WASHINGTON ― Today, President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a surprise event at the White House paying tribute to him. The Huffington Post reports that Obama hailed Biden as “the best vice president America has ever had” and “a lion of American…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The AIDS United Access to Care initiative expanded access to high-quality, life-extending care to over 5,000 people living with HIV, exceeded national viral suppression rates by 27 percent and saved up to $8.83 in future HIV-related medical care for every $1 spent. These innovative models put client health first and move communities…
RALEIGH, NC — Today, Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on North Carolina lawmakers to fully repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2 at the beginning of the new legislative session. For more than nine months, HB2 has harmed North Carolina’s people and economy as businesses, major sporting organizations, entertainers, and others have…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus called on the Senate today to reject Sen. Jeff Sessions’s nomination for Attorney General. “The Senate cannot confirm an Attorney General nominee who doesn’t believe in civil rights to oversee our country’s civil rights protections – it’s worse than letting a fox guard the henhouse,” said LGBT…
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced today that its new national legal director, David Cole, will testify at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general Jan. 11. The ACLU is nonpartisan, and as a matter of longstanding policy does not support or oppose nominees for federal office. As a result, the…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Gov. McAuliffe today issued Executive Order 61, which will advance the cause of equality in Virginia by requiring all future state contractors with the Executive Branch to agree to a non-discrimination policy that includes discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. This action builds on Executive Order Number 1 by extending…
President Obama has urged Democrats to protect the Affordable Care Act from Republican efforts to repeal it. The Huffington Post reported that Obama, on his last visit to Capitol Hill, sought to rally his party to do whatever it can to thwart them, despite the terrible odds. “Despite the negativity, you have a big chunk…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Jeff Sessions has supplemented his original Dec. 9 Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ)—admitting that he had initially omitted hundreds of items—but there are still dramatic gaps in his record, according to a new report compiled by the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, People For the American Way, and Alliance for Justice. Fully…
Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84. Reynolds died just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed. “She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety. Reynolds first gained attention and a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Helen Kane in 1950’s “Three Little Words.” But…
Actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died at age 60. Fisher was at UCLA Medical Center after reportedly suffering a heart attack on Friday on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, 24, released the following statement through the family’s spokesman, Simon Halls: “It…
