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July 19, 2020

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Report Highlights Unique LGBTQ Landscape and Advocacy in the U.S. South 

1 in 3 LGBTQ people live in the South, facing distinct challenges  

but also utilizing innovative strategies for advocacy, progress, and change 

Today the Movement Advancement Project and Campaign for Southern Equality released Telling a New Southern Story: LGBTQ Resilience, Resistance, and Leadership, a new report examining the experiences and advocacy strategies of LGBTQ people in the U.S. South. The report was released in partnership with the Equality Federation. 

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June 18, 2020

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LGBTQ Southerners Speak Out in Solidarity with Immigrants as U.S. Supreme Court Issues Ruling on DACA
Today the United States Supreme Court ruled in a set of cases challenging the Trump Administration’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), the 2012 policy that allows young people who are undocumented and arrived in the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation. The court’s decision in the cases is here.

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June 15, 2020

Adam Polaski | 610.306.7956 | adam@southernequality.org

In Major Victory, U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Employment Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ Americans 

Historic SCOTUS ruling will guarantee more than 5 million LGBTQ Southerners workplace protections, more vital than ever as millions of Americans face unemployment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic 

Today the United States Supreme Court affirmed in a 6-3 ruling written by Justice Neil Gorsuch that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, also protects people who are fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The court’s decisions in three related cases are available here.

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March 3, 2020

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As Governor Signs Statewide Law, Virginia Becomes First in the South to Protect Minors from Anti-LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’

Passage of law signals growing support and respect for LGBTQ people in Southern states and fuels momentum in North Carolina, Kentucky, and beyond

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