SAN FRANCISCO, — Gay-Straight Alliance Network and Our Family Coalition have criticized the draft History – Social Science Framework released last week by State Superintendent Tom Torlakson, saying it fails to meet the requirements of recent laws intended to provide students with an up-to-date social studies education. “As a youth who advocated for the FAIR…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Bloomberg BNA has announced the publication of a first-of-its-kind book that comprehensively addresses United States workplace law and human resource practice relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender expression. The book, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace, features an extensive analysis of anti-discrimination law as it pertains to lesbian,…
NEW YORK — SCRUFF (www.SCRUFF.com), one of the world’s largest gay social networking apps, have announced a new year-long partnership with the National Minority AIDS Council (www.nmac.org). SCRUFF will be donating a portion of its national ad inventory to NMAC through its newly launched Benevolads™ ad platform. Through this initiative, SCRUFF and NMAC will help…
WASHINGTON – On the heels of a meeting of the American Latino Scholars Expert Panel and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced $500,000 in matching grants to help fund 13 projects across the country to increase the number of…
NEW YORK— Immigration Equality, the nation’s leading organization providing direct representation and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive asylum seekers, announced today they have appointed Caroline Dessert as their new executive director. Dessert is a lifetime advocate for social justice. She is a queer Latina originally from El Centro, Calif., a community on…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a historic bill that will result in new opportunities for certified businesses owned by those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender—a law that came about through testimony and advocacy by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Brown’s action means public utilities in the…
WASHINGTON – The question of when the Supreme Court of the United States will take up a marriage equality case is now front and center, as cases from five states are currently pending before the justices and more than 70 cases challenging state marriage bans are working their way through the court system across the…
Yesterday the largest newspaper in Minneapolis, the Star-Tribune, ran an ad placed by the anti-LGBT organization Minnesota Child Protection League. The ad was placed in an attempt to influence the Minnesota High School League’s upcoming ruling on whether to allow transgender athletes to play on teams according to their identified gender, a policy that would…
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown, Saturday signed into law a bill [AB 2501 ], prohibiting the so-called “gay panic” defense that has been used to reduce homicide charges to manslaughter, reports Jurist.org. The defense has been used by defendants who claimed that they were “panicked” into committing a crime due to a homosexual individual making…
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted an LGBT rights resolution on a vote of 25–14, with seven abstentions. The resolution calls for a report from the U.N. high commissioner for human rights on combatting human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It is one of the few times…
