Dolce & Gabbana designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have responded to the backlash over statements they made about same-sex families, saying that their views are just “traditional” and not judgmental. The pair had caused outrage when they declared last week in an interview with Italy’s Panorama: “The only family is the traditional one. No…
CHARLESTON – On Saturday in West Virginia, the legislative session came to an end at midnight, in effect killing extreme anti-LGBT bills which had failed to move forward – including a bill to abolish local liberty (HB 2881) and two so-called “religious freedom” bills (HB 2508 and SB 487). Fairness West Virginia, the statewide civil rights advocacy organization dedicated…
A bill that would discriminate against transgender Floridians and force employers and business-owners to police the use of their restrooms will get a second committee hearing in the Florida House on Tuesday morning. The Government Operations Subcommittee will meet at 8 a.m. Tuesday in Webster Hall (212 Knott). H.B. 583 is the second item on…
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s son was arrested Sunday for drug possession. Alabama.com reported that Caleb Moore, 24, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. Officers had responded to a break-in call and found Moore and four other men outside the house near a pick-up truck that smelled strongly of…
At the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, being held in New York March 9-20, a Kenyan campaign to stop new HIV infections among children has been highlighted as an example of what committed political leadership can achieve in improving women’s access to health care. The First Lady of Kenya, Margaret…
MONTGOMERY—HRC has launched the Equality is Our Business Program in Alabama. The program is designed to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the workplace, advance protections in employment, housing and public accommodations, and create more inclusive business practices. The new HRC Alabama pledge aims to strengthen support for the values of diversity and inclusion, including Alabama’s LGBT community,…
TORONTO – High profile public figures—from Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander to Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin—are lending their support to a new national campaign, calling on people across Canada to join together against the crisis of homelessness among LGBTQ2S youth. OUTatNight, launched by national equality group Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (Egale), invites participants to collect…
On NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told Chuck Todd same-sex marriage has advanced because people stopped hiding. Watch the video above. “Well, I tell you, our reality as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people beat the prejudice,” said Frank. “I mean, the central mechanism is that we stopped hiding. And it…
Equality California (EQCA), the largest statewide LGBT advocacy organization in California working to secure full and lasting equality for and acceptance of LGBT people, announced that it will be supporting undeclared candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. “We want Hillary Clinton to run and are ready to mobilize our 800,000 members to help…
