Why Voting Matters: A Queer Perspective
Our rights shouldn't have to be defended over and over simply because we're queer. But until equality is so deeply built into our institutions that it stops being up for debate, we have to stay engaged.
We need to vote. To organize. To advocate. To educate. We have to show up at meetings, in conversations with elected officials, alongside our neighbors. We need to help other people understand how government actually touches their lives.
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More Than a Bag of Groceries: What Thirty-Five Pounds of Food Really Means
On most pantry days, the line begins before the doors open. Some neighbors arrive carrying reusable shopping bags. Others push strollers or wheel folding carts behind them. Each week more than 150 people make their way through our pantry. A pantry that is stocked with fresh produce, dairy, proteins, pantry staples, and household essentials. For ...
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Behind the Pantry Shelves: What It Takes to Feed 150+ Families Every Week
When people picture a food pantry, they often imagine shelves lined with donated food waiting for families to come through the door. While that image isn’t entirely wrong, it tells only a small part of the story. Running a food pantry is a complex, labor-intensive operation that requires planning, coordination, inventory management, food safety practices, and hundreds ...
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Trans Minors Rights Merges with Lancaster County Chooses Love
LCCL has partnered with Trans Minors Rights (TMR) for the last several years. Trans Minors Rights’ origins can be traced back to a tragic incident in 2014 when a 17-year-old girl named Leelah Alcorn took her own life because her family denied her the medical treatment that she needed to transition. Some of her last words were ...
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Community Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox
We want to acknowledge the deep hurt, fear, and frustration many in our community are feeling following the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing state-level bans on transgender students participating in school sports to remain in place. For transgender youth, their families, and all who care about equity and dignity, this decision is more than a legal ruling; ...
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From Rocky Roads to Rolling On: A Faith Community’s Allyship at Lititz Pride
The shuttle broke down before the day even had a chance to find its rhythm. People stood waiting in growing lines, checking their phones, watching the road, wondering what was happening, what was taking so long, and worrying they wouldn’t have time to enjoy the Pride Festival. Communications between event team members, locations and the shuttle vendor flew at a rapid pace. Everyone ...
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An Update on Our Food Pantry: Growth, Challenges, and Our Commitment to the Community
This year, you may have noticed some changes to the food pantry. In the last few months of 2025, our food pantry numbers significantly increased. In 2024, we served 18,000 individuals at the pantry. By the end of 2025, we had served 27,000 individuals, with over 9,000 of those people coming in the last 3 months of the year. At ...
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From Choosing Love to Building Futures: Introducing the Founders’ Scholarship
Lancaster County Chooses Love (formerly Lititz Chooses Love) was formed when a group of individuals decided to turn an act of hate into an act of love. A Lititz resident (one of our founders, Kate) posted on social media that her Pride flag had been vandalized multiple times. In response, our founders called for Lititz ...
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Statement on the Supreme Court Decision Striking Down State Conversion Therapy Bans
Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, the Supreme Court chose to announce a decision that removes states’ ability to protect minors from conversion therapy. The timing of this ruling is not incidental. Delivering this ruling on a day meant to affirm the humanity, dignity, and resilience of transgender people, is an intentional act that compounds ...
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Gay Straight Alliances and What You Need to Know
In the last legislative session here in Austin, Texas, a Senate bill (SB17) passed that prohibits the formation and sponsorship of gay straight alliances in public schools. Organizations like the ACLU quickly filed court cases based on violations of the First Amendment (protecting free speech) and the Fourteenth Amendment (guaranteeing equal protection under the ...
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