The Professional Diversity Network, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPDN) has released its latest Diversity Jobs Report (DJR) and Diversity Jobs Index (DJI), which analyzes the employment situation for women, minorities, veterans, the disabled and LGBT professionals for the month prior. In honor or Women’s History Month, the new DJR honors women who, throughout their careers, put millions…
FORT LAUDERDALE – A founding group of more than 20 publishers serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community unveiled the National Equality Publishers Association (NEPA), a new organization leveraging a unique and direct relationship with the LGBT consumer. NEPA will provide advertisers with a new vehicle to reach the LGBT consumer through media products…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is sounding the alarm on a bill under consideration in Indianapolis. Senate Bill 101, now before a committee in the state House of Representatives, is part of a wave of anti-LGBT legislation emerging across the country that threatens to undermine all existing state civil rights law, unleash…
With the passage of SB 202 in Arkansas set to go into effect later this year the state, which until recently was ironically known as the ‘Land of Opportunity,’ will effectively bar local communities from enacting anti-discrimination laws. The purpose, its proponents argue, is to level the playing field on civil rights and ensure uniformity…
Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sent letters to prominent business leaders who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC). HRC urged these high-level private sector speakers, many representing companies that have already demonstrated a deep-seated commitment to LGBT equality, to raise the issue of Egyptian human rights abuses in…
A new poll from The Wall Street Journal/NBC News has shown that support for gay marriage has risen to an all-time high. Janet Hook reports in the Wall Street Journal that the poll results reinforce acceptance of gay marriage as one of the fastest-moving changes in social attitudes of this generation. The new survey found…
Following on the heels of the Arkansas legislature’s successful effort to ban local communities from enacting LGBTQ non-discrimination measures, a Texas legislator, state Rep. Rick Miller has introduced a similar bill at the Austin Statehouse. House Bill 1556 would bar cities from adopting or enforcing non-discrimination ordinances that include protected classes not contained in state…
Planet Fitness, a successful fitness chain and home of the trademarked ‘Judgment Free Zone,’ has banned a woman who repeatedly complained that a man was using the women’s room. According to a report on MassLive.com, Yvette Cormier of Midland County said this week that corporate officials told her she was no longer welcome after she…
NEW YORK, — Three years after its launch in 2012, Mayors for the Freedom to Marry have signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to end marriage discrimination nationwide. The brief also includes 226 individually named mayors as well as 40 cities across the country, from towns as small as Thompson, North Dakota,…
This April, join in the fight against AIDS by simply enjoying a great meal with family or friends for Dining Out For Life hosted by Subaru,a delicious event held in 60 cities across North America. The fundraiser was dreamed up twenty-five years ago by a volunteer at ActionAIDS in Philadelphia and is magnificent in its…
