MBLGTACC is an annual conference held to connect, educate, and empower LGBTQIA+ college students, faculty, and staff around the Midwest and beyond. It has attracted advocates and thought leaders including Angela Davis, Robyn Ochs, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Kate Bornstein, Faisal Alam, and LZ Granderson; and entertainers and artists including RuPaul, Todrick Hall, Margaret Cho, J Mase III, Chely Wri
ght, and Loren Cameron. To date, MBLGTACC is the largest and oldest, continuously-held LGBTQIA+ college conference in the nation. MBLGTACC’s story is one of true, grassroots student activism. Then named the Midwest Bisexual Le***an Gay College Conference (MBLGCC), MBLGTACC was first imagined at another conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991. Born out of the largely-coastal social movements of the 1990s, organizers saw a need to give voice to q***r students in the Midwest. That group of young leaders and changemakers came together a year later to lay down the organizing principles and logistical roadmap for the first annual MBLGCC. Then, in February 1993, the first annual MBLGCC (now MBLGTACC) was held at Iowa State University, a collaborative effort between students at Iowa State and Drake University. Learn more about the history of MBLGTACC: http://sgdinstitute.org/mblgtacc
