EQUALITY LINKS
We are your neighbors, co-workers, teachers, students, community activists, friends and family members. We are Renwl: the West Adams/Los Angeles South Neighborhood Equality Team formed through the Courage Campaign Equality Hub. And we’re doing outreach to put real human faces and stories behind this movement. We’re particularly excited about working with such a multicultural mix of gay and straight activists who have come from all over the city to join our neighborhood team.
We believe the hands that shake our hands today will soon punch ballots in support of marriage equality – or in support of our state judges if they rule on the side of justice and then are targeted for removal from their seats.
The Equal Roots Coalition serves as an activist hub where LGBTQ citizens can work to improve the lives of LGBTQ people in Los Angeles County and beyond through direct action and innovative organization. Through this open network and space we hope to ensure that each new generation of LGBTQ activists will be well equipped to tackle the challenges that face our community.
ALLorNotAtAll exists to make sure that the constitutional rights of every citizen is protected equally by educating the public about the facts regarding civil marriage equality. We will also be reaching out to explain the great harm that inequality fosters…from bullying that results in suicide to outright abuse and murder, we will demonstrate why civil marriage equality is essential to maintaining the fabric of society. We will do this through education and outreach and our primary tool will be the truth.
COLAGE is a national movement of children, youth, and adults with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) parent/s. We build community and work toward social justice through youth empowerment, leadership development, education, and advocacy.
Equal Action is a youth-powered, anti-racist, multigenerational organization that mobilizes the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community to join the fight for social justice. In supporting and organizing actions for change in overlooked communities, we collaborate with those who work to end oppression in all its forms.
Equality Network is a nonprofit, grassroots activist organization focused on creating change at the Federal level for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. By building a movement that is committed to non-violent direct action, training, and education, we are determined to win the fight for full equality, which will overturn laws that discriminate, and enact laws that protect and recognize LGBT people as fully equal, legitimate Americans.
The mission of the Latino Equality Alliance is to promote liberty, equality and justice for the Latino LGBT community.
Everyone (LGBT and Straight Allies) is welcome to join our movement for equality.
News, events and community action activities will be posted on this group. We welcome your participation and activism.
The HONOR Political Action Committee (HONOR PAC) advocates for the political empowerment of Latina/o LGBT communities.
HONOR PAC is a voluntary non-partisan committee that supports candidates and ballot propositions that advance progressive policies that directly address the unique needs and interests of Latina/o LGBT communities.
We are a community based grassroots organization dedicated to the advancement of social justice issues with an emphasis on the LGBTQI community.
Long Beach Equality was created for the purpose of fighting for our equal rights. Prop 8 will take our rights as a citizen of California if it is allowed to take effect. We have to fight for our constitutional rights.
The Courage Campaign is an online organizing network that empowers more than 700,000 grassroots and netroots activists to push for progressive change and full equality in California and across the country.
As a leading multi-issue advocacy organization, the Courage Campaign's work to bring progressive change to California and full equality to America is supported by thousands of small donations from our diverse community. Through Courage Campaign California, we are holding politicians accountable to progressive values, working to bring fundamental reform to California's broken government, and training and organizing activists to change their communities. Through Courage Campaign Equality, we are mobilizing activists to restore marriage equality to California and full equality to America, driven by "Testimony: Equality on Trial" -- our year-long campaign to bring the Prop 8 federal trial into the lives of Americans.
As the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, the Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of over 750,000 members and supporters nationwide — all committed to making HRC’s vision a reality.
Founded in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots actions in diverse communities, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals to office and educates the public about LGBT issues.
HRC envisions an America where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of the American family at home, at work and in every community.
Since it was founded in 1998, Equality California has strategically moved California from a state with extremely limited legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals to a state with some of the most comprehensive civil rights protections in the nation.
EQCA works to achieve equality and secure legal protections for LGBT people. To improve the lives of LGBT Californians, EQCA sponsors legislation and coordinates efforts to ensure its passage, lobbies legislators and other policy makers, builds coalitions, develops community strength and empowers individuals and other organizations to engage in the political process.
Love Honor Cherish formed in May 2008 to work against Prop 8. We raised over half a million dollars for the No on 8 campaign but at the same time, also mounted our own separate outreach and media efforts, with a strong focus on speaking the truth about marriage and presenting diverse images of LGBT people and our families.
For more information on the groups fighting for marriage equality check out the following organizations: