Tuesday, I met with the One ID collation which is a great group trying to create a municipal ID that can be used as a form of government ID, as well as it being a library card and tied to COTA. Wednesday, I went into the office to get brochures for our legal clinic to disrupt around Columbus as well as cards for our Ohio Business Collation Program to get business to join a collation of over 1,000 Ohio businesses to say they support the LGBTQ community. I also started looking into select cities that are looking into passing any kind of LGBTQ legislation and making notes of who the key players are, the legislation, as well as general information about the city. Friday, I went down to Middletown to work their Pride. It was nice seeing such a large turnout in such a conservative, rural community.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday I had spent my mornings anxiously refreshing the Supreme Court website to look at the decisions they are releasing. Then Friday at 10:10 the Dobbs decision was released. We had an emergency all hands meeting for our organization. We are not a reproductive rights organization, but reproductive rights are a LGBTQ issue as well as just a human rights issue. We put out information and resources but most of our energy is spent on two fronts: first, redirecting people to reproductive rights organization, as well as spreading accurate information and second, is to prepare for the fight. Justice Thomas wrote in his opinion that next should be the rulings that affirm gay marriage, ban anti sodomy laws, and the ruling that found the court couldn’t limit access to contraceptives. These are terrifying words to be written by a member of the Court. We are getting ready to fight.