Yesterday, Campus Pride was thrilled to have 50 or so young adults for our day-long Young Adult Leadership Institute preceding Creating Change. The conference, hosted by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, officially started last night with comedian Kate Clinton starting it off right with laughs, wit and humor.

Today, 2,000 people are making their rounds to sessions ranging from social media activism and campus organizing to transgender inclusion in faith communities and sessions on polling and surveying. There's something for everyone here in Minneapolis (and, if you've never come to a Creating Change, we highly recommend you check it out next year).

Of the thousands of conference attendees, a significant portion are youth and young adults. It's so exciting to see so many young faces dot the crowd. Students from across the country have come to network with each other and learn invaluable ways they can begin to make change on their campuses and in their communities.

(Photo right: Bucknell University Assistant Provost Robert Midkiff discusses his campus' safe space programs at Creating Change 2011.)

This morning, Campus Pride staff got the chance to stop in on a couple sessions on campus organizing. In particular, we were pretty impressed with the session presented by Bucknell University on creating safe spaces in Greek life and in athletics programs. Their unique, student-led and -driven safe spaces programming has truly made a difference on their campus and can be a great model for others.

As we headed to our Bucknell University session, however, we were stopped by a small photo exhibit from Jeff Sheng's "Fearless" exhibit. The photos document and chronicle the lives of out, LGBTQ college and high school athletes. Sheng takes an amazing photograph, for sure, but it's the stories of these amazingly brave young people that really pull on our heartstrings. Check out the photos: www.fearlesscampustour.org.

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Are you at Creating Change? Stop by our Campus Pride table on the third floor of the Hilton for great resources and information on how to get involved with Campus Pride or create change in your schools.