President Obama has announced that Megan Smith will serve as the next U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) and assistant to the president, succeeding Todd Park. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Smith, the former vice president at Google’s X lab, is the first woman, as well as openly lesbian, CTO. Previously, she was COO and CEO of…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation today condemned another Catholic school firing of LGBT employees and cited it as more evidence of the church’s efforts to shove these workers – and potentially thousands of others – back in the closet. “There is a sad and troubling narrative of increasing discrimination by Catholic institutions…
The community is invited to attend San Diego Pride’s 2014 Town Hall meeting on Monday, Sept. 8 from 6-7 pm at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. At the event, members of San Diego Pride’s staff and board of directors will be on hand to discuss the signature Pride events, and will also discuss board…
In an op-ed for The Advocate, Ana Ma, COO and chief of staff of HRC, and Matthew McClellan, the executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, urge President Obama to take action on immigration reform. Ma and McClellan write, “Two of the most pressing civil rights issues facing our nation today…
http://youtu.be/eTb-eepjheE Stonewall, the largest LGBT lobbying organization both in England and on the European Continent, has teamed up with Paddy Power, the Irish bookmaker, for a new advertising campaign entitled “The Changing Room,” to help combat homophobia from both players and fans of soccer. It is a follow-up to last year’s “Right Behind Gay Footballers”…
The United States Chamber of Commerce is the largest lobbying group in America and is considered a Republican leaning organization, that has occassionally endorsed conservative Democrats. Last night, the Political Director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Rob Engstrom, tweeted some very interesting comments about 52nd District Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio. It seems that…
