Voting is the best way to make our voices heard. Voting is an opportunity for you to speak up about issues that affect your communities, and to support those who may not have the privilege to vote. This Election is about more than the Presidency. It is about State Legislators and County Officials that decide what our kids learn in school, which neighborhoods get infrastructure updates, and how police are disciplined. Your voice is important, your needs matter. We need you to exercise your power in the upcoming elections by doing these four things for us today:

1. Register to vote HERE.
2. Check your voter registration status HERE.
3. Make sure you have the most recent information on your voter registration page.
4. Plan for when and how you will vote.

This election is critical to the future of our state and the future of this nation.

Quickly — take two minutes and check your registration status now.

 

Key Election Dates:

Absentee Ballots will begin sending on: September 15, 2020

CLICK HERE TO REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT

Deadline to Register to vote: October 5, 2020

Advance In-Person (Early) Voting begins: October 12, 2020

State-wide Saturday voting: October 24, 2020

Election Day: November 3, 2020

On September 17^th, the National LGBT Cancer Network launched OUT: The National Cancer Survey. This survey is designed for LGBTQ+ cancer survivors. Currently, there is a huge gap in what we know about the experiences of LGBQT+ survivors. The information gathered from this project will help to change cancer care for our communities. We are reaching out to key community partners in hopes that they will consider sharing information about the survey with friends, loved ones, and other community members.

 

 To participate in the survey or to learn more, click HERE.

 

The National LGBT Cancer Network aims to recruit a minimum of 1000 participants. The findings from the survey will be shared with participants and partners in 2021.

It is planned for the survey to close on December 31, 2020.

To be eligible for the survey, participants must be 18 years or older, received a cancer diagnosis in the past, and currently live in the U.S.

We can only advocate for change when we have the data to show why it is needed. Right now, we know little about how LGBTQI+ navigate cancer care and survivorship. Through this survey, LGBTQI+ cancer survivors can share their own experiences and help create more welcoming and safe environments for our communities.

For the last year and a half, Georgia Equality has been advocating around the Governor’s Healthcare Waivers. While waivers have the potential to improve our health system and expand access to healthcare for hundreds of thousands of Georgians, too often the Governor’s plan has been insufficient to meet Georgia’s needs, and in some cases have been downright harmful. Through our participation in public comments, we have ensured that Georgia Insurance Plans will continue to cover the 10 Essential Benefits, saved the requirement that Mental Healthcare copays and premiums cost the same as other comparable health services, and protected the right of eligible Georgians to receive government subsidies to purchase health insurance.

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The new census deadline is quickly approaching, leaving us just one month to secure an accurate count of our community. Every 10 years, the federal government tries to count every person living in the United States. This count directly affects you and our democracy. But many marginalized communities go under counted  or not counted at all . Transgender and queer folx, LGB communities,  black people and other people of color, people in  rural areas, immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, people who have low incomes, renters, people with young children, and people with limited English proficiency , have been historically under counted, shifting federal resources away from the communities that rely on them the most.  Continue reading →