Transgender teen activist and HRC Foundation Youth Ambassador Jazz Jennings stars in a new commercial for “Clean and Clear,” writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. As part of the See The Real Me campaign, Jazz, 14, opened up about her life as a transgender teenager. “Growing up has been quite a struggle being transgender,”…
NEW YORK, — Point Foundation (Point) will honor actor Jonathan Groff, with the Point Horizon Award. The Award recognizes a young trailblazer who has taken a leadership role as an advocate of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. Groff, currently starring in HBO’s critically acclaimed series “Looking” and appearing in the Public Theater’s…
NEW YORK– Path2Parenthood (P2P), formerly The American Fertility Association, has kicked off its 2015 HIV & Parenthood Initiative. “Dreams to Reality” is an education and outreach program highlighting medical advances that allow HIV-positive men and women to have genetically-linked children without passing along the virus. Funded by a generous grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation…
Can’t wait to get that next Dolce & Gabbana outfit or luxury accessory? You may want to think again. Following an interview with Italy’s Panorama magazine in which Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana declared, “The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to a new report released yesterday by a broad coalition of research and advocacy organizations, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) women are among the most at risk of poverty in America. Due to discriminatory laws, America’s 5.1 million LGBT women face lower pay, frequent harassment, compromised access to health care,…
OKLAHOMA CITY — This afternoon, a bill introduced to the Oklahoma State House by Representative Sally Kern that would legalize anti-LGBT therapy died without coming to a vote. The defeat follows months of extensive grassroots organizing by national and state organizations working in coalition to educate parents and families about the ineffective and harmful practices…
After a marathon evening session, the Utah legislature gave final approval to S.B. 296, a non-discrimination bill extending existing employment and housing protections in Utah law to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill was introduced last week, the result of a milestone compromise between LGBT advocates in Utah…
In an interview with HuffPost Live’s Roy Sekoff on Wednesday, Sean Penn said he’s surprised at how “slowly” the cultural zeitgeist on same-sex marriage is moving. Penn, who nabbed an Oscar in 2009 after starring as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,” discussed the progression of LGBT rights and how the it could affect…
The writer-director of the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice Richard Glatzer died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 63. Glatzer co-wrote and directed the movie alongside his husband, Wash Westmoreland, while battling ALS. The Huffington Post reported that the pair took on the project of Still Alice in a very early stage of Glatzer’s disease. Their…
When Neill Blomkamp arrived with District 9 in 2009, he was heralded as the next great science fiction filmmaker. The film about apartheid policies against deceptively scary looking aliens in a slightly futuristic South Africa was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, most deservedly. Because of how good District 9 was, his not…
