Dear friends,
Thank you so much for your help calling out this year's worst homophobes. With 52% of your votes, Mike Pence has been named Homophobe of the Year.
Time and time again, Pence has gone out of his way to make life worse for LGBT people.
While governor of Indiana, he passed one of the first "religious freedom" laws, allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT customers. After a huge outcry – including 55,000 All Out members – it was amended with the intention to protect LGBT people.
He was staunchly against equal marriage, saying it would cause "societal collapse." The next Vice President of the U.S. even proposed taking funding for HIV/AIDS programs and funneling it into gay "conversion therapy."
This man has been elected into one of the highest positions of power in the U.S. This is what our community will be facing in 2017.
But we're ready to keep fighting. And I hope you are, too.
Thanks for going All Out,
Matt Beard
