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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 and counting have enacted Fairness Ordinances outlawing LGBTQ discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Today, the Fairness Campaign works in cities all across Kentucky to advance LGBTQ rights and acceptance through legislative advocacy and public education.

Kentucky communities with LGBTQ Fairness Ordinances include Louisville (1999), Lexington (1999), Covington (2003), Vicco (2013), Frankfort (2013), Morehead (2013), Danville (2014), Midway (2015), Paducah (2018), and Maysville (2018), Henderson (2019), Dayton (2019), Georgetown (2019), Versailles (2019), Bellevue (2019), Highland Heights (2019), Fort Thomas (2020), Woodford County (2020), Cold Spring (2020), and Newport (2020), Crescent Springs (2021), Augusta (2021), Fort Mitchell (2021), and Elsmere (2022).

Two additional communities have approved partial Fairness Ordinances—Ashland (housing protections) and Cynthiana (housing and public accommodations protections).

In the Kentucky General Assembly, the Fairness Campaign works to advance LGBTQ laws and stop anti-LGBTQ legislation like the “License to Discriminate” and “Bathroom Bill” targeting transgender people. The Fairness Campaign is a member of the Fairness Coalition, which includes the ACLU of Kentucky, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, and Lexington Fairness. The Fairness Campaign is the Kentucky member of the national Equality Federation, a coalition of statewide LGBTQ civil rights groups across the U.S. In 2013, the former Kentucky Fairness Alliance merged into the Fairness Campaign, strengthening the unity and impact of LGBTQ work in the commonwealth.