Gavin Grimm is an American hero. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court sent Gavin Grimm’s case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A senior at Gloucester High School in Virginia, Gavin is a plaintiff in a ACLU federal lawsuit fighting …
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Statement on anti-Transgender action by Trump administration
“The Campaign for Southern Equality condemns the action taken by the Department of Justice and Department of Education this evening seeking to undermine protections for transgender students. No child should be denied access to basic …
Protecting LGBTQ youth in the age of Trump
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 …
Hearing at Fourth Circuit set for SB2 lawsuit, North Carolina’s “Magistrate Recusal” Law
Plaintiffs challenging Senate Bill 2 (SB2), an anti-LGBTQ law in North Carolina, have filed their plaintiff’s reply brief to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Oral arguments before the Fourth Circuit are now scheduled …
Running Legal Clinics across Mississippi for LGBTQ folks
From January 12-16, the Campaign for Southern Equality ran a series of free Community Law Workshops across Mississippi. The legal workshops covered everything from name and gender marker changes for trans folks to health care …
Southern Equality Fund at Creating Change 2017
By: Chloe Stuber, Hometown Organizing Project Director While millions were marching on Saturday, we were in Philadelphia at Creating Change, engaged in lively discussion with folks from across the country about radical redistribution of resources …
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 …
Campaign for Southern Equality Offering Free Legal Clinics to Protect LGBTQ Rights across Mississippi
The Campaign for Southern Equality will offer a series of legal workshops on LGBTQ rights starting on January 12th in Jackson and continuing across Mississippi. These clinics are free and open to the public. …
A photo recap of the #LGBTsouth in 2016
It’s been quite a year in the #LGBTSouth. This photo recap highlights the best of 2016. In January, the Gender Benders and Campaign for Southern Equality held the first-ever trans employment clinic in Greenville, South …
Plaintiffs File HB 1523 Brief with Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Plaintiffs in Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant (CSE III) filed their brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in their legal challenge to Mississippi’s HB 1523, an extreme …
