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Podcast: Why We Need Non-Discrimination Laws, What You Can Do To Help
LGBT Project Director Matt Coles’s podcast about how you can help us end LGBT discrimination on the job. Congress is poised to introduce federal legislation outlawing LGBT discrimination in the workplace, and we need your stories to persuade lawmakers in Washington that LGBT job discrimination is a problem that demands immediate attention.
  Annual Update 2006
Learn about all the exciting work the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project and ACLU affiliates nationwide have been doing over the past year by downloading our 2006 Annual Update!

Host a Freedom Files House Party
Host a screening of the Freedom Files, and we'll send you a DVD and host party kit.  The "Gay & Lesbian Rights" episode of ACLU's Freedom Files TV Show explores the struggles of several couples who lack basic legal protections for their partners and families.  
  Sam's Story: A Gay Rancher's Fight to Keep His Home
Sam Beaumont and his partner Earl lived on an 80-acre ranch in Bristow, Oklahoma and raised a family together. When Earl died, Sam lost his home because the ranch was in Earl's name, and Oklahoma would not recognize
the couple's 23-year relationship.

ACLU and the History of LGBT Rights and HIV/AIDS
This timeline of landmark events and legal cases in LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS highlights the ACLU's work spanning over 70 years.

Speaking Out With Your T-Shirt
The ACLU often hears from students whose schools have told them they can't wear t-shirts with messages about their opinion on LGBT people. If you're thinking about wearing an LGBT-positive t-shirt to school and you expect trouble, here's what you should know and what to expect.

What's Next for Same-Sex Relationships?
Our guide for taking action after the anti-gay amendments includes a map of the status of the legal recognition of same-sex couples in all 50 states.

Paradox, Progress, and So On
Matt Coles, Director of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the ACLU, reviews events in the LGBT rights struggle over the last year and places them in historical and political perspectives.

First, Do No Harm
Kathleen Moltz, M.D., Assistant Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, delivered this testimony at a Senate Judicial Committee Hearing on the anti-gay federal marriage amendment.

Don't Just Sue - Do Something Useful
Matt Coles spells out the most effective, strategic use of litigation to bring about change, including alternative political actions in states where a lawsuit could be detrimental or wasted energy.

Preventing Harassment and Protecting Free Speech in Schools
Adopting anti-harassment policies that adequately protect students and free speech is possible.



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