By: Andrew Wallace on November 6, 2016
How can you stay up to date on the state of anti-LGBTQ bills around the country? Here’s a helpful resource from the ACLU’s website, which is updated weekly and clarifies the various kinds of anti-LGBTQ bills currently at play, which include religious exemption bills, bills pre-empting local protections and anti-transgender bills. This article from the Huffington Post offers a good overview and a recent news article from our friends in South Carolina highlights the challenges state based advocates and organizers are facing during the “post marriage equality” chapter of LGBTQ rights work.
We join in mourning the loss of Urvashi Vaid. Her legacy will live on in the many relationships she nurtured, the organizations she led and supported, and the vision for justice she embodied. We honor her life and work as an activist, funder, writer, and mentor. Rest in power.
"Urvashi Vaid was a leader, a warrior, and a force to be reckoned with," said @TheTaskForce executive director Kierra Johnson. https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/14/legendary-activist-urvashi-vaid-dies-63?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news
As lawmakers attack trans youth across the country, how do we understand this as part of decades-long right-wing political strategies? And how do we better support movements to fight back?
Join us at Funding Forward for this conversation: https://lgbtfunders.org/funding-forward-2022/
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