OutNebraska
# OutNebraska

OutNebraska is a Nebraska statewide LGBTQ advocacy, lobbying, and community organization.

## History

A Lincoln LGBTQ community organization was incorporated as Outlinc in 2009. It expanded to a statewide organization and changed its name to OutNebraska in 2019.

## Community events

### Prairie Pride Film Festival

OutNebraska sponsors the Prairie Pride Film Festival, which has brought independent films on LGBTQ themes to Nebraska since 2010.

### Let's Go Birding Together

OutNebraska hosts birdwatching events in warm weather months. Let's Go Birding Together ("LGBT") events are a partnership with Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.

## Advocacy and organizing

OutNebraska opposed Nebraska's prohibition on same-sex marriage.

OutNebraska has advocated for a state law protecting LGBT people from employment and housing discrimination, expressing skepticism that city-level laws are comprehensive enough.

OutNebraska joined the ACLU in 2016 in providing training to help poll workers identify transgender and gender nonconforming Nebraska voters.

## Partnerships

OutNebraska is affiliated with the Equality Federation and the Community Services Fund of Nebraska.

In expanding from Lincoln into a statewide organization, OutNebraska partnered with Panhandle Equality, an advocacy group in the Nebraska Panhandle.

