Fairness Campaign

We started with a few people in a living room...
All passionate, experienced and pretty darn fearless.
“Fairness at 15—No More, No Less,” 2006

Dear Friend of Fairness,

Was 1991 so long ago? The Soviet Union dissolved, the first page went live on the World Wide Web, and ten “pretty darn fearless” Louisvillians met in a living room and launched the Fairness Campaign. Thirty-five years later, their legacy lives on in the fearless work you help us do all across our commonwealth every day.

Since our founding, twenty-four Kentucky communities have adopted Fairness Ordinances, LGBTQ marriage equality has become the law of the land, and Fairness has helped elect hundreds of pro-LGBTQ state and local candidates in Kentucky. But as we advance LGBTQ rights, our opponents’ attacks increase.

This legislative session we faced a dozen anti-LGBTQ bills—another anti-drag bill, an attempt to weaken local human rights commissions, a gender re-definition bill, a resurgence of the overly broad healthcare discrimination law, and more attacks on our Transgender community, including absurd bathroom discrimination and anti-Trans teacher measures.

We stopped every single one of this year’s anti-LGBTQ bills because of you. But it wasn’t easy, and our ability to navigate the troubling waters in Frankfort is entirely dependent upon your support.

Will you help us do everything we can to protect LGBTQ Kentuckians with a “Give for Good Louisville” gift? Consider honoring our 35th anniversary with a gift of $35, $350, or $3,500 to help us hit our $35,000 goal.

Thank you for joining the Fairness movement for more than three and a half decades!

Sincerely,

Chris Hartman, he/him
Executive Director

Who We Are

The Fairness Campaign is Kentucky’s LGBTQ advocacy organization founded in 1991 by 10 Louisvillians. Its primary goal is comprehensive civil rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and to dismantle systemic racism.

With the help of the Fairness Campaign, 24 Kentucky communities have enacted Fairness Ordinances prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations, including the state’s two largest cities—Louisville and Lexington—the capital Frankfort, and small Appalachian town of Vicco. Today, the Fairness Campaign works in communities all across Kentucky to advance LGBTQ rights and acceptance through legislative advocacy and public education.