We’re just two years into giving away a modest percentage of our budget to support grassroots work, and the impact is incredible. The Southern Equality Fund, launched in 2015, is a micro-granting project that invests …
SB2 Lawsuit: New Brief Filed in Appeal to 4th Circuit
Plaintiffs challenging SB2, an anti-LGBTQ law in North Carolina, have filed an appeal brief to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In September 2016, Judge Max Cogburn dismissed the lawsuit on issues related to …
Resources for post-election next steps; Transgender Awareness Week
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “‘Forget it, it’s over, I’ll move to Canada’ is not really a solution. The vision needs to be: How are we going to make sure we protect things that are important …
After the election, what comes next?
The LGBT South is a weekly email newsletter, compiling national, regional, and local news important to LGBT Southerners. Subscribe to get the latest edition to your inbox every Friday morning and keep up with what the …
LGBT orgs. divided on bathroom bill fight; HIV “Patient Zero” misidentified
Subscribe to our mailing list QUOTE OF THE WEEK “It’s about whether queer people can participate in public life. Can we go out in public at all? Can we go to the movie theater? Can we …
OUT in the High Country
“Clothing!,” one participant shouted. “Leg hair!,” shouted another. Makeup. Accessories. Hip-to-shoulder ratio. Voice pitch. Shoes. Facial hair. Ivy and Fletcher recorded each of these responses on flip-chart pages stuck to the wall. They had just …
Resisting HB2: New Resource for Trans Community in NC
HB2 is still on the books in North Carolina, a reality that transgender people must navigate each day. To support her transgender clients, Asheville attorney Meghann Burke is providing personalized letters for folks to …
Supporting Southern Trans Organizers
“If I didn’t have hope knowing that there was a better tomorrow, I would’ve already given up, because my community is so underserved and I am the only resource where I live for Trans women …
HB 2 trial set for November; The hidden LGBT hunger crisis
THE LGBT SOUTH is a weekly email newsletter from the Campaign for Southern Equality that highlights the voices and experiences of LGBT people living in the South. Send feedback and story tips to felicia@southernequality.org. Subscribe to our mailing list Email …
HB 2 arguments to be heard Aug. 1; Miss. Attorney General will not appeal HB 1523
JULY 14, 2016 When Everyone Can Be ‘Queer’, Is Anyone? By Jenna Wortham, New York Times Magazine “The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world’s vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities …
