Eager to advance hard-won social and political gains and repel ongoing attacks from social conservatives, Houston gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities will circle the wagons at the George R. Brown Convention Center Saturday to devise a plan of action for the 21st century. Part attack, part defense, the so-called Futures Conference will be the first community-wide strategy session since 1978's Town Meeting I, which gave birth to an array of counseling, medical, business and social organizations. Formally known as The Conference of the Futures of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders, Intersexed, Questioning and Allied Residents of the Greater Houston Metropolitan...