WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National LGBTQ Task Force is welcoming the decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop using private prisons. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund is rejecting Donald Trump’s call for “more police” in black neighborhoods as being “out of touch with reality and the reality of black lives.” Tuesday in West Bend, Wis. Trump called for more police in America’s inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and…
SAN DIEGO – Legislation by California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to require all restaurant and bar employees who sell or serve alcoholic beverages to undergo Responsible Beverage Service training was approved by the State Senate on a unanimous 36-2 vote today. It now returns to the Assembly for final consideration. Assembly Bill 2121 will make responsible beverage training mandatory…
At a ceremony in San Francisco Tuesday, the U.S. Navy made history by naming a new Military Sealift Command ship after Harvey Milk, the former Navy diver and pioneer in the LGBTQ civil rights movement who was assassinated in 1978. In another historic first, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus selected transgender Navy veteran Paula…
LOS ANGELES– Equality California (EQCA) announced today that it has endorsed Proposition 63, the “Safety for All” ballot initiative backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Following the shootings in June at an Orlando LGBT nightclub, a spike in homicides of LGBT people and an ongoing worldwide epidemic of murders of transgender women, Equality California has made…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today responded to Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech delivered Monday in which Trump said people should take a test before being allowed to immigrate to the United States. “In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test,” Trump said to a crowd in Youngstown, Ohio. “The time is overdue…
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The C.A.R.E. (Comprehensive AIDS Resource and Education) Program at Dignity Health – St. Mary Medical Center has been awarded a $90,000 grant to fund a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Center of Excellence. Tuesday, Aug. 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding for the Los Angeles County Department of Public…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today released the following statement in response to media reports that Donald Trump will require immigrants to pass an “ideological test” that would include interviews about their feelings about LGBTQ equality. “What’s craziest about this ignorant, incomprehensible plan is that Donald Trump and Mike Pence would fail…
A man whose homophobic rant against a bicyclist was recorded on film which subsequently racked up thousands of views on YouTube has now apologized. Ryan Lewis of Orange County, Calif. delivered his rant in a confrontation with a bicyclist after Lewis apparently failed to share the road which was a designated Share the Road lane….
SACRAMENTO — The California Senate Thursday day passed a bipartisan resolution by California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) calling for an end to federal blood donation policies that discriminate against men who have sex with men (MSM). Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 26 calls…
