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...and we're BACK!

Happy New Year!!

We're in for quite a ride this year.  After eight long years under President Bush, we are literally in the last days of an administration that aggresively opposed legislation and stood in the way of policies that would advance LGBT equality.  And now, with the January 20 inauguration day soon approaching, we're looking forward to working with the Obama administration to make sure they carry out their promises of LGBT inclusion they made during the campaign.  Of course, we know that real change and progress does not come overnight - or without a fight.  We've got a lot of work ahead of us and we'll need to call upon our members more than ever to ensure that the new administration takes concrete action on our issues. 

If you're not a member of the Human Rights Campaign, now is the time to join us in our fight!

HRC has launched a new membership drive that we're calling "The New Way Forward." Our goal is to add 2,009 new members before Barack Obama takes his oath of office on January 20.

In a recent email message to our supporters, HRC President Joe Solmonese outlined a few key reasons why becoming a member of the Human Rights Campaign is so important at this crucial moment in our movement:

• First and foremost, we will continue laying the groundwork for full marriage equality, including a repeal of Proposition 8. HRC is taking aggressive action against the lies and fabrications that have held back the tide of equality. We can, and we will, show America that honoring love and commitment is the moral thing to do.

• We will fight so that Judy Shepard doesn't have to spend one more year without her son Matthew's life being honored with a hate crimes law that protects ALL of us.

• We will continue building public support for a fully-inclusive workplace protection, so that LGBT people will no longer suffer discrimination or lose their jobs because of who they are.

• We will fight for the freedom to serve openly in the military; for adoption and foster parenting rights; and for transgender equality as a critical piece of our national civil rights vision.

• In weeks to come, you will hear more about HRC's grassroots, online and other campaigns to channel the anger caused by Prop. 8 and pursue our vision of justice – in the states, workplaces, faith communities, college campuses and beyond.

Not all these things will happen in 2009, but this is a moment we must not let slip by. This is the time to join our movement.

We can't do this without you. HRC is only as strong as the members who support and sustain us. JOIN TODAY.