Stonewall DFL works to foster participation and leadership of LGBTQ people in the DFL Party and elect LGBTQ people and allies to public and party office.
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Celebrate Pride with Us!
Stonewall DFL will be at nearly every Pride celebration in 2019. Check out the full calendar and sign up to volunteer!
Become a Stonewall DFL Member!
Stonewall DFL members have voting privileges at all membership meetings and committee meetings; this includes voting for candidate endorsements.
The entire membership generally meets once or twice a year, electing the board of directors which meets monthly. Members are encouraged to be active with our six standing committees which meet with varying schedules. All meetings are public and guests are welcome.
Our next General Membership Meeting is on Sunday, July 28 at 2pm at Hamline University - Giddens Learning Center Room 100E (1556 Hewitt Ave, St Paul, MN 55104). Agenda to be announced.
Stonewall DFL is a community caucus of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
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Outreach & Inclusion is Our Mission
Stonewall DFL represents the DFL in the LGBTQ community and represents the LGBTQ community in the DFL.
As the official LGBTQ outreach arm of the DFL, we participate in Pride and other events in every corner of the state – educating and registering voters, promoting our endorsed candidates, and creating a pipeline for LGBTQ people to get involved in the DFL Party.
We remind the Party of – and help it fulfill – its obligations of outreach and inclusion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
Electing Champions for our Community
Stonewall DFL works for a safe and equitable Minnesota by endorsing and electing LGBTQ and allied candidates for public office in and in the Minnesota DFL Party. Our endorsements are important to many Minnesotans who seek our advice choosing candidates that will champion issues impacting the LGBTQ community.
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Please be advised that our next Membership Committee meeting will be on October 24th, 6:30pm, at the Maple Grove Library.
By the way, we have a question for members: what is the greatest threat to the LGBT community today?
Have questions for us? Send them to arpalacios4@gmail.com and we'll answer them at the upcoming Membership Committee meeting! Thanks!
We can’t express this enough. As you celebrate National Coming Out Day.
Remember: some stories we will only hear in the obituary section of our newspaper.
As we wave our flags today. Some will be searching for a safe place to sleep.
Others will hope they can get through the night without a john taking their life.
Today we need to remember our LGBTQ community who cannot not celebrate today because they are just trying to survive.
Happy National Coming Out Day 🏳️🌈
MYDFL is committed to advocate for our LGBTQ+ friends and family. We will work hard in 2020 to make sure we elect true representation to Ban Conversion Therapy, Pass Logan’s Law, Ban “Gay Panic Defense”, work to end LGBTQ+ homelessness and much more.
To our Black Trans Sisters and Queer Black, Brown, and Indigenous Queer family, we know that this movement must be centered around you and will work hard to end the hate 🏳️🌈❤️
#Vote2020This is what it looks like right across the street from The Trump rally today. It’s gonna be a shit show! Giving props to our beloved First Avenue!❤️ Every cent they make will go to Planned Parenthood while the incredible Thee Oh Sees take the night! Power to the people!💥✌🏿this photo was taken by the rockingest, Andy Holmaas🤘
Joint Statement on Supreme Court Case Regarding 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII Protection of LGBTQ Civil Rights by Minnesota Young DFL (MYDFL) and Stonewall DFL
October 8, 2019 —
As LGBTQ people, our dignity and humanity are routinely the subject of public debate. These legal assaults compound the daily humiliations we experience even where we have full legal protections as we do in Minnesota.
Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity cannot be understood without reference to stereotypes around sex and gender. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 clearly and plainly bans discrimination on the basis of sex, and the highest courts of this land have agreed this includes stereotypes based on sex, such as how someone should dress or be attracted to because of their sex.
We are proud that in 1993 Minnesota amended its Human Rights Act to create the FIRST civil rights protections for transgender people in United States history. Our tradition of extending and protecting civil rights to everyone in Minnesota won’t be dismantled.
While all eyes are on the Supreme Court, we need to be clear that Trump and the Republican Senate have not only tilted the SCOTUS, but have also packed federal appeals courts in a decades-long, well-financed, highly coordinated movement to overturn the most basic of constitutional rights and the promises of this nation. Approximately 1/4 of all Circuit judges are Trump appointees, and as long as we have a Republican president and Senate, we will continue to see the courts be an antagonistic, not a protective, institution to the rights of queer people.
MYDFL and Stonewall DFL are not standing by. We will continue to push our Democratic Party to embrace and empower trans and queer people in all our beauty and diversity. We will elect more trans and queer people to office. We will advocate for policies that ensure our full participation in our society. And we are on the ground, engaging the people most excluded and abandoned by our political institutions.
Trans and queer people have existed since the beginning of time, and we will always exist, no matter what this Supreme Court says.
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Joint Statement on Supreme Court Case Regarding 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII Protection of LGBTQ Civil Rights by MYDFL and Stonewall DFL October 8, 2019 — As LGBTQ people, our dignity and humanity are routinely the subject of public debate. These legal assaults compound the daily humiliati...
Just finished marching in the first ever St. Cloud Pride Parade! Overwhelming support for my petition to ban the cruel practice of Conversion Therapy in MN 🏳️🌈 https://t.co/SsSxZDNXf2
We are taking on Duluth and knocking doors for @mayouduluth. The primary is this Tuesday 🗳 and we are excited to elect a leader who will represent our best values and Duluthians. https://t.co/dM0hxgjpg1
We are so excited to announce the dates for our #YoungVoicesTour. Over the next 5 months MYDFL will be hosting 22 forums across all 8 congressional districts in Minnesota. Our goal is and always has been to engage and center young people in our politics so we are coming to you! https://t.co/93phhrIDu2
Stonewall DFL has a general membership meeting on Sunday, July 28 at Hamline University. Agenda items include approving changes to constitution, electing officers and board members, and local endorsements.
Ensure your dues are up to date by Sun, July 21!
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Half of our Delegation is on its way to the Young Democrats of America Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana! Young people are ready.
Thanks to DFL Party Chair Ken Martin for seeing us off! #mydflboard https://t.co/0aPHzSr35f
This president would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race, religion, gender, orientation, ability, or immigration status. This is the only way he thinks he can prevent the solidarity of working people.
We’re not falling for it. https://t.co/ZZetxWlmSk
