Dear, 2014 has been huge. There are now over TWO MILLION All Out members – including you, Luc. Together, we've done more than ever before. And, it's all been guided by each one of us. Around this time last year, almost 50,000 of us sent in our answers to questions about who we are and what we think All Out should be doing for the next 12 months. Now it's time to do it again and plan for 2015 – so to kick it off each one of us needs to weigh in by Friday. Can you answer a few brief questions? It will only take 2 minutes.Here's the first question: In 2013, we said we wanted to take action on breaking issues, fight anti-gay laws, and get together on the streets to show we're just as powerful in-person as we are online. Here's a snapshot of just some of the ways our choices made an impact: - Just last week, we stood up for Buenos Aires Pride, after the mayor threatened to shut it down and stop police from protecting people at the event.
- Hosted a beautiful family picnic of all kinds of families in France, against the extreme, anti-gay group 'La Manif pour tous' – making headlines across the country.
- Held Global Speak Outs for Russia in over 29 cities.
- We got the International Olympic Committee to change their rules, so that new host countries aren't allowed to discriminate against any group – including on the grounds of sexual orientation. Have your say on the 2015 priorities by taking the survey now.
- In China, we helped Xiao Zhen pressure the World Health Organization to join his groundbreaking fight against dangerous gay ‘cures'.
- Pushed global telecom company Orange to take a stand in Uganda by pulling their ads from a newspaper that was outing lesbian, gay, bi and trans people, putting them in danger.
- Fought back against religious extremists pushing a global anti-gay agenda – including forcing powerful pastor Lou Engle to pull out of a conference in Geneva where he was gathering supporters, and creating a massive outcry against Australia's national government funding of anti-gay chaplains as counselors in schools.
- And so much more!
Will you help shape next year's actions and victories? Click below to take the short survey: Thanks for going All Out, Andre, Hayley, Jeremy, Oscar, Sara, and the rest of the All Out team.
P.S. Every country in the world has All Out members who read these emails and care enough to act together. This email could be read in South Africa with 9,077 All Out members, across Turkey with 3,768 All Out members, and Peru with 13,798 All Out members. Shape what we do together next:https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/en_allout2014?c=20854029
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