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 marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace, to the fight for transgender rights, and beyond, we march on.

For every member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and for those who support us: We’ve got this. We’ve got us. No matter who you are, where you live, or the outcome of yesterday’s election, today we are an LGBTQIA2S+ community united. Together, across races, places, genders, and abilities, we have shown up for each other by organizing, mobilizing, and casting our ballots for the freedom to be ourselves. Our work continues.

Election outcomes at national, state, and local levels will impact our health, our safety, and our rights as LGBTQIA2S+ people and families. Despite anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts to divide our communities, and particularly severe attacks against transgender people and LGBTQIA2S+ youth, we have succeeded in moving a few steps closer toward equity and justice for our community. In particular, we celebrate the election of the first openly transgender person to U.S. Congress, Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), as well as out lawmakers U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson (Texas), and State Rep. Wick Thomas (Mo.), and cementing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, Colorado, and Hawaii.

Across the country, LGBTQIA2S+ organizations and advocates engaged and educated voters, made calls, sent texts, and knocked on doors to ensure every voter had the information necessary to cast a ballot. Every single conversation reflected our commitment to vote for our families, our freedoms, and our futures.

We know that so much more work lies ahead of us. Yet as an LGBTQIA2S+ movement, we will continue to work towards what we always have: a country where all LGBTQIA2S+ people are safe, seen, and accepted for who we truly are, without exception. We are here together, and we will move forward. We’ve got this. We’ve got us.

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Advocates for Trans Equality

AIDS United

Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum
Basic Rights Oregon

Center for HIV Law and Policy

CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers

Crawfordsville Pride – Crawfordsville, IN

Equality Arizona

Equality California

Equality Delaware

Equality Federation

Equality Florida

Equality Illinois

Equality Michigan

Equality New Mexico

Equality Virginia

Fair Wisconsin

Fairness Campaign

Fairness West Virginia

Family Equality

Friends of Dorothy of Indiana

Gender Justice

Georgia Equality

GLAAD

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)

Greenwood Indiana Pride

Human Rights Campaign

Lambda Legal

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund

LGBTQ+ Victory Institute

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

MassEquality

Movement Advancement Project

Naper Pride Inc

National Center for Lesbian Rights

National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

NBJC

North Dakota Human Rights Coalition

One Colorado

One Iowa

OutFront Minnesota

OutNebraska

PFLAG National

PFLAG Akron

PFLAG Athens, TN

PFLAG Blairsville

PFLAG Bowie

PFLAG Cape Cod

PFLAG Cape Girardeau

PFLAG Carson Region

PFLAG Charlotte

PFLAG Clayton-Concord

PFLAG Corydon – Leavenworth

PFLAG Danville – San Ramon Valley

PFLAG Danville / Central Susquehanna Valley

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PFLAG Franklin

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PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities

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PFLAG of Door County

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Pride Lafayette

Pride Richland County (Illinois)

The Prideful Path Project

Q Center PDX

Queer Vox

Queering The Binary Foundation

SAGE

Silver State Equality

Tennessee Equality Project

The Trevor Project

Transformation Project

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

TransLafayette

TransOhio