Relationship Recognition:

• Led the passage of Small Business Insurance Parity Act II, allowing all Virginia businesses to offer domestic partner group life insurance benefits (2010).
• Helped pass legislation setting up a state-wide registry for Advanced Health Care Directives making it easier for doctors to know who is authorized to make medical decisions for loved ones in a time of need (2008).
• Helped pass legislation guaranteeing every person the right to decide who they want to visit them in the hospital three years before President Obama's order (2007).
• Led the passage of the Small Business Insurance Parity Act, allowing all Virginia businesses to offer domestic partner health care insurance benefits (2005).
• Led the fight against Virginia "Family Rule" that would have kept our families from qualifying for low-income loans from the Virginia Housing Development Authority and defeated legislation that would have reinstated that rule (2002).

Parenting:

• Defeated legislation to ban gay adoption and then helped defeat the anti-gay legislator who sponsored the bill in the subsequent election (2005).

Safe Schools:

• Led fight to defeat legislation banning gay-straight alliances in elementary and high schools (2005, 2006, 2007).
• Helped pass anti-bullying legislation (2005).

Non-discrimination:

• Succeeded in passing inclusive legislation on a bipartisan vote in the Virginia Senate that would have banned discrimination against GLBT public employees. This is the first time any legislation granting such protection has passed in either house of the Virginia General Assembly (2010).

Election Activities:

• Since 2005, 80% of fair-minded legislators supported by EVPAC have won their elections.
• EVPAC helped replace anti-gay Delegates Marrs and Black in 2005 and Senators Rerras and O'Brien in 2007 with fair-minded officials.

Legal Cases:

• Supported efforts of a non-custodial lesbian parent to have parental status recognized in Virginia and Vermont visitation order enforced (2004).
• Supported a lawsuit that overturned legislation threatening to revoke liquor licenses for establishments employing or catering to homosexuals (1991).