Oklahomans for Equality needs your support. In order to effectively advocate on behalf of Robert Stotler and all other LGBT hate crime victims, OkEq is launching a campaign to strengthen and broaden Oklahoma hate crime laws to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. This will be a difficult task in a state where lawmakers have unsuccessfully introduced four different bills aimed at making our statutes more inclusive: none of those bills even received a committee hearing. Oklahoma remains one of only a handful of states whose hate crime laws do not protect LGBT citizens and we will need your help to change that law.

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Your donations will allow us to undertake what promises to be an arduous journey toward LGBT equality here in Oklahoma. We are committed to the cause and, with your support, will be able to represent you and your family in each and every stage of this campaign: we will lobby the state legislature; collaborate with national and local LGBT and non-LGBT advocacy organizations; ensure that a well-written bill is crafted and that the bill is heard and debated in committee; and see that a full floor vote on an LGBT inclusive hate crime bill is realized. Let's hold our legislators accountable to the people they are elected to serve and force them to take a stand on this defining issue—it is unacceptable that Oklahoma legislators have thus far failed to represent all of their constituents.

No Oklahoman should be victimized because of his or her sexual orientation.

The need is urgent. Please give $1, $10, $100 or even $1000 to OkEq today so that crimes against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression are finally prosecuted for what they are—acts of pure hatred, directed maliciously and intentionally at all LGBT people. The words "Gay Must Go" spray-painted across the front of Robert Stotler and his partner's home started a conversation. Please act now to provide Oklahomans for Equality the resources needed to ensure that those words don't become the final word in Oklahoma's position toward the thousands of LGBT individuals and families who call this state home.

It is imperative that we raise our voices and be heard--it is crucial that we have the final word. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at http://www.okeq.org/contribute.cfm or by mail at PO Box 2687, Tulsa, OK 74101.

Oklahomans for Equality