Committing to the trans community
In April 2023, the Finger Lakes Justice Partnership, in conjunction with our allies Keuka Compass, Penn Yan PRIDE Coalition, Geneva Women’s Assembly, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Penn Yan), Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes, and Southern Finger Lakes Pride, launched the Committing to the Trans Community Campaign. Its mission is to make clear our dedication to the dignity and well-being of the Finger Lakes’ transgender, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming (GNC), and other LGBTQ+ neighbors and visitors.
For this campaign, we created a sign and promoted it with businesses across the region. By the end of 2023, more than 35 businesses and organizations had committed to displaying the sign in their windows or on their sites. This campaign is continuing. Read more and see participating partners…
Safe and Beautiful for All? (Coming soon)
Residents of the Finger Lakes tend to imagine their communities as “safe and beautiful for all,” and it’s true that many people enjoy a sense of well-being and privilege here. But we find that isn’t the case for members of certain marginalized groups.
As part of our efforts to secure a more complete form of justice, this campaign aims to make the evidence of oppressive systems visible by collecting stories of real dangers and real harms to our most vulnerable neighbors that have occurred right here in our apparently quiet communities. We’ll create an ongoing series of social media images to highlight these disparities, which we hope you’ll then share widely in your networks. Not to sow division, but to help us show the world as it really is – because that’s the only way we can begin to heal it. We seek “safe and beautiful” communities by exposing how issues that seem far away to the privileged may be present right here in our little town, impacting real people every day.
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