Three main topics:

1. How to Reach Youth
2. Engaging Youth
3. Sustaining Youth

• Look at the historical contents of this fight (March on Washington 1979) the youth were ENGAGED 
  • How did they network? 
  • Meeting at colleges ; using the college communities (frats, sororities)
• Connecting college queer groups together
  • Challenge: keeping lists update
    • Different because ppl graduate and the contacts change
    • Solution? Facebook and social networking = pass down of accounts between contacts
    • Differences between Myspace vs. Facebook demographics
    • • Myspace = working class youth
      • Facebook = usually those that go to college/university
• Using YouTube as a medium
• Texting
• Events: Find groups to send event information via txt
• Offline: tabling, recruit at new activists at BARS (queer youth taking over a bar for a night)
• Peer-to-peer organizing
• Getting straight people to care
• Spoken word events (poetry slams, Youth Speaks) - Speakers Beaureau

• Mandating RA programs: having ppl come into dorm to speak about the issues; taking advantage of existing requirements

• CA statewide student march
  • tying in other communities (color) how to tap into people
  • co-sponsor events

• Working with other school branches

• Getting brands involved
  • Large companies that supported No on 8, equality focused
  • How to get ppl's attention on the internet

• Database that's user-friendly
  • Contacts within zipcodes, local communities  

• Having famous ppl help
  • How to CONTACT them
    • personal relationship

• Speakers Beaureau
  • sending in queer youth + straight ally; had personal conversations
  • one-on-one contact

• Make Marriage Equality relavent to youth

• This type of energy after campaign, a lot of times the energy evaporates:
  • We need to build and use networking, INFORMATION
  • Provide service on on-going basis
  • Need to focus on that going in

• Social marketing: Easy, Fun, and Popular
  • Giving away stuff

• Non-college youth
  • Not being reached to at all
  • community colleges lacking progressive groups organizing
  • How do we reach those youth?
  • Target tattoo salons; go to where they go 

• High schoolers:
  • LGBT Q&A     

• Students for Equality
  • http://www.studentsforequality.com/
  • All wear same shirt on same day nationally, the proceeds go to lamba legal to fight prop 8
  • Engaging students to come up with the design, vote on the tshirt

• Getting the alumni plugged in after graduation
  • Help mentor

• What's the next step?
  • Something they can always do to help out with small tasks