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Legislative Session Update: the Good, Bad, and Hopeful
An Equality Florida legislative session update reviewed the 2021 session, highlighting the Florida Commission on Human Relations' nondiscrimination win, fast-tracked anti-trans youth bills, stalled HIV modernization bills, and reproductive freedom attacks.
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Equality Florida’s Full 2021 Legislative Slate
Equality Florida released its full 2021 legislative slate, opposing bills criminalizing gender-affirming care and banning transgender youth from sports, while supporting hate crimes expansion, marriage ban repeal, gender marker updates, and a school voucher equality bill.
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VICTORY: Florida Will Protect LGBTQ Civil Rights
The Florida Commission on Human Relations announced it will fully implement the Supreme Court's Bostock ruling and investigate anti-LGBTQ discrimination claims, meaning LGBTQ Floridians statewide are protected from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
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Equality Florida’s 2021 Equality Agenda
Equality Florida outlined its 2021 Equality Agenda, with priorities including Safe & Healthy Schools for LGBTQ students, passing the Florida Competitive Workforce Act, modernizing HIV laws, advancing transgender equality, and supporting pro-equality businesses.
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HISTORIC: Joe Biden & Kamala Harris WIN 2020 Presidential Election
Equality Florida celebrated the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, crediting supporters and its largest-ever Public Policyization program for turning out more than 1 million pro-equality voters in Florida.
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2020 General Election Results
Equality Florida recapped 2020 general election results, highlighting wins by LGBTQ and pro-equality candidates including Carlos Guillermo Smith, Anna Eskamani, Daniella Levine Cava, Shevrin Jones, and Michele Rayner, and a turnout effort reaching over 1 million pro-equality voters.
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Equality Florida Hires Largest Statewide LGBTQ Election Team in US
Equality Florida announced the largest statewide LGBTQ election team in the U.S., growing its staff to 16 as it worked to mobilize over 560,000 pro-equality voters in Florida for the 2020 election cycle.
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Equality Florida, Step Up For Students partner to expand culture of inclusion for LGBTQ students
Equality Florida partnered with Step Up For Students to expand its Safe and Healthy Schools LGBTQ awareness training to private schools serving scholarship students, seeded by $1 million Step Up raised for the multi-year program.
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Transgender Americans Are Being Murdered. Does Anyone Care?
An Equality Florida blog examined the ongoing epidemic of murders of transgender Americans, especially Black trans women, highlighting Florida cases such as Bee Love Slater and the persistent deadnaming and misgendering by law enforcement that impedes investigations.
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Historic Night for Black LGBTQ Candidates in Florida
Equality Florida celebrated history-making 2020 primary wins by Black LGBTQ candidates Shevrin Jones and Michele Rayner and the defeat of anti-LGBTQ incumbents including Rep. Mike Hill, Rep. Kimberly Daniels, and Rep. Al Jacquet.
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