Queer Arts Center: LGBTQIA+ Youth + Family Oakland Mayoral Candidates Forum (In-person + Live-streamed)

On behalf of a collaboration of organizations serving the LGBTQIA+ community AND the Queer Arts Center’s BOOM QTBIPOC Youth + Family Group, I would like to invite you to the East Bay Queer Healing Arts Center’s Oakland Mayoral Candidate Forum.  - Kin Folkz (Queer Arts Center • Executive Director)

WHAT: A vital in-person and Instagram live-streamed 60-minute community conversation discussing the issues facing LGBTQIA+ youth and families with Oakland's 2022 Mayoral candidates.  Through this forum, we will:

1. share what LGBTQIA+ youth + families believe are the most important realities impacting our community; and
2. give the mayoral candidates an opportunity to publicly respond with ways that they plan to address those issues if they are elected.

WHEN: Sunday, September 11th from NOON to 1 PM

WHO: Confirmed Candidates thus far:

• Sheng Thao, Oakland City Council District 4
• Allyssa Victory, Labor Union Attorney
• Greg Hodge, Former Oakland School Board Member
• Co-Moderators: Kin Folkz (Queer Arts Center Executive Director) and Youth Moderator

WHERE + TICKETS:

RSVP: Seating for this popular free event will be standing room only - so; we are prioritizing LGBTQIA+ youth and their families for the in-person RSVP ticket seating. 

• IN-PERSON: East Bay Queer Healing Arts Center - 3411 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland CA
• LIVE STREAM Instagram Link (we will not take questions from IG LIVE viewers): https://www.instagram.com/queerartscenter/

CONTACT US TO COLLABORATE

Please contact us at 510-239-7197 (em: info@QueerArtsCenter.com) if your organization would like to collaborate with us to present this LGBTQIA+ youth and family empowering event + MEET OUR OAKLAND MAYORAL CANDIDATES!