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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 …
LGBT orgs. divided on bathroom bill fight; HIV “Patient Zero” misidentified
Subscribe to our mailing list QUOTE OF THE WEEK “It’s about whether queer people can participate in public life. Can we go out in public at all? Can we go to the movie theater? Can we …
HB 2 trial set for November; The hidden LGBT hunger crisis
THE LGBT SOUTH is a weekly email newsletter from the Campaign for Southern Equality that highlights the voices and experiences of LGBT people living in the South. Send feedback and story tips to felicia@southernequality.org. Subscribe to our mailing list Email …
HB 2 arguments to be heard Aug. 1; Miss. Attorney General will not appeal HB 1523
JULY 14, 2016 When Everyone Can Be ‘Queer’, Is Anyone? By Jenna Wortham, New York Times Magazine “The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world’s vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities …
Wins and losses on state and local protections
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New birth certificates for trans Texans, attacks on healthcare access
TOP STORIES JANUARY 14, 2015 NATIONAL This is the problem facing LGBT equality, Moore or Less By Jonathan Capehart, The Washington Post “Roy Moore is the Hiroo Onoda of the U.S. culture wars.” “The latter is the Japanese …
New wave of anti-LGBT bills engulfs the South as 2016 begins
TOP STORIES JANUARY 7, 2016 NATIONAL Can States Protect LGBT Rights Without Compromising Religious Freedom? By Emma Green, The Atlantic “The irony of gay marriage becoming legal in the United States is that it has made …
First out elected was not Harvey Milk, Southern judges defy SCOTUS
THE LGBT SOUTH is a weekly email newsletter from the Campaign for Southern Equality that highlights the voices and experiences of LGBT people living in the South. Send feedback and story tips to felicia@southernequality.org. TOP STORIES DECEMBER 17, 2015 …
$20 million devoted to transgender causes, NC magistrate law challenged
TOP STORIES DECEMBER 10, 2015 NATIONAL Marco Rubio pledges to reverse Obama’s LGBT executive order By Chris Johnson, The Washington Post“Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has pledged to reverse President Obama’s executive order barring …