Remember When All Those Liberals Came #out4equality?

On Friday, October 11th, 2013 GetEQUAL challenged our coalition partners, allies, families and friends to come #out4equality. We sent out signs and asked people to tell us what equality means to them. The outpouring of love was overwhelming. Check out our round up here: http://storify.com/getequal/out4equality

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Let's start with GetEQUAL co-founder and all around badass, Robin MeGehee

Robin is a proud mom of two in the Central Valley of California...

Robin even got her dad to come #out4equality!

Speaking of awesome parents- check out this mom, Annette, who supports her son unconditionally!

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Next up - Tiffani, one of our Texas state leads!

Hell yea they do!

GetEQUAL state leads are incredible organizers who lead their states in campaigns, leadership development and in building community. They are the backbone of GetEQUAL.

Erin, another Texan rockstar

Sign reads:

#out4equality #ButchTransDyke #ZeroFucksGiven #HashtagsNotTeabags #GetEQUAL #NoClosetsCouldHoldMe #SmashedItYearsAgo

Can't forget about Jay!

Tom, one of our OH state leads, is #out4equality in style

Eddie, from NY, wants to smash injustice in the name of equality!

Felipe, one of our co-directors, is all smiles as he comes #out4equality

Felipe even took time out of a busy week at the Southeast Immigrant Rights Network conference to rally Ciara, the Political Director for the Dream Defenders, and other friends to come out!

GetEQUAL Mississippi rockstar state lead Zach Magee, spittin' truth on a quick break from work...

Check out his video here!

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Our friends in the Student Movement came out in full force!

Check out Joel Solow, and organizer with The Ohio Student Association

Talk about, Joel!

Malaya, a student organizer with the Ohio Student Association, is serious about her commitment to equality! Check out OSA here!

Caleb-Michael, a student organizer from Equality MO, wants equality in the workplace

Big up's to Caleb for helping us with memes for #out4equality

Students from AL, involved in The Change Project, took time out of their busy coming out week to come #out4equality

Thanks y'all!

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Journalist friends came out!

Check out James, a writer for The Nation, he believes in equality through economic justice.

Izzy from The Youngist came #out4equality as an ally to trans* folks

Phil Agnew, ED of the Dream Defenders, came out for future generations

Show the Dream Defenders some love!

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Our friends at United We Dream came out in numbers!

Make sure you check out UWD's campaign - No More Closets!!

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Our Climate Justice allies were pumped to come out!

Pat Kennedy, Coordinator at Ohio Student Environmental Coalition, is out for the frontline communities.

Huge thank you to Pat for helping us with the memes for this campaign!

Erin, a student organizer from the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition, stands with GetEQUAL!

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Our partners in labor definitely came out

Jess Morales, from AFL-CIO wants people to get shit done in peace.

Austin Thompson, from the SIEU, is out for justice in public

Carmen Berkley, from the AFL-CIO, is out for the queer workers!

Greg Cendana, ED of APALA, could stop but will not until he gets equal, and even wrote a piece in the Huff Post about it!

LGBTQ EDs of AAPI orgs are coming#out4equality because they are #notyourmodelminority !

Tom Hayashi, ED of OCA National Center

Miriam Yeung, ED of National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

Ben de Guzman, ED of National Queer Asian Pacific Islander

Greg Cendena, ED of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance

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In conclusion

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We would like to thank everyone who came #out4equality! We know that coming out didn't start last week and it doesn't end next week. After the overwhelming amount of love and support from our community, we are so excited to show up for all of you, to build with all of you and to learn from each of you!

You can learn more about GetEQUAL -- including signing up for email updates or donating to help sustain this work -- here!