Up until last week, as the Supportive Schools Coordinator for the Campaign for Southern Equality, I was driving around to schools doing faculty training, meeting with administrators, and visiting student groups. Young people are coming …
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Campaign for Southern Equality: Here’s How We Are Responding to COVID-19
Friends – Every single day that our team at the Campaign for Southern Equality shows up at work – now remotely – we are made hopeful by your support for us. We’re made hopeful because …
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VICTORY: South Carolina Court Strikes Outdated Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law as Unconstitutional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UPDATE: We’ll have more soon – but following a first vote tonight where an anti-LGBTQ resolution was effectively repealed, the Greenville County Council took a second vote where the measure – which would sunset all …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 …
New Report Details Major Disparities in Health and Healthcare for LGBTQ People in South Carolina
As the nation’s attention turns to South Carolina days before its presidential primary, new research about LGBTQ health in the state provides insights into health disparities and urgent needs around mental health and access to …
VIDEO: LGBTQ Southerners Send Message of Love and Support for Trans Youth in South Carolina
In a new video produced by the Campaign for Southern Equality, several LGBTQ folks from across the South send messages of love and support to young transgender people living in South Carolina. Watch the video: …
In Historic Breakthrough for the South, Virginia House Passes Comprehensive Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People Statewide
Today the House of Delegates in Virginia voted to pass the Virginia Values Act (HB1663 and SB868), which would establish comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people across the state. The legislation also passed a third …
