Events

This calendar lists Campaign for Southern Equality events and other community events across the South. Please email aaron@southernequality.org if you’d like to share an event.

Upcoming 2017 events

September 15, 16, 17 – NC Trans Pride in Charlotte. CSE is running a name change clinic.
September 16 – Catawba Valley Pride in Hickory, NC.
September 30 – Blue Ridge Pride in Asheville, NC. CSE is attending.
October 1 – Legal Clinic on DACA in Asheville, NC.
October 4 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic at Minnie Jones Clinic in Asheville, NC. Hosted with WNCCHS.
October 13 – Out in the High Country in Vilas, NC.
October 21 – Southern Fried Queer Pride in Durham, NC.
October 25 – Asheville city council forum on LGBTQ equality. CSE is cosponsoring.
October 28 – Pumpkin Carving for LGBTQ Families and Allies in Asheville, NC. CSE is hosting, more details TBA.
November 4 – UpState Pride in Spartanburg, SC. CSE is attending.

Past 2017 events:

January 12 – Screening of CSE’s “Love Won” in New York City
January 12 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Jackson, Mississippi
January 13 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Pass Christian, Mississippi
January 14 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
January 14 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Selma, Alabama
January 16 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Oxford, MS, Mississippi
January 21 – Women’s March on Asheville and marches across the country
January 28 – CSE Pop Up Legal Clinic, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
January 28 – LGBTQ Family Queereoke in Asheville, North Carolina
January 25 – LGBTQ Affordable Care Act Workshop in Asheville, North Carolina (CSE)
January 27 – LGBTQ Affordable Care Act Workshop in Greenville, South Carolina (CSE)
January 28 – LGBTQ Affordable Care Act Workshop in Birmingham Alabama (CSE)
February 4 – Immigration & LGBTQ Legal Clinic in Henderson, North Carolina (CSE)
March 26 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic in Greenville, South Carolina
February 9 – From This Day Forward Screening in Asheville, North Carolina
February 11 – Moral March with the NC NAACP in Raleigh, North Carolina
February 21 – CSE’s Southern Equality Fund hosts a 501(c)3 webinar
February 23 – NC AIDS Action Network Asheville Advocacy Training
February 25 – Faith Forward in Greensboro, NC. (Led by More Light Presbyterians.)
February 26 – Out of Order Film Screening in Asheville, North Carolina
February 27 – First 100 Days Coalition meeting in Asheville, North Carolina
February 28 – MLK/Black History Month Lecture at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC. Bishop Tonyia Rawls will speak at 7 p.m. in the Canon Lounge.
March 9 – Coffee and Conversation with the Campaign for Southern Equality in Asheville, NC.
March 15 – Jasmine Beach-Ferrara keynote address at Blue Ridge Community College as part of their Diversity Week, in Flat Rock, NC.
March 16 – Sanctuary march for immigrant rights in Asheville. Starts at First UCC Church (20 Oak Street) at noon (CSE attending)
March 29 –Transgender Day of Visibility in Asheville, North Carolina
March 30 – First 100 Days Coalition meeting in Asheville (CSE is co-sponsoring)
April 1 – CSE Pop Up Name Change Clinic at North Star Community Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
April 6 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic at TimeOut Youth in Charlotte, North Carolina
April 13 – Stand Against Racism panel, AB-Tech Community College, Asheville, North Carolina; with CSE’s Jasmine Beach-Ferrara on the panel
April 19 – Open House at CSE’s Asheville, NC office, 10 AM – 2 PM
April 22 – Cabaret Con-Sensual in Asheville, North Carolina
April 27 – Dining Out for Life in Asheville with WNCAP in Asheville, North Carolina
April 28 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with Freedom Center for Social Justice – Charlotte, North Carolina
April 29 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with The Knights of Orchids Society – Montgomery, Alabama
April 30 – Rally for Trans Women of Color in Charleston, South Carolina
May 9 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic at Harriet Hancock Center – Columbia, South Carolina
May 18 – “LGBTQ in the South – Telling Your Story with Data,” CSE in partnership with Christy Mallory of the Williams Institute
May 24 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with The Change Project – Nashville, Tennessee
May 25 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with OUT Memphis – Memphis, Tennessee
June 2 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic in Selma, Alabama
June 4 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with We Are Family – Charleston, South Carolina
June 10 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic hosted with Pride Winston-Salem and North Star LGBT Center – Winston-Salem, North Carolina
June 10 – CSE Protect Yourself Clinic in Huntsville, Alabama
June 11 – Equality March for Unity and Pride hosted by Equality Shoals – Florence, Alabama.
June 12 – Pulse remembrance vigil – in Asheville.
June 23 – CSE LGBTQ Legal Clinic/Clinica Legal LGBTQ hosted with Estrella Sanchez – Atlanta, Georgia
June 24 – First Annual Gulf Coast LGBT+ Pride Day in Biloxi, Mississippi
July 8 – Queering Reproductive Justice 101 in Asheville, NC. CSE is attending.
July 11 – Funding for Grassroots Change webinar hosted by the Campaign for Southern Equality.
July 20 – One Bowl Dinner with East Fork Pottery in Asheville. CSE is attending.
August 4 & 5 – LEAF Downtown AVL in Asheville, NC. CSE will be registering voters.
August 10 – Netroots National panel on Fighting for LGBTQ Rights in the South. Britney Nesbit from CSE is on the panel.
August 19 – South Carolina Black Pride in Columbia, SC. CSE is attending.
August 22 – Fighting Back Against HB 142 in Asheville, NC. CSE and ACLU of NC are co-hosting.
August 24 to 27 – Grand Strand Pride in Myrtle Beach, SC.
September 2 – Burke Pride in Morganton, NC.

Past 2016 events:

(January 30) Transgender Employment Clinic in Greenville, South Carolina (CSE).

(January 30) MLK Angel Award Soirée in Atlanta.

(March 18-20) LGBT* in the South conference in Asheville, North Carolina (CSE)

(March 24) HB2 Protest in Asheville, NC (CSE).

(April 21) HB2 Town Hall Discussion in Asheville (CSE).

(April 25) #RepealHB2 Moral Monday in Raleigh, NC.

(May 18) Malaprops “Kill the Bill” event in Asheville, NC (CSE)

(June 3) USDA Rural Summit in Asheville, NC (CSE)..

(June 13) Moral Monday in Sylva, NC.

(June 26) WE DO Campaign film premier in Asheville (CSE).

(July 16) Trans Employment Clinic in Asheville (CSE).

(July 21) Trans-Friendly Job Fair and Resource Bank in Asheville (CSE).

(August 8) At 9:30 a.m. in Asheville, U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. will hear the state’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit against SB2, Ansley v. Warren.

(August 20) Charlotte Pride

(September 3) South Carolina Pride in Columbia.

(September 10) OBX Pride in Nags Head, North Carolina.

(September 14) Film screening at Catawba Valley Pride in Hickory, North Carolina. (CSE is attending.)

(September 17) Greensboro Pride

(September 24) NC Pride in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina.

(September 25) Love Won! screening in Raleigh (CSE).

(September 24-25) SouthEastern Transgender Health Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. (CSE is attending.)

(October 8 or 9) Hattiesburg Pride (CSE is attending.)

The Campaign for Southern Equality offered Name Change and Trans Resource Clinics at these 6 Southern Pride events:

(August 13) Charleston Pride
(August 20) South Carolina Black Pride
(September 10) UpState Pride in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
(September 17) Catawba Valley Pride in Hickory, North Carolina.
(October 1) Blue Ridge Pride in Asheville.
(October 15) Pride Winston-Salem

Resources we offered included voter registration, funding your transition resource guides, name change guides, peer to peer support, and journals by trans people for trans people to support trans mental health.

(October 14) OUT in the High Country (CSE is attending.)

(October 22) Savannah Pride.

(October 29) UNITE/UNID@S in Charlotte, North Carolina

(October 30) Moral March to the polls in Buncombe County, North Carolina

(November 1) Prayerful Procession to Provoke Racial Justice (CSE is attending.) Gather at 4:45 p.m. at Nazareth First Missionary Baptist Church, 146 Pine Street, Asheville, NC 28801. Procession will conclude at the Buncombe County Courthouse.

(November 3-5) Updates in LGBT Law: A CLE video replay in Asheville, North Carolina (CSE is coordinating the CLE.)

(November 6) “Love Won” film screening, Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted by CSE.

(November 20) Transgender Day of Remembrance in Asheville, NC

(November 21) CSE Family Dinner – What’s Next for LGBTQ Rights? in Asheville, North Carolina (Hosted by CSE.)

(December 4) LGBTQ Town Hall Discussion in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

(December 13) Let it Shine: Celebrating the Light of Community in Asheville. (CSE will be participating.)

Through our Rapid Response Initiative, CSE ran a series of free Pop Up Clinics across Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina from December 2016 to February 2017. Led by volunteer attorneys and transgender advocates, these free clinics covered issues such as name changes, health care power of attorney documents for LGBTQ youth, how to obtain a passport for gender marker changes and second parent adoptions. The 2016 schedule was:

(December 10) Pop Up Legal Clinic, Asheville, North Carolina

(December 10) Pop Up Legal Clinic, Greenville, South Carolina

(December 17) Pop Up Legal Clinic,Charleston, South Carolina

(December 18) Pop Up Legal Clinic, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Past 2015 events:

(July 18) Charlotte Black Gay Pride

(August 15) Fayetteville Pride

(August 15 and 16) Charlotte Pride

(August 29) Mississippi Equality Summit

(September 12) Alabama Equality Summit

(September 14) NC Trans Pride in Greensboro

(September 18) Mr. Gay Latino NC