This past weekend the leaders participating in the Trans Leadership Initiative (TLI) came together in person for the first time in Toccoa, GA, at Camp GenderBenders, an intergenerational annual summer camp led by and …
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WEBINAR: Connecting Grassroots Leaders with Funding
Some of the most visionary work in the South is often planned at the dinner table and funded out-of-pocket by grassroots leaders. These leaders sacrifice their time money, health and safety to make change in …
Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative at Stewart Detention Center
Our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have created the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) which offers legal support and representation to immigrants in federal detention in direct response to the travel bans …
Self-Defense clinics, by and for transgender folks
By Ivy Gibson-Hill, LGBTQ Rights Toolkit Coordinator Last Friday night I was in Charlotte setting up for a Protect Yourself clinic in a big open room when in walked the most adorable chocolate lab named …
4th Circuit Hearing on May 10th for SB2, North Carolina “Magistrate Recusal” Law
On May 10th, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia will hear arguments in Ansley v. Warren, the federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 2. Passed in 2015, Senate Bill 2 is a North …
The First 100 Days in the LGBTQ South
During the first 100 days of the Trump administration we’ve seen a whirlwind of discriminatory bills crop up at the state level, a number of individuals with anti-LGBTQ records appointed to office, and a sentiment …
What have the first 100 days of Trump been like in the LGBTQ South?
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 …
Statement on passage of HB142
This afternoon HB142 was signed into law in North Carolina by Governor Roy Cooper. We strongly oppose this law, which purports to be a HB2 repeal bill but fails to fully repeal HB2 and instead …
Campaign for Southern Equality Attends NC NAACP Legislative Day of Advocacy
Our Legal Director Crystal Richardson attended the NAACP People’s Moral Legislative Advocacy Day in Raleigh, NC last week. Read about her experience, why the people must hold legislators accountable and how. On March 21, 2017, …
Trans Leadership Initiative: Interview with L.B. Bell
Mississippi native, L.B. Bell, is an advocate for LGBT inclusivity in his community and across the South. He is committed to creating safer spaces in his community by resisting discriminatory, anti-LGBT laws like Mississippi’s House …
