WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, (HRC), thas taken the rare step of suspending Saks Fifth Avenue’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) score. The action was taken following Saks’ claims in response to a lawsuit that Title VII protections don’t apply to transgender employees and that the company is not legally bound by its own LGBT…
An op-ed in The Daily Caller blamed the LGBT community for helping cause the tragic suicide of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who took her own life after being rejected by her religious parents, reports Media Matters for America. On Sunday, December 29, the 17-year-old transgender teenager took her own life by walking into traffic miles from her home in…
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Area Sports Commission (MASC) announced today that the 2015 International Gay & Lesbian Football Association (IGLFA) will be holding their North American Championships in the Greater Madison area August 9-15, 2015 at Reddan Soccer Park in Verona. The Madison Area Youth Soccer Association (MAYSA) is a co-host of the American…
Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced that actor and rights activist George Takei, best known for his television and movie role as Mr. Sulu in Star Trek, will be honored in February at HRC’s Time to THRIVE conference in Portland, Ore, reports Beth Sherouse on the HRC Blog. The ground-breaking Time to THRIVE conference,…
TLC denies claims that its newest show, My Husband’s Not Gay, helps promote the discredited notion that gay men can choose to be heterosexual. But one of the show’s stars has a history of promoting “ex-gay” therapy, even acting as a spokesman for a major “ex-gay” organization, reports Media Matters for America. TLC’s new show, which…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign, (HRC) shined a bright spotlight on six of the new Members of the 114th Congress with some of the most shameful and extreme anti-equality rhetoric, record and positions on LGBT issues. Sworn in on January 6, these new members are some of the worst who have gone out…
DENVER, Colo.—From stunning wins for the freedom to marry to Medicare’s lifting of the exclusion of coverage for transgender-specific healthcare, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans made gains on many fronts in 2014. However, despite these advances, deep disparities remain, including an overwhelming lack of employment nondiscrimination protections, high rates of healthcare discrimination, poorer…
SAN DIEGO, CA – Cygnet Theatre will continue its run of presenting Southern California premieres with Sons of the Prophet, the latest work by Stephen Karam (Speech and Debate). Premiering at New York’s Roundabout Theatre in 2011, Karam was hailed as “a major new voice in American Theater.” His brutally funny and explosive comedy was…
Citing it as irresponsible and dangerous, Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD, has called on TLC to drop its plans to air an upcoming special entitled My Husband’s Not Gay. The one-hour program, scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 11, follows the lives of a group of Mormon men who are married to women but attracted to…
LAS VEGAS – The next generation of technology innovation took the spotlight as the curtain rose on the opening day of the 2015 International CES®. Day one of CES saw more than 3,600 exhibitors launching new products, and the leaders of Ford and Intel making major announcements and outlining their vision of technology innovation. Owned…
