Tags: LGBTQ equality
Fairness Action in Shelbyville
KFTC members and fairness supporters will be present to urge the Shelbyville City Council to fill vacancies on the local human rights commission. The vacancies have been in existence since February, and extremely qualified people have applied to be commissioners.
Northern Kentucky Pride Festival
Join KFTC members as we celebrate Northern Kentucky Pride and support our allies at Northern Kentucky Fairness!
We will be having a table from 2 pm to 10 pm to talk about the work we do to promote justice throughout the state, and help make sure people at the festival are prepared to vote in the 2015 election.
Fairness Lobby Day
In most of Kentucky, LGBT people can still be fired from a job, denied a place to live, and be kicked out of a restaurant – that's true even in many states that now have marriage equality, like Indiana.
RALLY & LOBBY for a Kentucky Statewide Fairness Law!
6:45 a.m. – Carpool from Fairness Campaign office in Louisville and elsewhere around the state
The journey to pass Fairness in Danville
On the evening of June 9, the city of Danville became the 7th city in Kentucky to pass a local LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance when the Danville City Commission approved a Fairness ordinance with a 4-1 vote. It was a long road to get there, one that local members of the Wilderness Trace KFTC chapter started walking back in 2012, shortly after the chapter officially formed.
Leading the way to pass Fairness in Danville were local KFTC members, Jane Brantley and Eric Mount. Well before their work on Fairness in Danville, both Jane and Eric worked in various ways for LGBT equality, from urging legislators to oppose the same-sex marriage amendment in 2004 (this amendment was recently ruled unconstitutional) to supporting their churches moving forward for LGBT equality. It wasn’t until 2012 that they felt moved to work for a Fairness ordinance in Danville.
“I became aware that cities in Kentucky were beginning to examine passage of local Fairness ordinances,” said Jane. “When the small town of Vicco in eastern Kentucky passed its ordinance, I thought, ‘Why not Danville? After all, we’re supposed to be the City of Firsts. We need to get busy.”
Northern Kentucky Pride!
Members of the Northern Kentucky chapter will be tabling at the annual Northern Kentucky Pride festival, discussing ongoing work KFTC has across the state, and helping ensure more people are engaged in the fight against repression.
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