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- EQCA-Sponsored Bill to Curb Sexual Orientation Conversion “Therapy” Headed to Senate Floor
- An Equality California-sponsored bill designed to limit the ability of psychotherapists in California to provide so-called “therapies” to change the sexual orientation of their patients is headed to the Senate floor after being approved today by the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The bill, which is co-sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and Mental Health America of Northern California, was previously approved by the Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee on April 23.
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- Assembly Committee Approves Resolution Calling on Boy Scouts to End Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
- (Sacramento) The California Assembly Judiciary Committee today rejected a resolution (ACR 94) honoring the Boy Scouts of America on its 102 anniversary in favor of another resolution (ACR 128) backed by Equality California that celebrates the organization's anniversary, while also calling on it to end its practice of discrimination based on sexual orientation and religion.
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- EQCA Launches Search for New Executive Director
- The Equality California (EQCA) and Equality California Institute (EQCAI) Boards of Directors announced today that they have opened the search for a new executive director to lead the statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality advocacy and public education organizations.
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- EQCA Lauds Preservation of California Commission on the Status of Women
- (San Francisco) Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez announced today that the California Assembly will allocate a portion of its budget savings to the California Commission on the Status of Women, slated for elimination under Governor Jerry Brown's January budget proposal.
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- EQCA Advances Bill to Limit Sexual Orientation Conversion Treatment by Mental Health Care Providers
- (San Francisco) An Equality California-sponsored bill designed to limit the ability of psychotherapists in California to provide so-called “therapies” to change the sexual orientation of their patients was approved by the Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee today on a 5-3 vote. Senate Bill 1172, authored by Senator Ted Lieu, would prohibit a psychotherapist from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts without first disclosing the risk of harm and obtaining the patient’s informed consent.
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eqca: @davidcaryhart @jennyrev Either way, the end of DOMA will definitely lend itself towards the advance of marriage equality.
eqca: No, @jennyrev. A repeal of #DOMA would not undo states' constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage.
2012 Queer Youth Advocacy Day
By Shaun Osburn
"I was 16-years-old when I attended the first Queer Youth Advocacy Day in Sacramento. At 32, this was literally a lifetime ago. I marched up to the capitol with my purple dreadlocks and combat boots demanding safe schools and safer-sex education in California classrooms. The largest gay-youth political turnout in the state’s history at that point, it was impossible to ignore the 300+ youth that converged upon the Capitol that day. And it’s just as impossible to ignore them today." Read More >
Protesting Too Much?
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Josh Steichmann
"Political opponents to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality who end up outed is so popular a trope that many of us can recite the names from memory. Roy Cohn. Ted Haggard. Larry Craig. George Rekers. Sometimes it seems like the more homophobic you are, the more likely it is you’re closeted." Read More >
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