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Answers to Questions About Marriage Equality

10/28/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

A pamphlet that answers common questions and concerns about marriage equality for same-sex couples.

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2009 Annual Report

10/14/2009

Human Rights Campaign

Annual report of the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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Degrees of Equality

9/22/2009

A National Study Examining Workplace Climate for LGBT Employees

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2010 Corporate Equality Index

9/14/2009

The Corporate Equality Index is a tool to rate U.S. businesses on how they are treating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

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At the Intersection: Race, Sexuality and Gender

8/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Our newest report is based on a survey of people across the country to get a better understanding the complexities at the intersection of race, sexual orientation and gender identity.

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LAWbriefs: Vol. 10, No. 2

7/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Recent developments in sexual orientation and gender identity law published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation

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2009 Healthcare Equality Index

7/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation & Gay and Lesbian Medical Association

The Healthcare Equality Index rates U.S. healthcare facilites on how they treat their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients and employees

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Maps of State Laws & Policies

6/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign, 2009

The Human Rights Campaign has developed the following maps that provide a snapshot of the status of the laws and policies on issues that affect the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

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Hate Crimes and Violence Against LGBT People

5/18/2009

Michelle A. Marzullo and Alyn J. Libman

An overview of research about LGBT hate crimes from law enforcement statistics, opinion polls and several studies published since 2006

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2008 Equality from State to State

1/26/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

State constitutional amendments and bills affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families

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Transgender Visibility Guide

1/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign

This guide was designed to help you and your loved ones through that process in realistic and practical terms.

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An Introduction to Welcoming Schools

1/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

This comprehensive primer – for use at the elementary-school level – helps educators and parents bolster their schools’ approach to family diversity, gender stereotyping, name-calling and bullying.

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2009 Corporate Equality Index

1/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The Corporate Equality Index is a tool to rate U.S. businesses on how they are treating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

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2009 Buying For Equality

1/1/2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Updated yearly, this guide helps you make fair-minded purchasing decisions. Easy-to-use ratings of companies (and their products and services) that support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.

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2007-2008 The State of the Workplace

12/31/2008

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The 2007-2008 report revealed rapid expansion of protections for LGBT workers in the private sector over the past decade.

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Findings from the Hunter College Poll of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals

4/30/2008

Hunter College

New Discoveries about Identity, Political Attitudes, and Civic Engagement

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Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace, 2nd Edition

4/22/2008

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Provides human resource and other employment professionals with best practices for transgender workplace inclusion

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Family Matters

4/8/2008

Human Rights Campaign

Securing Equal Treatment under Federal Law for Same-Sex Couples and Our Children

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Living Openly in Your Place of Worship

1/1/2008

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Religion, like sexuality or gender identity, is one of the most personal expressions of our identity. Indeed, proclaiming our faith can make us feel terribly exposed to the value judgments of others.

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2008 Congressional Scorecard

1/1/2008

Human Rights Campaign

Information on how your elected officials have voted on issues of equality for 2008

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2008 HRC Annual Report

1/1/2008

Human Rights Campaign

Annual report of the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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Small Business Basics

11/1/2007

Human Rights Campaign Foundation and National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

Small Business Basics provides model benefits and employment policies and offers suggestions for businesses to cope with high health-care costs.

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Resource Guide to Coming Out

1/1/2006

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Throughout the process of coming out and living ever more openly, you should always be in the driver’s seat about how, where, when and with whom you choose to be open.

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Marriage Inequality in the State of Maryland

1/1/2006

Equality Maryland

Details the legal obstacles couples must face in an attempt to secure some of the most basic protections of marriage.

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A Straight Guide to GLBT Americans

1/1/2006

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

A guide to GLBT Americans written for straight people.

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Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding

11/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

We hope that readers of Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding will find it a useful overview of the issues facing transgender Americans in our society.

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Truth or Consequences: The Effects of Constitutional Amendments on Marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Utah

4/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign, 2005

According to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign, these amendments are having consequences that go well beyond the supposed "simple" definition of marriage that proponents of these amendments claimed was the intent.

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Counting on Couples: Fiscal Savings from Allowing Same Sex Couples to Marry in Connecticut

1/1/2005

Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies and the Williams Project of University of California Law School

This study examines real-life and hypothetical same-sex couples, including a real-life couple from Waterbury, Conn., and uses income and other financial data to calculate how the ability to marry would benefit the couples over a lifetime.

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To Have and To Hold? Maybe Not.

1/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

A compilation of the true stories of same-sex couples being denied the protections of marriage.

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The Backlash Myth: Progress Toward Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Equality Since May 17, 2004

1/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign

Widespread media reports have described the 2004 elections as a supposed "backlash" against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans resulting from court decisions like Goodridge v. The Department of Public Health and Lawrence v. Texas.

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Truth or Consequences: The Effects of Constitutional Amendments on Marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Utah

1/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign

According to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign, these amendments are having consequences that go well beyond the supposed "simple" definition of marriage that proponents of these amendments claimed was the intent.

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Standing Up For Equality

1/1/2005

Human Rights Campaign

A Report on the Impact of Marriage-Related Votes on State Legislative Races

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What We Do

6/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign

A brief overview of the work of the Human Rights Campaign & The Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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The Cost of Marriage Inequality to Children and Their Same-Sex Parents

4/13/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Documenting the extra costs same-sex couples with children are forced to pay as a result of being denied the right to marry.

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The Cost of Marriage Inequality to Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Seniors

1/29/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The lack of marriage license may cost tens of thousands of dollars when a partner dies, increases risk of losing one’s home.

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The Business Cost Impact of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

1/1/2004

M.V. Lee Badgett, Ph.D. and Gary Gates, Ph.D., Human Rights Campaign Foundation and The Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies

In the discussion about opening marriage to same-sex couples, some have worried that businesses would be overwhelmed with the costs of covering new spouses under existing employee benefits plans.

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2004 Resource Guide to Coming Out

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

As you experience the coming out process, remember one important thing – you are not alone. Others just like you, in towns and cities across the country and around the world, are on the same journey.

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Resource Guide to Coming Out for African Americans

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign

People of color may face unique challenges when they come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. To address these issues, the HRC Coming Out Project has developed a resource on coming out in the African-American community.

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Strategic Insights Survey

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

This poll, conducted online by Harris Interactive for the HRC Foundation, found that 56 percent of respondents ranked equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans as one of the top three issues in the 2004 elections.

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Guía de Recursos Para Salir Del Clóset

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

El Proyecto Nacional Para Salir del Clóset del HRC es un programa para promover honradez y franqueza sobre el ser gay, lesbiana, bisexual o transgénero en la universidad, en el trabajo y en la comunidad.

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Preguntas y Respuestas Sobre el Derecho al Matrimonio

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2004

¿Como puedo protegar a mi familia y mantenerla fuerte sin las mas de 1,100 protecciones federales que se les dan a otras familias quienes si tienen el derecho al matrimonio?

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Justice for All? The Importance of a Fair and Balanced Judiciary to the GLBT Community

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Our nation’s courts play a vital role in the GLBT community’s journey from second-class citizenship to equal protection under the law.

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Documenting Courage: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Veterans Speak Out

1/1/2004

The Human Rights Campaign is proud to join with the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and American Veterans for Equal Rights in recognizing the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender veterans.

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Lo Que Hacemos

1/1/2004

Human Rights Campaign

La Campaña de Derechos Humanos y La Fundación de la Campaña de Derechos Humanos: Trabajando por la Igualdad de Gays y Lesbianas.

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A Chronology of Hate Crimes from 1998 to 2002

1/1/2003

Human Rights Campaign

A lists of close to 651 separate hate crime accounts, including 181 murders.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Opinion: Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health

1/1/2003

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Marriage is a vital social institution. The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and mutual support; it brings stability to our society.

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State of the Family

2/17/2002

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

This report details laws and legislation affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families in 2002.

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Documenting Discrimination

1/1/2001

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

This is a special HRC report featuring cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation in America’s workplaces, state-by-state.

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Gay and Lesbian Families in the United States: Same-Sex Partner Households

1/1/2001

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

A comprehensive report analyzing the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau figures. The biggest surprise was the impressive geographic diversity for gay and lesbian families, with these couples residing in 99.3 percent of all counties across America.

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HIV/AIDS and HRC: Two Decades Fighting For Life

1/1/2000

Human Rights Campaign

This report chronicles the HIV/AIDS timeline in the U.S. The report includes the lack of official recognition from President Reagan and follows the process of emerging grassroots organizations.

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Finally Free: How Love and Acceptance Saved Us From the Ex-Gay Ministries

1/1/2000

Human Rights Campaign

This compilation of personal statements exposes the harm caused by "ex-gay" ministries. The publication includes a resource list of organizations throughout the U.S. that support people who are LGBT.

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Mission Impossible: Why Reparative Therapy and Ex-Gay Ministries Fail

8/1/1998

Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 1998

This report documents organizations that attempt to "change" individuals’ sexual orientation through prayer, meditation and other programs.

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Mixed Blessings: Organized Religion and Gay and Lesbian Americans in 1998

1/1/1998

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

This report documents subtle yet significant shifts in religious attitudes and policies that promise the future emancipation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from religious condemnation and persecution.

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