Equal Rights Amendment: LGBTQ+ Orgs. Express Support For It
therainbowtimesmass.comResolution Takes Critical Step Toward Enshrining Gender Equality in our Nation’s Founding Document; Support for Pressley’s Resolution to Affirm the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment BOSTON—Today during Pride Month, a coalition of LGBTQ+ grassroots organizations expressed support for H.J.Res.
25, a bicameral joint resolution led in the House by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), to affirm the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and enshrine gender equality in the U.S.
Constitution.Rep. Pressley, a founding Co-Chair of the first-ever ERA Caucus, unveiled the resolution earlier this year with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the lead sponsor of the Senate companion bill, as well as co-leads Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (VA-07), Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), and Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI).Kierra Johnson (she/they), Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, chimed in on the immediate need and relevance for the support and passage of the ERA.Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley; Photo: Ayanna Pressley/FB Page“Our LGBTQ community has been fighting to end the blatant discrimination towards LGBTQ+ people, which widely targets our trans and gender nonconforming siblings.
Even after decades of progress, we are facing a tidal wave of anti-LGBTQ hate bills that are weaponizing fear to cut out our existence in education, public spaces, and health care.
