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Southern Comfort Conference
Status
Active
Genre
Transgender community
Frequency
Annual
Location(s)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Country
United States
Inaugurated
1991 (1991)
Most recent
2019
Website
http://sccfla.org/
The Southern Comfort Conference is a major[1] transgender conference that has taken place annually since 1991.[2] It features seminars, events, and speeches by prominent people in the LGBT community,[3] numerous vendors catering to transgender and transsexual people, and more. The event has become famous[4] and today is known as the largest[3] transgender conference in the United States.[5] The event brings together transgender people, researchers, educators, therapists, doctors, and LGBT organizations fand offers scholarships to some attendees.[6]
The conference provided the title for[7] and is featured heavily in the 2001 documentary Southern Comfort, about the life and death of Robert Eads, whose goal in 1998 was to live long enough to attend the conference.[8] Eads succeeded, and his speech at the conference is featured in the documentary.[9] In honor of the memory of Eads, the conference offers health exams through the annual "Robert Eads Health Project"[6][10] in collaboration with the Trans Health Initiative at the Feminist Women's Health Center.[11]
The conference has built a reputation as a safe place for LGBT people with a familial atmosphere,[6] and aims at inclusiveness.[12][13] It attracts people from all over the United States, offering the opportunity for social and other interaction.[14]
From the conference's founding in 1991 until 2014, the conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia. At the conclusion of the 2014 Southern Comfort Conference, the board of directors announced that SCC 2015-2017 would be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
With support from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitor Bureau, the 2017 conference was to be held from September 14–17 at The Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale[15][16] However it was cancelled because of Hurricane Irma.[17] The 2018 and 2019 conferences returned to the Riverside. The conference was cancelled in 2020 an 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns but the conference website states it looks to bring the conference back in the future.[18]
^Erhardt, Virginia (2007). Head over heels: wives who stay with cross-dressers and transsexuals. Haworth Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7890-3094-8.
^Eleanor J. Brader, "Trans Health Care Reform: It's About Life and Death." Conducive August/September 2009.
^ abJarvie, Jenny (2007-09-16). "The Nation; Transitioning into new jobs, genders; At the first transgender career expo, men and women meet companies that accept them for who they are becoming". Los Angeles Times. p. A.18. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
^"A Transition in Southern Comfort: Famous Transgender Conference Returns to Broward". 2016.
^Federation of Film Societies (2001). Film ... the magazine of the Federation of Film Societies. British Federation of Film Societies. p. 27.
^ abcDyana Bagby, "'It's like my world': Southern Comfort Conference provides safe space for trans people." Southern Voice 2 October 2009.
^Guthrie, Marisa (2002-04-12). "Television; Regular folks; 'Southern Comfort' follows a transsexual couple battling cancer and prejudice". Boston Herald. p. S.32.
^Bernard, Sheila Curran (2007). Documentary storytelling: making stronger and more dramatic nonfiction films. Focal Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-240-80875-8.
^Zad, Martie (2002-04-14). "Memorable Film Clips of History". The Washington Post.
^"Robert Eads Trans Health Project." Southern Comfort Conference. Accessed 02 May 2010.
^"Robert Eads Health Project Fair". Feminist Women's Health Center of Atlanta. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
^Boyd, Helen (2003). My husband Betty: love, sex, and life with a crossdresser. Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-56025-515-4.
^Watts, Trent (2008). White masculinity in the recent South. LSU Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8071-3314-9.
^O'Keefe, Tracie; Katrina Fox (2008). Trans people in love. Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7890-3572-1.
^"Home". Southern Comfort Transgender Conference.
^"transgender". www.sunny.org.
^"SCTC 2017 Cancelled due to hurricane Irma". 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
^"SOUTHERN COMFORT TRANSGENDER CONFERENCE". 2021.
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