COFFEE/CUPCAKES/COCKTAILS/COMMUNITY: LGBT & ALLY HAPPY HOUR IN NEW HAVEN

Join ctEQUALITY at the Fuel Coffee Shop in New Haven on Thursday, November 4, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for Coffee, Cupcakes, Cocktails & Community: An LGBT & Ally Happy Hour! Coffee, espresso drinks, and vegan cupcakes will be for sale and we’ll provide the coffee-friendly spirits.  Come mingle, meet folks and support ctEQUALITY!

The Crossing by Jesse Begenyi (2010, 11 min.). A documentary about community coming together, the tragedy of anti-transgender violence, hate crimes, and the need for more education about transgender issues. These themes are framed within a welcoming religious community that lifts up ancient spiritual practices and holy words and sets them alongside the bump and groove of the city.

The Crossing from The Crossing on Vimeo.

ABOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION

Thirteen states and Washington DC include gender identity and gender expression in their non-discrimination statutes.

Connecticut is not one of them.

The Human Rights Campaign found in 2010 that of almost 600 of Fortune magazine’s 1,000 largest publicly traded businesses, 427 had non-discrimination policy including gender identity or expression, including eight located in CT: Xerox, UBS AG, United Technologies, Pitney Bowes, The Hartford, Diageo North America, Boehringer Ingelheim USA, and Aetna.

Additionally, Foxwoods Casino, Comcast, Connecticut College, Yale University, Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven have similar non-discrimination policies.

Because Connecticut still lacks explicit inclusion of gender identity and gender expression in its non-discrimination statutes, we are proud to support ctEQUALITY, a coalition of organizations leading the effort to pass a bill in 2011 that will add the phrase “gender identity or expression to CT’s non-discrimination law, thereby filling this gap.

To learn more about gender identity and gender expression, and for information on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression, please visit ctEQUALITY.com’s trans/gender resources page.

ABOUT CTEQUALITY

ctEQUALITY is a statewide coalition of diverse organizations seeking to address this gap in our state’s non-discrimination statutes by passage of a bill that would add the phrase “gender identity or expression.”  The coalition, lead by CT TransAdvocacy Coalition and CT Women’s Education and Legal Fund includes some of the state’s most respected agencies and organizations: the AFL CIO, the CHRO, American Civil Liberties Union, Anti-Defamation League, among many others. ctEQUALITY member organizations represent a variety of interests—civil rights, the business community, people of faith, labor and many more—and are all united in acknowledging that our state’s non-discrimination law lacks explicit protections for our state’s transgender and gender non-conforming residents, vulnerable groups of people.

Interested in having your organization support or join ctEQUALITY? Click here.

Or are you an individual interested in getting involved? Click here.