Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his State of the State address yesterday to declare that enacting Indiana-style anti-LGBT legislation was one of his top three priorities as governor. “I know there has been legislation filed this session that aims to protect religio us liberty rights in Louisiana,” Jindal said. “Let me be crystal clear –…
The human immune system can handle large bursts of HIV activity and so it should be possible to cure HIV with a ‘kick and kill’ strategy, finds new research led by University College London, (UCL), the University of Oxford and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to a UCL news report. The…
Parody playwright Jamie Morris (Mommie Queerest, The Facts Of Life: The Lost Episode, Re-Designing Women, Gilligan’s Fire Island) is at it again. His all-male spoofs have tackled Joan and Christina Crawford, the Eastland school girls, the Sugarbaker gals of Atlanta, and those seven stranded castaways. Now Morris has set his sights on Hannibal and Clarice,…
In a bipartisan vote, the Florida Senate today gave final approval to a bill designed to help more foster children find permanent homes. The bill also removes an outdated and unconstitutional ban on gays and lesbians adopting children. Former Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Destin, spoke eloquently in urging his colleagues not to be swayed by…
Verizon’s Chairman & CEO Lowell C. McAdam, Executive Vice President & President of Operations John G. Stratton, and Executive Vice President & President of Product Innovation & New Businesses Marni M. Walden have added their names to a historic statement calling for comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBT people. The news comes as more than 100 anti-LGBT…
WASHINGTON – Today, Washington, D.C. Councilmembers David Grosso and Yvette Alexander will introduce a bill that would “require continuing education for licensed health professionals on the subject of cultural competence and appropriate clinical treatment for individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, queer, or questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity and…
WASHINGTON— Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) reacted to news that the state of Indiana’s Economic Development Corporation has retained a public relations firm to help repair the damage caused by the recent passage of anti-LGBT legislation that led to a national outcry. The news emerged the same day that new polling commissioned by HRC…
A Florida-based organization of health care professionals has settled with a transgender former employee who claimed she was fired because of her gender identity, writes Remington Gregg on the HRC Blog. The case was one of the first two cases ever filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that discrimination against ahttps://lgbtweekly.jeffjungblut.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post transgender…
MONTGOMERY— Today, HRC Alabama confirmed that no probate office in the state is distributing certificates of marriage to same-sex couples. Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore and anti-equality forces, like the Alabama Policy Institute and Alabama Citizens Action Program, have put Alabama probate judges in a state of unnecessary confusion. As a result, many probate judges…
Gov. Mike Pence finds himself deeply damaged following the fight over Indiana’s “religious refusal” bill that put LGBT Hoosiers at risk for discrimination, according to a brand new poll of Hoosiers by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). And in a warning sign to governors in other states where similar anti-LGBT bills are pending, a stunning…
