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Five years after Massachusetts began granting civil marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the vast majority of people in Massachusetts feel that marriage equality has benefited not only couples and families, but society as a whole. This is a resource to help marriage equality supporters around the country tell the story of marriage in Massachusetts. Here you can learn the facts about equal marriage rights in Massachusetts, access tools to help educate the public in other states and donate to this important work. Today, 10,000 gay and lesbian couples in Massachusetts are legally married and enjoy all the rights, responsibilities and protections that come with a civil marriage license. With your help, we can spread the word nationwide that marriage equality makes for a stronger society. MarriageEqualityWorks.org - a project of the MassEquality Education Fund.

In Everyone Matters: Dignity and Safety for Transgender People - a new video produced by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)'s Transgender Rights Project, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), and MassEquality - Alishia, Enoch, Dana, and Jesse talk about their jobs, their family, their hopes, and their worries. Framed by hope and optimism, their stories nevertheless show how vulnerable transgender people still are, and highlight the need for comprehensive laws to ensure that people can obtain and retain employment, remain safe on the streets, and have access to health care and housing. Everyone Matters allows the viewer to hear from transgender people first-hand about their lives, and makes a powerful case for the passage of transgender-inclusive non-discrimination and hate crimes laws in Massachusetts and beyond.

State Rep. Carl Sciortino talks about the role MassEquality members played in helping him win re-election four years ago -- and asks for our help again to make sure we keep our pro-equality supermajority in the Legislature.

Marc Solomon, Executive Director of MassEquality, gives an update on all the work MassEquality and its allies have accomplished this year.

Al and Keith Toney have raised their now 18-year-old daughter, Kayla, in Jefferson. Part of MassEquality's 2007 Media Campaign "Its Wrong to Vote on Rights"

Peter Hams, 27, a hockey star in high school and college, was raised in Lynn by his mother Marcia and her partner, Susan Shepherd. Hams and Shepherd were the first couple to be married in the city of Cambridge shortly after midnight on May 17, 2004, after 27 years together. This Video is part of MassEquality's 2007 Media Campaign "Its Wrong to Vote on Rights"

Nigel and Vera Godley raised their five children in Acton. Today, they are the proud grandparents of five, one of whom is three-year-old Leo, the son of their daughter, Sophie Godley and her spouse, Kristen Fehlhaber, of Swampscott. Part of the 2007 MassEquality "Its Wrong to Vote on Rights" Media Campaign.