In March 2019, The LGBTQ Humanist Alliance, an adjunct of the American Humanist Association (AHA), organized the conference ¨Centering the Margins: A Summit for BIPOC & LGBTQ Nontheists.¨
The event that took place at the Washington Ethical Society in DC aimed to cultivate safe and affirming communities, promote humanist values, and achieve full equality and social liberation of LGBTQ persons. It featured well-known secular activists, including Debbie Goddard, (@DebGod) vice president of programs for American Atheists, and Black Lives Matter Houston co-founder and lead organizer, Ashton P. Woods. (@AshtonPWoods). See the list speakers´ list here: https://www.lgbtqhumanists.org/speakers
Adriana Buenaventura-Martinez, director of Hispanic American Freethinkers Represented HAFre at the conference. She joined Lucky Garcia, an organizing member of One Struggle KC, Brown Voices/Brown Pulse; and Luciano Joshua Gonzalez-Vega, co-chair of the Latinx Humanist Alliance in discussing ¨Queer Latinidad in familiar and unfamiliar spaces.¨ Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzFF5kncGM
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