“Welcome, James. It’s been a long time.” See the first teaser trailer for the 24th James Bond adventure Spectre. A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal…
Sunday, Arkansans from various backgrounds gathered in Little Rock for an emergency meeting to stand against H.B. 1228– an Indiana-style bill that will open the door to discrimination against LGBT people, people of color, religious minorities, women and other minority groups across the state. After a formal procedural hurdle, the bill will be on its…
A video released by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) highlights the eight different times that Gov. Mike Pence ducked, dodged, and declined to answer simple, straightforward questions about Indiana’s new law and whether discrimination against LGBT Hoosiers should be illegal, on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos asked multiple straightforward questions requiring a yes…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Today, Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, CEO of Affirm, chairman of Yelp and Glow, and director at Yahoo!, condemned Arkansas’ discriminatory H.B. 1228, which, if passed into law, will allow individuals to use religion as an excuse to discriminate against LGBT people and other minorities. On Friday, the measure passed the Arkansas Senate, and will…
CBS News 8 – San Diego, CA News Station – KFMB Channel 8 City Commissioner Stampp Corbin, and Hillcrest business owner Brett Serwalt, added their voices to the national conversation concerning Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Corbin suggested that the law is the beginning of an assault on LGBT rights in anticipation of…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty announced this week that Aetna, Inc. and Coventry Health Care of Florida, Inc. are revising their HIV/AIDS drug formularies for individual health plan members. The new change means a majority of HIV drugs currently labeled as specialty drugs in the highest cost tier of the drug formulary…
NEW YORK, N.Y.— amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research will return to Brazil for its fifth annual Inspiration Gala São Paulo presented by Harry Winston. The gala will again be held at the home of Dinho Diniz, hosted by Naomi Campbell and will feature tributes to Felipe Diniz and Jean Paul Gaultier. Diniz, who will receive the amfAR Inspiration Award, has been vital to the success of amfAR’s…
GLAAD has taken the time to expose some of the other supporters of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Indiana Governor Mike Pence would not identify the lobbyists and supporters in this picture from the signing of the law, but GLAAD helped us all out. The original picture was posted by Micah Clark of the…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a two-week extension of the comment period for its proposed rule governing the obligations of federal contractors and subcontractors not to discriminate on the basis of sex in their employment practices. The extension ensures that the public has time to comment on the impact of the U.S….
On Friday, LGBT Weekly posted a story that was from a political satire Web site nationalreport.net. The Web site is known in political circles for its wildly strange but satirical takes on news of the day. After days of covering the hateful Indiana Religious Restoration Act, I thought it might be fun to share the…
