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Creating Visibility for the Human Rights movement towards LGBT Equality!

Calling all LGBT students and their allies! This is your chance to join forces with all the other high school and college students across the country in the fight for LGBT Equality. On January 27th, students across the country will wear the same shirt to school as a way to show unity within the community. This is a visibility/fundraiser event geared towards achieving the following goals:

•   Get students more involved in the fight towards LGBT equality.

•   Raise the visibility of the LGBT movement towards equality by having everyone wear the same shirt on the same day. We also want everyone to take group photos of everyone at your school wearing the Students for Equality t-shirt. Please email us to let us know the best time and place to take the picture on your campus (e.g. football field after school at 2:30). Let’s try to get these pictures in every yearbook and school newspaper across the country! Why stop there? You can even submit them to local newspapers as well!

•   Have the event one week after the inauguration to remind Obama that we are not going away. We are expecting him to address same-sex marriage, and LGBT rights in general.

•   Raise money to go towards fighting to legalize marriage in the courts. Students for Equality has decided to donate the majority of the proceeds to Lambda Legal since they are currently fighting the state of California to repeal Prop 8. Lambda Legal has also fought for LGBT equality in many other cases, including overturning sodomy laws in the United States on a federal level. Fighting these cases in the courts takes money to cover court costs, lawyer fees, etc. To see more landmark cases fought by Lambda Legal, go to http://www.lambdalegal.org/our-work/in-court/cases/landmark-cases.html. The money that does not go to Lambda legal will go towards the costs of keeping our website up and running.

Now here’s the fun part. We want you to design the shirt! That’s right. Start getting your creative juices flowing so that you can create a logo/design for everyone to wear on January 27th! Email us your creation and not only will everyone be wearing your shirt, but your design will be a part of history. Oh yeah, we’ll also be giving the lucky winner $100! We will put the top designs on our website for everyone to vote on. Even if you don’t submit a design, make sure you come to the website so that you can vote on what you get to wear!

OK, so here’s the timeline for our next event:
•   12/05/08 – Start working on your t-shirt designs!
•   12/21/08 – Deadline for submitting your design.
•   12/22/08 – Visit www.studentsforequality.com and start voting on your favorite design.
•   12/31/08 – Deadline for voting.
•   1/1/09 – Start ordering your t-shirts!
•   1/1/09 – 01/26/2009 – Help out by becoming part of the street team. Promote the event on your blogs, through facebook, myspace, passing out flyers, etc.
•   01/27/09 – WEAR YOUR T-SHIRT TO SCHOOL ALL DAY AND TAKE A GROUP PHOTO!

Thanks again for giving us all the feedback so that we could create a great event that will allow students to continue their education, help raise visibility for LGBT equality, and financially benefit Lambda Legal, an organization that is helping to fight for our rights on the state and federal level! We welcome all feedback, so please continue to let us know your thoughts by going to the contact page. Now stop reading this page, and get cracking on your designs! Good Luck!