When transgender people are job hunting, they don’t have the luxury of time, said Daye Pope, transgender-rights organizer with Equality Pennsylvania.

Manny Coreano, a youth mentor at GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization, emphasized the importance of circles at a workshop he helped lead Friday on youth programming.            

Naiymah Sanchez of GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization struck up a conversation Thursday with representatives from the Illinois Department of Health. She was in Chicago for Creating Change, the annual LGBT conference hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force.

Equality Pennsylvania executive director Ted Martin plans to spend his time at Creating Change with colleagues from the Equality Federation, a national network of statewide organizations working for LGBT rights.

Zaneta Rago-Craft started a #TalkAboutItTuesdays campaign this year on the Facebook page for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, a group of more than 700. About 100 met Wednesday night at Creating Change, hosted this year in Chicago by The National LGBTQ Task Force.

Evolution is necessary in a sustainable organization, said Le Thomas, president of Philadelphia Black Pride. He met with PGN in Chicago Wednesday evening after attending workshops as part of the racial justice institute at Creating Change, the country’s largest LGBT conference, hosted by The National LGBTQ Task Force.