Kentucky Fairness Alliance (KFA)

The Kentucky Fairness Alliance (KFA) was an LGBTQ rights activist organization from 1993-2013. KFA was initially formed in response to conservative efforts to re-establish Kentucky's sodomy statute in 1993,  and its members worked alongside the Louisville-based Fairness Campaign, founded in 1991. In its early years, the organization focused its efforts on combatting anti-LGBTQ legislation as a lobbying presence. However, in 1995, KFA expanded their mission to become a "statewide, grassroots organization" consisting of local chapters and with a focus on education of the public about LGBTQ issues like marriage equality, housing and employment discrimination, and hate crimes towards LGBTQ people. The organization advanced this mission through the dual labor of the KFA Education Fund and the KFA Action fund. A landmark moment in KFA's struggle was the passing of Fairness Ordinances in Lexington and Louisville in 1999. The organization went on to be involved in many local fights for LGBTQ rights until its 2013 merger with the Fairness Campaign, which continues this important work today. 

The Faulkner Morgan Archive cares for a collection of Kentucky Fairness Alliance papers, which came to us through Edwin Hackney. This collection includes: board and committee meeting minutes, internal and external communications, ephemera (event brochures, flyers, buttons), financial documents, fundraising campaign plans, and other internal records. It also includes information about education campaigns and local chapter activities, mainly related to the Bluegrass (Lexington) chapter. Some of these topics include, among others: Kentucky's 2003 Equal Opportunity Employment Order, the "Hate Free Lexington" Campaign of 2001, and the 2004 Safe School (anti-bullying) legislation effort.