Love Makes a Family Political Action Committee records

The Love Makes a Family Political Action Committee (LMF PAC) (2002-2011) worked for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality in Connecticut by supporting and working for pro marriage equality candidates for elected office. It was the political action arm of Love Makes a Family (1999-2009), a Connecticut statewide coalition of organizations and individuals whose mission was to pass a second-parent adoption law; support efforts to pass a domestic partnership package for state employees; defeat Defense of Marriage Amendments (DOMAs) both to the state statute and the state constitution; and to pass a marriage equality law for same-sex couples in Connecticut. The first three goals were reached by 2000; the marriage equality law was passed in 2008. Love Makes a Family developed into three inter-related entities: LMF, Inc., incorporated as a 501(c)(4) in 2000; the LMF Political Action Committee, established in 2002; and the LMF Foundation, incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2006. After meeting its goals through community education, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy and lobbying, LMF, Inc. and LMF Foundation disbanded in 2009. The Love Makes a Family Political Action Committee disbanded in 2011.