SAVE Dade
Founded in 1993, the organization's name is an appropriation of the name of the American Family Association and singer Anita Bryant's 'Save Our Children' campaign to overturn a January 1977 Miami-Dade County ordinance that outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, and public accommodations.[3] Emboldened in 1993 by a liberalizing political climate surrounding the issue of LGBT rights in America, LGBTQ activists and organizers, under the informal moniker of 'SAVE', initiated a lobbying campaign to pass another nondiscrimination ordinance at the Miami-Dade County Commission.In 1998, after five years of heavy lobbying both by local leaders and by grassroots supporters organized by the founders of the 'SAVE' campaign, the Commission passed for the second time an ordinance which outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, and public accommodations.Also in 2008, SAVE Action PAC, a political action committee incorporated by SAVE Dade in order to comply with campaign finance laws, issued for the first time a list of "pro-equality" endorsements of mostly local candidates running for office, including then-Senator Barack Obama, future House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and future DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.The name change accompanied endorsements during the 2014 election cycle in Broward County in addition to Miami-Dade, as well as the organization's representation as a plaintiff by the ACLU of Florida in Grimsley et al v. Scott, which resulted in the effective overturning of the statewide constitutional ban on same sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of that year.