We are excited to announce that Vica Papp will be returning to Houston to speak at the 2019 Houston Transgender Unity Banquet!
Vica is a forensic speech scientist specializing in mining speaker characteristics and biometrics from large data bases with a background in forensic text linguistics, as well as in theoretical and applied linguistics and is currently a Forensic Speech Science Lecturer at University of Canterbury New Zealand.
Vica spent a lot of time working with the Houston transgender community while pursuing a PHD at Rice.
While in Houston the week following the banquet Vica will be offering group and individual voice classes for those one wishing to masculinize or feminize their voice and speech. The classes will be September 22 – Sept 27.
If you are interested in the voice training sessions, click here to send us an email message and we will notify you as soon as the schedules are finalized.
For more information about the Unity Banquet visit Unitybanquet.com.
For 2019 Unity Banquet tickets click here.
2019 Houston Transgender Unity Banquet speakers are made possible in part by a grant from the John Stephen Kellett Foundation.
State Representative Jon Rosenthal to open the 2019 Houston Transgender Unity Banquet!
The Houston Transgender Unity Committee (HTUC) is pleased to announce that District 135 State Representative Jon Rosenthal will deliver opening remarks for this year’s banquet.
Jon is a strong ally to the LGBTQ+ community and is a champion for improving public education in Texas. After completing a very successful freshman year in the Texas Legislature where his engineering background allowed him to provide a science and fact based perspective discussions about legislation Jon was named Freshman of the Year by the Legislative Study Group (LSG) Caucus.
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Summer of 69 is this years theme for Pride Houston. Houston Transgender Unity Committee will walk in Pride and Transgender Foundation of America will display the Transgender Archives in the History Tent during the festival. May we celebrate all the victories and keep moving forward!
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Volunteer with HTUC at the 2017 Houston Pride Festival and Parade. We need passionate volunteers to help run the HTUC booth at this years pride booth and parade. Help HTUC continue our work by signing up members and taking about the events we do. March with us in the parade and show your support for equality. Can you help?
Festival Booth:
Saturday, June 24, 2017
– 11:00am – 2:00pm
– 1:30pm – 4:30pm
– 4:00pm – 6:00pm
– 5:30pm – 7:30pm
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Houston Pride Parade:
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