The 25th annual Creating Change Conference was held at the Atlanta Hilton Jan 23-Jan 27, bringing more than 3,000 LGBT activists and allies together to participate in hundreds of workshops, seminars, discussions, plenaries and plenty of parties as ways to learn from one another to bring new ideas about organizing back to their communities. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, host of the largest LGBT conference in the nation, also honored gay journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas with the Creating Change Award; Bishop Gene Robinson with the Susan J. Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement; Daniel Hernandez, the gay intern of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and who is credited with saving her life with the Youth Leadership Award; and its Leather Leadership Award to Race Bannon. (Photos by Dyana Bagby)

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