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FL, USA: President Obama to Attend LGBT Fundraiser in Hollywood

Monday, April 9th, 2012

President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with LGBT supporters of his re-election campaign in Hollywood, Fla., on Tuesday.

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz; DNC National Political Director Jeffrey Lerner; Jaime Citron, national LGBT vote director of the president’s re-election campaign; Obama for America National Finance Director Rufus Gifford and Obama for America Florida State Director Ashley Walker, are slated to brief supporters before the president’s remarks. Obama will then attend a general fundraiser at the Westin Diplomat Hotel. Tickets start at $2,500 per person.

“This is a unique opportunity for those who can afford to take part in it,” said one Obama re-election campaign official during a conference call on April 5. “We all know on this call that Florida is the key to winning the re-election-all roads lead through Florida. And so if we all do our part, we can win this thing. That being said, this is an opportunity to ask your questions.

Full Story from Edge Boston

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NC, USA: Blogs Unite to Raise Money to Fight Amendment One

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

The blogswarm has already raised over $10K off of its ActBlue page for the money bomb and that doesn’t even include donations flowing in via the Protect All NC Families web site or phoned into its HQ so far.

Today the Coalition to Protect All NC Families launches a week-long moneybomb to get over the $1,000,000 mark. Activists around the country — and the blogosphere — are stepping up this week to spread the word that North Carolina’s battle to defeat the bigotry of Amendment One is winnable — and this is the week to pitch in to reach a fundraising milestone.

The poorly-written discrimination measure designed to hurt gay and lesbian couples in NC — and that will also harm hundreds of thousands of families in this state will be on the ballot on May 8.

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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Prop 8 Play Had 200,000 Viewers, Raised Two Million

Monday, March 5th, 2012

The star-studded Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black’s play ’8′ about the Proposition 8 trial which was streamed Saturday night on YouTube attracted 200,000 online viewers according to director Rob Reiner, and raised more than $2 million (double what it raised in NYC) for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.

EW reports on the show, and on changes that were made since the NY premiere: “I felt after the New York version that I wanted to know the plaintiffs more, I wanted to know their personal stories more,” Black told EW after the show.”

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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President Obama to Attend Marriage Equality Celebration Fundraiser

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

President Barack Obama will attend a fundraiser celebrating the passage of gay marriage in New York.

The Wednesday event in New York City is being billed as a “small reception to celebrate the progress in the LGBT community,” the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six reported.

This is the first time Obama has attended a gay fundraiser in New York since lawmakers approved a gay marriage law in June. Five additional states – Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa – and the District of Columbia allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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From Minnesotans United for All Families – Fundraising Request

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I’m really excited about this one, folks. This year, when you “Give to the Max,” you can help us educate Minnesotans about the importance of fairness when it comes to marriage for same-sex couples!

Give to the Max is a special day each year where Minnesota donors flood GiveMN.org to give to their favorite nonprofits. Last year, this amazing campaign generated more than $10 million for hundreds of organizations doing great work.

To capitalize on this amazing outpouring of support, we’ve joined with our partners at Freedom to Marry to start a joint Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund to help educate Minnesotans on why marriage matters.

Click here today to “Give to the Max” to the Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund. We need your help to educate Minnesota about fairness for every family!

Giving to this special fund on this special day can turbo-charge your contribution in two key ways.

During every hour of Give to the Max Day – November 16 – GiveMN.org will choose one donor during that timeframe and give $1,000 extra to the nonprofit of his or her choice.
Moreover, if our special fund is one of the top-performing nonprofits across the state, we’ll be eligible to receive a grant worth another $5,000, $10,000, or even $15,000!
Plus, just by being a part of this fantastic statewide effort, you’ll help us get our cause in front of thousands of die-hard donors who can help us build even more resources well into the future.

But we can’t do any of it – not raising extra funds or the important work of making Minnesota more fair – without your tireless support. Please “Give to the Max” this week to help us reinforce our Minnesota values across our state.

I’ve been a proud supporter of Give to the Max Day for years now, and I am thrilled that our organization is going to be a part of it this week.
I hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, November 16 to help push our movement to ever greater heights.

Thanks,

Richard Carlbom
Campaign Manager
Minnesotans United for All Families

Minnesotans United Education and Research Fund is a program of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide based in New York and Washington.

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NY: Donors Raise $1.25 Million for Pro Marriage Equality GOP Senators

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

As the State Legislature this year debated the legalization of same-sex marriage, a group of wealthy financiers who support both gay rights and Republican causes offered a reassurance to Republican lawmakers: Stand with us now, and we will stand with you later.

This week, the four Republican state senators who provided the decisive votes to pass the marriage bill are to get a big financial boost from those donors, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. A fund-raiser planned for Thursday night in Manhattan is expected to raise about $1.25 million to help finance their re-election bids next year.

The senators have come under heavy criticism from conservatives since they cast their votes in June. A national group that opposes same-sex marriage has purchased billboards in each of their districts, vowing to unseat the lawmakers, and the senators have been eagerly raising money in an effort to defend themselves against possible challengers.

Full Story from The New York Times

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NY: Gay Community Gives Back to Democrats Who Voted for Marriage Equality

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is set to headline a pricey fundraiser for the cash-strapped Senate Democrats. All but one of the 30 Senate Dems voted in favor of gay marriage. The Nov. 2 cocktail reception (see the invite below) will cost attendees between $1,000 and $25,000 per person.

In addition to key gay political leaders like Quinn and bill sponsors Sen. Thomas Duane and Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, major gay rights groups like the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Human Rights Campaign are also listed as key sponsors.

Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg, who personally lobbied for the bill, will headline an Oct. 13 New York City fundraiser for the four Republicans who voted for the measure. Without those votes, the bill would have failed for the second time in recent years.

Full Story from the NY Daily News

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NY: Prop 8 Play Raises $1 Million for Marriage Equality

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The premiere Broadway performance of the new play based on the trial over the constitutionality of California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, raised over $1 million for the fight to win marriage equality.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group formed specifically to challenge the 2008 voter-approved amendment, announced in a newsletter to supporters that the staging of Black’s 8 wowed a sold-out audience.

The play is based on the 13-day trial held last year in San Francisco which resulted in federal Judge Vaughn Walker, now retired, declaring the ban unconstitutional. Proponents of Prop 8 appealed the ruling, and gay and lesbian couples in California remain barred from marrying.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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NY: Mayor Bloomberg to Host Fundraiser for Pro Marriage Equality GOP Senators

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will co-host a fundraiser for the four GOP senators who voted in favor of the New York marriage equality bill.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most strident opponent of marriage equality, has promised to unseat the four GOP senators whose votes made equal marriage a reality in New York and has said it will commit two million dollars to that end.

Enter New York City’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, keeping a promise he made during last summer’s push to make same-sex marriage legal in New York State that he would help Republican senators who voted in favor of the law that made the state the 6th and largest state to allow same-sex nuptials.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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Tags: fundraiser, Gay Marriage, gop, mayor bloomberg, new york

NOM Fundraiser Falls 98% Short

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

How much money can the National Organization for Marriage dredge up to push their radical bigoted agenda? Apparently not as much as they though. The way that this was set up was that for every Facebook like, Twitter follow or text message, NOM would get $1 from a wealthy donor.

Well, NOM had better hope that the donor is going to cough up the money anyway since they managed to get a total of 931 new Facebook likes and 298 Twitter followers from 6/24 until 9/1.

There is no accounting for the number of text messages, but it seems unlikely that they will have gotten as many as 98,771 text messages. As NOM Exposed points out “Now, there is always the text message factor to up the tally. But that one’s a total long shot, considering the comparable time consumption of the act, the text number’s lack of prominence, the requirement of a SMS-capable phone, and the relative impracticality of receiving SMS updates rather than Twitter or Facebook notices.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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