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by Wes Sanders

change is happening

Friend,

I’ll be honest, I’m looking forward to waking up tomorrow in a new year. 2020 has been like no other, and while it’s easy to name all the bad this year brought, I’d like to use my last email of the year focusing on what we’ve been able to accomplish together. In spite of all of it, we have so much to be proud of, and I hope you’ll chip in right now to make sure this work continues next year.

In January, we helped make Brookhaven the seventh municipality in Georgia to pass a non-discrimination ordinance specifically prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people in housing, employment, and public spaces.

We spent February ensuring that no anti-LGBTQ legislation passed in Georgia, for the seventh year in a row.

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by abryant

Update on Our Plan to Mobilize 650,000 Equality Voters in Georgia

I don’t believe in wasting your time, so I’ll get right to the update: 

  • Since the General Election, Georgia Equality volunteers have made over 52,000 calls and sent more than 206,000 text messages, with phonebanks continuing six nights each week.
  • We’ve launched our direct mail and digital advertising campaigns targeting 650,000 equality voters across Georgia through election day.

We are firing on all cylinders, but to fully deploy our plan we need your support RIGHT NOW to help us reach our $1.2 million goal today!

 

 

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by abryant

19 years and 11 months Ago Today

When the General Assembly convenes in January, our state will have a record seven openly LGBTQ legislators, more than any other southern state, and the most in our state’s history. It’s been a long road, and we cannot stop now. Georgia Equality has been laying the groundwork for 25 years, and the work must continue. 

19 years and 11 months ago today, Georgia swore in its first lesbian legislator– Representative Karla Drenner on January 8th, 2001. In a time when our very sexuality was considered a felony, and the promise of broad nondiscrimination protections and marriage equality were considered unattainable, Rep. Drenner walked into the House chamber representing all of us.

 

 

 

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by abryant

$2.00

 

I’ll be frank–we are undertaking the most significant voter mobilization campaign in Georgia Equality’s history, and we won’t be able to get it done without you. We’ve already started working to turnout 650,000 pro-equality voters in the Jaunary 5th runoff, but to fully deploy our plan we need your support RIGHT NOW to help us reach our $1.2 million goal.

 

  • $2.00 is what it takes for us to contact one pro-equality voter.
  • $200 helps us contact 100 voters.

 

With so much on the line, will you make a contribution today to help us turn out the pro-equality vote in Georgia?

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by Wes Sanders

Georgia’s “other” epidemic – World AIDS Day 2020

In the flurry of COVID-19 headlines, it is easy to forget that this is not Georgia’s first brush with a global pandemic. In honor of World AIDS Day, we should all take time to reflect on why after more than three decades, our state ranks number one among all states in new HIV infections.

The answer is inequality, and it will take all of us continuing to fight to end HIV in Georgia. Join me in supporting Georgia Equality for World AIDS Day 2020 and #GivingTuesday by making a contribution in support of this vitally important work.

For too long, our state’s leaders have put politics before human dignity and denied healthcare access to hundreds of thousands of Georgians, leaving them vulnerable to the effects of untreated chronic illnesses and infectious diseases like HIV and COVID-19. We know that HIV, and most pandemics, thrive in places where inequality goes unchecked- where access to healthcare is marked by stark racial and gender disparities, and where leaders fail to promote health equity. To create lasting health equity, we must provide healthcare coverage for all Georgians, and we must start by expanding Medicaid.

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