yt:channel:PLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg PLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2009-01-15T20:54:17+00:00 yt:video:0im_JDDN6W4 0im_JDDN6W4 UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-09-18T21:40:49+00:00 2024-09-23T08:59:01+00:00 A Day in the Life of an Equality California Comcast Fellow With the generous support of the Comcast Foundation, Equality California Institute hosts an annual class of summer legislative fellows in Sacramento where they spend four weeks experiencing the policymaking process firsthand and networking with the state capital’s top LGBTQ+ leaders. For more information, please visit https://www.eqca.org/comcast-fellowship/ yt:video:rxFYvAekOWQ rxFYvAekOWQ UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-12T22:55:49+00:00 2024-09-24T02:35:53+00:00 Embrace Drag Equality California brings the voices of LGBTQ+ people and allies to institutions of power in California and across the United States, striving to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ+ people. We advance civil rights and social justice by inspiring, advocating, and mobilizing through an inclusive movement that works tirelessly on behalf of those we serve. Learn more at eqca.org yt:video:dBIhuiVHcKU dBIhuiVHcKU UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-03T20:01:16+00:00 2024-09-24T15:12:37+00:00 The Real Impact: Lana’s story For resources and more information, please visit health.eqca.org yt:video:dLBzuV7fqhU dLBzuV7fqhU UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-03T20:00:29+00:00 2024-10-02T19:47:15+00:00 The Real Impact: Seraiyeh’s story For resources and more information, please visit health.eqca.org yt:video:frwWTQL45no frwWTQL45no UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-03T19:49:49+00:00 2024-10-02T21:01:34+00:00 Are you prepared? A Guide to Emergency Preparedness with Jewels Long Beach For resources and more information, please visit eqca.org yt:video:RHSglX3GGGY RHSglX3GGGY UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-03T19:48:30+00:00 2024-08-22T15:56:36+00:00 A Guide to Emergency Preparedness with Jewels Long Beach For more resources and information, please visit eqca.org yt:video:6YEJmcyv2eQ 6YEJmcyv2eQ UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-03T19:29:05+00:00 2024-10-04T14:10:01+00:00 A Guide to Emergency Preparedness with Jewels Long Beach For more resources and information, please visit eqca.org yt:video:_tQoO2sF9vg _tQoO2sF9vg UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-07-02T22:09:48+00:00 2024-10-04T21:10:46+00:00 25 Years of Equality yt:video:EcCm-62KNlw EcCm-62KNlw UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-04-09T00:03:44+00:00 2024-08-22T22:48:10+00:00 The Real Impact short film This short film features community leaders Lana Patel and Seraiyeh Versai courageously sharing their personal journeys with opioid and substance use. For resources and more information, visit health.eqca.org yt:video:c6pHIAeLWTQ c6pHIAeLWTQ UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2024-03-30T00:16:04+00:00 2024-08-27T16:46:41+00:00 International Transgender Day of Visibility Today, and every day, we celebrate the beauty, strength, and resilience of our trans community. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! yt:video:smjQomr3VDU smjQomr3VDU UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2023-07-20T22:51:12+00:00 2024-08-18T06:34:29+00:00 EQCA 2022 Brand Film yt:video:7hzQOCgruWY 7hzQOCgruWY UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2022-08-11T23:42:36+00:00 2024-09-13T18:23:54+00:00 Support Trans Youth Despite the growing visibility of transgender people in the media, transgender people continue to face disproportionate levels of discrimination and violence in many areas of life. Of the wider transgender community, transgender women of color particularly face higher rates of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and interpersonal and institutional violence. For over a decade, Equality California has been working in a coalition to secure non-discrimination protections for transgender people, focusing on education, employment, healthcare, and housing. Today, we continue the critical work of ensuring full and lasting equality in all areas of life for transgender people. Equality California is proud to have co-founded Transform California, the nation’s most ambitious campaign to educate the public about transgender Californians and the challenges they face. Join the fight, visit eqca.org yt:video:zODygpJ9wMg zODygpJ9wMg UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2022-02-25T03:22:45+00:00 2024-09-24T18:59:16+00:00 Transgender Mayor Lisa Middleton Rebukes Governor Greg Abbott Mayor Lisa Middleton of the City of Palm Springs delivered a powerful rebuke to Texas Governor Greg Abbott Thursday evening, just two days after the governor issued a dangerous directive to state agencies to begin investigating and prosecuting parents of transgender children for "child abuse." Middleton made history in 2017, when she became the first openly transgender person elected to political office in California, and again in December 2021, when she was sworn in as the Golden State's first openly transgender mayor. Remarks as delivered: I am very proud to be the Mayor of the City of Palm Springs. We are an imperfect, but unique city, and for generations we have been a place of refuge and renewal. It is in that spirit of our city and our history that I must say something this evening. On Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive to state agencies to investigate and prosecute the parents of transgender children and their healthcare givers. He has labeled the parents of transgender children — who support their children on their journey to be the best and whole person that they can be — to be child abusers. Texas district attorneys are uncertain or of mixed opinions on what new directives mean. But there are reports of parents already, who are supportive of their transgender children, who are fearful that they could have their children removed from their homes and placed in foster care. The University Transgender Health Center in metropolitan Dallas has closed. Please try to understand what it means to be the parent of a transgender child. Please imagine the tears throughout the family as your child told you their truth — their most difficult, essential and personal truth. A truth unlike anything you had ever known. You had a choice — can I and do I stand with my child? You made the choice to stand up for your child, to give your child the best opportunity to be the best person they could be. And the governor of the State of Texas wants to prosecute you for standing up for your child. The governor of the State of Texas wants to turn your neighbors into his enforcement arm. Please try to imagine what it is like for the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and grandparents of a transgender child tonight in the State of Texas. Can you imagine the heartache, the questions of what can we do, what should we do, what will the State of Texas do, and where do we go? Now, try to imagine the transgender child in that family and what their heart is telling them as they watch every person they love in agony and anger. Family comes first. It is not an idle statement. It is what we all know — when no matter what else is before us, if we have to choose, we choose family. Well, if not in Texas, in Palm Springs, we stand with transgender children and their families. I know all of the stories. I know all of the explanations. I have lived this life. We are who we are. You cannot change a child into someone they are not. But what you can do, and what this will do, is break their spirit. I know. I am today a transgender woman. But while I have always been and will always be transgender, I have never had the opportunity to be a transgender child. Because I wasn't brave enough to come out. I wasn't brave like the transgender children in Texas, or Florida or South Dakota or Missouri — or like those here in California. They and their parents have shown bravery and courage that is unimaginable to me when I was their age — and they've done so in the face of dangerous and discriminatory attacks. I am in awe of the transgender children and their parents that I meet. Spend 10 minutes with them — any one of them — and you will be as well. I have, from the City of Palm Springs, a message to transgender children and their families everywhere: You are loved. You are supported. You are respected. And you will always have a home in the City of Palm Springs. You will always have a home in California. Thank you. yt:video:gUeMv9AnOU0 gUeMv9AnOU0 UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2021-12-15T21:02:50+00:00 2024-08-22T04:49:12+00:00 "Make History" - Equality California for Ricardo Lara Who is California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara? The son of immigrants, Ricardo grew up in East LA, served in the California Legislature and wrote laws to combat climate change, protect immigrant communities, expand healthcare access and reproductive freedom, create good jobs and advance equality for all. And as our Insurance Commissioner, he's MADE HISTORY. Ricardo was the first openly gay person elected to statewide office in California — and he's the only LGBTQ+ person of color elected statewide in America. Now, Lara's holding the insurance industry accountable, fighting for consumers' rights, saving billions for drivers during the pandemic, preventing discrimination against people living with HIV, assisting wildfire victims and creating the nation's first-ever climate branch within the Department of Insurance. Ricardo Lara is fighting for all of us. yt:video:flSWY6gHfc8 flSWY6gHfc8 UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg Equality California https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLVyoUVfb0_a__9rDzVwdg 2021-10-27T16:43:24+00:00 2024-09-25T02:22:00+00:00 2021 California Citizens Redistricting Commission - LGBTQ+ Unity Maps Presentation Equality California Associate Program Director Jeremy Payne presents proposed Assembly, Senate and Congressional LGBTQ+ Unity Maps to the 2021 California Citizens Redistricting Commission on Friday, October 22, 2021.