As evidenced by the recent loss of San Diego’s Michel-Carey house, sites important to LGBTQ history are vanishing. The Palms, Circus Disco and now The Factory in West Hollywood are all threatened with new development projects. Last Friday U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago, Illinois, has…
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) ordered the removal of four Confederate-era flags from the grounds of the state Capitol Wednesday morning, saying it was simply “the right thing to do,” reports The Huffington Post. Bentley told AL.com his decision to take down the flags was, in part, a response to last week’s massacre of nine…
Today, the Kyrgyzstan National Assembly voted to pass new and discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation during its second reading. The legislation passed through an initial reading in October, but had been stalled until today’s vote. Another parliamentary vote is required before the legislation is submitted to Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, whose signature is necessary for the legislation…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) highlighted specific steps the Obama Administration should take to improve the lives of transgender people. Following an initial release highlighting important actions needed for LGBT service members and veterans, this second release in a series of highlights from HRC’s 2015 Blueprint for Positive Change – actions the administration…
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and allied organizations has formed to battle a proposed ballot initiative targeting California’s transgender community. The coalition consists of the American Civil Liberties Union of California, Equality California, the Human Rights Campaign, Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Mexican American Legal Defense and…
LOS ANGELES — Point Foundation (Point) is awarding new scholarships to 36 students who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership in their communities, despite facing obstacles such as bullying and financial hardship. Point is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students. These new scholarship recipients join 47 current undergraduate…
Today Hillary Clinton debuted a video expressing her support for marriage equality rights in America. While many LGBT leaders anticipate a Supreme Court ruling in support of marriage equality within the next week, the Clinton Campaign launched the video to bring into stark contrast her position versus that of her potential Republican opponent. Some in…
WASHINGTON – More than two dozen of the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy organizations have joined an open letter calling on South Carolina and other states to remove the Confederate flag from the public square. Last week, a white supremacist gunman opened fire at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing…
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission today voted unanimously to designate the Stonewall Inn at 51-53 Christopher Street in Manhattan as an individual landmark. The site was the starting point of the Stonewall Rebellion, and is one of the most important sites associated with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) history in New York City…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that Federal Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) providers will no longer be permitted to have blanket exclusions on all transition-related services in their federal employee healthcare plans. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) praised the news as a victory for transgender federal employees. “This critical change is…
