History In the Making for Our Freedom to Marry!

This week  on April 28, the U.S. Supreme Court began to hear oral argument in marriage cases out of Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Today’s oral argument is a historic moment that caps a collective decades-long movement for the freedom to marry – from families who fought for their marriages, to the legal teams and organizations who have shepherded these cases, to the campaign that has created the climate for success by building a critical mass of states and support. Together, our side’s high-powered attorneys are making a case to the court as compelling as the transformative case we’ve already made in the court of public opinion.

It is time now for the Supreme Court to finish the job on marriage, and get our country on the right side of history. The country is ready. Continue reading


Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for LGBT People of Color

With a broad coalition of civil rights and advocacy organizations, MAP – Movement Advancement Project recently released Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for LGBT People of Color, which documents how anti-LGBT laws and systemic failures to protect people from discrimination drive and trap LGBT people of color into a devastating cycle of poverty. The report details the ways in which a wide array of legal failures, combined with the disparities faced by people of color in general, result in higher poverty rates and increased economic insecurity for America’s 3 million LGBT people of color.

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RFRA’s BACK

Remember RFRA? It’s back.RFRA BACK

The latest religious exemption bill – the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act –  would allow businesses and individuals to use their religious beliefs as an excuse to harm and discriminate against others—including gay and transgender people. Sen. Josh McKoon has made it his singular mission to pass a harmful religious exemptions law that would open a can of worms, leaving thousands of Georgians vulnerable to discrimination.
And he is not interested in compromise. But we’ve got power in numbers.

Georgia’s legislative session has resumed. We are mobilizing the grassroots campaign we need to defeat Georgia’s RFRA once and for all. It’s going to be a fight. We are organizing volunteers to help get the word out.

We need your support!

Georgia Equality needs your help at the Rush Center for phone-banking efforts on the following times:

Phonebanking January 14          4pm – 6pm & 6pm – 8pm

We will be posting new phone-banks for the rest of the month. – Please RSVP  to get specific times and locations.

January 23 – Lobby  and Advocacy Training at the Rush Center   11pm – 4pm

February 9  – Lobby Day and Rally    Meet Legislators 10am ; Rally 12pm at Liberty Plaza

 

Please RSVP here and sign up!

Urge your lawmakers to stand with the strong majority of Georgians who oppose discrimination and believe in treating all people in our state fairly. Send an email now and help defeat RFRA.