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{"1994":{"year":1994,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1994-3.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Rocky Mountain News, March 10, 1994.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Tim Gill Establishes the Gill Foundation in Response to Amendment 2","content":"After Colorado voters approve Amendment 2 in 1992, legalizing discrimination against gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, Tim Gill dedicates a significant portion of his wealth to establishing the Gill Foundation with the goal of securing equal rights for LGBT people in his lifetime. Later that year, the Colorado Supreme Court deems Amendment 2 unconstitutional, but the ruling is challenged, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown.\n\nWitnessing the devastation of the AIDS crisis, Tim directs the foundation to give one of its first grants to the University of Colorado, $750,000 for AIDS research.\n\nAt the federal level, \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d goes into effect, requiring gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members to serve in silence or leave the military."},"1995":{"year":1995,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-1995.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Plaintiffs in Romer v. Evans and their legal team. Photo courtesy of Lambda Legal.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Amendment 2 Goes Before the U.S. Supreme Court","content":"In <em>Romer v. Evans<\/em>, the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether Amendment 2 should stand. The case brings national awareness to the status of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people as second-class citizens.\n\nAwaiting a verdict, the Gill Foundation opens its first office in Colorado Springs, the birthplace of the anti-gay Amendment 2 movement in Colorado.\n\nTo help end the cruel and discriminatory \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy, the Gill Foundation funds the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network."},"1996":{"year":1996,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1996-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Denver Aquarium, originally named \u201cOcean Journey.\u201d Photo courtesy of Denver Aquarium. ","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"bottom","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Amendment 2 Found Unconstitutional","content":"In a huge win for LGBT rights, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Amendment 2 as a violation of the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Equal Protection Clause.\n\nA damaging blow follows, however, when President Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), excluding same-sex couples from the protections and benefits of marriage.\n\nRecognizing the ongoing need to build public acceptance of LGBT people, the Gill Foundation launches the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado, supporting a variety of causes to demonstrate that LGBT people share the same values as the rest of the community. One of GLFC\u2019s first grants is $1 million to help build the Denver Aquarium.\n\nThe Gill Foundation also hosts its first OutGiving Conference to create a network of likeminded donors and increase philanthropy to LGBT causes."},"1997":{"year":1997,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1997-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Hawaii plaintiffs Ninia Baehr and Genora Dancel with co-counsel Evan Wolfson. Photo courtesy of Freedom to Marry.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Marriage Fight Begins to Loom","content":"The marriage equality movement ignites in Hawaii after a trial court determines that the state has no valid reason to prohibit same-sex couples from marrying. To circumvent the ruling, the state legislature sends a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage to the voters.\n\nThe Gill Foundation makes its first marriage grant to support efforts in Hawaii. This launches the foundation\u2019s decades-long investments in public education and high-impact litigation around marriage equality.\n\nAt the same time, the foundation previews a core focus on funding equality in the states, making its first grants to state-level advocacy organizations in Colorado and New Mexico."},"1998":{"year":1998,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-1998.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Matthew Shepard in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"bottom","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Matthew Shepard\u2019s Murder Spotlights Anti-LGBT Animus","content":"In a horrific hate crime that captures the nation\u2019s attention and spotlights the hostility LGBT people face, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old openly gay college student, is brutally beaten and left for dead near Laramie, Wyoming. He dies six days later in a hospital in Fort Collins, CO.\n\nIn Hawaii, anti-LGBT activists wage and win a multi-million-dollar campaign to pass the first state constitutional amendment in the nation to ban same-sex marriage.\n\nThe times require a fortified movement. The Gill Foundation dedicates funding to intensive leadership development and fundraising support for LGBT organizations, sending OutGiving Project staff to train activists across the country."},"1999":{"year":1999,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1999-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Denver PrideFest. Photo courtesy of The Center on Colfax.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Strengthening the LGBT Movement","content":"The Gill Foundation launches 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Initiatives to build up areas of specific need within the LGBT movement, furthering its commitment to leadership development. This multi-year project directs millions of dollars toward strengthening statewide organizations, supporting leaders of color, and developing new community centers in rural areas.\n\nNationally, LGBT history receives official recognition when, for the first time ever, an LGBT site \u2013 the Stonewall Inn \u2013 is added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historic significance."},"2000":{"year":2000,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2000.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Plaintiffs in Baker v. Vermont. Photo courtesy of GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD).","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Marriage Fight Takes Off in Vermont","content":"GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) receives its first Gill Foundation grant for the \u201cMarriage Initiative,\u201d an effort to advance marriage equality in New England. GLAD will go on to effectively litigate state-level marriage cases that provide the foundation down the road to winning marriage nationwide.\n\nIn a step forward, Vermont becomes the first U.S. state to legalize civil unions. However, at the same time, California, Mississippi, and Utah pass anti-LGBT laws forbidding same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.\n\nThe Gill Foundation formalizes its commitment to transgender equality by revising its mission to include gender identity."},"2001":{"year":2001,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2001.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Skygrazers sculpture by Brad Rhea in Sterling, CO. Photo credit: ExploreSterling.com.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"LGBT Funds Spark Debate","content":"The Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado \u2013 dedicated to demonstrating that LGBT people share the same values and commitment to community as other Coloradans \u2013 seeks to fund the restoration of a beloved sculpture known as \u201cSkygrazers\u201d in Sterling, CO. The residents of Sterling grapple with whether or not to accept funding from an LGBT group, ultimately deciding these sculptures need to be restored and utilizing GLFC funding.\n\nSeeing the need for more research on LGBT issues, Chuck Williams creates the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School. The Institute is the first of its kind and will help advance LGBT public policy for years to come."},"2002":{"year":2002,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2002-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Gill Foundation convenes religious leaders to foster dialogue on LGBT issues, Washington Blade Weekly, February 15, 2002.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Gill Foundation Works With Unlikely Allies","content":"Initiating a core strategy of working with unlikely allies, the Gill Foundation convenes a variety of leaders from 18 faith organizations, representing nine individual denominations, for a discussion on faith and the LGBT community.\n\nThe LGBT movement continues to grow and professionalize, with more than 600 organizations receiving training and technical assistance from the Gill Foundation on topics ranging from operational management and coalition building to fundraising and donor cultivation."},"2003":{"year":2003,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2003.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Plaintiffs in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. Photo courtesy of Susan Symonds Infinity Portrait Design.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2003-2.png","title":"Massachusetts Moves Toward Marriage Equality","content":"A pivotal moment in the fight for LGBT equality arrives when the U.S. Supreme Court decriminalizes homosexuality with its ruling in <em>Lawrence v. Texas<\/em>.\n\nIn Massachusetts, GLAD\u2019s lead attorney Mary Bonauto argues the right to marry in <em>Goodridge v. Department of Public Health<\/em>. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declares that the state may no longer deny same-sex couples \u201cthe benefits, protections, and obligations conferred by civil marriage\u201d and gives the legislature 180 days to implement its decision.\n\nAnticipating the anti-marriage backlash that would soon come in response to Massachusetts, Evan Wolfson creates the affirmative marriage campaign Freedom to Marry. The Gill Foundation will become one of its biggest funders as it helps win marriage equality nationwide."},"2004":{"year":2004,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2004.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"The 13 states that banned same-sex marriage in 2004.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2004-2.png","title":"Marriage Equality Becomes a Bullseye","content":"The <em>Goodridge <\/em>decision makes Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Immediately, the Gill Foundation joins others in funding the effort to defend the win against any future constitutional amendment.\n\nHowever, in an attempt by opponents to increase conservative turnout, anti-marriage constitutional amendments are placed on the ballot in 13 states. In a devastating wave of losses, all 13 amendments pass by the end of the year.\n\nWith the rights of same-sex couples under direct attack, the Gill Foundation joins other LGBT funders in forming the Civil Marriage Collaborative, a coalition to advance the marriage equality movement.\n\nThe Gill Foundation also helps launch TurnOut, a public education campaign and get-out-the-vote effort to bring attention to the fact that LGBT people can be fired in 35 states simply because of who they are or whom they love."},"2005":{"year":2005,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2005-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Freedom to Marry\u2019s Roadmap to Victory outlined the strategy to win marriage equality. Photo courtesy of Freedom to Marry.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2005-2.png","title":"Creating the Blueprint for Marriage","content":"Devastated \u2013 but also motivated \u2013 by the string of losses the prior year, funders from the Civil Marriage Collaborative and national LGBT leaders come together to craft a blueprint for winning marriage equality in 20 years.\n\nProgress comes in fits and starts when Connecticut\u2019s legislature becomes the first in the nation to approve civil unions, only to be followed by another loss as California Governor Schwarzenegger vetoes a bill to extend marriage equality to same-sex couples.\n\nThe Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado issues a $1 million challenge grant for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts."},"2006":{"year":2006,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2006-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Rachel Rubin, carrying sign, joined supporters of same-sex marriage at a rally at the Massachusetts Statehouse. Photo credit: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times. ","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2006-2.png","title":"The Backlash to Marriage Intensifies","content":"Anti-marriage amendments pass in eight states, New Jersey falls short of securing marriage, and New York and Washington\u2019s highest courts uphold the states\u2019 bans on same-sex marriage.\n\nBut progress takes hold in unexpected places with Arizona voters defeating an anti-marriage constitutional amendment on the ballot, and Gill Foundation grantees delivering state-court victories in Arkansas and Indiana allowing LGBT people to foster and adopt children.\n\nThe Gill Foundation co-establishes the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), a think tank that becomes the research and messaging epicenter of the movement, providing critical analysis and communications guidance that helps shift public opinion in favor of marriage equality."},"2007":{"year":2007,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2007-1.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Nondiscrimination protections pass in states across the country.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2007-2.png","title":"Seizing Opportunities in the States","content":"With bright spots continuing to emerge in the states, the Gill Foundation co-establishes the State Equality Fund, a groundbreaking collaborative to fund positive change at the state level.\n\nNew Hampshire and Oregon recognize same-sex relationships through domestic partnership and civil union laws, the Massachusetts Legislature defeats an attempt to repeal the marriage equality win, and an Oklahoma law denying recognition of out-of-state adoptions by same-sex couples is held unconstitutional.\n\nThe biggest success comes when four states \u2013 Colorado, Iowa, Oregon, and Vermont \u2013 pass or expand nondiscrimination laws to include LGBT people, and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius signs an executive order making it illegal to discriminate against state employees because of their sexual orientation or gender identity."},"2008":{"year":2008,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2008-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Supporters march to overturn Proposition 8. Photo credit: David McNew for Getty Images.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2008-2.png","title":"Proposition 8 Stuns the LGBT Movement","content":"The California Supreme Court rules in May that same-sex couples have the right to marry and by early November, 18,000 same-sex couples have married. However, in a shocking turn of events that November, California voters narrowly approve a same-sex marriage ban known as Proposition 8.\n\nMore losses come as voters in Arizona and Florida approve measures banning same-sex marriage, and Arkansas passes a measure barring same-sex couples from adopting or fostering children.\n\nDespite these losses, the Connecticut Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, resulting in the nation\u2019s second marriage state.\n\nAnd with a new federal administration, the Gill Foundation funds the National LGBTQ Task Force to identify opportunities for LGBT equality through federal regulatory change."},"2009":{"year":2009,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2009.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Couples who sued for the right to marry, Des Moines Register, April 2009.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2009-2.png","title":"Three More States Win the Freedom to Marry","content":"To counter the devastating loss of Prop 8, the Gill Foundation supports efforts to make 2009 the winningest year for same-sex marriage. Victory comes first in Iowa when the State Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of the freedom to marry. Legislatures in Vermont and New Hampshire follow suit (as does Washington, DC) bringing the total number of states to five.\n\nLimited marriage rights are extended in Nevada and Wisconsin.\n\nMore than 10 years after the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, President Obama signs into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, making hate crimes a federal offense."},"2010":{"year":2010,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2010-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Protestors of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photo credit: Susan Walsh for Associated Press.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2010-2.png","title":"\u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d Repealed","content":"After 16 years of coordinated and dedicated work done by Gill Foundation grantees, President Obama signs into law the repeal of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell,\u201d allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members to proudly and openly serve their country.\n\nWith a founding grant from the Gill Foundation, One Colorado Education Fund launches as a powerful, statewide organization dedicated to advancing equality for LGBT Coloradans.\n\nAt the federal level, Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius and President Obama usher in the Affordable Care Act, of which Section 1557 protects LGBT people from discrimination in healthcare."},"2011":{"year":2011,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2011-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Gay-Straight Alliance school bus. Photo credit: Jon Gilbert Leavitt via Flickr CC.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2011-2.png","title":"Making Schools Safe in Colorado","content":"Following intensive education efforts by One Colorado Education Fund and allies, Colorado passes a law requiring schools to protect students from bullying. The Gill Foundation becomes the first LGBT foundation to donate to Just and Fair Schools Fund, a non-LGBT collaborative to address harsh disciplinary practices in schools.\n\nFreedom to Marry sets its sights on New York, which had failed to legalize marriage for same-sex couples in prior attempts. In a critical moment in the fight for marriage equality, Freedom to Marry reignites momentum with a New York victory, doubling the number of LGBT Americans living in a state with the right to marry."},"2012":{"year":2012,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2012-3.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"A rally outside of City Hall in Portland, Maine in support of a ballot question on same-sex marriage. Photo credit: Joel Page for Associated Press.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2012-2.png","title":"Marriage Equality Wins on the Ballot","content":"For the first time ever, voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington legalize same-sex marriage through state referenda, proving that marriage equality can win in the court of public opinion.\n\nAfter years of Gill Foundation-funded research on Latinx perceptions of LGBT people, the National Council on La Raza endorses marriage equality, joining the growing coalition of marriage allies and helping propel Latinx support for same-sex marriage to 60 percent.\n\nTo pay forward an opportunity a knowing teacher afforded Tim as a young child, the Gill Foundation makes its first of many investments into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education in Colorado."},"2013":{"year":2013,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2013-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Edith Windsor acknowledging her supporters as she left the U.S. Supreme Court on March 27, 2013 in Washington, DC. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla for Getty Images.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2013-2.png","title":"DOMA Found Unconstitutional","content":"Seventeen years after its enactment, the U.S. Supreme Court rules DOMA unconstitutional in its monumental decision in <em>United States v. Windsor<\/em>. Spurred by the ruling, sweeping marriage and civil union victories occur across the country in California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Rhode Island.\n\nSeeing nationwide marriage equality on the horizon, Tim directs the Gill Foundation to sharpen its focus on the next fight \u2013 protecting LGBT Americans from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations.\n\nMeanwhile at home, the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado donates $50,000 to the United Way of Colorado\u2019s Flood Recovery Fund in support of the \u201cColorado Rising\u201d concert after a torrential flood devastates more than 200 miles of the state."},"2014":{"year":2014,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2014-3.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Tim Gill speaks at the Stonewall Inn to announce the LGBT theme study, May 30, 2014.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2014-2.png","title":"Focus Shifts to Nondiscrimination","content":"Anticipating the importance of the business community in securing nondiscrimination protections, the Gill Foundation begins its pioneering work to engage the private sector in the fight for full equality. In several states across the country, grantees begin to develop powerful business coalitions to stand up for fairness.\n\nThe Gill Foundation also funds the Department of Interior's LGBT theme study through the National Park Foundation, which leads President Obama to designate The Stonewall Inn a national monument in 2016.\n\nBy the end of the year, same-sex marriage is legal in 35 states."},"2015":{"year":2015,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2015-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"A rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC after the court ruled in favor of marriage equality. Photo credit: Jacquelyn Martin for Associated Press.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chart-2015-2.png","title":"Marriage Equality Becomes the Law of the Land","content":"On June 26, 2015, eleven years after the first same-sex couples married in Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision in <em>Obergefell v. Hodges.<\/em> Mary Bonauto once again successfully makes the case, this time securing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide.\n\nThe victory is the culmination of more than a decade of dedicated funding from the Gill Foundation and other philanthropic partners, and the strategic planning and execution of a public education campaign demonstrating to the American public that love is love, no matter who you are.\n\nUsing the marriage momentum to pivot to the next fight, the Gill Foundation joins with Paul Singer to establish Freedom for All Americans (Education Fund), the bipartisan campaign to win nationwide nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people. As a proof point of the battles ahead, Houston voters deliver a crushing loss when they vote to repeal nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people."},"2016":{"year":2016,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2016.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Governors in Montana, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Louisiana protect LGBT state employees from discrimination.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"The Fight for Nondiscrimination Ramps Up","content":"The movement secures a series of wins when governors in Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania sign executive orders protecting LGBT state employees. Additionally, nine states modernize gender marker policies, providing better protections and access to services for transgender residents.\n\nHowever, anti-LGBT opponents pivot to launch efforts to dismantle nondiscrimination protections through religious exemptions. In Georgia, two years of public education investments pay off when faith, business, and conservative leaders speak out against religiously-motivated discrimination, leading Governor Nathan Deal to veto anti-LGBT legislation.\n\nFederally, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education issue guidance that protects transgender students from discrimination and the Department of Defense lifts the ban on transgender people serving openly in the U.S. military."},"2017":{"year":2017,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-2017-2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Englewood Middle School students in the STEM Lab. Photo courtesy of Englewood Public Schools.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"top","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Pursuing Opportunity in the States as Federal Rights Unravel","content":"Transgender people lose critical protections at the federal level when a ban on serving in the military is reinstated and school guidance on protecting transgender students is rescinded. Despite these setbacks, grantees hold the line in the states and make progress in challenging environments.\n\nGovernors in North Carolina and Virginia sign executive orders protecting LGBT state employees from discrimination. After years of public education investments, Jacksonville, FL, passes LGBT nondiscrimination protections. For the first time ever, non-binary people have the option to update the gender marker on their driver\u2019s license in California, Oregon, and Washington, DC.\n\nIn Colorado, the Gill Foundation donates $400,000 to build K-12 STEM labs in Englewood to create pathways and apprenticeship opportunities in these fields, especially for underserved and underrepresented students."},"2018":{"year":2018,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-2018.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Supporters celebrating the passage of a ballot measure in Massachusetts that upheld nondiscrimination protections for transgender residents. Photo credit: Hurley Event Photography.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"left","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"top","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Wins for Transgender Americans","content":"With an astonishing 66% of the vote, Massachusetts becomes the first state to uphold nondiscrimination protections for its transgender citizens at the ballot box. Residents of Anchorage, Alaska vote to uphold protections for transgender people. Republican-controlled New Hampshire becomes the 19<sup>th<\/sup> state to protect transgender people from discrimination.\n\nGrantees in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia help secure executive orders to protect LGBT state employees from discrimination.\n\nThe Gill Foundation partners with the Ad Council to create <em>Beyond I Do<\/em> \u2013 a public education campaign targeted to the 31 states that do not protect their LGBT residents from discrimination \u2013 which shares the stories of LGBT Americans who have been fired, evicted, or refused service because of who they are.\n\nIn <em>Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission<\/em>, the U.S. Supreme Court considers for the first time whether or not business owners can refuse service to LGBT people based on religious beliefs. However, their narrow ruling ultimately leaves the question unanswered."},"2019":{"year":2019,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-2019-3.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signs legislation banning \u201cconversion therapy.\u201d Photo credit: AAron Ontiveroz for The Denver Post via Getty Images.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":"","title":"Conversion Therapy Bans Sweep the Nation","content":"To propel growing cultural awareness about so-called \u201cconversion therapy,\u201d the Gill Foundation supports new public education efforts to educate Americans about the deeply harmful and medically discredited set of practices to try to make LGBT people straight and\/or cisgender. Thanks to the work of organizations including the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Trevor Project, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York ban conversion therapy by the end of 2019.\n\nGrantees support six governors, half of whom are Republicans, in issuing executive orders to protect LGBT state employees from discrimination. After years of failed attempts, New York finally prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression and extends protections under the state\u2019s hate crimes law to transgender New Yorkers.\n\nDespite this progress in the states, the Department of Health and Human Services attempts to remove LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination protections from the Affordable Care Act."},"2020":{"year":2020,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"https:\/\/gillfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2020_supreme-court.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Scene outside of U.S. Supreme Court.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":false,"title":"SCOTUS Rules that LGBTQ People Cannot be Fired on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity","content":"\n<p>In a landmark ruling in <em>Bostock v. Clayton County<\/em>, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends employment protections to LGBTQ employees, making it unconstitutional to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The victory marks a watershed moment for the LGBTQ movement, in a year otherwise marred by a global pandemic. In the wake of the decision, with the help of grantees like GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), many states around the country have applied the ruling to their existing nondiscrimination laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few months earlier in April, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Values Act, making Virginia the first state in the South to enact comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n"},"2021":{"year":2021,"color_scheme":"turquoise","featured_image_1_img":"https:\/\/gillfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/StellaKeating1resize2.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"Photo of Stella Keating, courtesy of the Keating family.","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":false,"title":"Equality Act Passes House, Receives Hearing Before Senate Judiciary Committee","content":"\n<p>2021 was marked by significant federal protections for LGBTQ Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first week in office, President Joe Biden applied the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2020 ruling in <em>Bostock v. Clayton County<\/em> across the federal government to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in federal employment and services. He also overturned the ban on transgender people serving in the military. By the 100th day of his presidency, more than 200 LGBTQ people had been nominated or appointed for federal positions, the most for any administration in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following decades of public education and growing support for nationwide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, the Equality Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote for the second time, and it received its first-ever hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, bringing the possibility of equal opportunity for all Americans closer to reality. In the midst of unprecedented attacks on transgender youth gaining traction in state legislatures, the LGBTQ movement and its allies found hope in the next generation: Stella Keating, a representative from grantee GenderCool, became the first trans teen to ever testify in front of the Senate and received national attention for her grace, optimism, and vision for a country where all are treated equally under the law.<\/p>\n"},"2022":{"year":2022,"color_scheme":"curry","featured_image_1_img":"https:\/\/gillfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Biden-Signs-Respect-for-Marriage-Act-2022.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":false,"title":"President Biden Signs Respect for Marriage Act","content":"\n<p>2022 was a year of tragedy and triumph. On November 19, a gunman took five lives and injured more than two dozen at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub and center of community in Colorado Springs. This attack was the heartbreaking culmination of a year marked by intensifying rhetoric from opponents of equality and an unprecedented wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we mourned the lives lost and shattered at Club Q, we still found cause for hope \u2013 and even celebration. On December 13, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, ensuring critical protections for more than 700,000 LGBTQ couples and families. This victory put a capstone on more than 50 years of bipartisan advocacy and public education that has persuaded Americans of every faith and political affiliation that LGBTQ couples and families are built on the same foundation of love as their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 offered other reasons to celebrate. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order restricting conversion therapy \u2013 protecting 110,000 LGBTQ youth. In Georgia, a U.S. district court ruled that employers can\u2019t deny coverage for gender-affirming care in their health plans \u2013 protecting 57,000 trans Georgians. And from coast to coast, a record-setting \u201cRainbow Wave\u201d ushered more than 435 LGBTQ elected leaders into federal, state, and local office.<\/p>\n"},"2023":{"year":2023,"color_scheme":"lilac","featured_image_1_img":"https:\/\/gillfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Protect-Trans-Kids.jpg","featured_image_1_caption":"","featured_image_1_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_vertical_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_horizontal_anchor":"center","featured_image_1_mobile_vertical_anchor":"center","marriage_graphic":false,"title":"Despite Attacks Across the States, LGBTQ Americans Make Progress","content":"\n<p>In 2023, opponents of equality filed more than 660 anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures, and 80 were signed into law \u2013 from school censorship policies to bans on transgender healthcare. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a damaging ruling in <em>303 Creative v. Elenis<\/em>, allowing a business open to the public to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, bolstered by the support of the most pro-equality federal administration in history, LGBTQ Americans continued to make incremental progress. Michigan became the 23rd state to enact nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, while Minnesota and Michigan became the 21st and 22nd states to ban conversion therapy for minors. In Washington state, LGBTQ advocates successfully defended the state\u2019s conversion therapy ban up to the U.S. Supreme Court, upholding bans in 27 states and protecting nearly 2 million LGBTQ youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in our home state of Colorado, Governor Jared Polis signed a law preventing predatory lenders from evading the state\u2019s limit on interest rates \u2013 marking the first state in more than 40 years to adopt such reforms. Thanks to the groundwork laid by Gill Foundation grantees, Colorado is now a national model for consumer protections.<\/p>\n"}}; </script> <footer class="footer panel"> <div class="table container"> <div class="cell cell-50"> <div class="social-links-wrapper"> <h4>Follow Us</h4> <ul class="social-links"> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegillfoundation/" target="_blank" title="Facebook"> <i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/gillfoundation" target="_blank" title="Twitter"> <i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/OutGiving/videos" target="_blank" title="YouTube"> <i class="fa fa-youtube"></i> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="cell cell-50 pad-left"> <div class="footer-menu-wrapper"> <ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-4616" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4616"><a href="https://gillfoundation.org/about/">About</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4617" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4617"><a href="https://gillfoundation.org/contact/">Contact Us</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4618" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4618"><a href="https://gillfoundation.org/employment/">Employment</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4619" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4619"><a href="https://annualreports.gillfoundation.org">Annual Reports</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4620" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4620"><a href="https://gillfoundation.org/media-and-news/">Media and News</a></li> <li id="menu-item-5010" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-5010"><a href="https://gillfoundation.org/grants/">Grants</a></li> </ul> <form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://gillfoundation.org"> <label> <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span> <input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="Search" value="" name="s" title="Search for:"> </label> <input type="submit" class="search-submit button" value="Go"> </form> <p> Site by <a href="https://www.vermilion.com/" target="_blank">Vermilion</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </footer>  <link rel='stylesheet' id='timeline_2019_styles-css' href='https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/timeline/dist/timeline.css?ver=1.4' type='text/css' media='all' /> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/_/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js" id="jquery-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/_/lib/sass-to-js/js/dist/sass-to-js.min.js" id="sass_to_js-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/_/lib/flexslider/jquery.flexslider-min.js" id="flexslider-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/_/lib/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.js" id="swiper-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/_/js/dist/main-min.js" id="main_js-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://gillfoundation.org/wp-content/themes/app/timeline/dist/timeline.js?ver=1.4" id="timeline_2019_script-js"></script> </body> </html>