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eQualityThinking Panel 10: States of Equality

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Monday, March 14, 2011
From Noon to 1:00 pm EDT

Panel #10: States of Equality - Some Almost Equal, Some Very Unequal

  According to eQualityGiving's States Scorecard, five states have almost full LGBT equality for its citizens. Five other states offer basically no protections. And more than half of the states offer minimal protections.

In this panel we discuss what are the challenges and opportunities for a sample of states: two states that offer almost full equality for its citizens, as well as for one state in the middle and one state with almost no protections.

 

Panelists

  AJ Bockelman,  Executive Director, PROMO (Missouri)

Carolyn S. Jenison, Executive Director, One Iowa

Geoff Kors, Esq., Executive Director, Equality California

Ian Palmquist, Executive Director, Equality North Carolina

 

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Rebecca Isaacs, Executive Director, Equality Federation
 
Rex Wockner, Freelance Journalist and Blogger

 

 

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From J Todd - Mar. 12, 2011 6:06 PM

Is there any effort to organize by Congressional district in any state.   Do the state organizations see themselves addressing both state and federal issues.   And what process for coordination is there to determine policy.


From John [75.41.113.203] - Mar. 12, 2011 10:20 AM

I understand why state level work is so critical to our movement, but why do we seem to put forth the ideal that every state needs to have its own equality organization?  The reality is that most of the ones that exist are terribly underresourced and as a result cannot bring an A-game to the table.  Do you think that by having a series of regional organizations that complement the big states (CA, NY, NJ, etc), that they could do a better job?  Regions could be composed of a few nearby states that share a common culture, economy, political landscape, and LGBT accomplishments.  Then resources could be pooled and built up and deployed within the region as necessary.


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