Family Equality joins nearly 200 national, state, and local organizations in joint message to the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
New York, NY — Our LGBTQIA2S+ community has risen again and again to meet moments that have challenged our rights, our humanity, and our freedom. Today is no different.
Ours is a long history of never backing down from a fight for our rights. United in our strength, during the most difficult of times, we have pushed forward and achieved significant progress across the decades. From the early days of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis, to the Stonewall Uprising and HIV/AIDS activism, to achieving marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace, to the fight for transgender rights, and beyond, we march on.
For every member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and for those who support us: We’ve got this. We’ve got us. No matter who you are, where you live, or the outcome of yesterday’s election, today we are an LGBTQIA2S+ community united. Together, across races, places, genders, and abilities, we have shown up for each other by organizing, mobilizing, and casting our ballots for the freedom to be ourselves. Our work continues.
Election outcomes at national, state, and local levels will impact our health, our safety, and our rights as LGBTQIA2S+ people and families. Despite anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts to divide our communities, and particularly severe attacks against transgender people and LGBTQIA2S+ youth, we have succeeded in moving a few steps closer toward equity and justice for our community. In particular, we celebrate the election of the first openly transgender person to U.S. Congress, Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), as well as out lawmakers U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson (Texas), Auditor General Malcolm Kenyatta (Pa.), and State Rep. Wick Thomas (Mo.), and cementing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, Colorado, and Hawaii.
Across the country, LGBTQIA2S+ organizations and advocates engaged and educated voters, made calls, sent texts, and knocked on doors to ensure every voter had the information necessary to cast a ballot. Every single conversation reflected our commitment to vote for our families, our freedoms, and our futures.
We know that so much more work lies ahead of us. Yet as an LGBTQIA2S+ movement, we will continue to work towards what we always have: a country where all LGBTQIA2S+ people are safe, seen, and accepted for who we truly are, without exception. We are here together, and we will move forward. —
We’ve got this. We’ve got us.
Signed by the following nearly 200 organizations (and counting!) —
- Advocates for Trans Equality
- Advocates for Youth
- AIDS United
- Alaskans Together For Equality
- All Under One Roof LGBTQ Advocates of SE Idaho
- Alliance For Full Acceptance SC
- ALSO Youth
- Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum
- Atlanta Pride
- Basic Rights Oregon
- Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
- Blue Ridge Pride
- Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BCPC)
- Burbank Community YMCA Social Impact Center
- CAMP Rehoboth
- Center for HIV Law and Policy
- CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers
- Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness
- Charlotte Trans Health
- COLAGE
- Compass LGBTQ Community Center
- Crawfordsville Pride – Crawfordsville, IN
- Decatur County PRIDE Alliance
- Diversity Richmond
- Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc.
- Diversity Collective Ventura County
- EDGE New Jersey
- Equality Arizona
- Equality California
- Equality Community Center – Maine
- Equality Connecticut
- Equality Delaware
- Equality Federation
- Equality Florida
- Equality Illinois
- EqualityMaine
- Equality Michigan
- Equality New Mexico
- Equality North Carolina
- Equality Ohio
- Equality Texas
- Equality Virginia
- Equality South Dakota
- Fair Wisconsin
- Fairness Campaign
- Fairness West Virginia
- FAIRNY
- Family Equality
- Forum for Equality Louisiana
- Friends of Dorothy of Indiana
- The Frederick Center
- Garden State Equality
- Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC
- Gender Justice
- Georgia Equality
- GLAAD
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)
- GLSEN
- Grand Rapids Pride Center
- Grand Rapids Trans Foundation
- Greenwood Indiana Pride
- GSAFE
- Have A Gay Day Inc.
- Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation
- Henderson Equality Center
- The Human Rights Alliance
- Human Rights Campaign
- IYG
- Jim Toy Community Center
- Lambda Legal
- Lavender Rights Project
- LGBT Center Orlando, Inc.
- LGBT Center of Raleigh
- LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast
- The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
- The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada
- LGBT Life Center
- LGBTQ+ Community Center of Darke County
- The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert
- LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc.
- LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
- LGBTQ+ Victory Institute
- LGBTQ+ Walworth County
- The LIAM Foundation
- The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center
- Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Louisville Youth Group
- Loving Beyond Understanding
- Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
- MassEquality
- Movement Advancement Project
- Muncie OUTreach LGBTQ+ Center
- Naper Pride Inc
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund
- NBJC
- North Dakota Human Rights Coalition
- NoVA Prism Center
- Northwest Arkansas Equality
- Ogden Pride
- Omaha ForUs LGBTQ+ Center
- One-n-ten
- One Colorado
- One Iowa
- Our Family Coalition
- Our Spot KC
- Out in the Open
- OutCenter Southwest Michigan
- OutFront Minnesota
- OutNebraska
- Outright Vermont
- Patchwork Transgender Peer Support
- PFLAG National
- PFLAG Akron
- PFLAG Athens, TN
- PFLAG Blairsville
- PFLAG Bowie
- PFLAG Burbank
- PFLAG Cape Cod
- PFLAG Cape Girardeau
- PFLAG Carson Region
- PFLAG Charlotte
- PFLAG Clayton-Concord
- PFLAG Corydon – Leavenworth
- PFLAG Danville – San Ramon Valley
- PFLAG Danville / Central Susquehanna Valley
- PFLAG Denver
- PFLAG Fort Collins
- PFLAG Franklin
- PFLAG Franklin-Hampshire
- PFLAG Frederick
- PFLAG Fort Worth
- PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities
- PFLAG Georgetown
- PFLAG Greater Boston
- PFLAG Greater Orlando
- PFLAG Greater Placer County
- PFLAG Greensburg
- PFLAG Hampton Roads
- PFLAG Hartford
- PFLAG Jersey Shore
- PFLAG Lafayette/Tippecanoe County
- PFLAG Lamorinda
- PFLAG Lower Columbia
- PFLAG Nazareth/Lehigh Valley
- PFLAG of Door County
- PFLAG Safety Harbor
- PFLAG Salisbury Rowan
- PFLAG San Diego County
- PFLAG Seattle
- PFLAG Socorro
- PFLAG Storm Lake
- PFLAG Tulsa
- PFLAG Waukesha
- Philadelphia Family Pride
- Point of Pride
- Positive Women’s Network – USA
- The Pride Center at Equality Park
- Pride Center of Terre Haute Inc.
- Pride Center of Vermont
- Pride Frisco
- Pride Lafayette
- Pride Richland County (Illinois)
- The Prideful Path Project
- Prism United
- PROMO Missouri
- Project LPAC
- Q Center PDX
- Queer Keys
- Queer Vox
- Queering The Binary Foundation
- QueerLit Collective
- Qweerty Gamers
- Rainbow Center
- Rainbow Labs
- Rainbow Seniors ROC, Inc.
- Rochester Rainbow Union
- Rockland County Pride Center
- Ruth Ellis Center
- Sacramento LGBT Community Center
- SAGE
- The San Diego LGBT Community Center
- San Francisco Community Health Center
- Seacoast Outright
- Shelly’s Voice Advocacy
- Shoals Diversity Center
- Silver State Equality
- Solano Pride Center
- Somos Familia Valle
- Spencer Pride, Inc.
- Stand with Trans
- Stonewall Columbus, Inc
- Tennessee Equality Project
- Time Out Youth
- The Trevor Project
- TransCanWork
- Transformation Project
- Transgender Law Center
- Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico
- TransLafayette
- TransOhio
- Us Giving Richmond Connections
- Volusia Pride
- Waves Ahead Corp Puerto Rico
- We Are Family
- Wyoming Equality
- Youth Pride Association
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About Family Equality
Family Equality is creating a world where everyone can experience the love, safety, and belonging of family. As the leading national organization for current and future LGBTQ+ families, we work to ensure that everyone has the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families by advancing LGBTQ+ equality through advocacy, support, storytelling, and education.
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