Congratulations to Fair Majority Candidates for winning their elections!

Georgia Equality would like to congratulate DeKalb County CEO candidate Burrell Ellis and State House District 93 candidate Dee Dawkins-Haigler for winning their races in Tuesday’s Democratic primary runoff. Because no opposition candidate will appear on the ballot in November, winning the run off serves to elect both candidates to office next year.

Georgia Equality would also like to extend its appreciation to all of our volunteers who spent many hours phone banking and knocking on doors for Keisha Waites in her bid to become the first open lesbian African American woman elected to the Georgia legislature. In running such a strong campaign in House District 61, Keisha did help advance building a fair majority in Georgia. Thank you Keisha!

Georgia Equality will begin the process of reviewing contested races on the November ballot and will be issuing further endorsements in the coming weeks.

We will also be engaged in a number of voter registration and get out the vote efforts in preparation for a highly competitive general election in November.

Dear Friends:

How did Georgia Equality work to advance LGBT policy goals and improve the lives of LGBT Georgians and our families at the Georgia General Assembly during the 2007-2008 General Session?

Good question. 

We would like to invite you to download our 2007-2008 Georgia Equality Legislative Report which details at length our work to advance LGBT policy goals during the past General Session.

This report also explains more fully our vision for strategic and intensive work under the Gold Dome, within local jurisdictions, and in contested elections throughout the state to build a fair majority and improve the lives of LGBT Georgians.

Thank you for your visionary leadership and support for Georgia Equality and our Campaign for a Fair Majority.  Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, suggestions or ideas you have to help move us forward on the path to a fair majority.
 
Sincerely,

GEORGIA ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR HEALTH CARE

DOWNLOAD THE FORM
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On July 1, 2007 , a new Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care took effect, replacing the old Living Will and Durable Health Care Power of Attorney forms, merging them into one easier to understand document. This document allows us to give our domestic partners or close friends the authority to make medical decisions for us, and handle our funeral arrangements in case of death. Without this document, only our biological family members have authority to make these decisions for us.

Because of the work of Georgia Equality and our lobbyist, Cathy Woolard, we were able to successfully amend the law to specifically include the right to hospital visitation and ambulance ride along privileges for our partners.