Success Stories from Across America People across the country are successfully defending their rights. Below are just a handful of examples.    Want to get involved and start your own success story?  Check out the Action Checklist and the "In Your Community" feature. Have your own success story?  Let us know.

Celebrate St. Pete PRIDE and get your free ACLU t-shirt June 24, 2009 Learn more Guarding Religious Freedom in Florida June 19, 2009 Learn more A Landmark Year June 12, 2009 Learn more Celebrate PRIDE in South Florida June 17, 2009 Learn more Prop 8 won't rain on our parade May 28, 2009 Learn more 1.6 Million Signatures May 21, 2009 Learn more We won! May 6, 2009 Learn more Educating Youth About the Bill of Rights Amanda Gelender has been an activist and lobbyist on several key issues in her school and in her community, including the death penalty, the "war on drugs," marriage equality, student rights, racial profiling and police brutality. Learn more "I Want To Use My Education As A Springboard To Social and Civil Activism" Having grown up with his gay father and his partner, Lee Morehouse has a unique perspective on family life. Unfortunately, it is a perspective that is often criticized by both students and administrators in the Kansas City public school system. Learn more Teen Helps Promote Access to Health Care For the past three years, Cristhian Ponce Barranco has been a dedicated leader in the New York Civil Liberties Union's Teen Health Initiative, a peer education and outreach program that promotes minors' rights to access health care Learn more High School Student Raises Awareness Through Popular GSA Group Trevor Gilmore, a dedicated Boy Scout from childhood, had to work hard to establish the first Gay Straight Alliance at his high school in a politically conservative region. His hard work paid off. Learn more A Guardian of Free Speech in High Schools Jarred Gamwell came to the ACLU for assistance in April 2004 after being censored by his high school principal when he was running for student body president. Learn more

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