Reports
Southern LGBT Map Directory
After about a half of year’s work, Southerners on New Ground is proud to present the Southern LGBT Map Directory, a collection of 24 organizations, groups, and collectives in the South that are doing progressive LGBT organizing. These groups are working around everything from gay and lesbian rights to anti-bullying to reproductive justice to anti-violence to trans prison support. Although not all of the organizations are explicitly queer, they all share a commitment to social justice and intersectional organizing. We have learned that although queer-led social justice organizations in the South may be few in number, they are doing amazing work with limited resources. We created this directory to counter the isolation and burnout that organizers experience all too often in the South and hope that it will help bring people together to strategize, share resources, and support each other.
2008 Love Letter
From Organizing Schools to the largest gathering of Southern LGBTQ people in over a decade, SONG has had a great 2008. Read this to find out what was up last year!
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A group convened at the Highlander Center from all over the country to dream about and work on a plan for the SONG Organizing School. This report on the weekend is chock full of bold and beautiful politics, great analysis and great direction. We hope that folks will read it as a commentary on the state of 501c3’s, as well as a rough, rough map for visioning other ways to do work and think about our work…Check it out, y’all.
SONG Listening Campaign Report 07
Our National Report from our combined listening campaign with Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Trans & Queer movement people of the South, and some of our fiercest national allies… enjoy!!
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SONG’s Report From 2006 Southern Think Tanks! This report is 6 intense pages summarizing what we learned from our think tanks/listening campaign of LGBTQ leaders in the South who work across Race, Class, Culture, Gender, and Sexuality–when we talked with them about the state of the movement, what makes them feel whole, and what they dreamed for an Organizing School!