GetEQUAL

GetEQUAL is an American non-profit organization and advocacy group which advocates for LGBT social and political equality through confrontational but non-violent direct action.

Mission statement

GetEQUAL's mission is as follows:

Background

The organization was founded on March 11, 2010 by Robin McGehee of Jackson, Mississippi (she was a co-director of the National Equality March and the Meet in the Middle March 4 Equality, both of 2009), and Kip Williams of Knoxville, Tennessee as a nationwide alternative to other, older LGBT civil rights advocacy organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign.

GetEQUAL was envisioned as a group to establish the continuation of the message presented at the National Equality March which was to hold political leaders accountable for their campaign promises to the LGBT community as well as broaden this effort at the grassroots level. The message was a focus on recently elected officials in the presidency as well as the congressional leaders in power at the time which consisted of the Democrat house and senate majority leadership.