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How the South’s hate crime laws leave LGBTQ people vulnerable
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 …
CSE at Creating Change
While millions were marching on Saturday, including some CSE team members in Greenville, Asheville and Charlotte, a small cohort of us were at Philadelphia at Creating Change, engaged in lively discussion with folks from across the …
Millions march worldwide for women’s, LGBTQ rights and more
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 …
Taking Charge in the South: An Interview with Daroneshia Duncan
By Britney Nesbit, Community Organizer/Tzedek Social Justice Fellow, Campaign for Southern Equality As a self-identified female illusionist, pageant expert, HIV treatment and prevention specialist, Daroneshia Duncan is a one-of-a-kind southern force to be reckoned with. After …
Train the Trainers
Eighteen grassroots organizers and professionals – the majority of them identifying as trans or gender non-conforming – joined together over the weekend of December 2-4 to workshop their own trainings on trans issues. The gathering …
The Southern Equality Fund: A Year in Review
By Chloe Stuber, Hometown Organizing Project Director 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 …
President Obama’s legacy of LGBTQ progress
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 …
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 …
