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APPLY NOW: Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Community Organizer

Job Description Position Title: Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Community Organizer 

Reports To: Southern Organizer 

Pay Rate: $25 per hour 

Type: Temporary Full-Time, September 12th, 2022 through November 15th, 2022 

 

The GOTV Organizer will lead the charge on volunteer recruitment and mobilization, while building relationships with volunteers and developing volunteer leaders. Our ideal candidate is a person who takes the initiative, is highly organized, builds relationships easily, and is comfortable working with diverse and underrepresented communities. A candidate who is a good fit is one who has the energy and determination to reach ambitious goals, the commitment to support young leaders learning to do this work and has a positive outlook and contagious personality. The person selected for this position will be trained, supported, and should be open to direction on how to perform the GOTV duties. 

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Add Your Voice to Support LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Efforts for Students and Healthcare

In recent weeks, the Biden administration has announced two critically important steps to ensure that LGBTQ individuals of all ages are protected against discrimination.  Both efforts rely upon the 2020 US Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. This landmark ruling affirmed that sex discrimination in federal law covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  While that ruling specifically covered employment discrimination, there is a long history and precedent that this definition of sex discrimination covers other areas of discrimination.

To make these changes in federal law without Congressional approval, the Biden administration must open a public comment period to hear from individuals and organizations on why they support these updated definitions and are used in regulatory actions.  Until Congress finally takes action to pass federal legislation, these rules are the only way we can be assured that we won’t be discriminated against in the important areas of education and healthcare.

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Join our Equality and Fairness for All Americans Coalition

On Friday, June 24, 2022, with a 6-3 vote, the United States Supreme Court did what to so many was unimaginable. SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortion rights. The window to pass federal LGBTQ inclusive, nondiscrimination policy is closing, and an opinion from  the court leads many of us to believe that marriage equality could be next.

In their next term, SCOTUS will hear a case concerning whether or not religious beliefs allow someone to discriminate against people who identify as LGBTQ. The Equality and Fairness for All Americans (EQFFAA) framework will bring federal protections to LGBTQ Americans in employment, housing, public accommodations and more. Our framework will also codify the Obergefell decision which brought marriage equality to the United States. It will also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. 

Sign the Equality and Fairness for All Americans pledge TODAY

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HIV Modernization

How has Georgia’s HIV criminalization law changed in 2022?

 

As of July 1st, Georgia’s recently modernized HIV criminalization law implicates a drastically different proof for criminal charges that can be brought against a person with HIV in Georgia.

In the earlier days of the AIDS epidemic, states were encouraged to enact laws criminalizing people with HIV who “knowingly exposed” another person to HIV in exchange for federal funding to AIDS care. Since then, many states have repealed or modernized their HIV criminalization laws to reflect accurate science and stray away from the phobic sentiment with which these laws were written.

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Last Chance to Double Your Donation on Give OUT Day!

“If you’ve been following our Facebook and Instagram pages today, you’ve seen some of our board members talk about the work of Georgia Equality and share why it matters in their lives. 

Click HERE to Partner with Georgia Equality Now

As said during our recent Evening for Equality, between the board and staff, there is not a team of people more passionate working every day to advance fairness, safety and opportunity for LGBTQ communities and our allies throughout the state.

And this work is needed now more than ever before.  We’ve known for some time that we can’t rely solely upon the courts to protect our rights.  We must do the hard work of changing laws and policies at all levels of government.

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