An HPA Statement on Marriage Equality

To my fellow members of the heterosexual community: White bigots have maintained they were right to keep blacks enslaved, killed, tortured, barred from voting, from restaurants, from certain sidewalks, and lunch counters, and bathrooms and bridges and yes, from marrying whites. But they lost. Just a few years ago, a bigoted white man refused to [...]

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“Progress in Marriage Equality” 2.0

When I joined the HPA staff back in September, one of the first blogs I wrote was about my personal experience with marriage equality (you can read it here). I compared equality to a baby taking it’s first steps- excruciatingly slow. “It may take decades for it to reach it’s goal… But it will get [...]

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Progress in Equality–It Does Get Better!

A lot has happened since Wizard Rock the Vote, and it’s easy to get caught up in new campaigns and forget to look back and see what we’ve helped to accomplish. So, personally, I think it’s time to take a moment to pat ourselves on the back and take a look at how far the [...]

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Progress in Marriage Equality

I have three mothers. My parents divorced when I was seven years old, and now, several years later, both my mom and dad are engaged to lovely women. They aren’t officially my moms- they’re not even officially stepmothers yet- but they feed me and care for me and love me all the same. Eventually- within [...]

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Equality in the UK

In the midst of the excitement surrounding Equality For the Win, exciting developments are already occurring elsewhere in the world for proponents of equal marraige. Perhaps one of the more exciting announcements in this direction was made a few weeks ago by the Scottish Parlaiment, which announced that they were adding a bill for the [...]

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Equality For the WIN!!!

Calling all D.A. members! As of NOW, the HPA is hosting a super-mega-awesome fundraiser for Equality. We’re teaming with awesome people like you to raise $50,000 by September 8th. Not only is this an opportunity to donate to an awesome cause and help fight inequality issues all over the globe, you can also claim some [...]

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Don’t Let the Political Parties Get You Down

Yesterday, Freedom to Marry launched a new campaign called Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry in an effort to make the issue of marriage equality less of a partisan issue than it currently seems.  The members of the group will do exactly as it sounds–they will be young conservatives encouraging other conservatives to stand up [...]

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Don’t Forget the Issues

Election season is in full swing. Primaries are gradually coming to an end. By July, I predict that every other commercial on TV in America will be a political ad. And then, come November, we’ll be hitting the polls to vote, not only for the president, but also to vote in local and state issues. [...]

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Wrock 4 Equality 2 Takes Place This Saturday, February 26th!

Get ready to wrock out for marriage equality! The big Wrock 4 Equality 2 event will take place on Saturday, February 26.  Join us at our Livestream channel starting at 10:30 a.m. EST and going until 9 p.m. EST, where we’ll be helping MASS Equality and Marriage Equality Rhode Island make phone calls to the [...]

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Wrock 4 Equality 2 Begins This Wednesday!

The big Wrock 4 Equality 2 event will take place on Saturday, February 26.  But we’re actually starting a few days early!  Join us at our livestream channel on Wednesday, February 23, from 7 pm EST to 9 pm EST as we kick-off Wrock 4 Equality 2.  Let’s help Rhode Island become the next state [...]

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