THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF SACRAMENTO STONEWALL
WHAT NOW?
QUARTERLY MARCH 2017 ISSUE
President's Message PAGE 2
LGBT History: A Refresher PAGE 20
resist. www.sacstonewall.org/resist
EXCLUSIVE!
education report PAGE 3
LGBT RIGHTS AND ABORTION RIGHTS ARE INSEPARABLE
Stonewall Foundation Announces Laurie McBride Scholarship
The Stonewall PAC had a good year in 2016 PAGE 13
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If you think your gay marriage is safe in California. Think again! PAGE 11
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Lanz Nalagan, Communications Chair The new administration brings an uncertain future for our diverse communities. But it also brings an unprecedented surge in social activism. What now? We are much more than the sum of our parts, and we must stay stronger together and #RESIST. Follow Sac Stonewall to see how we are harnessing our new and rekindled social justice warriors as we react and respond to the next chapter in American history. We especially hope you enjoy the new face-lift of our magazine. You deserve it! -The Stonewall Quarterly is published 4 times a year by the Stonewall Democrats of Greater Sacramento and distributed to all members of "The Club That Gets Things Done!" I encourage you to submit news, advertisements, and features for publication. The views and opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the contributors and not necessarily of the Stonewall Democrats of Greater Sacramento.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
By Jann Dorothy, President
Admit it: We all knew that Trump would be a disaster, but with the new administration careening from one blunder to the next, it’s so far been even worse than any of us reasonably could have imagined. What’s next? The Trump administration has shown in its four-week existence that it is eager to target and marginalize at-risk communities for political gain. First it was undocumented immigrants and Muslims. Now Trump plans to target LGBT citizens by issuing either an executive order or by signing legislation that permits legal discrimination against LGBT persons under the guise of so-called “religious freedom.” Reporting in The Nation, Sarah Posner writes that a “Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination.” She notes that, “If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion and trans identity.” The White House acknowledged that this leaked draft was authentic, but said it was but one of many draft executive orders circulating. Little solace for those of us who would be denied our civil rights. We don’t know what day or how soon. But he’s coming after us and our allies with whom we are aligned – women, immigrants, religious and ethnic minorities, and others. But the collective outrage of all fair-minded people at Trump’s outrageous Muslim ban and the protests at airports throughout the country demonstrates what we can do when we band together in solidarity. And band together we will. Sac Stonewall is planning now for a large scale protest rally at 6:00pm at the Capitol on the day Trump signs his anti-LGBT “religious freedom” order or legislation. It could be next week, it could be next month. We’ll be ready. When you hear the news, get yourself to the Capitol for the protest. We’ve got rally signs ordered, the news release is ready, we have candles to pass out for the twilight vigil, and the bullhorns are already charged. What we need is you. Share the news with friends and family and JOIN US as we #RESIST! Grab your rainbow flags. Start making your own rally signs. Sign up for #RESIST emails and check out our microsite- www.sacstonewall.org/RESIST. Sacramento Stonewall is your voice as the political force of the LGBT community in our region. We’re proud to partner with our LGBT allies at the LGBT Community Center, the Rainbow Chamber of Commerce, SacLEGAL and others to collectively strengthen our community. Sac Stonewall is the one club dedicated to political action on behalf of us all. Thank you for being a member and stepping up!
QUARTERLY EDUCATION REPORT
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By Tim Kamermayer, Vice-President The Vice President’s Quarterly Report is regarding the ongoing efforts to promote LGBT rights in educational institutions and programs across Sacramento County. If 2016 becomes known as the year that shocked the world, then 2017 should be the year the world became woke and did something about it. With a new, angry, and very orange President leading the free world, it is imperative for advocates of American’s values to remain loud and vigilant. Since the Bush Administration came to an end, America has experienced vast amounts of positive progressive change. And, the past eight years, have resulted in tremendous victories across the Board. Unfortunately, most of those positive improvements are now under fire from the new Administration. And, those attacks are vast and board. In only 10 days, Trump has already proposed building a wall, banning Muslims from America, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and has engaged in volatile rhetoric (or tweets, if you will) intended to divide the country. One of the more indirect effects of a Trump Presidency is the detrimental impact it will have on our youth’s understanding of rights. Children follow their parents. It’s natural. If the parent is constantly complaining about “illegal immigrants taking their jobs,” the children will begin to mimic this behavior and discursive approach. Thus, when the President is openly bullying his perceived opponents, it is completely logical to assume the children of his supporters will adopt similar responses. And, once children accept bullying as a common behavior, it spreads to them bullying anyone they view as different. In fact, reports are already coming from around the country about instances of bullying since Trump became President. The best way to combat bullying is denounce it while closely monitoring the culture being promoted at school districts. To this end, Sacramento Stonewall Democrats have been attending monthly meetings with the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) LGBTQ Task Force. Below are a few updates from the meeting: • The Kinect Center – home of the SCUSD LGBTQ Task Force – has finally fully staffed their offices. • Infinite Campus Software – District software will now allow the digital changing of a student’s preferred gender identification. Allowing teachers and administrators the ability to view a student’s profile, ensuring the student’s preferred gender identity is respected. • Q Prom – Expected to take place again sometime in May. Need volunteers to assist with decorations, chaperoning, cleaning up, etc. • New “Transgender & Gender non-conforming policy” removes the “consult parents” requirement for a child to change their gender and sexual orientation preference. This allows the child to change their preference without fear of parental backlash. That’s all for now. We will continue to provide updates each quarterly. Stay vigilant, Friends.
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WHAT TO DO IN TIMES OF CHANGE
By Nate Pelczar, Fundraising Chair
Your local union, your local neighborhood association, your local democratic club. What do they all have in common? These groups are the backbone of your community, they support you and your community’s interests, and they give you a mouthpiece to share your message. These groups give you a place to learn, grow, and meet others. What can you do when the world around you continues to change at an ever-increasing rate, and you struggle to find a way to make an impact? Support your favorite local institution, club, or group by sharing your time, talent, or treasure. Share your time. We all have at least some time to share with groups that are important to us, even if it means just sharing news of an event with friends and family. Spreading the word about a group’s events has never been easier: you simply have to “like” or “share” an event on Facebook, mention it to people in your network, or send an electronic event flyer to a friend via email. If you haven’t seen this in action, “like” Stonewall’s Facebook page and you’ll see countless articles of interest, forum invites, and other event details available for sharing. Share your talent. Volunteering - or simply participating an event - is one of the most important ways to support a local club. Even if your talent is just showing up, your presence sends a message to the world around you: you care about an issue, you have something worthwhile to contribute to this issue, you care about the future of your community, and you want to see positive change occur on your watch. Share your treasure. Making donations is usually one of the easiest ways to help support your favorite local group. Stonewall makes it even easier: you can make a one-time donation or join Stonewall’s monthly automated giving program by visiting the website. Stonewall’s educational events, forums, and networking events don’t fund themselves and require a constant and steady flow of financial support. Support a local club or organization today – your community is depending on you and your support. There are many ways you can support the groups that represent you and your views; finding a way to support your favorite institution with a little of your time, talent, or treasure has never been easier or more important. Your community is depending on you..
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STONEWALL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THE LAURIE MCBRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOR SACRAMENTO STATE STUDENTS STONEWALL FOUNDATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO Stonewall Foundation of Greater Sacramento Contact: Charlene Jones charlenej@surewest.net, Sam Catalano CatalanoSM@aol.com Board Members of the Stonewall Foundation of Greater Sacramento create a new scholarship for CSU Sacramento students aimed at advocacay for the LGBTQ community. The Stonewall Foundation of Greater Sacramento – a newly established charitable organization has issued funding for the Foundation’s first scholarship, named for preeminent LGBTQ legislative and political advocate Laurie McBride. In collaboration with CSU Sacramento, the Board of Directors authorized a yearly scholarship for full time students in the amount of $2,000, to be awarded later this year. It is intended to provide financial assistance to students seeking to increase equality for LGBTQ individuals and representation in civic and governmental affairs. The scholarship is named after Laurie McBride, a lifelong activist and early champion of LGBTQ rights. She was a leading advocate in California, and instrumental in pushing for protections long before most of the country even considered the LBGTQ community a discriminated class. Ms. McBride is a former legislative advocate who worked for decades in local, statewide and national movements for civil rights and political access for LGBTQ individuals. She served as the Executive Director of the Lobby for Individual Freedom and Equality from 19901998, where she led legislative efforts on employment protections, domestic partnerships, and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. Bringing together a state-wide activist coalition to advance gay rights across California, she went on to serve as the Co-Chair of the National Stonewall Democrats for 10 years. The new scholarship is financed by the Stonewall Foundation of Greater Sacramento to cultivate new advocates who, like Ms. McBride, understand that fighting for equality requires ongoing commitment and resolve. The Stonewall Foundation of Greater Sacramento was conceived by members of the Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento (the largest LGBTQ political club in the region) to raise public awareness and increase LGBTQ civic engagement through education and antidiscrimination advocacy activities. Going forward, the non-profit Foundation will focus on outreach designed to educate Californians about general advocacy and involvement in leadership to secure LGBTQ equality.
For more information, please contact: Charlene Jones charlenej@surewest.net Sam Catalano CatalanoSM@aol.com
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If you think your gay marriage is safe in California. Think again! The Stonewall Democratic Club was fortunate to have Brian Soucek, acting professor of law at UC Davis School of Law, speak at the February Stonewall General Membership meeting. Professor Soucek argued that gay marriage in California could be in big trouble because of language that was added to the California Constitution back in 2008, when Proposition 8 was passed. Unless the language of Proposition 8 is repealed, specifically "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," Professor Soucek believes it's possible that the newly comprised Supreme Court could reverse the legalization of gay marriage. That would return California to 2008, and Proposition 8 would again be the law. The LA Times article below, written by Professor Soucek explains how gay marriage in California could be undone if Proposition 8 isn't repealed. Stonewall is exploring with law makers the possibility of introducing legislation that would delete the language of Proposition 8 from the California Constitution and replace it with pro same sex marriage. Stonewall will keep you posted on how this effort unfolds in the future. November 28, 2016 By Brian Soucek Californians should repeal Proposition 8 now, before we need to. Our state’s same-sex marriage ban was struck down by courts years ago, but its text remains part of the California Constitution, wedged uncomfortably between the equal protection clause and protections against employment discrimination: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California,” it says. The language comes directly from the proposition, which passed in 2008 in the midst of a contentious tug-of-war over marriage equality in the state. A federal district court judge found Proposition 8 unconstitutional in 2010, but legal appeals kept it alive until 2013, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling finally allowed same-sex weddings to resume in California. Laws that are found unconstitutional don’t get erased; they just lose their legal force. So the text of the ban lies in wait, ready to spring back into action if given the chance. The election of Donald Trump might provide that chance. Here’s how Proposition 8 could make its comeback. Obergefell vs. Hodges and the other Supreme Court decisions that led to the nationwide legalization of same sex marriage were all 5-4 votes in favor of gay rights. That slim majority won’t change when Trump fulfills his promise to replace Justice Antonin Scalia — who voted against marriage equality — with an equally conservative justice. However, three other justices are 78 or older (Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer).
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Should Trump get the chance to replace any one of them with another judge “very much in the mold of Scalia” — again, as he has promised — the 5-4 split will almost certainly flip. A new conservative majority would have little inclination to respect a right to same-sex marriage that Chief Justice John G. Roberts claims has “no basis in the Constitution.” A new conservative majority on the high court would have little inclination to respect a right to same-sex marriage. If the Obergefell decision indeed falls, the federal district court order that allowed for same-sex marriage in California would soon be dissolved. California would return to 2008: Proposition 8 would again be the law. Existing marriages would remain in force, but same-sex couples would no longer be able to get married here. California voters would no doubt quickly get to work repealing Proposition 8. But that would require a new initiative, a long and complicated effort involving either a two-thirds vote in the Legislature or a signature drive to get a new measure on the ballot and then a win at the polls. For a year or two at least, discrimination against gay and lesbian couples would again be the law of the state. This is a risk we can avoid by starting the initiative process now. You may be tempted to think repeal simply won’t be necessary. After all, when Trump was interviewed on “60 Minutes” a few days after the election, he referred to Obergefell vs. Hodges as settled law, repudiating the Republican Party’s 2016 platform, which condemned the court’s marriage equality rulings. But don’t be reassured. Trump doesn’t get a vote on whether Obergefell stands. That choice belongs to the justices, including future appointees who see Obergefell in the way Scalia did: as a “threat to American democracy.” The California LGBT community, especially those who are transgender or undocumented, may face other more immediate threats under the new administration than the return of Proposition 8. But the threat to marriage equality in California is of our own making. Californians can’t control a lot of what will emanate from Washington in the next four years, but we can control what happens here. We enshrined discrimination in our state constitution in 2008. We own Proposition 8 — and we can disown it, once and for all. Brian Soucek is acting professor of law at UC Davis School of Law.bsoucek@ucdavis.edu.
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The Stonewall PAC had a good year in 2016 By Rosanna Herber, PAC Chair While the United States elected a President that Stonewall didn’t support, the good news is that many local, excellent candidates endorsed by the PAC and Stonewall’s membership were elected. These leaders, many who are serving for the first time, are steadfast advocates for equal rights for LGBTQ people. Approximately 80% of the endorsed candidates won, and Stonewall intends to work closely with these elected officials to ensure LGBTQ people are not denied equal rights in schools, universities, businesses and throughout the communities in the region. In 2016, for the first time, the PAC recommended endorsements for candidates running for office in West Sacramento. This year the PAC interviewed and recommended endorsements for more candidates of color and women candidates than ever before. We also supported the first Hmong Mayor ever to be elected in the nation! (Steve Ly in Elk Grove.) Stonewall also endorsed a slate that contained four openly gay men candidates, two of which won their seats. The Sacramento region now has more openly gay elected officials than ever before, but we are still a very small minority, and we need more LGBTQ people to run for office in the future. To that end, the Stonewall Board, PAC, and membership will be working to identify, recruit and train LGBTQ people to run for office. Our first step is to develop a Boards and Commission Training program that will help LGBTQ people get appointed to key Boards in the community. Next we plan to coordinate with other organizations to tailor a program to help LGBTQ people run for office. If you are interested in helping with these efforts, or you want to run for office someday, please contact us at pac@sacstonewall.org. We all need to work together to stop any reversal of LGBTQ rights under this new President and his administration. Check out our hard working PAC Chair and PAC members below!
Resist and Engage!
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Stacy Gillespie is an attorney for the State Water Resources Control Board, advising on regulatory matters involving the Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Prior to that, she was with Stoel Rives LLP where she represented public agency and business clients in litigation involving California’s environmental and land use laws. While with Stoel Rives, Stacy served on the Sacramento Diversity Hiring and Retention Committee, which interviews and places approximately 20 diverse law students at local law firms for summer fellowship programs each year. From 2003 through 2006, Stacy served on the board of directors of SacLEGAL, Sacramento’s LGBT bar association.
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LGBT RIGHTS AND ABORTION RIGHTS ARE INSEPARABLE Submitted by Charlene Jones because NOW MORE THAN EVER! Mar 23, 2016 John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney (Marriage Equality USA) Plaintiffs in California case for equal marriage rights decided by the California Supreme Court in 2008 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard one of the most important abortion rights cases in decades, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. At first blush, some LGBT folks might think that abortion rights have little to do with them. After all, gay men and lesbians don’t get “accidentally pregnant” — to quote a term used in some anti-marriage equality lower court decision of the past decade. However, LGBT rights and reproductive freedom have long been closely intertwined. At stake in both movements are individuals’ fundamental freedoms to control their own bodies and to decide for themselves the paths their lives will take. LGBT people should care about women’s right to safe and legal abortion not only because it’s the right thing to do but because our two movements depend on each other. Our first experience of the connection between the two movements came nearly 30 years ago when we participated in an LGBT direct action group, called “Queer and Present Danger,” that was part of the first and only shut down of the U.S. Supreme Court. The action was organized to protest the Court’s notorious Bowers v. Hardwick decision that upheld the constitutionality of so-called “sodomy” laws that criminalized intimate sexual activity between persons of the same sex. Our group got along so well that we decided to keep working together on other pressing issues, such as HIV/AIDS and abortion rights. At the time, during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, LGBT activists were pressing the Reagan administration and the federal government to end their neglect of people with HIV/AIDS. “Operation Rescue,” a well-funded right wing anti-choice group that blockaded Planned Parenthood and other clinics serving women, was also in high gear. In 1988-1989, Operation Rescue held hundreds of blockades with thousands of arrests of their members. We took part in numerous actions regarding HIV/AIDS and in “clinic defense,” where we worked to ensure access to women’s clinics despite the presence of Operation Rescue. We saw no separation between these two human rights struggles.
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The U.S. Supreme Court recognizes the connection as well. Until the Supreme Court held in 1973 that women have a fundamental constitutional right to make reproductive choices for themselves, 46 states had laws interfering with a woman’s right to have a safe and legal abortion. Until the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas decision finally overturned Bowers v. Hardwick in 2003, states could imprison LGBT people for sexual intimacy. Some states even put people in jail for simply touching another person of the same sex in a sexual way. Without these decisions, the government today would still be able to exert extraordinary control over the bodies of LGBT people and women. Recent Supreme Court decisions in favor of constitutional freedoms for LGBT people rest on prior legal victories for reproductive freedom. The Supreme Court’s Lawrence decision relied heavily on language from a key abortion rights precedent, when it stated: [M]atters, involving the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy, are central to the liberty protected by the [Constitution].... At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State....It is a promise of the Constitution that there is a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter. That language comes verbatim from Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, which among other things invalidated a law that required a married woman to notify her husband before having an abortion. In Casey, the Court stated that what a woman experiences by having a child “is too intimate and personal for the State to insist, without more, upon its own vision of the woman’s role, however dominant that vision has been in the course of our history and our culture. The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperatives and her place in society.” The fiercest opposition to both the LGBT and reproductive freedom movements comes from conservative Christian political forces. These groups seek not only to raise money and gain political power off these issues, but to impose their personal religious and moral views on everyone through law. LGBT and reproductive choice supporters have fought side by side in efforts to defeat right wing ballot initiatives. Moreover, with respect to both matters, the Supreme Court has held, quoting the Casey decision: The issue is whether the majority may use the power of the State to enforce ... [their moral and religious] views on the whole society through operation of the criminal law. ‘Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.’ As the Court stated in its 2015 marriage equality decision, The idea of the Constitution ‘was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.’ This is why ‘fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.’ In this year’s abortion rights case before the Supreme Court, the reproductive freedom movement is drawing upon one of the key elements responsible for the recent successes of the LGBT movement: coming out. In 2014, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attributed the “remarkable change” in lesbian and gay rights over recent years to the willingness of gay and lesbian Americans to “say who they are.” The power of LGBT people coming out and telling their personal stories has been and continues to be integral to achieving and maintaining LGBT and marriage equality. In Whole Woman’s Health, over a hundred women lawyers who have had abortions filed their own “coming out” brief, telling the Justices their stories as to how the freedom to decide for themselves what happens to their bodies was vital to their lives and well-being. Among those women are prominent women in the LGBT rights movement, such as Susan Sommer, Director of Constitutional Litigation for Lambda Legal, and Judy Appel, Executive Director of Our Family Coalition. One woman who filed the brief explained: I am the daughter of a teenage mother who is the daughter of a teenage mother. I had an abortion when I was 16 years old and living in rural Oregon. I believe that access to a safe, legal abortion broke the familial cycle of teenage parenthood and allowed me to not only escape a very unhealthy, emotional[ly] abusive teenage relationship but to ... work for one of the nation’s most storied civil rights organizations...And become a lawyer. “I often tell people ... that access to a safe, legal abortion saved my life.”
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LGBT HISTORY- A REFRESHER
10. In what year was the first American soldier dismissed from the armed forces for being gay? a) 1621 b) 1778 c) 1865 d) 1969
Because we all need a refresher. Answers highlighted in blue. 1. The word “homosexual” was coined in which year? a) 545 B.C.E b) 300 C.E. c) 1745 C.E. d)1869 C.E. e) 1938 C.E. f) 1959 C.E. 2. Which of the following empires was ruled for over two centuries by openly gay or bisexual emperors? a) China b) Rome c) Greece d) All of the above e) None of the above f) a and b only
11. When was America’s first gay rights group founded? a) 1869 b) 1924 c) 1951 d) 1969 12. Which president made it illegal for the American government to employ homosexuals? a) Washington b) Lincoln c) Eisenhower d) Reagan e) Clinton
3. True or False: Often regarded as the greatest of the early Greek lyric poets, Sappho wrote many of her poems about her relationships with other women. 4. In what century did homosexual acts become illegal in Western Europe? a) First century B.C.E. b) First century C.E. c) Thirteenth century d) Nineteenth century 5. In what nation did the first large-scale gay rights movement begin? a) England b) France c) Germany d) United States e) None of the above 6. In what year was the first public speech asking for gay rights made? By whom? 1867 7. True or False: Gay concentration camp survivors were often reimprisoned by German authorities after being “liberated” by Allied forces after World War II. 8. True or False: American Indians discriminated against people whom they perceived to be gay 9. In what year was the first person executed for being gay in North America? a) 1492 b) 1566 c) 1778 d)1869
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13. Name America’s first lesbian rights organization. Daughters of Bilitis. 14. Name the gay African-American man who organized the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech. Bayard Rustin. 15. When was the first gay rights protest in Washington, D.C.? a) 1924 b) 1953 c) 1965 d) 1979 16. Who was the first openly gay or lesbian American elected to political office in the United States? a) Roberta Achtenberg b) Barney Frank c) Harvey Milk d) Elaine Noble 17. What state was the first to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation? In what year? Wisconsin, 1982. 18. Name the 1986 Supreme Court decision which upheld the right of the government to invade the homes of gay people and arrest them for engaging in consensual adult homosexual sexual relations. What 2003 Supreme Court decision overruled the 1986 decision? Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas. 19. Name the direct-action group whose civil disobedience demonstrations are credited with pressuring the U.S. government to take action on the AIDS epidemic. ACT UP.
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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER FOR SACRAMENTO STONEWALL
QUARTERLY FEBRUARY 2017 ISSUE
Paid for by the Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento FPPC #1247892 and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. © Sacramento Stonewall Democrats The mission of the Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento is to advance equal rights for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We will support public policies that advance that mission in the United States, the State of California, and the greater Sacramento area. We help elect to public office qualified Democratic Party candidates who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, as well as allies who support equal rights for the LGBT community. \We will work to sensitize and educate all Democratic candidates and office holders, the Democratic Party in general, and the community at large, to the issues and concerns of the LGBT community. Conversely, within the LGBT community we will promote the Democratic Party’s broad message of economic justice and social equality. To achieve this mission, the Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento will work: To lead our party to improve its record and speak out on issues of importance to the LGBT communities, and to work for the nomination and election of Democratic candidates, including qualified openly LGBT candidates; To achieve diversity in our membership and our governing bodies; To elect openly LGBT people to local office and to achieve appointments of openly LGBT people to city and county boards and commissions in the greater Sacramento area who will be fully supportive of our fight for equality and against bigotry and intolerance; To take a position on candidates and ballot measures; To register voters who support the Club’s mission and encourage their participation in the electoral process; To educate LGBT communities and supporters about the equal rights issues we face, as well as assist them with those struggles; To collaborate with other LGBT groups and individuals to promote our mission of equality; and to aid other local grassroots Democratic Clubs in the greater Sacramento Area, and our non-gay allies, in order to advance the prominence of openly LGBT people within the Democratic Party. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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