Time is running short this session at the West Virginia Legislature, and we need YOU to ACT for FAIRNESS NOW! Our allies in the WV House and Senate have introduced House Bill 2045 and Senate Bill 14, which would amend the WV Human Rights Act to prohibit employment and housing discrimination on the basis of [...]
For years, Fairness WV has been at the forefront of the fight for basic, fundamental protections for West Virginia’s workers and citizens, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We believe that all West Virginians have the right to work free from fear of being fired for who you are, and the right to have [...]
Fairness Board Treasurer Christina Dalton (right) with her partner, Abi, and their children, Aariana and Nakkia The holidays are here! As we at Fairness celebrate the fact that we have a tireless base of supporters, I’d like to give all of you one more reason to celebrate with your friends and family by highlighting [...]
Friends, This is it. Tickets to Fairness WV Institute’s 1st Gala have officially sold out, but we have managed to squeeze in one extra table for the event. We have 6 seats left for the Gala. We are also creating a wait list for the Gala, and priority will be given to those who are [...]
Below is the comment that Fairness submitted to the WV Board of Education on Policy 4373, the proposed safe schools policy that would provide stronger protections against bullying for all students. Thank you all for your endless support in this effort! Fairness WV, the statewide advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) West [...]
I hope you’ve been reading all of the big coverage on the WV Department of Education’s comprehensive, enumerated, LGBT-inclusive proposed safe schools policy. From AP to CBS, ABC to Huffington Post, major news outlets have been interested in what we’re doing here in WV. Fairness has been working nonstop to secure stronger protections from bullying [...]
Fairness WV is working nonstop to secure protections for LGBT West Virginians at school, at home and in the workplace. I am so happy to announce that for the first time in history, the WV Department of Education has included sexual orientation and gender identity in its draft policy on safe schools. This is a [...]
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Fairness WV’s program director, Bradley Milam, was recently interviewed for a Charleston Gazette article on WV Bully-Free, the new anti-bullying campaign launched by Fairness WV and ACLU-WV. The article, dated August 7, 2011, outlined WV Bully-Free’s efforts to educate the public and policymakers about more effective anti-bullying policies. “It is a campaign that will show [...]
Tomorrow, Senator Al Franken (D-MN), a fierce LGBT rights leader, will be the featured speaker at the West Virginia Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Celebration Dinner in Charleston. We praise Senator Franken for introducing Senate Bill 555, the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which would expressly protect students from being bullied on the basis of actual or perceived sexual [...]
