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TAKE ACTION NOW: Don’t let Arizona write discrimination against trans people into law!
TAKE ACTION: Arizona State Rep. wants to legalize anti-trans discrimination
Arizona State Representative John Kavanagh has backed away from his initial attempt to regulate bathroom usage by transgender people which would have criminalized trans people using the correct bathroom, and is now instead trying to take away the protections for transgender people that were granted by the Phoenix City Council last month on a statewide basis.
Former Tempe Mayor Tells of Road to Becoming Openly Gay
It happens so often that you’d imagine Neil Giuliano would be used to it by now.
It started in 1996. That’s when Giuliano, then mayor of Tempe, publicly disclosed that he was gay after a voter threatened to out him. Once he spoke openly about his sexuality, the letters started to come in. And these were actual handwritten letters, he likes to point out.
“E-mail was just getting started,” he says, smiling. “I received literally thousands of letters and notes and cards.”
