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...
Urvashi Vaid LGBTQ Women’s Survey at NCLR Led by author, attorney, visionary, and activist Urvashi Vaid, the National LGBTQ Women’s Community Survey is the pinnacle data set for seeing and understanding the lives and needs of queer women. In 2015, Urvashi developed Justice Work, a non-profit think tank and action lab designed to incubate creative social justice projects that would evolve and spin-off either as stand-alone entities or as programs within larger national organizations. In...
Overview: Over the past four years, attacks on hard-won LGBTQ rights have increased across the United States. From medical care, to education, to identity documents, there are few areas that have been untouched by legislative bans on constitutionally protected activity, especially for the transgender community. More than half of the states now ban healthcare and sports participation for transgender youth. The scale of these attacks has ensured that only some of the bans get challenged in court...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2024 CONTACT Malkia Hutchinson, National Center for Lesbian Rights | 202-734-3548 | mhutchinson@nclrights.org Tenth Circuit Upholds Colorado Law Protecting Youth from Conversion Therapy Today, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Colorado’s law prohibiting conversion therapy for minors is valid...
The Brief NCLR Continues to Fight in Oklahoma Parental Rights Case NCLR filed our opening briefing on Monday on behalf of our client fighting to regain her parental rights in Oklahoma. Our client, a lesbian non-biological parent, lost custody of her child when a trial court refused to honor the couple’s marriage and held that the child’s sperm donor, rather than the birth mother’s spouse, was the child’s lawful second parent. NCLR is appealing the decision and requesting that the Supreme...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2024 CONTACT Malkia Hutchinson, National Center for Lesbian Rights | mhutchinson@nclrights.org Ninth Circuit Affirms Trial Court Decision Blocking Enforcement of Arizona’s Law Banning Transgender Students from Sports In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed a trial court decision blocking...
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.
