Building Coalition: How we do our work post-election; NCLR Joins LGBTQ Organizations Committed to Advancing Our Freedom Beyond the 2024 Elections; Transgender Day of Remembrance; Imani Rupert-Gordon to Join Panel of LGBTQ Leaders; Save the Date: Giving Tuesday; U.S. v. Skrmetti Supreme Court Oral Argument; Florida Rural Pride; End of Year Virtual Briefing
Join NCLR’s President, Imani Rupert-Gordon and Vice President of Legal, Shannon Minter, to discuss what NCLR work looks like in this new climate. With our strong history working in reproductive, immigration and transgender rights, we feel the attacks of this new administration at every turn. Shannon and Imani will spend 30 minutes sharing our thoughts and strategy for continuing to grow support and protections for the LGBTQ community. Following this conversation, we are excited to partner with...
Our LGBTQIA2S+ community has risen again and again to meet moments that have challenged our rights, our humanity, and our freedom. Today is no different. Ours is a long history of never backing down from a fight for our rights. United in our strength, during the most difficult of times, we have pushed forward and achieved significant progress across the decades. From the early days of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis, to the Stonewall Uprising and HIV/AIDS activism, to achieving...
Florida Families File Brief Against Ban on Healthcare for Transgender Youth;National LGBTQ Women’s Community Survey;NCLR President spoke at University of Chicago;Florida Rural Pride
Morey currently serves as the CEO of Mind Share Partners, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of workplace mental health. He is the Founding Director of the Transgender Strategy Center (TSC), a TGNC led and serving organization that provides capacity building and grantmaking to TGNC communities throughout the US. TSC also provides coaching and training to cisgender-led organizations who are seeking to improve their services and partnerships with TGNC communities. Prior to TSC...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2024 CONTACT: Malkia Hutchinson, National Center for Lesbian Rights | mhutchinson@nclrights.org NCLR to be the New Home of the National LGBTQ Women’s Community Survey Created by the Late Urvashi Vaid “The {LGBTQ} rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a...
urvashi vaid LGBTQ women’s survey at nclr / study team Alyasah Ali Sewell Alyasah Ali Sewell is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at Emory University. Sewell has affiliations in the Department of African American Studies in Emory College and the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Rollins School of Public Health. They direct data equity research programs through the Critical Racism Data Lab and The Race and Policing Project. Dr. Sewell’s...
urvashi vaid LGBTQ women’s survey at nclr / study team Jamie Grant Jaime M. Grant, PhD, co-founder of the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey project, is an Irish American sexpert, grassroots researcher, and activist engaged in LGBTQ+, women’s, and racial justice movements since the late 80s. Having survived sexist violence and anti-lesbian disownment as a youth, she became a go-to resource on gender and sex among her peers as a matter of survival. This led to doctoral studies in...
urvashi vaid LGBTQ women’s survey at nclr / study team Carla Sutherland Dr. Carla Sutherland joined The Vaid Group as a senior consultant in 2016, after initially working with Urvashi at the Ford Foundation. Later, Carla relocated from Nairobi to New York to join Urvashi at the Arcus Foundation, where she developed the foundation’s first international program. Carla then followed Urvashi to Columbia University’s Gender and Sexuality Law Center to collaborate on a global research project...
The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida offers safe spaces, resources, services and events to foster and enhance the well-being and visibility of LGBTQ+ people in North Central Florida. Visibility changes minds. Here in North Central Florida, LGBTQ+ people deserve access to safe spaces where they can not only express themselves, but where they can also be a part of a community. Come join us.
ACLU of Florida
The mission of the ACLU of Florida is to protect, defend, strengthen, and promote the constitutional rights and liberties of all people in Florida. We envision a fair and just Florida, where all people are free, equal under the law, and live with dignity.
QLatinx
QLatinx is a grassroots community-led racial, social, and gender justice organization dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of Orlando’s LGBTQ+ Latinx community. QLatinx is committed to building a supportive infrastructure, addressing inequity, promoting inclusionary QLatinx aims to deepen the political consciousness of LGBTQ+ and Latinx individuals about intersections and complexities of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized forms of oppression. This work includes empowering local LGBTQ+ leadership to become cognizant of gender and racial inequities with the LGBTQ+ community and in relation to cisgender populations.
Community Spring
Community Spring is a grassroots organization dedicated to economic justice. The two pillars of our work are income and power: income to meet people’s needs and power to reshape the systems that keep them down.
Joy Metropolitan Community Church
Joy MCC is the spiritual home to a multi-cultural, inclusive, and diverse community of faith. We are rooted in the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus. We experience a vibrant spirituality that is positive, practical, and progressive. We’ve always been a totally open and affirming church. We welcome the full participation of people of allraces, cultures, ages, abilities, spiritual backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We share a deep sense of community where our diversity is celebrated, not merely tolerated.
Southern Legal Counsel
Southern Legal Counsel, Inc. (SLC) is a Florida statewide not-for-profit public interest law firm that is committed to the ideal of equal justice for all and the attainment of basic human and civil rights. SLC developed its Transgender Rights Initiative to fill a gap in access to justice for Florida’s transgender community, including in areas such as access to legal authenticity, access to safe and affirming school and work environments, access to medically necessary healthcare, and more. SLC’s Trans Rights Initiative protects the rights of Florida’s LGBTQ+ community utilizing federal impact litigation, policy advocacy, and individual representation. SLC has litigated many of the recent federal cases against the state of Florida, and has successfully overturned the Medicaid Ban on gender-affirming care (Dekker v. Weida); permanently enjoined the medical care bans for minors and restrictions for adults created by SB 254 and the Boards of Medicine rules (Doe v. Ladapo); preliminarily enjoined the pronoun ban for transgender teachers in Florida’s public schools; and more.
Orlando Youth Alliance
Since 1990, the Orlando Youth Alliance (OYA) has been providing safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in Central Florida. Their coverage area includes metro Orlando, but also spans out to include the rural counties surrounding Orlando. In 2008, they created a chapter in Lakeland, Florida (Polk County). OYA oversees the highly successful Polk Pride Festival which attracts over 6,000 people annually.
Come Out With Pride
The mission of Come Out With Pride Orlando is to cultivate visibility, authenticity, and acceptance by curating inclusive experiences that celebrate and embody the spirit of queer resilience.
Equality Florida
Equality Florida is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. We’re changing Florida through lobbying, grassroots organizing, education, and coalition building — so that no one suffers harassment or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
