In the first two months of 2023, there are already over 300 bills targeting LGBTQ+ rights. In this workshop, participants will learn more about the history of queer and trans people - both their joy and their continued resistance in the face of targeted violence, from the Stonewall Riots to the Stonewall Protests. Participants have interactive discussions around the differences between gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality, and the roots of transphobic oppression.

Tools and strategies for intervening as an upstander and de-escalating conflict are explored by participants, in order to disrupt real life scenarios of homophobic and transphobic violence.

Participants learn:

-LGBTQ+ History

-Root causes of transphobia

-Active bystander intervention strategies

-Aftercare