Federation for Kentucky Equality, Inc. and Kentucky Equality Institute, Inc. share a mission to achieve equality and fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Kentuckians.

Federation for Kentucky Equality, Inc.

  The Federation for Kentucky Equality was founded on November 01, 2005 and incorporated in 2006 by former members of Kentucky Fairness Alliance.  Federation for Kentucky Equality is a statewide organization that reaches nearly 9,000 individuals and 7 groups throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is a paying member of the International Lesbian & Gay Association, and Marriage Equality USA.

Kentucky Equality is Kentucky's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization.  Kentucky Equality leads efforts for LGBT civil rights at the state level through an array of strategies including sponsoring legislation and leading efforts to ensure their passage, lobbying legislators and other government officials, building coalitions, and empowering other organizations and individuals to engage in the political process.

We support the institution of the family and seek to increase its stability and vitality as the foundation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender society.

» We advocate, condone, and support ratifying laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination.

» We advocate, condone, and support LGBT individuals and partners being able to adopt children, equal to the current laws for heterosexuals. 

» We support equality and fairness for all persons regardless of sexual orientation, color, nationality, age, gender (or gender identity). 

» We advocate educating the general public about the LGBT community as a way of building better understanding and mutual respect. 

» We support/advocate the establishment of Gay-Straight Alliances ("GSAs") in public high schools allowing LGBT teenagers struggling with their sexuality and who are in need of peer support to form appropriate groups to discuss their feelings. We believe this fosters a better understanding of the community.

» We advocate teaching ethical behavior to all students and promoting tolerance in the Commonwealth's public schools. 

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In addition, we fight to defend, protect, and preserve the following provisions in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

»  All people are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned:
 - The right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties.
 - The right of seeking and pursuing their safety and happiness.
 - The right of freely communicating their thoughts and opinions.
 - The right of acquiring and protecting property.
 - The right of assembling together in a peaceable manner for their common good, and of applying to those invested with the power of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes, by petition, address or remonstrance.

»  Absolute and arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.

»  Printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the General Assembly or any branch of government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. Every person may freely and fully speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.

»  The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable search and seizure; and no warrant shall issue to search any place, or seize any person or thing, without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.