Yelp, the crowd-sourced review Website and app, announced today a new feature that will allow people to discover which businesses offer gender neutral restrooms for customers. Rachel Williams, head of Diversity and Inclusion for Yelp announced the new feature on the official Yelp Blog. “Today we’ve begun rolling out a new business attribute that helps…
Seven leading education organizations representing millions of students, families, and educators submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Gavin Grimm in the case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. Several of the organizations issued this joint statement regarding the brief: “This case brings to the nation’s highest court an issue GLSEN…
SOUTH DAKOTA — The South Dakota legislature has sent a ‘License to Disriminate’ bill to the governor for signing. The bill, SB 149 would enshrine taxpayer-funded discrimination into state law by allowing state-funded adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ youth in their care and to reject qualified prospective LGBTQ adoptive or foster…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thursday, the Senate confirmed Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). An outspoken opponent of LGBTQ equality, Carson will now oversee the enforcement of fair housing laws as well as programs that provide crucial assisted and public housing. Carson’s confirmation comes at a time when more…
