{"id":93352,"date":"2019-07-30T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/covering-2020-glaad-releases-second-tip-sheet-for-journalists-momentum-building-for-constitutional-equality\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:25:21","slug":"covering-2020-glaad-releases-second-tip-sheet-for-journalists-momentum-building-for-constitutional-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/covering-2020-glaad-releases-second-tip-sheet-for-journalists-momentum-building-for-constitutional-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"COVERING 2020: GLAAD Releases Second Tip Sheet for Journalists; Momentum Building for Constitutional Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVERING 2020: GLAAD Releases Second Tip Sheet for Journalists; Momentum Building for Constitutional Equality<\/b><\/p>\n

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GLAAD urges all 2020 candidates to support an expanded ERA that would explicitly protect women<\/a>, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities<\/em><\/p>\n

GLAAD President & CEO: \u201c…the issue of non-discrimination has a rightful place in this week\u2019s debate and through the campaign trail.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 2: Covering 2020 \u2013 An Amendment for Constitutional Equality<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today\u00a0announced its second<\/a>\u00a0in a series of tip sheets for journalists covering the 2020 election ahead of the second Democratic Primary Debates in Detroit, Michigan. The second tip sheet,\u00a0Covering 2020: An Amendment for Constitutional Equality<\/em><\/a>, highlights an idea to expand the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to include explicit protections for other marginalized communities \u2013 including people of color, the disabled, and LGBTQ Americans.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0spotlighted GLAAD\u2019s support for an Amendment for Constitutional Equality last month on the 50th<\/sup>anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Riots and the start of the first presidential debates for the 2020 election cycle. During those debates, Democratic candidates like Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and Elizabeth Warren called for policies to protect LGBTQ Americans, people of color, and women<\/a> \u2013 including ratification of the original ERA.\u00a0 Legal and policy experts convened by theERA Coalition<\/a>\u00a0have crafted draft language – The Amendment for Constitutional Equality – that meets this imperative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLGBTQ issues were nearly invisible in the last Presidential election and now need to be front and center alongside issues impacting other marginalized communities,\u201d\u00a0said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cAt a time when marginalized communities are under attack, the issue of non-discrimination has a rightful place in this week\u2019s debate and through the campaign trail.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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GLAAD\u2019s \u201c<\/em>Covering 2020: An Amendment for Constitutional Equality<\/em><\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So far, the Trump Administration has been responsible for issuing more than 117 attacks against LGBTQ Americans in policy and rhetoric since 2017. The entire list of the Trump Administration\u2019s anti-LGBTQ actions, which include\u00a0Trump\u2019s ban on allowing transgender Americans<\/a>\u00a0from enlisting in our nation\u2019s armed forces to\u00a0opposing the Equality Act<\/a>, can be found by visiting GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Trump Accountability Project<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0www.glaad.org\/trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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