title: OutNebraska
text: # 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.
  
  