About Unity

The Southeastern Regional Unity Conference is an annual gathering of progressive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer identified people and their allies in the Southeast. It was founded to create dialogues about the intersections of gender and sexuality with ability, age, class, faith, health, and race/ethnicity, to explore strategies for effective grassroots organizing, and to share work that we and other LGBTIQ activists are doing in the Southeast. In generating these conversations, the Unity Conference serves to foster a progressive Southeastern LGBTIQ movement that affirms and reflects all aspects of the identities of LGBTIQ people.

This Year's Conference

The 2010 Unity Conference will be held on April 9-11, 2010. For more information, visit the Unity website.

Previous Years

2009: Sweet T: Transgressing, Transforming, and Transcending Gender and Sexuality in the South

2008: Are You Being Served? LGBTIQ Representation in Media

The Unity Conference was founded in 2001 by UNC student, Trevor Hoppe. Hoppe, then a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, was inspired by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Annual Creating Change conference, and wanted to bring something to the Southeast that was more accessible to students and community members.