On Wednesday, April 1, the Campaign for Southern Equality is hosted a special webinar, “Indigenous Wisdom from the Mountains.” These are shifting times. COVID-19 continues to take and impact lives everyday. How are people who …
This Week on The Front Porch: Artist Meet-Up, Panel Discussion, Barbering Tips, and Trans Health!
Last week we had a successful first week of daily webinars through our new initiative, The Front Porch: Virtual Gatherings for the #LGBTQSouth. We hosted a support/networking group, a Queer Artist Meet-Up, a cooking class, …
An Update on COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants – and How You Can Help Out
UPDATE MARCH 27: We are temporarily closing the Emergency Assistance Grant Round. We will be awarding the first 100 grants we received, and we now have a waiting list of 100 that we are fundraising …
Campaign for Southern Equality Announces $25,000 of COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants to Support LGBTQ Southerners
UPDATE MARCH 27: We are temporarily closing the Emergency Assistance Grant Round. We will be awarding the first 100 grants we received, and we now have a waiting list of 100 that we are fundraising …
Introducing “The Front Porch,” Our New Slate of Virtual Programming to Support LGBTQ Southerners During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Today the Campaign for Southern Equality is excited to announce The Front Porch: Virtual Gatherings for the #LGBTQSouth, a new initiative to support LGBTQ Southerners through the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual programming …
Following Advocacy from Community Members, Greenville County Council Effectively Repeals Anti-LGBTQ Resolution
Today, March 11, the Greenville County Council adopted a resolution to sunset all resolutions older than four years – including a resolution from 1996 that defamed members of the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender …
VICTORY: South Carolina Court Strikes Outdated Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law as Unconstitutional
Today, March 11, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina entered a consent decree that declares South Carolina’s 1988 discriminatory anti-LGBTQ curriculum law unconstitutional and bars its enforcement. The court’s decree comes …
Statement on Greenville County Council Efforts to Repeal Antiquated LGBTQ Resolution
UPDATE: We’ll have more soon – but following a first vote tonight where an anti-LGBTQ resolution was effectively repealed, the Greenville County Council took a second vote where the measure – which would sunset all …
As Governor Signs Statewide Law, Virginia Becomes First in the South to Protect Minors from Anti-LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’
This week Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed a statewide law protecting young people from “conversion therapy,” the dangerous and discredited anti-LGBTQ practice of licensed mental health professionals trying to shame LGBTQ youth into changing their …
LGBTQ Advocates and South Carolina Youth File Lawsuit Challenging State’s Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law
Today the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Legal, along with private counsel Womble Bond Dickinson, Brazil & Burke, and law professor Clifford Rosky, filed a federal lawsuit challenging a South Carolina statute that …
