A transgender woman arrested during the anti-police riots in Baltimore was detained Wednesday in an all-male holding facility. She was released Friday. According to an Advocate.com report, Deairra Venable, 30, was originally booked as female, but when central booking authorities discovered she was trans, she was transferred to an all-male facility, Venable’s lawyer, Astrid Munn…
May is National Foster Care Month. Throughout the month, HRC, in partnership with FosterClub, will highlight the issues facing LGBTQ youth in foster care and the families and organizations that work to support them. In the United States, nearly 400,000 children and youth are in foster care because they have been removed from their homes due to abuse…
Back in early 2009 when almost nobody thought an out lesbian could be elected mayor of Houston Annise Parker captured the deep respect of the city’s business community, but didn’t have their support because, they told her, a lesbian couldn’t win. Then Parker received the endorsement of the Victory Fund giving her campaign a financial…
The ol’ boys club of corporate leadership so poignantly portrayed by “Mad Men” should end at the same time as the TV show. In the place of corporate boards who undervalued women, LGBT people and minorities, there is now a growing sentiment that a diverse board of directors is essential for business. Times have changed….
For the second year in a row, Novartis Pharmaceuticals has taken the top spot in DiversityInc’s annual ranking of some of world’s top corporations for its commitment to equality in hiring, promotion and a host of other metrics. The top five also include (by rank) Kaiser Permanente, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EY (Ernest & Young) and Sodexo (French-based…
WASHINGTON – Two days after the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the marriage equality case Obergefell v. Hodges, the Human Rights Campaign joined with the legal team from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher that challenged California’s ban on marriage equality to highlight key testimony from Hollingsworth v. Perry which shows that…
NEW YORK — The Board of Directors of the National LGBT Museum has voted to base the museum in New York City and has elected longtime LGBT activist Kevin Jennings as its co-chair. Founded in 2008 by Board Co-Chair Tim Gold, the National LGBT Museum engaged in an extensive visioning process (details of which…
Last week, I ranked the Supreme Court Justices by their likelihood of supporting marriage equality. In light of Tuesday’s oral arguments, I want to update some of those predictions. Justice Thomas, to the surprise of no one, said nothing. Still a “No” vote on marriage equality. Justice Scalia seemed convinced that a Federal right to…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation announced that 17 national religious leaders, from California to the nation’s capital, added their names to a historic statement calling for an end to “religious refusal” bills that allow discrimination against LGBT people. “Today, leaders from different faith traditions – and from across the country –…
While watching Bruce Jenner being interviewed by Dianne Sawyer, several ideas crossed my mind. First, in the TV situation comedy land of the 1950s and 1960s, audiences were assured “Father Knew Best.” That was the name of the show starring the amiable Robert Young, a Hollywood leading man in the 1930s and 1940s, who was…
