What has happened over the past few months in Brunswick with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the subsequent effort to cover it up is disgusting. It’s clearer now more than ever before that Georgia must finally begin address violence against the African American community and all marginalized communities — and it needs to happen now.

Georgia in one of only 4 states without a hate crime law. At present, a bill that would change that is stuck in the State Senate Judiciary Committee. Click here to send a message to republican members of the committee urging them to support a hate crime law in Georgia. 

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There is a national spotlight shown on our state right now, and for nothing good.

What has happened over the past few months in Brunswick with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the subsequent effort to cover it up is disgusting. It’s clearer now more than ever before that Georgia must begin address violence against the African American community and all marginalized communities — and it needs to happen now.  Click here to send a message to your State Senator urging them to support a hate crime law in Georgia. 

House Bill 426 is a penalty-enhancement hate crime bill that would provide increased penalties for crimes committed based on bias or prejudice against someone because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability. Nearly every other state in our country has a hate crime law on the books. Georgia needs to join them. Join us in sending a message today.

 

HIV Advocates: The City of Atlanta has once again failed to reimburse payments to nonprofits that provide housing to people living with HIV in a timely manner. This means that hundreds of people living with HIV who currently receive housing assistance through these nonprofits may be facing homelessness during an extremely vulnerable time. Join us in urging Atlanta Mayor Bottoms to immediately use her authority and power as the administrator of these funds to ensure that the funding owed to agencies to ensure that People Living with HIV/AIDS are stably housed is dispersed immediately. Send your message NOW: I’m a person at risk of losing my HOPWA supported housing I want to advocate for People Living with HIV Thank you, -Georgia Equality

 

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual event dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society.

Whether you’re transgender, gender non-conforming (GNC) or an ally, join Georgia Equality in sending a note to your state legislator. We must make sure they know that transgender Georgians are important to our communities, and they deserve protection from discrimination in state law.

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