As early voting rates in Buncombe County continue to outpace the rest of the state, Western North Carolina Community Health Services (WNCCHS) and the Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) have launched a new non-partisan effort …
Plaintiffs file appeal of SB2 ruling to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Plaintiffs challenging SB2, an anti-LGBT law in North Carolina, have immediately filed an appeal to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a federal district court ruling dismissing their case. Judge Max …
Federal Court Hearing Set for SB2, North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT “Magistrate Recusal” Law
On August 8 at 9:30 a.m. in Asheville, U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. will hold a hearing in Ansley v. Warren, the federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 2. Passed in 2015, Senate …
Trans Employment Clinic and Job Fair to Take Place in Asheville
The Campaign for Southern Equality has organized the first-ever Trans Employment Clinic and Job Fair in Asheville. These joint events are designed to connect the Transgender community in WNC with support related to job-readiness and …
Funding the Future of Queer Youth in NC
By Chloe Stuber, Hometown Organizing Project Director, Campaign for Southern Equality The Campaign for Southern Equality is thrilled to announce the most recent round of grantees of the Southern Equality Fund. Last month, CSE awarded $3,350 to …
Mississippi HB 1523 – The Law to Evade Obergefell
By Jordan Terry It has been almost a year since marriage equality became the law of the land, ensuring that same-sex couples could marry in every state. But in the year since the historic Obergefell …
Nation’s most sweeping anti-LGBT law headed to Federal Court in Mississippi week of June 20th
The nation’s most sweeping anti-LGBT law, HB 1523, is headed to federal court in Jackson, Mississippi this week for a series of hearings before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves. Passed this spring, HB 1523 …
Funding for Orlando
The horrific attack that took place in Orlando on Latin Night at Pulse — when 49 individuals, primarily LGBTQ Latinx, were killed — weighs heavily on our hearts. We are grieving, we are angry. And we are also called to …
New Complaint Challenges Mississippi’s Anti-LGBT Law HB 1523, Seeking Preliminary Injunction
On Monday, a motion for preliminary injunction was filed challenging the constitutionality of HB 1523, a sweeping anti-LGBT Mississippi law, under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This followed the filing on Friday evening …
Orlando
Safe harbor. Sanctuary. A place where you can breathe more easily, where you can just be. That’s what I felt the first time I went to a gay club and what I’ve felt every time …
