Louisville Fairness Campaign

The Louisville Fairness Campaign has been the primary LGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy organisation in Louisville since 1991, and its central achievement — the Louisville Fairness Ordinance, which provides LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations — is the foundation of the legal environment that makes Louisville genuinely liveable for queer people in a state whose broader political culture has been less welcoming. The Campaign's three-decade history is the political history of the Louisville LGBTQ+ community: the campaigns for the Fairness Ordinance, the battles in the state legislature, the work to extend protections to Jefferson County, and the ongoing advocacy in a state government that has frequently moved in an opposing direction. The organisation also provides community programming, education, and the kind of civic engagement infrastructure that translates the LGBTQ+ community's political interests into legislative outcomes. For visitors to Louisville who want to understand the political context of the city's relatively progressive LGBTQ+ environment, the Fairness Campaign is the organisation to know.