A transgender woman arrested during the anti-police riots in Baltimore was detained Wednesday in an all-male holding facility. She was released Friday. According to an Advocate.com report, Deairra Venable, 30, was originally booked as female, but when central booking authorities discovered she was trans, she was transferred to an all-male facility, Venable’s lawyer, Astrid Munn…
May is National Foster Care Month. Throughout the month, HRC, in partnership with FosterClub, will highlight the issues facing LGBTQ youth in foster care and the families and organizations that work to support them. In the United States, nearly 400,000 children and youth are in foster care because they have been removed from their homes due to abuse…
Back in early 2009 when almost nobody thought an out lesbian could be elected mayor of Houston Annise Parker captured the deep respect of the city’s business community, but didn’t have their support because, they told her, a lesbian couldn’t win. Then Parker received the endorsement of the Victory Fund giving her campaign a financial…
The ol’ boys club of corporate leadership so poignantly portrayed by “Mad Men” should end at the same time as the TV show. In the place of corporate boards who undervalued women, LGBT people and minorities, there is now a growing sentiment that a diverse board of directors is essential for business. Times have changed….
PHILADELPHIA — The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released the second edition of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health during its annual scientific meeting, Internal Medicine Meeting 2015. The textbook is edited by Dr. Harvey Makadon, Dr. Ken Mayer, and Hilary Goldhammer of The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health, and…
