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Join your fellow MTA members at our first annual LGBTQ+ Conference, on Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14, 2026, at the Boston Marriott Burlington. Our inaugural theme is “Celebrating All with Pride.” In March, our LGBTQ+ Summit brought members together to talk honestly about workplace safety, intersectionality, and how this moment is affecting our schools. Queer and trans educators were in that room, and so were the allies who stand alongside them. All of you told us what you needed, and this is what we built with it.

Friday evening is a celebration: a Welcome Reception with exhibitors, dinner, and an evening of drag and dancing with special guest Mz. Clementine Kulayd. Saturday brings ten workshops across two sessions. Topics include: supporting transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students; Lobbying training from NEA's Government Relations team on the attacks moving through Congress; Our Environmental Health and Safety Committee turning what members said in March into bargaining and organizing strategy; Educators' rights under shifting policy; Starting a GSA; What LGBTQ+ students say they want from the adults in their schools. Four of the workshops run twice, so a hard choice in the morning becomes a second chance after lunch.

The theme says all. We mean it. Whoever you are, we hope you will join us.

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