SoVo.com – Zach Hudson
First trans career expo an ?unprecedented success?
Addressing overflow crowds at the 2007 Southern Comfort Conference, a series of top-level executives from national gay rights groups hammered out the message that transgender issues will no longer take a back seat as long as gay issues remain at the forefront of national politics.
?There is not an LGBT organization that I can think of that is not as trans inclusive as it can be at this time,? Mara Kiesling, a transwoman and executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, told would-be trans activists during a Southern Comfort training seminar.
Southern Comfort, held every year in Atlanta, took place Sept. 10-16 at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia hotel. More than 1,000 registrants attended the seventeenth annual conference, organizers said.