EQCA’s legislative wrap-up: Eight wins for LGBT equality

SACRAMENTO—Before adjourning last week, the California Legislature passed the final bill of Equality California’s 2016 legislative package, a total of eight bills and resolutions sponsored by the organization to win approval since the beginning of the 2016 legislative session. Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 26 passed August 31 with a final, unanimous vote by the Senate….

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HRC’s ‘Chefs for Equality’ returns Oct. 26

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the fifth consecutive year, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and prominent food writer David Hagedorn are once again bringing together the capital region’s top chefs, pastry chefs, and mixologists for Chefs for Equality. The evening of food, cocktails, and music to benefit the fight for full LGBTQ equality will be held…

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Hollywood equality: All talk, little action

LOS ANGELES — Though the conversation on inequality in Hollywood is now at peak volume, a new report reveals that little has changed on screen or behind the camera. Authored by Professor Stacy L. Smith and the Media, Diversity & Social Change (MDSC) Initiative at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the study is the…

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PBS presents portraits of a transgendered father and a ‘pink boy’ this fall (VIDEO)

PBS announced today the films coming up on the new POV series in September and October. From a chronicle of young black men going to college to an examination of the U.S.-Mexico drug war through the eyes of people on both sides of the border to the story of a Midwestern family with a transgendered father, these documentaries…

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