Today the Campaign for Southern Equality released a new three-pronged strategy for supporting LGBTQ Southerners in a post-Dobbs political and legal environment. The refreshed framework elevates a sobering paradox: That even as we see unprecedented …
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To Protect LGBTQ Southerners, Who Remain Most Vulnerable to Legislative Rollbacks, U.S. Senate Must Pass ‘Respect for Marriage Act’
Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the ‘Respect for Marriage Act,’ a major step toward protecting the freedom to marry from the threat of far-right political forces seeking to overturn U.S. …
Tell Us You’re Coming – LGBTQ Family Law: Know Your Rights, Protect Your Rights
We know it’s a challenging time to be an LGBTQ person in the South – following the onslaught of anti-LGBTQ bills this legislative session in recent memory for LGBTQ people and the overturning of Roe …
Tell Congress: Codify Landmark Supreme Court Decisions and Protect LGBTQ+ Southerners
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion is already rippling across our country and the lives of millions of people in harmful ways. As abortion bans go into effect across the …
Three Things That Have Kept Me Going
This Pride Month, the Campaign for Southern Equality made a commitment to showing up with our full selves – Mind, Body, and Spirit. This commitment is more critical than ever in the face of the …
Facing a Far-Right Political Movement This Give OUT Day
In recent years we have been reminded again and again that the fight for equality for marginalized people never stops. We have seen clear evidence of this as the country has engaged in a reckoning …
Responding to the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Restricting Abortion Access
Our hearts are heavy right now as we react to the Dobbs ruling, which overturns Roe v. Wade and the right to choose and will make abortion access difficult or impossible in much of the South. Your right to …
Mind, Body, Spirit – How We Strategize for LGBTQ+ Equality in the South
All this month we’re reflecting on the ways that our team at the Campaign for Southern Equality is committed to showing up for the LGBTQ+ community with our full selves – mind, body, and spirit. …
New Video Chronicling Charleston Queer Youth Prom Centers Joy and Celebration in the Face of Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination
Today the SC United for Justice & Equality coalition released a new video featuring the Charleston Queer Youth Prom, an event hosted by coalition partner We Are Family on April 30. The video was produced …
Inside the “Vanguard Social: Visions of Southern Queer Resistance” Exhibit, from Southern Equality Studios
From May 27 through June 12, 2022, Southern Equality Studios (SES) and the Arts Council of Fayetteville | Cumberland County will present a new art exhibit, Vanguard Social: Visions of Southern Queer Resistance, featuring the work …
