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• Equality Northern Kentucky

  

  Equality Northern Kentucky (ENKY) is a new organization formed to advance equality for Northern Kentucky gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people through education, visibility, advocacy and community organizing.

  We will collaborate with local and state-wide GLBT organizations and will support legislative advocacy. However, our first priority will be to raise the level of activism and visibility in the local region.

   

• Freedom to Marry

  Freedom to Marry is the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Freedom to Marry brings the work of its partner organizations and their many approaches — litigation, legislation, direct action, and public education — into a larger whole, a shared civil rights campaign that fosters heightened outreach to non-gay allies.

  Freedom to Marry enhances progress toward marriage equality by filling four principal roles:

  1. Strategy and Support Center for our local and state partners;
  2. Catalyst that drives and influences the national debate on the freedom to marry;
  3. Partnership and Alliance-Builder enlisting local, regional, and national non-gay allies and non-gay public support; and
  4. Regrantor and Engine of Funding to augment local, state and national freedom to marry efforts, while advising funders and assisting local organizations' stimulation of their own funding.

  Freedom to Marry works closely with every organization — gay and non-gay, national and local — taking part in this effort to end discrimination in marriage. Freedom to Marry has a talented and diverse staff and a Steering Committee that includes non-gay allies, civil rights activists, and experts.

• Gay & Lesbian Medical Association

  GLMA is the leading organization in North America working to ensure that LGBT people are treated competently and not discriminated against when they access health care. GLMA also works to ensure that LGBT healthcare providers do not experience discrimination in their training and at work. GLMA achieves its goals by using expertise in medicine and healthcare in professional education, public policy work, patient education and referrals, and the promotion of research.

  GLMA is a national and international organization. While most of its approximately 1,000  members are in the United States, GLMA has members in such areas as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Nigeria.

• Gay & Lesbian Services Organization

  The Center is a community space and resource center primarily used by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the Central Kentucky area. We are located at 389 Waller Avenue Suite 100 near St. Joseph Hospital in the UK area of Lexington.
  
  The Pride Center of the Bluegrass provides an expanding number of services and opportunities to the community.

• International Lesbian & Gay Association (ILGA)

  The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people everywhere.
  
  Founded in 1978, it now has more than 600 member organisations. Every continent and over 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities.
  
  ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as a global issue.

• Kentucky Equality PAC

  Kentucky Equality PAC endorses and helps elect fair-minded candidates in Kentucky who support full equality for all Kentuckians. 

  Kentucky Equality PAC also supports political campaigns that promote the fair treatment of all Kentuckians and fights misguided efforts that could delay our progress toward true equality.

   

• Kentucky Fairness Alliance

  The Kentucky Fairness Alliance is an education and advocacy network dedicated to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Kentuckians.

• Lambda Legal - Kentucky

  Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

• Libertarian Party of Kentucky

  The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11, 1971. It is one of the largest continuing Third parties in the United States, claiming more than 200,000 registered voters and more than 600 people in public office, including mayors, county executives, county-council members, school-board members and other local officials. It has more people in office than all other third parties combined.

  The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects that group's particular brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration across borders, and non-interventionism in foreign policy that respects freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries.

• Marriage Equality Kentucky

  Marriage Equality Kentucky ("MEKY") is a grassroots movement that seeks legal recognition of same-sex couples through civil marriage in Kentucky. 

  Marriage Equality Kentucky shares the Equality Center and webhosting with Kentucky Equality Federation.

• Marriage Equality USA

  Marriage Equality, Inc. began as an idea in 1996 with a handful of activists believing that same-sex couples should have the freedom and the right to civil marriage, and angry that the federal government wanted to pass a law barring LGBT people from this right. The organization was officially founded and formed February 12, 1998, on National Freedom To Marry Day.
  

  In the late autumn of 2000, the national organization, Marriage Equality USA was officially founded. Since then other chapters have formed across the country and are chapters are growing every day. The organization's sole purpose and focus is to end discrimination in civil marriage so that same-sex couples can enjoy the same legal and societal status as opposite-sex couples.