The numbers alone convey the scale of the moment. Since 2022, more than 1,900 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced across the country; 231 have become law in 27 states. It is not simply a hostile political season – it is a sustained campaign, advocates believe, one that has left LGBTQ leaders searching not just for tactics, but for an entirely rethought strategy, even as a largely unsympathetic U.S. Supreme Court looms in the background.

Against that backdrop, executives from four of the nation’s most prominent LGBTQ organizations convened December 4 for a virtual forum hosted by Horizons Foundation, an LGBTQ philanthropic nonprofit based in San Francisco. Moderated by Roger Doughty, a gay man who is Horizons’ president, the discussion – titled “Fighting Back, Pushing Forward”_ _– did no

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