 Incidents of discrimination and harassment of LGBT hurricane evacuees were present and reported.The Union for Reform Judaism recommended and later provided $10,000 to EM to support their relief efforts.In August 2001, Equality Mississippi issued a press release critical of the American Family Association (AFA), whose world headquarters is also based in Mississippi, for what it perceived as a boycott against the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) (purportedly because the GSUSA does not ban lesbian scouts or lesbian scout leaders).