MEDIA WATCH The LGBTQ community made a major impact on the outcomes of the 2020 election season.
Billy Porter doesn’t want you to forget. He’s working with GLAAD to remind everyone that LGBTQ voters, organizers, and groups like GLAAD made the difference in what was considered the most pivotal election of our time.
In a new video, the
Pose star himself narrates a review of the tireless work that GLAAD committed to during the 2020 primary and general elections. The two-and-a-half minute spot highlights “the LGBTQ community’s impact on the 2020 general election, as well as the impact we are posed to have in the Georgia run-off,” GLAAD announced.
U.S. Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff
With just days remaining in two critical runoffs for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, an unprecedented effort is unfolding to turn out LGBTQ and progressive voters for the two candidates embracing equality issues.
On Wednesday, Q Conversations talks with advocates on the front lines about Georgia Equality’s $1.2 million plan to mobilize 650,000 voters, Fair Fight’s efforts to encourage LGBTQ voter participation, why the races are so important for equality issues and the large number of LGBTQ people involved in the campaigns of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. The final day of voting in the Senate runoffs is Jan. 5.
Georgia Equality Development & Communications Coordinator Alexa Bryant
Ever wondered how Georgia Equality’s local office pulls off a year-round effort that stretches well beyond the legislature and the confines of metro Atlanta? In a word, volunteers.
Alexa Bryant, development and communications coordinator for Georgia Equality, called volunteers “critical” to the organization. In the midst of two U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, LGBTQ volunteers make a big impact.
“Volunteers are able to take our mission, and our message, and carry it to the ‘doorsteps’ of Georgians from one state line to the other,” Bryant said. “We would not be able to do this work around the runoff if we did not have a dedicated arsenal of volunteers.”
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Raphael Warnock is assembling an advisory council of two-dozen LGBTQ elected officials, activists and grassroots organizers to help carry his U.S. Senate campaign “over the finish line” in the Jan. 5 runoff.
Warnock announced the Out for Warnock LGBTQ+ Advisory Council on Friday, the latest move from a campaign that is embracing LGBTQ equality issues as part of its effort to unseat U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
“The future of LGBTQ rights is on the ballot for this election. That is why bringing together so many hardworking LGBTQ+ Georgians to carry us over the finish line was a vital part of our campaign strategy,” Warnock said in a prepared statement.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)– Several non-partisan groups from Georgia and around the country, visited Bibb County to encourage everyone to vote in the Senate runoff election.
Eric Gantt with The People’s Agenda, says he came out because his idol John Lewis would have done the same.
“He marched for this, and they beat him on the Pettus bridge for this, for voters’ rights,” Gantt explained. “It’s such a serious thing, and I mean that’s why we’re out here in the rain, in the middle of the winter. We just want to make sure people know it’s your right to vote and that your vote does count.”