Federal and state advocacy: in addition to general public education on the importance of lgbtq inclusion in municipal, state and federal law, hrcf made a grant under section 501(h) of the internal revenue code to the human rights campaign (hrc). The grant from hrcf to hrc allowed financial support for direct lobbying activities such as advocating for federal legislation that will provide explicit, consistent protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, credit, education, federal funding, housing, jury service, and public accommodations (the equality act) and legislation that will improve the safety and health of the lgbtq community. Federal legislative priorities included passage of the equality act, customer non-discrimination act, do no harm act, dream act, fair and equal housing act, freedom from discrimination in credit act, juror non-discrimination act/jury access act, safe schools improvement act, student non-discrimination act, therapeutic fraud prevention act, and voting rights advancement act. State legislative priorities included efforts to pass comprehensive nondiscrimination protections in New York and ohio, to secure state level bans on conversion therapy for youth in four states as well as strengthen bans in DC and hawaii, to improve hate crimes reporting and update surrogacy laws in New York and virginia. In addition, state legislative priorities included stopping legislation designed to limit rights for lgbtq people, including bills in texas, tennessee, iowa, arkansas, alabama and south dakota.

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