The National LGBTQ Task Force announced today (Wednesday, Dec. 22) that the 34th annual Creating Change conference that had been set for January 12-16 at the Hilton Riverside hotel in New Orleans has been changed to a completely virtual conference.
New dates for the virtual conference will be announced soon. Kierra Johnson, the Task Force’s executive director, explained that the decision to go virtual was based on the uncertain status of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic “While disappointing, we must put the health and wellness of our attendees, volunteers, staff and other conference supporters first,” Johnson said. “Despite the strict protocols we instituted, given the surge of the Omicron variant cases, we feel the safest and most