CA: EQCA Starts Marriage Equality Conversations Across the State
With rallies, protests, dedications, and ceremonies across the state, it was hard to miss California’s inaugural celebration of Harvey Milk’s birthday. And if you live in a conservative-voting...
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Equality California, the state’s leading gay-rights advocacy group, is targeting Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and GOP attorney general nominee Steve Cooley with new ads on Proposition...
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Equality CA Closing Fresno, Orange County, San Jose Offices
The statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California is reducing its field operations after next week’s elections. The move comes as EQCA shifts strategy in its public education efforts around...
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CA: Noose Left at Santa Ana Equality California Office
A black noose was hung this week from the door of a gay-rights organization here, and the worker who found it now plans to file a formal complaint about how police responded. Mel Distel found the cloth...
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EQCA Documents Show Big Drop in Contributions
The statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California plans to con tinue promoting marriage equality and pro-gay candidates, despite shutting down some offices in a cost-cutting move. This week, the...
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Geoff Kors to Leave Equality California
Equality California executive director Geoff Kors, who has led the state’s largest gay rights organization since 2002, will leave his position next year. In a Friday release, Kors said he will depart...
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CA: Prop 8 Repeal Proposal This Year Lost at Equality CA By One Vote
A proposal to try to repeal Proposition 8 in 2012 failed an Equality California board vote by one vote, officials from Love Honor Cherish claim in a recent letter to EQCA. The Los Angeles-based LHC,...
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California, USA: Is EQCA Still There?
Hear that deafening silence? That’s the sound of Equality California, the once highly regarded and legislatively active state LGBT lobbying organization, thinking about its next move. And thinking, and...
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California, USA: HRC, EQCA Fined for Infractions in No on 8 Campaign
A campaign contribution of $142,000 to a committee battling 2008′s Proposition 8 – the state’s same sex marriage ban – by La Jolla billionaire homeowner Ron Burkle plays a featured role in a stipulated...
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California, USA: Equality California Names New Executive Director
John O’Connor, a seasoned nonprofit executive with deep ties in the LGBT community, today was named the new executive director of Equality California and Equality California Institute. O’Connor will...
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