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• succeeded in campaigns to convince the Charlottesville and Albemarle County School Boards to add sexual orientation to the non-discrimination policy
• assisted Equality Virginia, in convincing a church in northern Virginia to cancel their “cultural war training” sponsored by the Family Foundation of Virginia that would “help defeat the forces that are trying to push homosexual rights in Virginia”
• worked with Equality Virginia to get VHDA to remove the "family rule" (which specifically defined family as a husband and wife or those related by blood or adoption)
• worked together with Equality Virginia again in 2004 to block legislation that would have forced VHDA to keep the "family rule"
• supported Equality Virginia on adding sexual orientation to hate crimes legislation
• supported Equality Virginia in its successful effort to pass legislation in 2005 to allow private employers to offer health insurance and other benefits to domestic partners