Hate Crimes
Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old openly gay college student who was targeted for his sexual orientation and was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, on Oct.…
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Past Victories
All Past Victories
#TurnOut in 2018
We knew that after the results of the 2016 election that we needed to do something big. Though the outcomes of that election season were not what we hoped, it…
The Journey to Marriage Equality in the United States
The road to nationwide marriage equality was a long one, spanning decades of United States history and culminating in victory in June 2015. Throughout the long fight for marriage equality,…
Virginia's Rainbow Wave
In early 2019, the commonwealth of Virginia’s anti-equality leadership refused to bring commonsense LGBTQ non-discrimination protections up for a vote in committee, despite support from a bipartisan majority of delegates…
Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
The discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on gay and lesbian service members is officially in the dustbin of history. For 17 years, the law prohibited qualified gay, lesbian and…