The Old Globe celebrates its 80th anniversary during Balboa Park Centennial celebration!

SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe will celebrate its 80th Anniversary as part of the Balboa Park Centennial Celebration with a full roster of great plays in its regular season and a Summer Season featuring Shakespeare on stage and in film, along with our popular ongoing programs. Programming for the entire year of the Globe’s…

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New poll shows record support for marriage equality

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, (HRC) has released the results from a new national poll commissioned to gauge voter attitudes ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. The survey showed support for marriage equality continues to expand and that there is virtually no public support for the opponents of marriage equality who…

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Leading behavioral healthcare provider teams with nation’s biggest LGBTQ rights group to support LGBTQ youth

WASHINGTON -The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has announced that it will expand its partnership with Devereux, one of the oldest and largest providers of behavioral healthcare in the nation, to better reach and care for vulnerable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. With this affiliation, the HRC Foundation, the educational arm of…

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Fox’s Erick Erickson rallies supporters behind anti-gay license-to-discriminate laws

Fox News contributor Erick Erickson asked his supporters to lobby for discriminatory, anti-gay “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” that a Fox colleague denounced as “homosexual Jim Crow Laws,” reports Media Matters for America. In a February 12 email to “Erick’s Conservative Activist List” titled “The Facts” and a February 13 blog post on RedState.com, Erickson asked…

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Show HRC how you plan to celebrate real love this Valentine’s Day

Today is Valentine’s Day, a day when people celebrate their loved ones and perhaps exchange small tokens of their affection. This February 14, HRC calls on you to celebrate all real love. Join us in the fight for LGBT equality nationwide and around the world by spreading the message that love can’t wait. Send WeAreHRC…

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UPDATE: Seismic shift underway as increasing number of Alabama Counties extend marriage rights to couples

WASHINGTON — As of 4:00 p.m. ET on Friday, the Human Rights Campaign has confirmed that a seismic shift in favor of equality is occurring throughout Alabama as 50 counties — up from 23 yesterday afternoon – are, or will soon, begin to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Here is the current state of play across Alabama:…

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Gay couple the winning subject of the World Press Photo Contest 2015

An intimate moment between a gay couple from St. Petersburg, Jon and Alex, has nabbed top honors in the prestigious World Press Photo Contest 2015. The image was taken by Danish photographer Mads Nissen, a staff photographer for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken. The 2015 Contest drew entries from around the world: 97,912 images were…

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HRC: Is the Mormon Church behind a racist, anti-semitic and anti-LGBT bill?

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign has strongly condemned an extreme anti-equality bill introduced in the Utah House of Representatives and questioned whether the Mormon church is behind the bill. Geared toward undermining equality in a shroud of religious language, HB 322 – the so-called “Religious Liberty Recognition and Protection Act” – was introduced by…

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