Just three weeks after well over 250,000 people came to Washington, DC in support of full federal equality in all matters of civil law for the LGBT community, the co-directors of the march have resigned from Equality Across America. The two activists credited their decision to strong differences of opinion regarding the future of EAA, and the direction it should take.
Founder of EAA, Cleve Jones, did confirm that neither of the co-directors would be continuing their involvement with Equality Across America. According to a post on Bilerico Project many of the people involved were in agreement that the split was motivated by disagreements regarding the future leadership and financial arrangements of the new, although promising, organization of activists.
Jones explained "We're still not sure this is a viable organization. It's still not clear to me that EAA is going to happen yet. There needs to be a working group to take EAA forward. I'll be inviting [the March's] steering committee and executive committee members to participate."
As a temporary solution to calm the turmoil and keep the organization running, some of the executive committee members opted to elect Tanner Efinger to the role of interim Project Director, which puts him as the responsible party for the organizations legal contract with the Tides Foundation. However, this decision was only offered to a random select few of the people that should have been involved in the decision making process, and paired with other underlying tensions between various members of both the steering and executive committees, has just left members extremely frustrated. This is now resulting in various members and groups within the committees grasping for control over the current and future leadership of the organization.
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