The Cimarron Alliance Foundation was a

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educational organization dedicated to advocacy for Oklahoma’s

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citizens. Its mission was “to support educational efforts that increase personal self-esteem, promote public enlightenment and advance equality for LGBT Oklahomans". In September 2002, the group won a lawsuit against

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after the city took down banners advocating gay and lesbian rights. Judge Robin J. Cauthron ruled that the city ordinance in question, which prohibited advocacy messages, violated the

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and Fourteenth Amendments. In 2007, they organized the state's first "all-inclusive" anti-bullying conference. In 2015, The Cimarron Alliance Foundation merged with The Equality Network, a 501(4) organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that promotes equally through legal advocacy and is now a statewide organization. The merged organization is known as Freedom Oklahoma.

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