Formerly known as the Arizona Human Rights Fund, Equality Arizona has helped our state become a better place by making it more welcoming for everyone, but especially our LGBT community.
Help celebrate the organization’s work and it’s 25-year anniversary at the Arizona Inn on Friday, Nov. 4, 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $45/65 (purchased at bit.ly/tucsonsilver).
Besides celebrating equality and acknowledging the work that remains, Equality Arizona will also recognize some amazing Tucson people and organizations:
Long-time LGBT organizer and volunteer Miki Odawa will receive the William S. MacDonald Lifetime Achievement Award
St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church will receive the Human Rights Local Corporate Award
Raytheon will receive the LGBT2 Rights National Corporate Award
For more information, go to the event’s Facebook page.
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2016.
“…a better place by making it more welcoming for everyone, but especially our LGBT community.”
Can you explain how being more welcoming to one group is “equal”?
Martin Luther King Jr. just spun in his grave.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”
A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/all-animals-are-equal–but-some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others
Wrong, Again:
What could you possibly know about MLK?
You are the antithesis of everything he fought for and represented.