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Changing Hearts and Minds in the Grocery Store and the Church Parking Lot At the ACLU, we've long believed that real people's stories about their lives are the key to changing the minds of the public when it comes to full equality for same-sex couples. And some stories we've been hearing from some of the plaintiffs in Donaldson and Guggenheim v. Montana, a case we recently filed in Montana, really bear that out. |
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The "Witt Standard" and Pending DADT Cases How an ACLU case set a legal standard now being used to fight "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" all over. |
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Support Ceara Sturgis: Yearbooks Must Include Everyone It was just last month that we settled our case against the Itawamba County School District in Mississippi for discriminating against Constance McMillen. As you'll recall, the school cancelled prom rather than let Constance wear a tuxedo and take her girlfriend as her date. |
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Summer for Marriage Earlier in the season, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) declared this the "Summer for Marriage," and launched a cross-country bus tour to persuade the public that allowing same-sex couples to marry would be really bad. According to most reports, not all that many people were eager to jump on board, and some say it was really just a sham. But NOM did get one thing right: this has indeed been the summer for marriage. |
Tell 3
Pledge to tell three people what it's like for you or your loved one to be LGBT. Because we used to think coming out would win us our rights. Now we know it takes more than that. Tell 3 and take a step toward equality.
10 Couples
Visit 10Couples.org and meet ten couples who are sharing their lives and building families together. Watch their videos and learn what you can do to ensure that these ordinary couples are no longer denied important protections for their families.
Podcast
In this podcast, Mary Beth Tinker, a plaintiff in the landmark student free speech case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, talks about the incident that lead to the court case, her activism in the 40 years since, and how this decision continues to protect LGBT students who are working to improve conditions in their schools.
