The Republican National Committee (RNC) has passed an anti-LGBT resolution in support of the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). Going far beyond protecting the rights established in the First Amendment, this anti-LGBT legislation would undermine the rule of law and promote taxpayer-funded discrimination. FADA would prohibit any adverse action by the federal government against an individual…
Comedienne Rosie O’Donnell has tweeted that her seventeen year-old daughter, Chelsea, has gone missing. According to O’Donnell Chelsea was last seen Tuesday Aug. 11. O’Donnell posted the following on her Web site: Rosie O’Donnell’s 17 year old daughter, Chelsea O’Donnell was reported missing. Nyack, New York police authorities have been looking for her in the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) staff member Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been appointed as an outreach and recruitment director for Presidential Personnel in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Freedman-Gurspan is the first openly transgender official in history to serve in the White House. She previously served as NCTE’s Policy Advisor…
A Massachusetts man has claimed he was sexually assaulted by his transgender Airbnb host during a trip to Madrid, Spain. Jacob Lopez, 19, reportedly began messaging his mother July 4 and asking her for help. The Daily Mail reported that Lopez stated his host, who was born a male but lives as a female, had locked…
U.S. District Judge David Bunning temporarily stayed his order requiring Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis of Kentucky to immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as she appeals his decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Last week Judge Bunning had ordered to issue licenses to two gay couples without…
NEW YORK– June 18, was a day of celebration for Tameeka Roberts. With the assistance of her attorneys, Alex Umansky and Jessenia Maldonado of Phillips & Associates, Roberts obtained a jury verdict of $100,000 for being discriminated against and by her supervisor, Donald Woodard, due to her sexual orientation while employed at United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS). The jury…
