Equality Advocates Celebrate Successes, Plan For More

Representatives from more than thirty equality advocacy organizations gathered in St. Louis this weekend for The Equality Federation's summer meeting.  The conference -- to celebrate recent successes and discuss the continuing work to protect the lives of LGBT folks at the state and local level -- wrapped up yesterday.

"While we still wait for progress at the federal level on issues like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Employment protections and hate crimes, we have been very successful at moving things forward within our respective states," said AJ Bockelman. "For example, just this past spring, Columbia passed a domestic partner registry. It is limited in scope, but now at least registered couples can have some way to be recognized as a couple when one of them gets hospitalized or incarcerated."

For more press coverage, check out the AP and Beacon stories posted last week.