Results - Campaign for Southern Equality

Our push for full equality for LGBT individuals and families in the South is moving full speed ahead. With your support, 2013 has been a year of momentum – and results. We’ve mobilized people all across the South – from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi to the Piedmont of North Carolina – to stand up and tell our country a new story about the urgent need for full LGBT equality in all spheres of life – employment, housing, health care, family rights and marriage.

The country is listening. In November, Time Magazine listed North Carolina as a marriage equality battleground state because of the WE DO Campaign. Putting the South on the map as winnable territory was one of our goals when we started our work two years ago. We will continue the fight against unjust and immoral laws like Amendment One.

Now, we need your help. Until midnight Tuesday, we’re competing in a national fundraising contest. If we finish strong, we can win up to $15,000 for our work in 2014. Can you make your year-end, tax-deductible gift to CSE right now?

We run a lean, nimble campaign and promise to stretch every dollar we raise to the max. Below are a few of our 2013 initiatives, all of them fueled by your support:

– During July, CSE offered FREE legal clinics in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi so that LGBT individuals could complete an Advanced Mississippi Health-Care Directive with the assistance of an attorney. In total our legal clinics this year resulted in 239 LGBT individuals’ completing Health Care Power of Attorney Forms (for free!) so that their medical choices will be respected in emergency situations.

(Bob and Jon create the first public record of a legally-married LGBT couple in Rowan County,N.C.by recording their California marriage license.)

– We ran a total of 24 WE DO actions across 7 Southern states in 2013! LGBT couples stood in their hometowns in places like Gulfport, MS, Brevard, N.C. and Morristown, TN, to say: we are fully human and fully equal.

– Through the WE DO Campaign, married LGBT couples recorded their out-of-state marriage licenses in 14 counties across N.C. (from Onslow in the East to Haywood in the West); creating public records highlights the reality that married LGBT couples live all across the state, yet are treated as legal strangers.

– On October 15th, we broke through with the WE DO Campaign: for the first time anywhere in the South LGBT couples had their marriage license applications accepted when Buncombe County Register of Deeds Drew Reisinger took this courageous step.

Love will win is something we say a lot. I truly believe these words. But I also know that winning rights in the South won’t come easily, and will require that we keep showing up and standing up, again and again. It’s going to take more than online petitions and Facebook “likes” for us to get there.

So I’m asking you, can you make a tax-deductible gift today to support us as we campaign for LGBT rights in the South? Your gift will go directly to WE DO Campaign actions, free legal clinics and growing our work in 2014. And your gift can help us win up to $15,000 to have even more impact.

Thanks for your commitment to full LGBT equality in the South and your belief in what’s possible when people stand up for love and equality.

Love will win,
Jasmine

Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Executive Director, Campaign for Southern Equality

p.s. Donate in the next 36 hours and you can receive one of our cool new baseball style T-shirts with the CSE logo on the front and Love Will Win on the back: http://bit.ly/IAn2bU

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