midnight on June 15, 2021, will be reviewed and considered for scheduling. The deadline of Midnight, June 15, 2021, will not be extended. The Committee reserves the right to decline to review proposals received after this deadline.
The Committee will not review proposals for sessions that primarily promote or sell commercial products or promote or sell the commercial work product of an individual presenter.
Proposals are reviewed by Committee and outside experts in the topic area, you select. Considerations for selection include the relevance of the proposed session to the values and principles stated in this document, especially the Committee’s 2021 focus/topics listed above; depth of content; presenter qualifications/experience with the topic; overall strength of the submission; and proposals that reflect the Task Force’s commitment to the representation of race, gender, class, age and disability. The Committee reserves the right to reject proposals.
You will be notified by email of the status of your proposal beginning on or after July 15, 2021.
