OK, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act becoming law was amazing, but we cannot rest. Election Day brings us three opportunities to preserve equality efforts in Maine and Washington state, as well as in Kalamazoo!
The great folks at the Courage Campaign have set up a resource page so that everyone can know what’s going on in those places and what they can do to help. Go there now, so that we don’t wake up next Wednesday to any equality setbacks:
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found here, and you can follow him on Twitter.