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The LG&TBQ2 conference will celebrate LGBTQ mathematicians in geometry, topology, and dynamics. We are designing it as a sequel to the conference LG&TBQ organised in 2019 at the University of Michigan by Autumn Kent, Harrison Bray, Diana Davis, Talia Fernos, and Thomas Koberda. The interface of geometry, topology, and dynamics has seen tremendous development in the last decades. One example is Perelman's highly acclaimed solution of the Poincare conjecture. Here a problem in topology, asking whether every simply-connected closed 3-manifold is a sphere, was approached using a geometric flow. In order to understand the singularities of the flow, geometric tools from Alexandrov spaces had to be used. Another example is Wise's and Agol's landmark solution to the virtual fibering conjecture for closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The first tool they use is the ingenious Kahn-Markovic dynamical method to find a cubulation of the manifold via immersed surfaces. The second is a blend of geometric and combinatorial techniques that fall under the heading of special cube complexes, as developed by Haglund, Wise, and many others. Many of these themes are united in what is known as geometric group theory, which features an amazing number of LGBTQ mathematicians. We expect to bring together researchers at all career levels from the LGBTQ community in geometry, topology, and dynamics. We hope that the interaction between researchers in several related but distinct disciplines will allow to approach old problems from new perspectives. We also believe that allowing the members of the LGBTQ community in geometry, topology, and dynamics to connect and to network will benefit the underrepresented minorities within the community.