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The following organizations are official, allied organizations and strategic partners of Kentucky Equality Federation as confirmed by our General Advisory Council. Most categories and items in this section will not appear until you login.Click a Link to open the Link in a new window. Click again to refresh that window with the new Link. Only one new window will be opened at any given time.
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Freedom to Marry
Freedom to Marry is the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Freedom to Marry brings the work of its partner organizations and their many approaches — litigation, legislation, direct action, and public education — into a larger whole, a shared civil rights campaign that fosters heightened outreach to non-gay allies.
Freedom to Marry enhances progress toward marriage equality by filling four principal roles:
- Strategy and Support Center for our local and state partners;
- Catalyst that drives and influences the national debate on the freedom to marry;
- Partnership and Alliance-Builder enlisting local, regional, and national non-gay allies and non-gay public support; and
- Regrantor and Engine of Funding to augment local, state and national freedom to marry efforts, while advising funders and assisting local organizations' stimulation of their own funding.
Freedom to Marry works closely with every organization — gay and non-gay, national and local — taking part in this effort to end discrimination in marriage. Freedom to Marry has a talented and diverse staff and a Steering Committee that includes non-gay allies, civil rights activists, and experts.
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International Lesbian & Gay Association (ILGA)
The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people everywhere.
Founded in 1978, it now has more than 600 member organisations. Every continent and over 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities.
ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as a global issue. -
Kentucky Equality PAC
Kentucky Equality PAC endorses and helps elect fair-minded candidates in Kentucky who support full equality for all Kentuckians.
Kentucky Equality PAC also supports political campaigns that promote the fair treatment of all Kentuckians and fights misguided efforts that could delay our progress toward true equality.
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Kentucky Gay-Straight Alliance
The Kentucky Gay-Straight Alliance supports high school, college, university, and community gay-straight alliances throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. We support GSAs throughout Kentucky by holding events, providing materials, educational support, guest speakers, and counseling.
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Lambda Legal - Kentucky
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
- Lexington Fairness
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Libertarian Party of Kentucky
The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11, 1971. It is one of the largest continuing Third parties in the United States, claiming more than 200,000 registered voters and more than 600 people in public office, including mayors, county executives, county-council members, school-board members and other local officials. It has more people in office than all other third parties combined.
The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects that group's particular brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration across borders, and non-interventionism in foreign policy that respects freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries.
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Marriage Equality USA
Marriage Equality, Inc. began as an idea in 1996 with a handful of activists believing that same-sex couples should have the freedom and the right to civil marriage, and angry that the federal government wanted to pass a law barring LGBT people from this right. The organization was officially founded and formed February 12, 1998, on National Freedom To Marry Day.
In the late autumn of 2000, the national organization, Marriage Equality USA was officially founded. Since then other chapters have formed across the country and are chapters are growing every day. The organization's sole purpose and focus is to end discrimination in civil marriage so that same-sex couples can enjoy the same legal and societal status as opposite-sex couples.
