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How Project Game Changer is Flipping the Script on Organizing

From the fall of 2018 through spring 2019, Equality Federation members across the country played important roles in registering and turning out hundreds of thousands of voters to elect pro-equality candidates and win ballot measures. But what we learned as the national partner to these groups is that it isn’t just during elections that they need volunteers and donors to advance their missions — state-based equality organizations need this year round.

September 24, 2020
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Equality Federation Mourns the Passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Words fall short to describe the woman who led some of the fiercest legal battles in service of making this country more just — more equal.

September 19, 2020
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After 10 Years, Executive Director Rebecca Isaacs Steps Down

Yesterday at the kick-off of Equality Federation’s virtual Leadership Conference, I made the bittersweet announcement that after a long and wonderful run, I have decided to step down at the end of 2020—on my 10th anniversary—as leader of the Equality Federation. It has been a great honor to not only serve in this position for a decade but also to have been involved with the Equality Federation from its very inception.

July 30, 2020
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Supreme Court Affirms Federal Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ Americans

Today in a historic 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that employers can’t unfairly fire or otherwise discriminate against LGBTQ people in the workplace.

June 15, 2020
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Watch Vivian Topping and ALOK Talk Equality

ALOK and Vivian Topping from Equality Federation teamed up to share some important updates with you about anti-transgender legislative trends from around the country.

May 29, 2020
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LGBTQ Organizations Unite to Combat Racial Violence

We, the undersigned, recognize we cannot remain neutral, nor will awareness substitute for action. The LGBTQ community knows about the work of resisting police brutality and violence.

May 29, 2020

Press Releases

The Continuing Implementation of DOMA Decision and How It Will Impact Medicaid and CHIP

Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision striking down Section 3 of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), many federal departments have issued guidance and policy updates detailing the impact of DOMA’s demise for same-sex couples.

October 14, 2013
Stories from the States: The Fairness Campaign and Kentucky Fairness Alliance Merge!

We are pleased to welcome our newest member organization, the Fairness Campaign in Kentucky! The Fairness Campaign has recently merged with Kentucky Fairness Alliance to create a more unified, stable, and successful LGBT equality movement in the Bluegrass State!

October 14, 2013
Member Resource: What LGBT Communities Need to Know About the Affordable Care Act

Members of the LGBT community are more likely than the general population to lack adequate, if any, health coverage. But as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of LGBT people and their families will experience improvements in the quality of coverage they have—such as LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination protections—or will have access to health insurance coverage for the first time.

October 14, 2013
Be Out. Be Healthy. Get Covered. Out2Enroll

For too long, the LGBT community has been left out when it comes to health coverage. It has been too hard to find coverage that treats our families fairly, that covers the care we need, and that doesn't break the bank.

October 11, 2013
Marriage is Now Legal for the Majority of Americans

This is what progress looks like. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court quietly extended the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in five states.

October 9, 2013
Federation's Anne Stanback in the Hartford Courant: "State's Historic Gay Marriage Step Was Just One in Long Road To Equality"

Five years ago this week, Connecticut became the second state to secure the freedom to marry for loving, committed same-sex couples. A ruling in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health by the state Supreme Court on Oct. 10, 2008, said that same-sex couples could not be prevented from marrying.

October 8, 2013
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