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…
Sen. Marco Rubio announced today that he will run for president. Rubio told his top donors in a conference call that he feels “uniquely qualified” to pitch his Republican Party as one that will defend the American Dream. Rubio immediately took on Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying the former first lady “is a leader…
As local, state and national reaction over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration act continues to roil the Hoosier state, its neighbor to the East, Ohio, has begun to take advantage. Reporting on the blog Plunderbund, John Michael Spinelli notes, “While one neighbor might help another neighbor put out a fire, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was joined…
Over the past decade, many anti-LGBT advocates have fought to share the spotlight against marriage equality, reports the Human Rights Campaign on the HRC Blog. They have done countless interviews, made documentaries, introduced legislation and have traveled the globe to stand against loving, committed same-sex couples and the LGBT community. Here are some of the…
Originally published on MSNBC 04/09/15 In the wake of the controversy over religious freedom laws in Indiana and Arkansas, most Americans say that a business owner should treat gays and lesbians as they would other customers, even if homosexuality violates that business owner’s religious beliefs. The latest NBC News Online Survey conducted by SurveyMonkey also…
