SONG is a home for grassroots LGBTQ organizing for liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Our mission is to build, connect, and amplify the work, visibility and leadership of primarily working-class folks, folks of color, folks with disabilities, rural, and immigrant folks who identify as gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / gender-non-conforming & two-spirited.

SONG believes all our identities, issues and lives are connected across race, class, culture, gender and sexuality. SONG is a membership-based, Southern regional organization made up of working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ people. We vision a world where the 3rd shift factory worker and the drag queen at the bar down the block see their lives as connected and are working together for liberation.

SONG’s current work? To organize LGBTQ Southerners to use grassroots organizing and campaigns to protect and defend Southern communities from repressive attacks that scape-goat LGBTQ people; People of Color; and Immigrants–and all oppressed people. A central front of struggle for LGBTQ living at the intersections in this time is the policing and control of our bodies and identities. We are constantly told who to be, where to go and not to go, and how to live. In our Southern communities, the pressure to do so can manifest in isolation and social control all the way to violent force. Because this is so key to the oppression of marginalized people at this time, and affects the vast majority of LGBTQ communities, SONG seeks to build with other spheres building Movement and justice along these same lines and fronts of struggle. SONG will be concentrating on building with leaders and organizations in other movement spheres that also focus on this kind of policing and control: for example, the anti-prison industrial complex sphere and the immigrant justice sphere.