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Equality California Issues Statement on Senator Roy Ashburn
"We can empathize with Senator Ashburn's long and difficult journey to admit that he is gay. Equality California looks forward to working with the Senator to use his experience to educate the people in his district on why he deserves the same rights and privileges as a gay man as any other Californian."
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EQCA, Honor Fund Congratulate Couples in Mexico City
"We are thrilled to join the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Mexico City in honoring this joyous occasion, and we are inspired by their hard work and resilience to gain full marriage rights for same-sex couples," said Marc Solomon, Equality California's marriage director.
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Equality California Welcomes New Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez
Today the State of California will make history by swearing in its first openly gay Speaker of the Assembly, Assemblymember John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles).
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Eliminating Barriers to Dissolve Marriages, Domestic Partnerships
AB 2700 would amend the state's family code, allowing for couples who first registered as domestic partners and who legally married thereafter, to dissolve both contracts through a single, uniform procedure.
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Stripping Denigrating Language from Welfare and Institutions Code
EQCA is sponsoring a new bill, AB 2199, introduced Wednesday by Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), that would repeal a particularly offensive section of the California Welfare and Institutions code, which instructs the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the "causes and cures of homosexuality" with the implication that LGBT Californians are sexual deviants, potential sex offenders and a threat to children.
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