Add The Words, Idaho

Nicole LeFavour, speaking at a bail benefit held at the Visual Arts Collective, presents a few of the activists who had been arrested

Add The Words, Idaho is an LGBTQ activist group and political action committee (PAC) in the United States, extant since 2010,[1] which advocates adding the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the state's human rights act;[2] this group grew out of several others which had been advocating the same. After ten years, however, Add The Words activists have been unable to achieve any statewide protections for LGBTQ Idahoans. An associated all-volunteer direct action group, Add The 4 Words Idaho, under the leadership of former state senator Nicole LeFavour, undertook a series of civil disobedience protests beginning on February 3, 2014, at the Idaho Capitol.[3][4][5] (The PAC and the direct action group are commonly conflated as Add The Words. This article covers the series of peaceful direct actions/protests, the associated peaceful demonstrations, and the resultant printing and hearing of HB 002, which ultimately died in committee.)

  1. ^ "Add the Words, Idaho". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Legislature of the State of Idaho : 18-7301. FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION CONSTITUTES A CIVIL RIGHT. The right to be free from discrimination because of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin is recognized as and declared to be a civil right" (PDF). Legislature.idaho.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  3. ^ Statesman staff and wire reports (2014-02-03). "State police cite 44 for trespassing after 'Add the Words' protest blocks Senate | Idaho Legislature". Idahostatesman.com. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  4. ^ Miller, Ashley. "The Wrong Side of History | Growing number of Idahoans at odds with Legislature over Add the Words | Culture". Boise Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  5. ^ "Arrests, Protests Give Former Idahoan Reason to Hope". The Bilerico Project. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.