Editing PFLAG (section)

==Advocacy work==
PFLAG National and the PFLAG chapter network engages in advocacy at the local, state and federal level and has issued public policy statements on a wide variety of issues.{{sfn|Cepek|2008}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pflag.org/policystatements|title=Where We Stand; PFLAG National Public Policy Statements|newspaper=Pflag|date=14 April 2016|access-date=2017-08-10}}</ref> In the early 1990s, PFLAG chapters in Massachusetts helped pass the first Safe Schools legislation in the country. By the mid-1990s a PFLAG family was responsible for the Department of Education's ruling that [[Title IX]] protects gay and lesbian students from harassment based on sexual orientation. When [[Pat Robertson]] threatened to sue any station that carried Project Open Mind advertisements, the resulting media coverage drew national attention to PFLAG's message linking hate speech with hate crimes and LGBTQ teen suicide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://community.pflag.org/history |title=PFLAG National |publisher=Community.pflag.org |date=1973-03-26 |access-date=2015-06-09}}</ref> PFLAG National campaigned to repeal "[[don't ask, don't tell]]" and in the fight for marriage equality in the United States—including filing an [[Amicus curiae|amicus brief]] with the United States Supreme Court.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/ObergefellHodges/AmicusBriefs/14-556_PFLAG_Inc.pdf|title=BRIEF OF PFLAG, INC. AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS|access-date=2017-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212145552/https://www.supremecourt.gov/ObergefellHodges/AmicusBriefs/14-556_PFLAG_Inc.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> It continues working to end the practice of [[Sexual orientation change efforts|conversion therapy]], to combat laws that permit discrimination under the guise of religious freedom such as the [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]], and more.