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
The Latest from CSE
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
SB2 Lawsuit: New Brief Filed in Appeal to 4th Circuit
Plaintiffs challenging SB2, an anti-LGBTQ law in North Carolina, have filed an appeal brief to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In September 2016, Judge Max Cogburn dismissed the lawsuit on issues related to … Read More
Dr. Abbott answers questions about Transgender health care
Since 2007, Western North Carolina Community Health Services (WNCCHS) has offered high quality, culturally competent transgender health services and now serves more than 200 gender nonconforming patients, including adults and adolescents in their Transgender Health … Read More
Resources for post-election next steps; Transgender Awareness Week
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “‘Forget it, it’s over, I’ll move to Canada’ is not really a solution. The vision needs to be: How are we going to make sure we protect things that are important … Read More
