PFLAG National and More Than 40 PFLAG Chapters Join Shared Statement: We’ve got this. We’ve got us.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Our LGBTQIA2S+ community has risen again and again to meet moments that have challenged our rights, our humanity, and our freedom. Today is no different.

Ours is a long history of never backing down from a fight for our rights. United in our strength, during the most difficult of times, we have pushed forward and achieved significant progress across the decades. From the early days of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis, to the Stonewall Uprising and HIV/AIDS activism, to achieving marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace, to the fight for transgender rights, and beyond, we march on.

For every member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and for those who support us: We’ve got this. We’ve got us. No matter who you are, where you live, or the outcome of the election, today we are an LGBTQIA2S+ community united. Together, across races, places, genders, and abilities, we have shown up for each other by organizing, mobilizing, and casting our ballots for the freedom to be ourselves. Our work continues.

Election outcomes at national, state, and local levels will impact our health, our safety, and our rights as LGBTQIA2S+ people and families. Despite anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts to divide our communities, and particularly severe attacks against transgender people and LGBTQIA2S+ youth, we have succeeded in moving a few steps closer toward equity and justice for our community. In particular, we celebrate the election of the first openly transgender person to U.S. Congress, Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), as well as out lawmakers U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson (Texas), and State Rep. Wick Thomas (Mo.), and cementing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, Colorado, and Hawaii.

Across the country, LGBTQIA2S+ organizations and advocates engaged and educated voters, made calls, sent texts, and knocked on doors to ensure every voter had the information necessary to cast a ballot. Every single conversation reflected our commitment to vote for our families, our freedoms, and our futures.

We know that so much more work lies ahead of us. Yet as an LGBTQIA2S+ movement, we will continue to work towards what we always have: a country where all LGBTQIA2S+ people are safe, seen, and accepted for who we truly are, without exception. We are here together, and we will move forward.

We’ve got this. We’ve got us.

Shared by:

Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for Youth

AIDS United

Alaskans Together For Equality

All Under One Roof LGBTQ Advocates of SE Idaho

Alliance For Full Acceptance SC

ALSO Youth

Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum

Atlanta Pride

Basic Rights Oregon

Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice

Blue Ridge Pride

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center

Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BCPC)

Burbank Community YMCA Social Impact Center

CAMP Rehoboth

Center on Halsted

CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers

Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness

Charlotte Trans Health

COLAGE

Compass LGBTQ Community Center

Crawfordsville Pride-Crawfordsville, IN

Decatur County PRIDE Alliance

Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc.

Diversity Collective Ventura County

Diversity Richmond

EDGE New Jersey

Equality Community Center – Maine

Equality Federation

Equality Arizona

Equality California

Equality Connecticut

Equality Delaware

Equality Florida

Equality Illinois

Equality Michigan

Equality New Mexico

Equality North Carolina

Equality Ohio

Equality South Dakota

Equality Texas

Equality Virginia

EqualityMaine

Fair Wisconsin

Fairness Campaign

Fairness West Virginia

FAIRNY

Family Equality

Forum for Equality – Louisiana

Friends of Dorothy of Indiana

Garden State Equality

Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC

Gender Justice

Georgia Equality

GLAAD

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)

GLSEN

Grand Rapids Pride Center

Grand Rapids Trans Foundation

Greenwood Indiana Pride

GSAFE

Have A Gay Day Inc

Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation

Henderson Equality Center

Human Rights Campaign

IYG

Jim Toy Community Center

Lambda Legal

Lavender Rights Project

LGBT Center of Raleigh

LGBT Life Center

LGBT+ Center Orlando, Inc

LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast

LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc.

LGBTQ+ Community Center of Darke County

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund

LGBTQ+ Victory Institute

LGBTQ+ Walworth County

Los Angeles LGBT Center

Louisville Youth Group

Loving Beyond Understanding

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

MassEquality

Movement Advancement Project

Muncie OUTreach LGBTQ+ Center

Naper Pride Inc

National Center for Lesbian Rights

National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

NBJC

North Dakota Human Rights Coalition

Northwest Arkansas Equality

NoVA Prism Center

Ogden Pride

Omaha ForUs LGBTQ+ Center

One Colorado

One Iowa

one-n-ten

Our Family Coalition

Our Spot KC

Out in the Open

OutCenter Southwest Michigan

OutFront Minnesota

OutNebraska

Outright Vermont

Patchwork Transgender Peer Support

PFLAG National

PFLAG Akron

PFLAG Athens, TN

PFLAG Blairsville

PFLAG Bowie

PFLAG Burbank

PFLAG Cape Cod

PFLAG Cape Girardeau

PFLAG Carson Region

PFLAG Charlotte

PFLAG Chattanooga

PFLAG Clayton-Concord

PFLAG Corydon-Leavenworth

PFLAG Danville – San Ramon Valley

PFLAG Danville / Central Susquehanna Valley

PFLAG Denver

PFLAG Door County

PFLAG DuPage

PFLAG Fort Collins

PFLAG Franklin

PFLAG Franklin-Hampshire

PFLAG Frederick

PFLAG Ft Worth

PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities

PFLAG Georgetown

PFLAG Grayslake/Round Lake

PFLAG Greater Boston

PFLAG Greater Orlando

PFLAG Greater Placer County

PFLAG Greater St. Louis

PFLAG Greensburg

PFLAG Hampton Roads

PFLAG Hartford

PFLAG Jersey Shore

PFLAG Lafayette/Tippecanoe County

PFLAG Lamorinda

PFLAG Lower Columbia

PFLAG Nazareth/Lehigh Valley

PFLAG Safety Harbor

PFLAG Salisbury Rowan

PFLAG San Diego County

PFLAG Seattle

PFLAG Socorro

PFLAG Storm Lake

PFLAG Tulsa

PFLAG Waukesha

Philadelphia Family Pride

Point of Pride

Positive Women’s Network – USA

Pride Center of Terre Haute Inc.

Pride Center of Vermont

Pride Frisco

Pride Lafayette

Pride Richland County (Illinois)

Prism United

Project LPAC

PROMO Missouri

Q Center PDX

Queer Keys

Queer Vox

Queering The Binary Foundation

QueerLit Collective

Qweerty Gamers

Rainbow Center

Rainbow Labs

Rainbow Seniors ROC, Inc.

Rochester Rainbow Union

Rockland County Pride Center

Ruth Ellis Center

SAGE

Sacramento LGBT Community Center

San Francisco Community Health Center

Seacoast Outright

Shelly’s Voice Advocacy

Shoals Diversity Center

Silver State Equality

Solano Pride Center

Somos Familia Valle

Spencer Pride, Inc.

Stand with Trans

Stonewall Columbus, Inc

Tennessee Equality Project

The Center for HIV Law and Policy

The Frederick Center

The Human Rights Alliance

The LGBTQ Center Long Beach

The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada

The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert

The LIAM Foundation

The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center

The Pride Center at Equality Park

The Prideful Path Project

The San Diego LGBT Community Center

The Trevor Project

Time Out Youth

TransCanWork

Transformation Project

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

TransLafayette

TransOhio

Us Giving Richmond Connections

Volusia Pride

Waves Ahead Corp Puerto Rico

We Are Family

Wyoming Equality

Youth Pride Association