LGBTQIA2s+ Allyship in 2025: How to Actively Resist- June 2025

LGBTQIA2s+ Allyship in 2025: How to Actively Resist Homophobia and Transphobia

This virtual session is for open-hearted people who care about LGBTQIA2S+ communities and want to keep growing in their allyship. Maybe you want to be a better supervisor, friend, or family member to someone who’s LGBTQIA2S+. Maybe you're working to ensure your organization, classroom, or community is as inclusive and affirming as possible — and trying to navigate this shifting moment with clarity and commitment.

Right now, LGBTQIA2S+ people — especially trans and nonbinary folks — are facing escalating threats: legal rollbacks, targeted violence, and increasingly hostile rhetoric. Across the broader queer community, we’re also witnessing a deliberate erasure of history, identity, and culture — in schools, media, and public policy. It’s a lot to take in, and it can be hard to know where to start or how to keep showing up.

This session offers a supportive, judgment-free space to build your understanding, strengthen your action, and deepen your commitment. Join seasoned trainers Lukas Soto and Emily Evans for a clear, welcoming introduction to LGBTQIA2S+ allyship. We’ll cover key concepts, common missteps, and practical, everyday ways to stand in solidarity — at work, at home, and in community.

Presenter Bios:
Emily Evans (she/her) is the principal consultant of a boutique gender justice consulting firm. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the Women’s Foundation of Oregon for seven years where she co-authored the Count Her In report and companion policy briefs. Emily has dedicated her career to unearthing and dismantling the many ways that gender injustice harms us all.

Lukas 'louie' Soto (they/them) (Ojibwe/Mapuche) is a shapeshifting two-spirit healer, visionary, death doula, polymath, and all-around baddie. A tried-and-true West Coast baby, they split their time between Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.

Professionally, louie has nearly a decade in consulting on a variety of topics centered around community, justice, and healing. Most recently, their work has been focused on suicide prevention in Black and Indigenous communities, BIPOC mental health, trans housing advocacy, queer data research and policy work, capacity building for Trans & gender-non-conforming (TGNC) leaders, TGNC immigrant and refugee advocacy, and collective community healing.