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What Happens in Georgia Will Affect Every LGBTQ+ American

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Fair Fight and other groups triumphed with heroic voter mobilization efforts to preserve people’s power at the ballot box. When Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by white supremacists this year, state lawmakers quickly came together to establish inclusive laws to address hate crimes in Georgia.

June’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on employment discrimination, Bostock v. Clayton County, was brought by a gay Georgian, Gerald Bostock.

These are important, hopeful developments. But they also illustrate the injustices of time — and the ways that progress can often take far too long.I wish civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis were alive today to see how Georgians showed up to vote.

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