BY Tyler Register | Orlando, FL | 3/16/23
On Saturday, March 11, multiple organizations rallied together in support of LGBTQ rights outside the Orlando City Hall.
BY Serena Sojic-Borne | New Orleans, LA | 11/10/22
On Saturday, November 5, a group of women and LGBTQ people gathered at the LGBT Community Center to address gender violence in the city.
BY Jake Holtzman | Austin, TX | 10/30/22
On Thursday evening, October 29, a group of around ten students gathered on the University of Texas at Austin campus to rally for women’s and LGBTQ rights.
BY staff | New Orleans, LA | 9/27/22
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Real Name Campaign NOLA (New Orleans Louisiana)
BY Staff | Arlington, TX | 4/05/22
On March 24, an email went out to senators of the University of Texas at Arlington student government detailing screenshots from the Turning Point USA discord server that revealed the student government President Caitlyn Burge-Surles and student government Chief of Staff Alyssa Spencer engaging in racist, transphobic and generally bigoted rhetoric.
BY Mark Napieralski | Arlington, TX | 3/28/22
On March 23, Progressive Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington held a protest condemning the transphobic attacks that Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have imposed on Texan families.
BY Quest Riggs | New Orleans, LA | 3/27/22
Around 250 community members gathered at New Orleans City Hall, March 25, to forcefully voice their opposition to a string of legislation introduced by Louisiana Republicans in recent weeks.
BY Eithne Silva | Tampa, FL | 10/14/19
On October 7 and 8, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) rallied against the lack of federal job protections for LGBT workers.
BY Regina Joseph | Tallahassee, FL | 8/22/18
On August 20, in Missouri, Tenia Williams, a Black transgender woman, was stabbed and choked by a man she met online. Tenia, who wrote about the attack on social media said, "Before providing my address he was well aware of me being transgender. This man never gave me any inclination that his intentions were to kill."
BY Carolyn Connelly | New York | 7/11/18
I was recently watching the documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, about the second wave of feminism in the U.S. In it, one woman said one of the main lesson that she's learned is that no victory is permanent, and that really struck me. No victory is permanent. And while I was watching this documentary, news hit my social media that Chelsea Manning had announced that she was going to take her own life. And I thought again how no victory is permanent.
