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Leading Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely

Last month, we hosted our New Executive Director Intensive, one of our longest-running leadership programs. For over a decade, this program has brought together Executive Directors who are new in their role to foster healthy, sustainable organizations and leadership practices. Here are inspiring takeaways we got out of this year’s intensive!

March 5, 2025
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Spotlight Interview featuring Ronnie, Advocacy, Policy, & Partnerships Director at FreeState Justice

In recognition of HIV is Not a Crime Day and Maryland's recent groundbreaking progress toward HIV law reform, we sat down for a conversation with Ronnie at FreeState Justice, one of our state partners. We discuss Maryland’s historic progress, its significance in the current landscape of HIV criminalization across the United States, and the importance of Black LGBTQ+ leadership in shaping HIV justice.

February 28, 2025
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Iowa Republicans Strip Civil Rights Protections for Trans People from State Law

The Iowa Legislature this evening passed a repeal of 18-year-old nondiscrimination protections for transgender people. We denounce Iowa’s rollback of civil rights protections for trans people in the strongest possible terms, and call on all Americans of conscience to stand up for their LGBTQ+ friends, family, and neighbors.

February 27, 2025
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A Message to Our Community from 200+ Organizations Committed to Advancing LGBTQIA2S+ Freedom

To everyone in our community: We are here. We will keep fighting for us, showing up for us, and creating spaces where we can all feel safe and loved.

February 21, 2025
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President Biden Signs Defense Bill Blocking Health Care For Transgender Military Children

President Biden signed into law the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. This annual defense policy bill included a new provision blocking health care for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision is the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

December 24, 2024
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2024 at a Glance: Equality Federation Team Shares Snapshots from This Year

Hear from the Fed team, and take a look at what we’ve been up to in 2024!

December 19, 2024

Press Releases

Federal Judge Blocks UNC from Enforcing Discriminatory Provision of HB2

Equality Federation joins Federation member Equality North Carolina in hailing a decision by a federal judge to suspend the enforcement of the discriminatory provisions of North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law, HB2 until plaintiffs have their opportunity to make their case in court.

August 30, 2016
The Egregious Anti-Transgender Ruling in Texas

On Sunday August 22nd, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. District Court Judge Reed Charles O’Connor issued a preliminary order in Texas v. United States, a case in which public officials in Texas and 10 other states are challenging nondiscrimination protections for transgender students and employees.

August 25, 2016
Is Brokeback Mountain Real? The Stories of Queer Wyoming.

August 18, 2016
Discomfort Is Part of the Work (LGBTQ & #BlackLivesMatter)

Two years ago, Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, a city where less than two years before, we worked with the Ferguson City Council to pass the first inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in North County.

August 12, 2016
Federal Court Hears Arguments in Texas Case Seeking to Roll Back Transgender Protections

On Friday, August 12th, a federal court in Forth Worth Texas will hear arguments in State of Texas v. United States, a lawsuit that is a clear attack on transgender people with the sole purpose of enshrining discrimination into the law.

August 12, 2016
Equality Florida & Orlando Community Condemn Trump & Rubio for Speaking at Anti-LGBTQ Event

ORLANDO, FL – Equality Federation member Equality Florida, faith leaders, and family members of victims of the Pulse shooting were joined by nearly 200 local advocates on August 11th outside the “Rediscovering God in America” conference in Orlando to call out Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.

August 12, 2016
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