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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 …  Read More

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, …  Read More

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 …  Read More

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 …  Read More

“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 …  Read 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 …  Read More

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 …  Read More