Get Busy, Get Equal is designed to help turn your LGBT dreams into reality.
Events
4 past eventsSee All
- Join the ACLU of Pennsylvania ...
PNC Building
Sunday, June 14 at 11:00am - March with the ACLU of MA in B...
Tremont St. between West Brookline ...
Saturday, June 13 at 11:30am - Oral Arguments in the Prop 8 C...
California Supreme Court, on the Ca...
Thursday, March 5 at 9:00am - ACLU Membership Conference 2008
Washington Convention Center
Sunday, June 8 at 1:00pm
Photos
2 of 23 albumsSee All
Wall PhotosCreated on Friday
New York Civil Liberties Union - Pride 2008Created on July 28, 2008 at 12:29pm
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Language matters...
Source: gbge.aclu.org
As I read those words at the end of the title of a newly issued case from a federal appeals court in California, my high school Latin came flooding back to me and I got teary-eyed.
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Honoring Those We've Lost, Fighting for Those Still Here - Eleventh Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance
Source: gbge.aclu.org
Today marks the 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honor those among us whose killings were motivated by prejudice against transgender people. The day serves as a sad reminder that, as much as we are moving towards tolerance and societal acceptance of transgender people, physical v...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL.
Call Now for Passage of ENDA! This is a two-week call campaign coordinated with dozens of coalition partners.
Please report your call so our National organizers can follow up with the offices of your elected official: http://bit.ly/1MRE4d
Please [Comment] [Like] and MOST importantly [Share] by posting to your own news feed.
Source: www.youtube.com
Call your Representative now! Ask them to support H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, also know as ENDA. Call the House of Representatives switchboard @ 202.224.3121 Please report your call: http://bit.ly/1MRE4d This enables our organizers to follow up with your elected official.
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Losing in Maine hurt. But there's still a lot of progress to be happy about (and work to be done)...
Source: gbge.aclu.org
I’m not going to try to spin it: Our loss in Maine yesterday, where voters rejected a law that would have given same-sex couples the right to marry, was deeply disappointing and discouraging. All ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL.
Kari and Julia live in a suburb of Yakima in the center of Washington’s apple country. Kari is a school nutritionist and Julia is a family physician and they love living in a community where they know half the people they see at Safeway. As a physician, Julia has seen patients who have been unable to be with their love...d ones in times of crisis, and so she is grateful that their domestic partnership will ensure that Kari can be with her in the case of a medical emergency.Read More
Source: gbge.aclu.org
On November 3, Washington voters will have the chance to approve or reject R-71, a measure that will allow same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex seniors to access many of the rights and protections granted to married couples. ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL.
Janet and Cindy live in Richland in the Tri Cities area of Washington where Cindy works for the Hanford Site and Janet is a minister at River of Life MCC.
They have seven kids, six of whom they adopted from foster care. Janet
and Cindy love raising a large family, and when they need an extra pair
of hands, Cindy’s mother, who lives next door, comes over to help out.
Source: gbge.aclu.org
On November 3, Washington voters will have the chance to approve or reject R-71, a measure that will allow same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex seniors to access many of the rights and protections granted to married couples. ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Jen and Heidi live in North Seattle with their two kids, Max and Maggie. Heidi teaches high school English and Jen is a firefighter in the Seattle Fire Department. Vote to Approve Referendum 71 to ensure that if something happens to Jen at work, Heidi and their kids will have access to Jen's firefighter’s pension and death benefits.
Source: gbge.aclu.org
On November 3, Washington voters will have the chance to approve or reject R-71, a measure that will allow same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex seniors to access many of the rights and protections ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL.
Cathlin and Avril live in Clarkston, Washington, a small community
across the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho. Cathlin was recently
diagnosed with cancer, and so now between their kids’ dance lessons and
soccer games they squeeze in weekly trips to Spokane for chemo
treatments. Cathlin’s family does not support her relati...onship with
Avril and the couple are relying on their domestic partnership to
ensure that their relationship is respected.Read More
across the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho. Cathlin was recently
diagnosed with cancer, and so now between their kids’ dance lessons and
soccer games they squeeze in weekly trips to Spokane for chemo
treatments. Cathlin’s family does not support her relati...onship with
Avril and the couple are relying on their domestic partnership to
ensure that their relationship is respected.Read More
Source: gbge.aclu.org
On November 3, Washington voters will have the chance to approve or reject R-71, a measure that will allow same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex seniors to access many of the rights and protections ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Great new videos of domestic partner couples in Washington who will be hurt if Ref. 71 is rejected.
Source: gbge.aclu.org
Like a lot of Washingtonians, I was holding my breath hoping that Protect Marriage Washington wouldn’t gather enough signatures to put the new domestic partnership law up to a popular vote. But then ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Blog & Video about a group of African-American activists in Maryland who are working to promote LGBT equality in their community.
Source: gbge.aclu.org
Tonight, our Maryland affiliate is co-sponsoring the premiere of a new documentary, “Maryland Voices of Equality.” The film, which is directed by noted filmmaker and African American lesbian ...
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Great article on homegrown support and out-of-state opposition to marriage in ME.
Source: bit.ly
The anti-repeal "No on 1" campaign overflows with real Mainers who are willing – no, make that eager – to go public in their support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. And the pro-repeal "Yes on 1" campaign? Not so much.
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. Save marriage for same-sex couples in Maine!
Source: gbge.aclu.org
Last week I wrote about the voter referendum that could repeal marriage for same-sex couples in Maine and suggested taking a volunteer vacation to help the No on 1 campaign. Now I can do you one better: next weekend you can help protect marriage in Maine without even leaving your house!
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL.
Ohio
House passes legislation banning discrimination in employment and
housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Way to go,
OHIO!!!
Source: www.daytondailynews.com
In what supporters considered an historic vote, the Ohio House on Tuesday, Sept. 15, approved legislation banning discrimination in employment and housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
GET BUSY. GET EQUAL. "It is unacceptable that in a nation committed to equality people can still be fired in more than half the states for being gay."
Source: www.nytimes.com
It is a disgrace that in 29 states workers can be fired for being gay. Congress should make passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act a top priority.
