Advancing LGBTQIA+ equity, dignity, and rights — because actions speak louder than pride.
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Contact your legislators and demand:
Fund services that directly address the impacts of transphobia and homophobia.
Support and elevate leadership and voices from LGBTQIA+ people of color.
Queer liberation is not possible without addressing the impacts of racism on LGBTQIA+ people of color.
Your vote is your voice. Make it heard in every election.
Why your vote matters
The research is clear: when LGBTQ+ people show up — and when pro-equality candidates win — communities get measurably safer and healthier.
8% of 2024 voters identified as LGBT — a record high, and roughly double the 4% share in 2008. Heading into 2020, nearly 9 million LGBT adults were registered to vote, and in 2024 94% of LGBTQ Americans said they were motivated to cast a ballot.
Sources: 2024 national exit polls, reported by NBC News; Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law; GLAAD 2024 Voter Poll.
Yes — and growing fast. LGBTQ+ people made up 11.3% of eligible voters in the 2022 midterms and are projected to reach 17.8% of eligible voters by 2040. In 2022 Georgia, 88% of LGBTQ+ voters backed the pro-equality candidate — a margin big enough to swing tight statewide races.
Source: Brookings Institution.
The evidence says yes. After states legalized same-sex marriage, suicide attempts among all high-school students dropped 7% — and fell 14% among lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. Researchers estimate that's about 134,000 fewer adolescent suicide attempts every year.
Source: Raifman et al., JAMA Pediatrics (2017), via Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · PubMed.
It cuts risk in half. LGBTQ+ young people living in very accepting communities attempt suicide at less than half the rate of those in very unaccepting ones — a finding drawn from more than 18,000 LGBTQ+ youth. The policies on your ballot help decide which kind of community you live in.
Source: The Trevor Project, 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People.
Harm goes up. Anti-transgender laws are associated with up to a 72% increase in suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth, and 90% of LGBTQ+ young people say recent politics have negatively affected their well-being. Elections decide whether these laws advance or fail.
Source: The Trevor Project.
Some do. About 825,100 transgender adults were eligible to vote in 2024, and an estimated 210,800 could face problems at the polls because their ID doesn't reflect their correct name or gender. That's exactly why checking your registration and ID early matters — start with the tools above.
Every body, every ballot
Reproductive justice, trans rights, and queer liberation are one fight — and it's decided at the ballot. Voting for love means voting for a world where every body is free, safe, and seen. That's the same freedom our sister campaigns carry into the streets.
In this together
Reproductive justice, trans rights, and queer liberation are one fight. Our friends at Pride Is For Every Body made these short videos on how to show up — pick one and start today.
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Out.Vote is a civic-engagement initiative of A Great Idea that mobilizes the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies to advance equity, dignity, and rights — through registering and voting in every election, sharing stories, introducing anti-racist practices, and running for office.
Start by contacting your elected officials to demand they fund services that address transphobia and homophobia, elevate LGBTQIA+ leaders of color, and affirm anti-racist practices — then register and vote in every election. Use the "Locate Your Representatives" link to find and contact your lawmakers.
Out.Vote is an initiative of A Great Idea, an LGBTQ+-owned creative studio. It shares a family of work with Freedom For Every Body and Pride Is For Every Body, all rooted in advancing equity and dignity.
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