08/04/2026
We need to keep showing up and speaking up!
BREAKING🚨🏳️🌈 Georgia just CRUSHED every single anti-LGBTQ bill. ALL FIFTEEN OF THEM.
Every. Single. One.
HB 54, which would have banned puberty blockers for trans youth? DEAD.
SB 74, which would have criminalized librarians for making LGBTQ books available to minors? DEAD.
SB 1, the so-called Riley Gaines Act that targeted trans student athletes and their access to locker rooms? DEAD.
They threw everything they had at the LGBTQ community in Georgia. Bathroom bills. Healthcare bans. Book bans. Sports bans. Forced outing policies. And the people of Georgia said not here. Not now. Not ever.
This did not happen by accident. This happened because THOUSANDS of people from more than 60 counties across the state showed up. Called their representatives. Testified at hearings. Organized phone banks. Drove hours to the Capitol. Stood in hallways and refused to leave.
Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Equality, said it perfectly — "This session we stopped every bill targeting LGBTQ Georgians, even in spite of underhanded political maneuvers deployed over the last few weeks."
Underhanded maneuvers. Because that is what they had to resort to. And it STILL was not enough.
This matters because Georgia is not Massachusetts. Georgia is not California. This is a state that has been trending purple but still has deep conservative power structures.
While the ACLU tracks 517 anti-LGBTQ bills nationwide and other states pass bathroom bans and healthcare restrictions, Georgia proves that these bills CAN be stopped. That showing up WORKS. That organized resistance WINS.
Florida stopped four out of five this session. Georgia stopped fifteen out of fifteen. And we will keep going until all of us have equal rights.
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