This Saturday, February 16 at 4pm, LGBTQ advocates and allies will gather on the steps of the State Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama to discuss the epidemic of violence that trans and nonbinary Southerners experience … Read More
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Apply by Friday for Financial Support to Attend AIDSWatch!
This month the Campaign for Southern Equality is proud to team up with the North Carolina AIDS Action Network to help advocates from North Carolina attend AIDSWatch, the largest constituent-based HIV & AIDS advocacy event … Read More
Why Voter Registration Must Be A Year-Round Endeavor
Many people across the country rightly celebrated the results of the November 2018 midterm elections – many progressive candidates with bold visions for the future won their races, including many supporters of LGBTQ equality. There … Read More
A Transgender Researcher Shares How His Experience Transitioning Drives His Work to Improve LGBTQ Health Experiences
In the summer of 2018, Dr. Austin H. Johnson and team members from the Campaign for Southern Equality, including our Community Health Programs Director Ivy Gibson-Hill, traveled across the South to tackle the question of … Read More
Watch: Webinar Diving Into Our Research on Trans Southerners’ Experiences with Healthcare
Need. Anxiety. Lacking. Uneducated. Alone. These are just a few of the words that dozens of folks shared last week when we asked them what came to mind when they thought about healthcare for trans … Read More
Arkansas Supreme Court Blocks Fayetteville from Protecting LGBTQ People from Discrimination
This week the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections in Fayetteville, an outlier ruling from a long line of court decisions in favor of LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination protections. The Arkansas Supreme Court found unanimously … Read More
Queer and Trans Healthcare in the South: 3 Key Findings from the LGBTQ Institute’s Southern Survey
Note: This post was written by Dorian Rhea Debussy, Ph.D., (they/them), the Assistant Director for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Kenyon College. They are a recent graduate from the Dept. of Political … Read More
Supreme Court Denies Review in Anti-Transgender Military Ban Cases But Temporarily Lifts Injunctions
Today, January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order denying review in Karnoski v. Trump and Doe v. Trump, two legal cases that challenged the constitutionality of President Trump’s proposed policy from 2017 barring open … Read More
