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How much do you want equal access to and security in employment?
How much do you want equal opportunity to live where you want? How much do you want equal recognition of your relationships? How much do you want equal rights to live openly and true to what and who you are? How much do you want equal protection under the law? How much do you want to be an equal citizen of this nation? T  he campaign for LGBT equality in Arizona isn’t over. It won’t be over until we and our allies have secured equality through an amendment to the Arizona constitution. Equality in employment, housing, and marriage is still not ours, but can be. If we really…really…want equality, then it will be up to us to organize, strategize, and work hard to achieve it. Full equality requires commitment from us AND from you. Lessons of the past teach us we can’t expect others to do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Together! NOW! Besides our losing Prop 102 in 2008, the Democrats actually lost ground in the legislature. In response, we have acted to resurrect the Arizona Stonewall Democrats (AZSD), pledging to fight for equality with new blood, new leadership, new energy, new transparency, and a new plan. It is time for us to stop playing defense and go on the offense! We are the Stonewall Democrats. Stonewall because we have the same scrappy determination to make change as did the original participants in the four-day Stonewall uprising; Democrats because the Republican Party has demonized our community for political gain. Our plan, the Equal Means Equal campaign, starts with the LGBT community and its equality allies turning out in force to help the Arizona Democratic Party win a majority in both houses of the state legislature in 2012. |
