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Category: News
Community, allies are ready for National Equality March
This weekend’s National Equality March in Washington, D.C., is meant to send a message to lawmakers that it’s past time for them to enact key measures, including workplace equality and federal hate crimes protections, and to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. The previous such march took place 30 years ago, in 1979. “This is the first opportunity the new generation of leadership has had to march in the nation’s capital,” said Kip Williams, co-director of the event. Google/The Associated Press (10/7)
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Arizona revokes DP benefits for state workers
The domestic partners of Arizona state workers and their children are among several groups to lose their health insurance coverage under a new law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The domestic-partnership benefits, which were made available a year ago via an administrative rule change, represented about $3 million versus the state’s $625 million outlay for benefits for other workers and their dependents, according to this article. Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (09/17)
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NJ activist Babs Casbar Siperstein nominated for key DNC position
Congrats to Babs Casbar Siperstein for being the first transgender Democrat appointed to the national DNC body. Babs is a nationally-known advocate for transgender rights and educatio who hails from New Jersey.
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Harvey Milk to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Washington, D.C. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has learned President Barack Obama plans to award America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Harvey Milk, one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials. The award will be accepted at a White House ceremony August 12 by Stuart Milk, the nephew of the late San Francisco Supervisor and civil rights activist.
Two other exciting recipients: American tennis great Billie Jean King, who is openly lesbian, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who has championed LGBT equality throughout his political career.
For more information, view the press release from Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund:
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NJLGC Helps You Take Action!
Visit the NJLGC Action Center for the latest alerts about legislation including Hate Crimes, Marriage Equality, and other issues important to our community and you.
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“Please don’t divorce…” Courage Campaign community photo project
Infamous prosecutor Ken Starr has filed a legal brief — on behalf of the “Yes on 8″ campaign — to nullify the 18,000 same-sex marriages performed in California between May and November of 2008.
It’s time to put a face to Ken Starr’s shameful legal proceedings. To put a face to the 18,000 couples facing forcible divorce. To put a face to marriage equality. Because, gay or straight, YOU are the face of the Marriage Equality Movement.
Please click through the photos in the slideshows below and then submit your own photo, as an individual, a couple or in a group (perhaps with your family over the holidays). Take a picture holding a piece of paper that says “Please don’t divorce us,” “Please don’t divorce my moms,”"Please don’t divorce my friends, Dawn and Audrey,” “Please don’t divorce Californians” or whatever you want after “Please don’t divorce…” and send it to: pleasedontdivorce@couragecampaign.org.
We want to share this beautiful project with as many people as possible. Please tell your friends about this slideshow by clicking here to use our simple and easy invite page.
To support the “Please don’t divorce…” project or our campaign to repeal Prop 8, please consider making a contribution to the Courage Campaign. Click here to make a timely donation.
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In memory of David Morris
Dear members of the NJLGC Community:
It is with a profoundly heavy heart that I share the sad news that David Morris, one of NJ’s longest standing gay activists and long time friend of GAAMC and NJLGC, passed away today. It is impossible to chronicle all the contributions that David has made to NJ’s GLBT community over the years. Most recently the chair of the legal committee at NJLGC, David was president of GAAMC and ongoing presence there, president of NJLGC, a vital force in sensitivity training of the NJ State Police and a mentor to so many of today’s young(er) activists (myself included).
I was just thinking of David the other day, while watching “Milk”. That movie, an extraordinarily inspiring film about Harvey Milk and the gay movement he helped launch, reminded me how much of a difference a person can make. And immediately my thoughts went to David, a man who began his activism in a pre-Milk era, and four decades later was still fighting for equality and justice and hope.
David will be missed, in so many ways and by so many people. But his presence and contributions to NJ’s GLBT community live on. It is not hyperbole to speculate that, to a great extent, it is because of work that he did that we are poised today to see full equality, including marriage equality, in NJ in the foreseeable future.
Laura Pople,
NJLGC Chair
Category: News
NO on Prop. 8 in California
From our friends at Equality California:
NO on 8: Proposition 8. It’s not right for California.
Every Californian should have the choice to marry the person they love. It’s a personal and fundamental freedom guaranteed by the California Constitution.
But this November, Californians will have an opportunity to vote on Prop. 8, a divisive measure that aims to take away this basic freedom from same-gender couples. It’s not right for California. And it’s not right for you.
You can donate to the “NO on 8″ and find out more here.
