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Beyondmedia Education collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts. Beyondmedia has partnered with over 100 community organizations and schools to produce award-winning documentary films, multimedia installations, websites, spoken word performances and photography exhibits. Beyondmedia specializes in media literacy and production workshops that equip marginalized communities to use these powerful tools to explore their lives, develop their voices, and education the public to their stories. The work is screened across the U.S. and internationally in film festivals and cultural centers, schools and universities, on television and via the Internet.


For more information about Beyondmedia Education, visit www.beyondmedia.org.


Howard Brown is one of the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) healthcare organizations. Through a wide array of health, wellness, social service and research programs, Howard Brown cares for more than 28,000 adult and youth clients annually. The Broadway Youth Center (BYC) is a program of Howard Brown, offering comprehensive services to all youth, 24 and under. The BYC offers youth a place of refuge and a safe environment to socialize with their peers. Services including, case management for youth who need help with housing or job placement, free HIV and STD testing, medial care and counseling are also available at the BYC.


For more information about Howard Brown or the BYC, visit www.howardbrown.org.


About Face Theater creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world. About Face has three programming arms: our award-winning Mainstage Season, our innovative New Works Program, and our nationally recognized Education Programs, including the celebrated About Face Youth Theatre and Educational Outreach Tour that collectively reaches approximately 5,000 students and teachers each year. About Face is one of Chicago's most respected theatres, and is a national force in the development of new work about gender and sexual identity.


For more information about About Face Theater, visit www.aboutfacetheatre.com.

Condom Sense: A Real Life Education is generously funded by Abbott Virology, Chicago Community Trust Young Leaders' Fund, Crossroads Fund, Cultural Outreach Program, Leo S. Guthman Fund, MAC AIDS Fund, McCormick Foundation, Pediatric AIDS Chicago, Polk Bros. Foundation, Rainbow Endowment, Weitz Fund, Woods Fund of Chicago. This project is partially supported by a CityArts Program 2 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.