📢 Most #HIV crime prosecutions unlikely to transmit HIV. It mostly affects #Black people. 6 states require offenders to register as #sexoffenders . Let’s #repeal #discriminatory laws nationwide! Williams Institute Equality Ohio #EndHIVCriminalization shorturl.at/mxRVW 📚

In recognition of #HIVISNOTACRIME Awareness Day, FCAA congratulates these top 5 HIV-related philanthropic funders of decriminalization work @gileadsciences @viivhc The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation AIDS United Equality California

Following the death of Nex Benedict, more than 350 organizations today are calling for removal of Superintendent Ryan Walters and an investigation into the Oklahoma DOE.

Read here: bit.ly/JusticeForNex

Join us tomorrow! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Equality Federation
Mississippi Center for Justice
Freedom Oklahoma
ACLU
#TennesseeHIVModernizationCoalition
S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal

CHLP and Equality Federation present a webinar series on the DOJ findings that Tennessee’s enforcement of the aggravated prostitution statute against PLHIV violates the ADA. Join us for Part 2 on HIV is Not a Crime Day, Tuesday, Feb 27 at 6p CT/7pm ET. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Nex Benedict should still be alive. Nex deserved not only a safe and nurturing environment to learn, but an environment that actively disrupted anti-2STGNC+ rhetoric and worked to ensure that vulnerable students were safe. Read more, here: freedomoklahoma.org/news/nex-bened…

A new white paper from A Better Balance, The_LSSC, and Equality Federation traces the local roots of LGBTQ+ equality, highlights types of abusive preemption that target local authority to protect LGBTQ+ equality – and shares tactics to resist: supportdemocracy.org/lgbtqpaper #PreemptingProgress

Despite significant threats to #LGBTQ + equality sparked by abusive preemption, there are opportunities to defend local LGBTQ+ decision-making and resist. See what’s possible in this paper from A Better Balance, The_LSSC & Equality Federation: supportdemocracy.org/lgbtqpaper #PreemptingProgress

No Ohioan should have their freedom and privacy attacked. Siobhan Boyd-Nelson, our co-interim ED, spoke to Marc Ramirez about the continued government overreach into the private medical decisions of our trans neighbors.

Read the piece in @USAToday:
usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

The attacks on the transgender community are part of a political operation. It's manufactured panic by right-wing think tanks who asked what culture war issue would rile people up now that the vast majority embrace marriage equality. nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/…

Rally with us at the Capitol TODAY at noon! We'll gather together to unite and show our support for LGBTQ rights in Iowa.

BREAKING: Intending to criminalize transgender Floridians, the Florida Dept of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicle published a memo reversing a policy allowing trans Floridians to update the gender marker on their driver's licenses or IDs. 👇 eqfl.org/sites/default/…

BREAKING NEWS: The attempt to pass HF2082, the bill seeking to eliminate gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, died in the House. Donate to One Iowa Action and support our work fighting these harmful bills: buff.ly/48XtlCq.

YES!

Vivian Topping with Equality Federation sits down to talks with us about achieving LGBTQI+ justice, what a just world for LGBTQI+ folks looks like, and some hopes for the new year. Tune into the new #podcast episode:
reprosfightback.com/episodes-blog/…

TOMORROW: Don't miss out on your chance to learn about what the DOJ's recent findings about the Americans with Disabilities Act in Tennessee mean for HIV advocacy!

Sign up at bit.ly/DOJADATN!

Reminder: sign up at bit.ly/DOJADATN to learn about the Americans with Disabilities Act, the role of the Department of Justice, and what the DOJ's recent findings in Tennessee mean for HIV advocacy!