The Equality Network is one of Scotland's national organisations working for LGBTI rights and equality. Established by LGBT activists in 1997, it is a registered charity[1] and a company limited by guarantee (no. SC220213), based in Edinburgh. In 2011 it had an income of £374,000.
The Equality Network was founded back in 1997 as a national organisation working for LGBT rights and equality in Scotland and 2014 for LGBTI rights and equality in Scotland. The Equality Network has superseded the work of Outright Scotland.
Over the past 17 years the Equality Network has claimed a number of victories for LGBT equality in Scotland including an equal age of consent, the repeal of Section 28, Civil Partnerships, Gender Recognition, adoption and fertility rights, hate crime laws, and most recently same-sex marriage.
The Scottish Trans Alliance (STA)[2] is a project within the Equality Network to "improve gender identity and gender reassignment equality, rights and inclusion in Scotland".[3] Scottish Trans Alliance has three full-time staff working for the Equality Network.[3] Vic Valentine is manager of the group.[4]
Previously, James Morton was manager of Scottish Trans Alliance.[5][6] Morton is the author of A Scottish History of Trans Equality Activism.[7]
The Equality Network won the Campaign of the Year Award at the Herald Society Awards 2012, and Campaign of the Year at the LGBT Youth Scotland Awards 2012, both for the Equal Marriage campaign — the UK's first campaign for same-sex marriage rights, established by the Equality Network in 2008. It was also shortlisted for Public Campaign of the Year at the Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2012.[8]
^Morton, James (2018). "A Scottish history of trans equality activism". In Burns, Christine (ed.). Trans Britain: Our Long Journey from the Shadows. Unbound. ISBN978-1783524716.
