TN Equality Project

In our live-review column The Spin: Texas country punks @Vandoliers embraced the power of their platform to do good during their stop at Row One Stage at Cannery Hall. nashvillescene.com/music/thespin/…

Great piece on @vandoliers !

BREAKING: Trans, nonbinary passport protections remain in effect, judge rules. Judge Kobick denied DOJ's request to allow the State Department to enforce Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy after the SCOTUS Skrmetti decision. Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/trans-nonbin…

Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health lays off 5 staff members, Trans Buddy Program halted Story | @rheapatney, Senior Adviser Photo | George Albu, Photography Editor vanderbilthustler.com/2025/07/08/van…

VUMC's devastating actions via @TNLookout : tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/08/lgb… .

Health programming for members of the LGBTQ community was all but destroyed when Vanderbilt University Medical Center laid off more than 600 employees in June. nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthe…

President Carter taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from this remarkable man. barackobama.medium.com/our-statement-…

This #WorldAIDSDay, we honour the 42.3 million lives lost and come together to remind the world that we have the power to end this—by ensuring no one is left behind, advocating for those in need, and creating a future free from stigma and inequality.

Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, is on high alert after community members were targeted with "disturbing and offensive" messages on Thursday, reports @anitawadhwani. tennesseelookout.com/briefs/fisk-un…

Our fight for equality is a story of victories, setbacks, and our determination to keep moving forward. We will face this next challenge together, united in the belief that, in the long term, equality will win out & love will trump hate. We’ll never stop fighting for equality.

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Election Day is here. Thank you for getting out to vote!

According to MT Lambda & friends on Facebook, the MTSU student who took her own life yesterday was a trans woman. (MTSU is closed today) A go fund me circulating from her chosen family: gofundme.com/f/help-serenit… (TN leads 🇺🇸 in anti-LGBTQ bills under an @TNGOP supermajority)

INBOX — COOKEVILLE: The city’s Christmas parade is requiring parade participants to sign a “Statement of Faith” including a belief in the Bible, Jesus, only man-woman marriage, anti-abortion & anti-trans statements. Local PBS @WCTE is carrying it. Link: shorturl.at/hGxOx

Hey y'all — it's #SpiritDay by @glaad — when the whole world goes purple to stand up for LGBTQ youth and AGAINST bullying. Love, acceptance, and kindness is the way. Join us by going purple or making a contribution. secure.givelively.org/donate/foundat…

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to Tennessee’s so-called “bathroom law,” leaving in place rules that require public schools to bar transgender students from the gendered bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice, reports @anitawadhwani. tennesseelookout.com/2024/09/27/fed…

Powerful new segment in PBS @NewsHour chronicling one amazing family's grueling, unnecessarily burdensome journey to continue accessing medically necessary hormone therapy. We are so proud of Mia and Rhyan for speaking out. Please watch + share: pbs.org/newshour/show/…

CLARKSVILLE: More images from the student protest at the board of trustees meeting @austinpeay — students are displaying some of the assistant psych professor’s alleged racist/anti-semitic posts on a laptop.

UPDATE — CLARKSVILLE: Students at @austinpeay are planning a peaceful protest Friday outside the Board of Trustees meeting at 10AM as they call for the removal of an asst prof in the psych dept alleged to have been spreading racist/anti-semitic hate.