Aug. 11, Sen. Marco Rubio will address listeners at an event in Orlando that is backed in part by the virulently anti-gay Liberty Counsel. The event, “Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project” is being held at a hotel that is less than 10 miles from the site where Omar Mateen slaughtered 49 people at a…
HRC Alabama has revealed a new billboard off I-85 in Montgomery calling out disgraced, notoriously anti-LGBTQ Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, reports the HRC’s Hayley Miller. The billboard, which reads“#NoMoore: Dismiss Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore” goes up as Moore, suspended from the bench in May for his consistent defiance of pro-marriage equality federal rulings…
American public schools have made tremendous progress since the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. Schools throughout the nation are more diverse than ever before as a result of desegregation, immigration of people to this country, and emigration of citizens from one region of the nation to another. Sixty…
The Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus today announced that the naming ceremony for a new U.S. Navy ship in honor of Harvey Milk will take place Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. at Treasure Island Great Lawn in San Francisco. An earlier notification indicated Mabus intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National LGBTQ Task Force is calling for a full investigation into the Baltimore County Police killing of Korryn Gaines and the wounding of her child. Ms. Grimes is the 647th Black person to be killed by law enforcement across the nation this year. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the loved…
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday halted a lower court’s order forbidding a Virginia school district from enforcing its discriminatory ban on transgender students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The 5-3 order in Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm allows the school board’s discriminatory policy to remain in place while the Supreme Court awaits…
In a clear show of discontent with the North Carolina legislature and the passage of HB2, the most stringently anti-LGBT law in the country, the Equality North Carolina Foundation received the highest number of donations of any national mid-size LGBT organization in the United States and any LGBT organization in the entire South over the…
Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday the plan she would embark on as president to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the U. S. and around the world. Her blueprint includes enhancing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, convening working groups to develop aggressive actions to combat the spread of HIV, and launching a campaign to combat stigma…
The Seattle City Council yesterday unanimously approved an ordinance protecting youth from “gay conversion therapy.” The Seattle ordinance provides for a fine of $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for any violation after that, The Advocate reports. There will also be misdemeanor charges for advertising conversion therapy. Seattle becomes the 10th jurisdiction to enact…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Former Army private Chelsea Manning faces indefinite solitary confinement as a result of administrative charges brought against her, which include a suicide attempt. Manning, a transgender woman, was convicted in 2013 for leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks. The latest incident is part of the ongoing mistreatment Manning has experienced at the men’s…
