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The Latest from CSE
The Southern Equality Fund: A Year in Review
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 2015, is a micro-granting project that invests … Read More
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. … Read More
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 … Read More
Trans Leadership Initiative: Interview with Fletcher Page
CSE Community Organizer Britney Nesbit interviewed Fletcher Page, Assistant Director of the Gender Benders (GBs) and member of CSE’s Trans Leadership Initiative. Fletcher Page is a 24-year-old Trans man living in Greenville, South Carolina where he was born … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
LGBT South news for the week of December 1st, 2016
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Caring for transgender patients has a lot of societal, political baggage that comes with it, but if we can just think of trans care as caring for any other patient that … Read More
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 … Read More
Attorney Diane Walton answers questions about LGBT legal protections
Diane Walton is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she received a B.A. in Political Science, and the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she received a JD. Diane … Read More
