Be You - Be With Us: National LGBTQ Task Force

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thetaskforce.org/

Today, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is changing its name and upping its game to tear down any remaining barriers to full freedom, justice and equality for all LBGTQ people. We want to create a world where you can be you, without barriers.

Our new name is the “National LGBTQ Task Force,” our tagline is “Be you.” Our vision is for a society that values and respects the diversity of human expression and identity and achieves freedom and equity for all.

Check out our new “Be You” video featuring some of our Task Force Team.

We're evolving to reflect a defining moment for our community: where there's a real hunger to be completely out without fear, without persecution, without discrimination. We're evolving to attend to an equally palpable hunger for more change with millions of us still facing formidable barriers in every aspect of our lives: at school, in housing, employment, in health care, in our faith congregations, in retirement and in basic human rights. And while we have yet to win full marriage equality — that fight isn’t over — we must also look beyond marriage to continue the work that speaks to the many things we are as LGBTQ people.

And let’s not forget for a second that those who seek to deny us full equality are redoubling their efforts — even using people’s religion as an excuse to discriminate. We can’t let them succeed.
We imagine a different world. A world in which each person can be fully themselves. Be fully free.
Being you is to be able to walk down the street holding hands together and not fear that you'll be hit over the head with a bottle.
Being you is to be able to live in any state you want and be legally recognized and honored as your children’s parents.
Being you is to be able to enter a voting station as a black transgender woman and not worry that anyone will question you because of the color of your skin or because your ID card doesn’t match what they see.

Let’s seize this moment, let’s be ourselves fully, and let’s make a future together that’s worthy of our struggle.

To get more information about our new move forward, check out this article in The Advocate.
My best,


Rea Carey, Executive Director
National LGBTQ Task Force
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[sheshe2]

1. Our new name is the “National LGBTQ Task Force,” our tagline is “Be you.”

Our vision is for a society that values and respects the diversity of human expression and identity and achieves freedom and equity for all.



Thank you Steve!

[marym625]

2. awesome!

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Kicking. Thank you. nt