Visit our Program Calendar for up-to-date information on the Pride Agenda’s different events and programs, including rallies, phone banks and panels. Our Facebook page also contains information on current projects aimed at achieving marriage equality in New York State.
Sign up with the Pride Agenda Action Center to receive email updates on the marriage equality campaign and the best ways you can get involved. The emails are a simple way to stay up to date on the push for marriage equality. You can also visit our blog “The Agenda” to find out how the Pride Agenda is working towards marriage and our other legislative goals.
Join your local Impact Team! Attend a day-long training and become a "super volunteer" to help mobilize marriage supporters where you live. Trainings will empower you to organize local events in your community and talk to local legislators and the media. Whether they are organizing a letter-writing campaign or going door to door to talk with neighbors, Impact Teams help to educate voters and elected officials on LGBT equality and justice. Over 300 people have been trained so far and we are planning more trainings across the state soon. Find out when Impact Team meetings are planned near you.
Volunteer on the campaign of a marriage-supportive candidate. Every two years, every member of the New York State Legislature -- meaning all state assemblymembers and state senators -- is up for election. It is important to stand up for candidates who support marriage against candidates who don’t, and to work to replace legislators who refuse to do the right thing. Contact the Pride Agenda to find out if there is a candidate near you who needs help making calls, stuffing envelopes or talking to voters.
Mobilize allies. Engage your union, church or employer in the fight for marriage equality by holding forums, passing resolutions or issuing public statements. Our Pride in Action programs (Pride in Our Union, Pride in the Pulpit and Pride in My Workplace) can all help show them how.
Get a speaker! Have an Impact Team member or Pride Agenda speaker discuss marriage equality at your house party, or at a meeting of your church, union, PTA or other community organization. One of the best ways to win supporters is to engage people who know you (friends, co-workers, neighbors and family members -- especially non-LGBT people), but who might not know why the issue is personally important to you. Request a speaker.
Work with your local newspaper. Write a letter to your newspaper(s) in support of marriage for same-sex couples and email us a copy! Find out if your newspaper(s) print wedding and anniversary announcements of same-sex couples and, if so, send in yours. Straight couples can include language in their announcements calling for marriage equality for all loving couples.
Advocate for marriage equality at weddings. Raise awareness or money at your wedding or commitment ceremony to let your guests be part of furthering the day when all loving, committed couples can marry in New York State. Encourage your friends and family to do the same.
Support the work of the Pride Agenda. Help us beat the forces that are working against our efforts to win marriage in New York State. Make a donation to the Pride Agenda.
For more information contact the Pride Agenda’s Lead Organizer Kate McDonough at kmcdonough AT prideagenda DOT org or 917-522-3411.