SouthernVoice.com – By Zack Hudson
Larger crowds, more corporate backing mark 2007 trans confab
In addition to hours of workshops and seminars each day, more than 100 in all, Southern Comfort offers a variety of other events to entertain and inform attendees. A few are also open to the public. For complete information, visit www.sccatl.org.
Organizers of the 2007 Southern Comfort Conference for transgender men, women and their families are preparing to greet record crowds with a distinct ? if unofficial ? conference motto: It?s time to bring transgender issues and individuals out of the closet.
Lifestyle and health topics, as well as plenty of time to socialize, will continue to take up much of the conference schedule. But attendees will be hard pressed to miss programming geared to turn their attention to activism, politics and working with advocacy organizations.
With nearly 1,000 attendees expected to register for the six-day conference, political and business stakeholders like the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and Georgia Equality will lobby conference guests in an effort to harness transgender support and numbers for their causes.