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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Politicking with LGBT lives</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Yesterday was a hard day for me and for many other LGBT immigrants and allies. While there were some great provisions in the immigration bill that were retained, and while we managed to beat back some really harmful provisions that would have disproportionately impacted LGBT ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:55:54 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Sen. Schumer - stand up for gay families!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Senator Schumer recently said to reporters that he is losing sleep over the inclusion of same-sex couples in immigration reform. [1] Every day, at least 40,000 binational same-sex couples go to sleep without knowing how long they can stay together -- *this* is a real reason t]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:21:22 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>It&apos;s time for ENDA.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Every day, I hear stories of folks who were passed over for jobs, forced to stay silent despite harassment on the job, or denied promotion simply because of who they are. Whether it&apos;s Audrey in Pennsylvania experiencing harassment because of her partner&apos;s photo on her desk or]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:04:09 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>DOUBLE your impact!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

This week, thousands of LGBTQ and allied folks across the country are joining together to collectively make a huge impact on the struggle for equality!

On May 9, hundreds of LGBTQ organizations and thousands of individuals will be participating in Give OUT Day -- an effort]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:02:18 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>267,000 people are counting on you!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

You&apos;ve heard me talk about my personal story several times already. But comprehensive immigration reform is about the right to be able to live without fear of deportation for at least 267,000 undocumented LGBT immigrants. This fight is much bigger than me -- it&apos;s about the ve]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:13:43 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Let us work -- pass ENDA now!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

When I was in second grade, my teacher gave us a homework assignment -- to look through the local newspaper and bring in a clipping that interested us. I went home that day and read the paper, finding the thing that most interested me -- a classified ad for a job as a houseke]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:28:04 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>It&apos;s time to pass ENDA now!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

When I was in second grade, my teacher gave us a homework assignment -- to look through the local newspaper and bring in a clipping that interested us. I went home that day and read the paper, finding the thing that most interested me -- a classified ad for a job as a houseke]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:27:44 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Let us work -- pass ENDA now!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

When I was in second grade, my teacher gave us a homework assignment -- to look through the local newspaper and bring in a clipping that interested us. I went home that day and read the paper, finding the thing that most interested me -- a classified ad for a job as a houseke]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:16:14 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>It&apos;s time to come out!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

More than 267,000 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ. Over 40,000 same-sex binational couples need legal protections so that their families can remain together. Thousands of transgender immigrants and asylum-seekers fall prey each year to abuse and confusio]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:23:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>After a Historic Week, It&apos;s Time to Plan Our Next Steps!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Countless generations have waited for this moment.

The Supreme Court heard arguments this for the repeal of DOMA and Proposition 8, and the events organized around the country were HUGE! Jacksonville, FL, had 200 people show up. Winston-Salem, NC, drew in 250 people. India]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:15:39 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>150 events, 50 states + DC, and counting!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Yesterday, the &quot;United for Marriage: Lighting the Way to Justice&quot; coalition hit a big milestone in our work to organize local marriage equality events across the country. Everyday people like you have decided to take their equality into their own hands and show that support f]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:02:54 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Important news from GetEQUAL</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I have some pretty big news to share. I&apos;m stepping down as the director of GetEQUAL and handing over the reins to two of the best organizers I know. This isn&apos;t the time to step away from bold action, but GetEQUAL isn&apos;t going anywhere. Here&apos;s the deal...

When Kip Williams a]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:23:19 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Pick up your pen, President Obama!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

As you&apos;re reading this email, folks across the country are taking action and calling on President Obama to make good on his promises to sign an Executive Order barring discrimination by federal contractors, and to lean on Congress to pass a fully-inclusive Employment Non-Disc]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:32:10 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Bring the LGBTQ movement to your neighborhood!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

On March 26-27, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8. This is a big deal -- and we&apos;re organizing in a BIG way!

GetEQUAL is working with Marriage Equality USA to organize local events]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:19:41 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re in a &quot;movement moment&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], today I had a choice.

I could have chosen to attend my children&apos;s Valentine events at their elementary school -- but I chose instead to get arrested in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to take a stand for LGBTQ equality.

You see, we are in the middle of a &quot;movement momen]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:42:51 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Love is not &quot;illegal&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I&apos;ve sent you emails before, but you might not fully know my story. Now that immigration reform is emerging as a real possibility, I wanted to share my story with you and ask for your help.

I&apos;m a queer person and part of the LGBTQ family, and I am also an undocumented immi]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:17:47 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Amazing news!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],
 
I know that everyone is preparing for New Year&apos;s Eve festivities tonight, but we just got a very exciting call that I wanted to share with you. An anonymous donor has been so inspired by our work -- *your* work -- that they have pledged not only to donate to us today, but al]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:15:24 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Fired for being gay.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

You would think that a winning season and a 100% graduation rate would be enough to keep a coaching job. But James Finley, the women&apos;s volleyball coach at Virginia Commonwealth University, was fired just three days before Thanksgiving -- not because of his record, but because]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:55:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>WOW. Just wow.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

We stayed up late last night to watch returns come in from the Presidential and Congressional elections, as well as wins on three ballot initiatives on marriage equality (MD, ME, WA), a win on preventing a state constititional amendment on marriage (MN), a win on a ballot ini]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:18:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>A pastor in MD thinks I should be killed.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Make. It. Stop.

From time to time, even my mind is blown by the lengths that anti-equality folks will go to in order to win ballot initiatives that limit or roll back the rights of LGBT Americans. Yesterday was one of those times.

I was watching the local news yesterday even]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:04:47 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Don&apos;t let them push you into the closet!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

The third presidential debate took place last night and there was no mention of LGBT Americans or LGBT equality. In fact, there have now been three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate -- and not one of them referenced the millions of Americans who identify a]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:04:27 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Don&apos;t let them make you invisible!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

The third presidential debate took place last night and there was no mention of LGBT Americans or LGBT equality. In fact, there have now been three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate -- and not one of them referenced the millions of Americans who identify a]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:06:37 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>The religious right can&apos;t stop us!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Yesterday, Salvatore Cordileone was installed as the Archbishop of San Francisco -- the same Salvatore Cordileone who ran an unrelenting and hate-filled campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California and who has referred to marriage equality as &quot;the ultimate attack of the Evil ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:47:29 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We need to hear from you!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

For some time now, we have been talking to you via email -- and now we want to hear from you! Though we&apos;re able to engage in conversation with those who are connected via our Facebook page, we rarely get the chance to hear back from those on our email list. Your opinion about]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:45:11 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>A violent response from &quot;Values Voters&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], I really didn&apos;t think that we were going to see violence this weekend, but we did.

As we told you last week, we went to the Values Voter Summit -- sponsored and organized by the Family Research Council -- to bear witness to the extraordinarily harmful rhetoric the group has been u]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:33:36 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Hatred and violence are not American values</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

This weekend Washington, DC, will be filled with thousands of anti-LGBT advocates from across the country.

The &quot;Values Voter Summit&quot; is again heading to the nation&apos;s capital, and the list of speakers is disheartening. Not only are Members of Congress speaking -- folks who ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:29:19 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>The Republicans are coming! The Republicans are coming!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

As I&apos;m sure you know, the Republican National Convention is coming up next week. I live in Tampa, and already I&apos;ve been stunned by the degree of harmful rhetoric that has surfaced throughout the process of creating the party platform.

I don&apos;t know if you heard, but Republi]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:25:18 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Will you take a chance on getting equal?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],
 
On July 5, one day after millions of Americans celebrated a holiday that symbolizes freedom, Major Jiminez and Beau Chandler took a bold stand for equality. They walked to a marriage counter in Dallas, Texas, requested a marriage license that they were denied, handcuffed the]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:08:28 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>I stand with Brad Pitt!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Just a short time ago, I saw a horrific Google Alert in my inbox -- Jane Pitt, Brad Pitt&apos;s mom, had published a letter in a Missouri newspaper, condemning people like me and families like mine. This is what she said:

&quot;Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:52:53 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Mollie and Kristene&apos;s families need to hear from you</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Many of us heard the horrifying news at the end of June that two young women, Mollie Olgin and Mary Kristene Chapa, were shot in the head and left for dead in a small town in Texas -- one surviving the tragedy and one not. GetEQUAL Texas and folks from other organizations thr]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:54:39 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>This is only the beginning...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Last Friday, after 10 years of intense organizing, undocumented students across the country got the attention of President Obama. He sent a directive to the Department of Homeland Security to stop the deportations of DREAM Act students. Although this is far from enough to fully al]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:29:35 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Stop Discrimination -- Dump the Pump!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Since President Obama&apos;s &quot;evolution&quot; on marriage, we&apos;ve been working hard to put attention back on the ENDA Executive Order for federal contractors. Though we&apos;re glad that the president has finally said publicly that he supports our right to marry (in fact, we delivered a thank you]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:07:58 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>This is a game-changer.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], I&apos;ve been hoping to send you this email for a long time...

GetEQUAL got started just over two years ago, with the hope of creating a viable &quot;left flank&quot; of the LGBT movement through insistent and unrelenting pressure for full LGBT equality through direct action and civil disobedie]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:36:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>From your pen to the President&apos;s ears</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Yesterday was quite a day!

After receiving close to 100 really moving accounts of workplace discrimination from across the country, we handed Cleve Jones a binder of stories to deliver directly to President Obama. Here&apos;s what Cleve had to say about his message to the Presi]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:11:42 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Share your story with the President</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

While living in one of the most conservative areas of California -- Fresno -- I have heard countless stories of honest, hard-working people who have been targeted, harassed, and discriminated against simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Our community]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:48:45 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re keeping the pressure on</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

As we told you last week, two GetEQUAL organizers from New Mexico headed to DC last weekend to participate in the annual Easter Egg Roll -- and called on President Obama to sign an Executive Order that would bar LGBT discrimination by companies that are federal contractors (i.e. c]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:26:06 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Did you catch us on MSNBC?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

On Monday, thousands of signatures from the GetEQUAL community made an impact at the White House.

Since 1878, the White House has been inviting families to the annual Easter Egg Roll. GetEQUAL has been offered these tickets before, but normally we decline them -- until we&apos;re fu]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:04:36 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Obama.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

We&apos;ve just learned that, in 2008, then-Senator Obama told the Houston GLBT Political Caucus that, if elected President, he would sign an Executive Order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity by companies that do business with the federal government.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:26:16 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Say goodbye to your First Amendment rights</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Our right to protest elected officials is about to be destroyed, and President Obama is the only person who can save it. 

The House and Senate are sending President Obama a bill that would make it illegal to protest anyone under Secret Service protection, or at any location san]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:10:17 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Say goodbye to your First Amendment rights</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Our right to protest elected officials is about to be destroyed, and President Obama is the only person who can save it. 

The House and Senate are sending President Obama a bill that would make it illegal to protest anyone under Secret Service protection, or at any location san]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:09:57 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>You have the power to keep protests alive</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

Our right to protest elected officials is about to be destroyed, and President Obama is the only person who can save it. 

The House and Senate are sending President Obama a bill that would make it illegal to protest anyone under Secret Service protection, or at any location san]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:13:10 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Prop 8 is unconstitutional -- here&apos;s what&apos;s next...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday on Proposition 8 -- here&apos;s what happened (and read to the end for a way to ask President Obama to share in our celebration!):

- The court ruled that the proponents of Prop 8 (i.e. &quot;the haters&quot;) are legally permitted to defend t]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:57:19 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Dallas, we have a problem!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Dallas&apos; mayor has a commitment problem.

It&apos;s not that he doesn&apos;t like us. It&apos;s not that he pretends LGBT folks don&apos;t exist. But when our lead North Texas organizer, Daniel Cates, asked Mayor Mike Rawlings to sign his name to a pledge from our friends at Freedom to Marry su]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:16:47 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re so close!!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], I hope you&apos;ve had a great holiday season and are looking forward to an exciting New Year. I&apos;ve been enjoying some quality time with my own family, and wanted to send a very short note with an important update...

Three weeks ago, I told you that a generous donor has challenged us t]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:32 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Double GetEQUAL&apos;s impact right now!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], we have an exciting opportunity to increase GetEQUAL&apos;s impact, but time is short so I want to let you know about it right away.

When GetEQUAL got started in 2010, our sole purpose was to create a powerful left-flank for the LGBT movement -- to tell our elected leaders, friends and]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:39:29 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We must remember to take action!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

This weekend marks the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, a vitally important day in the life of our LGBT community.

It was started 13 years ago out of the grief experienced by the community from the murder of Rita Hester, an African-American trans woman in Massachus]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We deserve more than 12%!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

National Coming Out Day is today. Last week, we made a call for photos and videos of folks telling us who they are, and why they&apos;re fighting for full equality -- not just the 12% equality that LGBT Americans experience, as compared with our straight friends. We&apos;ve put those respon]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:27:14 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>&quot;Burst down those closet doors!&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], did you know that National Coming Out Day is coming up next week, on Tuesday, October 11?

For a lot of people, the holiday has become just a time to change your Facebook profile picture. But the holiday can -- and should -- be about so much more.

National Coming Out Day is an o]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:26:51 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>&quot;Burst down those closet doors!&quot;</title>
			<link>http://hq-org2.salsalabs.com/o/6535/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1180201</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], did you know that National Coming Out Day is coming up next week, on Tuesday, October 11?

For a lot of people, the holiday has become just a time to change your Facebook profile picture. But the holiday can -- and should -- be about so much more.

National Coming Out Day is an o]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:03:09 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>[[First_Name]], are you willing to create a movement?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If you stood, walked, or sat a little bit taller Tuesday because of the repeal of &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell,&quot; I ask you to imagine what LGBT equality under all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states would feel like. I remain convinced that it&apos;s possible!

Since our incredible training in Memp]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:09:44 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>I know it&apos;s late, but this is important...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey, [[First_Name]] -- I need your help for just a minute&#8230;

I don&apos;t know if you saw the news today from North Carolina, but the state legislature there just passed a bill that will -- yet again -- put our rights up for a popular vote.

We were planning to send a different email today (we&apos;ll send]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:10:29 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>You know what&apos;s hot?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

In the 106-degree heat of Simi Valley, California, I joined about 30 activists yesterday to protest outside the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library. Since openly gay Republican candidate Fred Karger was not invited to join the other candidates on stage, we we]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:20:12 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Breathtaking...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], inspiration comes in many forms -- but glimpsing a grassroots movement of people willing to settle for nothing less than full LGBT equality is nothing short of breathtaking.

Just over a week ago, 92 activists from 25 states and Washington, DC, gathered together in Memphis, Tenness]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:57:16 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Walkin&apos; in Memphis...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

GetEQUAL&apos;s been a bit quiet lately, and I&apos;m excited to tell you why. Over the past few weeks, we&apos;ve been fielding applications from some of the best organizers across the country to join us in Memphis for an &quot;Organizing for Equality&quot; training. We have 89 people from 25 states]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:07:53 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We have good news!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Yesterday we had a big win.

Last week, we told you about a couple in California, Doug and Alex, who were facing a nightmare scenario -- the deportation of Alex, a Venezuelan citizen, despite his marriage to American citizen Doug. If Doug and Alex were straight, they&apos;d have]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:03:19 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Don&apos;t deport Alex!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [First_Name],

You might remember that we had a big win a while back -- due to your work and the work of many other LGBT organizations (and a steller legal team!), Henry Velandia and Josh Vandiver were granted a bit more time together in this country. We learned a few weeks ago that Henry&apos;s d]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:58:40 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Dan Savage goes to Washington</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]], don&apos;t hate me.

Yesterday, I went to the White House Pride Reception in DC. My husband wanted to go, but the invite was in my name (+1), so he couldn&apos;t go if I didn&apos;t go. So I went -- because Terry&apos;s the boss. But I was aware, as we headed to the White House, that we are still seco]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:31:01 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re in an Empire State of mind!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well, [[First_Name]], it&apos;s about freakin&apos; time!

After days of waiting, which followed months of pressure and years of groundwork, New York State has embraced marriage equality -- just in time for NYC Pride this weekend. It&apos;ll be quite the celebration, I&apos;m sure!

Congrats definitely go out to al]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:15:45 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Call on the President to &quot;evolve already&quot; on marriage!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Across civil rights movements of the past, the freedom to marry has been a stepping stone on the path toward full legal equality. Of course, there are many other such stepping stones -- employment non-discrimination, full and open access to public accommodations, open militar]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:39:41 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Update on SBC petition, and action needed for NY</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

I wanted to give you an update on our recent call to the Southern Baptist Convention to apologize for the religion-based bigotry that they have embraced for far too long.

Approximately 10,000 people signed the petition created by a host of organizations -- including the Associa]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:43:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Help stop religion-based bigotry!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Last week, we asked you to call on President Obama to support full equality for LGBT Americans. We understand that&apos;s not a popular stance for everyone, especially heading into an election year. But when a President hides behind religion to justify discrimination, we&apos;re not OK]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:29:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;ve got Pride, now it&apos;s time to GetEQUAL!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I don&apos;t know if you can hear it, but I can&#8230;

From immigration reform to peace action to environmental justice to LGBT rights &#8211; many are issuing the same call to our President: &quot;We are tired of waiting -- actions speak louder than words!&quot;

These grassroots roars aren&apos;t mis]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:11:39 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Pride, or prejudice?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Pride festivals originally started over 40 years ago to bring attention to the need for justice -- in fact, it was because of the determination of a group of marginalized people that the fight for dignity and freedom from unequal treatment began. The effort to fight prejudice]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 17:18:18 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>&quot;I cannot thank you enough!&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

In the shadows of the Statue of Liberty, we see glimpses of freedom.

Henry Velandia&apos;s deportation hearing ended a short time ago, and it was quite an event. Because of the pressure that you and thousands of other LGBT advocates across the country created, Henry&apos;s case was ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 12:16:44 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Help save a marriage today</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

While the country focuses on recent international events, this Friday a married bi-national couple may be ripped apart from one another by the U.S. government.

Josh is an American citizen. Henry is from Venezuela.  They married in Connecticut in August 2010. But because of]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:27:42 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Tony Perkins is right</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Well, it finally happened. Family Research Council&apos;s Tony Perkins finally got something right.

In a recent press release, Tony got all hot and bothered that GetEQUAL DC organizers decided to call out Bancroft PLLC -- the bigoted and discriminatory law firm that has taken u]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:02:21 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Equality isn&apos;t controversial</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Over the past week, GetEQUAL organizers have been busy!

We confronted Maggie Gallagher, founder of the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage, to present her with the &quot;First Annual Anita Bryant Award for Unbridled and Unparalleled Bigotry.&quot; (If you haven&apos;t seen the v]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:41:51 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>&quot;No Taxation WITH Discrimination!&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I hate Tax Day.

I know that I shouldn&apos;t hate it, but I don&apos;t think there&apos;s been a year yet that I didn&apos;t file my taxes the day before they were due. (And there were several years of frantic post office runs the evening they were due!) I know that taxes pay for all kinds of]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:31:15 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Are you Organizing for Equality?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

We&apos;ve come out of the closet, changed hearts and minds, lobbied, canvassed, donated, volunteered, marched, protested, and we&apos;ve even been arrested. So why are we still not equal?

Over the past year we&apos;ve learned that there is, indeed, power in numbers -- when activists joi]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:58:41 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>We won!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

We did it!!

I just got off the phone with Petty Officer Derek Morado, the servicemember who was facing discharge today in California despite &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; having been repealed 100 days ago.

In short, I have great news to report -- by a vote of 3-0, Derek was r]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:13:48 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Military discharges have *still* not ended!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

In December, when President Obama signed the &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell Repeal Act of 2010,&quot; I breathed a sigh of relief. Although there is still work to do to make repeal fully inclusive and get it implemented, my hope was that at least now we would not lose another servicemembe]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:12:04 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>Are you ready for our terrible twos?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

One year ago today, GetEQUAL marked our launch with three game-changing actions -- at the White House fence, in then-Speaker Pelosi&apos;s San Francisco office, and in Pelosi&apos;s DC office.

As we reflect on this past year, we deeply thank those who have organized and taken action]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:26:56 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Cheaper than a spray tan...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Just as we did almost one year ago with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), activists are staging a sit-in inside the district office of Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) right this minute. As Boehner&apos;s constituents, they&apos;re angry that he&apos;s pursuing anti-LGBT legislation]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:25:57 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Demand justice for TN arson victims</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Sadly, even with each step we make towards progress, we can&apos;t forget the discrimination LGBT folks face across the country...

We&apos;re working with an extraordinarily brave Tennessee couple, Laura and Carol Ann Stutte, whose home was burned to the ground and whose garage was ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:04:23 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re rising up!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Wow!

The last week has been absolutely incredible; while recent developments in the fight for marriage equality have dominated the news, what&apos;s happening in the Midwest is equally important. We&apos;ve seen the Midwest explode with action as the rights of workers are threatened]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:01:35 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Focus on job creation, not discrimination!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Did you hear the big news yesterday?

The White House and the Department of Justice announced that they&apos;re no longer going to defend the anti-LGBT Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, deeming it unconstitutional after months of pressure from the LGBT grassroots and blog]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:09:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>&quot;On Day About Love, Couples Make a Stand&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

That was the headline Tuesday after we organized 37 marriage equality actions in 13 states across the country. From Laramie to Austin to Asheville, we took action for equality from coast to coast!

Across the country this week, newspapers and television stations were talkin]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:07:03 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>This is our lunch counter moment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

In 1960, four freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural &amp; Technical College in Greensboro, NC, sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter and created one of the most iconic images of the civil rights movement. It took six months, but these brave young men and the activists who]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:48:55 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Tell politicians to stop funding hate!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

In 2000, I enrolled in seminary.

I started classes as a straight Methodist and graduated a lesbian agnostic. It wasn&apos;t exactly what my mother had in mind for my life...but it was a completely incredible and life-changing experience. Many of my classmates are now church lea]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:50:46 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>WE WON! (for now)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

After a few really tenuous days and a really close call, Brenda Namigadde has been granted a temporary reprieve!

The details are still coming in, but Brenda has left Heathrow airport in London and is returning home. She&apos;s not out of the woods, but we&apos;re thrilled that YOUR ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:45:26 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>A woman&apos;s life hangs in the balance</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

We hadn&apos;t intended to send this email today, but there are literally just a few hours standing between a woman&apos;s life and her almost-assured death.

We just talked with our friends at AllOut, and they&apos;ve asked us to help Brenda Namigadde, a young Ugandan lesbian, from being]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:31:10 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Exciting changes at GetEQUAL</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Just last month, LGBT Americans and pro-equality allies experienced a tremendous moment in our fight for civil rights when President Obama repealed &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; -- bringing us one step closer to full legal equality. Our common struggle for full federal equality is ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:16:23 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Imagine a New Year as EQUALS!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Today, many of us will tick off one more year that we are less than equal. I don&apos;t know about you, but I&apos;d really love to spend a New Year&apos;s Eve celebrating full LGBT equality!

As I think forward to 2011, I am eager and excited to continue the work ahead of us. GetEQUAL is]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:14:02 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Join a mother in supporting her son!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I&apos;m a mom. Before I&apos;m an organizer, before I&apos;m a teacher, before I&apos;m anything else -- I&apos;m a mom.

That&apos;s why I was so moved when a mother reached out to me, wanting to honor her gay son by donating $25,000 to GetEQUAL as a matching grant.

I know that this donation isn&apos;t ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:11:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Make a donation and it&apos;ll be doubled!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I&apos;m a mom. Before I&apos;m an organizer, before I&apos;m a teacher, before I&apos;m anything else -- I&apos;m a mom.

That&apos;s why I was so moved when a mother reached out to me, wanting to honor her gay son by donating $25,000 to GetEQUAL as a matching grant.

I know that this donation isn&apos;t ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:10:53 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Join a mother in supporting her son!</title>
			<link>http://hq-org2.salsalabs.com/o/6535/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1148135</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I&apos;m a mom. Before I&apos;m an organizer, before I&apos;m a teacher, before I&apos;m anything else -- I&apos;m a mom.

That&apos;s why I was so moved when a mother reached out to me, wanting to honor her gay son by donating $25,000 to GetEQUAL as a matching grant.

I know that this donation isn&apos;t ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:38:54 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>The vote is final -- thank activists!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

The Senate just voted to repeal &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell.&quot;

Repeal of DADT is just one of the things that GetEQUAL sees as a priority in order to work toward full legal and social equality. Far from being a lobbying group or political insiders, we are committed to doing whate]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:12:30 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We&apos;re one step closer!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Wow.

After 17 years of living under the discriminatory &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; policy, we&apos;re one step closer to repealing the ban on open and honest service for lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans.

Make no mistake -- DADT is not yet repealed. There is still work to do.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:57:06 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Click to call your Senator and repeal DADT!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

On Monday, we asked you to call your Senators, ask them whether they were planning to vote for or against the stand-alone bill that would repeal &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell,&quot; pressure them in any way you could to give you an answer, then record the answer on a website so that ever]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:26:33 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We won&apos;t go away until we GetEQUAL!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Last week was hard on many of us. After many years of advocacy from the LGBT community and allies, a vote to simply open up conversation about repealing &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; was denied by the Senate.

Luckily, we have one more hopeful week before the Senate heads home fo]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:08:57 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>Who screwed us and who supported us?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[[First_Name]],

I have to be honest -- I just vomited a little in my mouth.

The Senate just voted on whether to bring the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) up for conversation. Not for passage -- just for conversation. It failed.

We all laid everything we could on the line for this ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:56:38 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>All I want for the holidays is to be more equal!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

I want &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; to be repealed this year.

I&apos;m starting to doubt, though, whether the Democratic Senators in Congress want the same thing. I don&apos;t know about you but, when there&apos;s a job to do, I stay at work until it&apos;s done. Sadly, we&apos;re not seeing that same ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:42:15 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>From the jailhouse to the White House</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

This has been a whirlwind week!

Thanks so much to those who contributed to this week&apos;s actions by donating what you could to make them happen. Many of you stepped up when we asked for help, and we appreciate it. This week, we&apos;ve gone from the jailhouse to the White House -]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:05:45 -0500</pubDate>
			<title>We shouldn&apos;t have to be doing this...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First_Name]],

Seventeen years ago, I joined a group of LGBT leaders and activists who were arrested at the White House fence in an effort to lift the unconstitutional &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; military ban. Sadly, 17 years later, GetEQUAL activists STILL have to continue taking action.

Th]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:30:51 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>The country is organizing next week -- are you?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First Name]],

We&apos;re in the final push for repeal of &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; and we need your help.

Justin Elzie was the first Marine discharged under DADT and was also the first Marine to challenge the law in court. During the short window in which lesbian, gay, and bisexual soldiers we]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:35:31 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>DADT is down to the wire!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First Name]],

Last night was hard to watch.

Though we have spent seven months insisting that Democrats make good on promises to repeal &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; and pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, they have continued to run from legislation such as DADT and ENDA that are suppo]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>President Obama, you can make it better.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Right now, as we all try to make sense of why our desire to serve is being tossed back and forth like a political football, I wanted to take a break from the madness and share this letter from Tammy Aaberg. Tammy is the mother of Justin Aaberg, who took his life way too early.

As a mother myself,]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:25:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>I want to serve!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First Name]],

My name is Omar Lopez. I was a proud Navy sailor who was discharged under &quot;Don&apos;t Ask, Don&apos;t Tell&quot; after honorably serving our country for five years.

When I heard the news last week that a federal judge in California ruled that policy unconstitutional and that there was a ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:41:46 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>[[First_Name]], what will you do for LGBT equality?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I remember the magic of Denver at the Democratic National Convention and of the crowds in Chicago on Election Night as I watched on television with my kids. Before that, I can even remember the first moment I heard Barack Obama&apos;s voice from the Democratic National Convention in Boston, as he stumped]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<title>The DNC responds to our &quot;We&apos;ll Give&quot; campaign</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dear [[First Name]],

I was surprised earlier this week, while checking our info@ email account, to see an email from an official within the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The message came in within half an hour of launching the campaign, and I was completely shocked by the response of yet a]]></description>
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