MIAMI, Fla. – World OutGames Miami, the 10-day event that will bring to life 34 sports and more than 450 events across the areas of Sport, Culture and Human Rights, has launched advanced registration. Thousands of athletes, participants, spectators and thought leaders from around the globe will converge on Miami for World OutGames IV to…
SAN DIEGO – When one lane on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge closes, another one opens—for cyclists. On Sunday, August 28, bike lovers of all levels are encouraged to grab their bikes, helmets and friends to join more than 3,500 people for San Diego’s 9th annual Bike the Bay. Participants in this casual 25-mile ride…
WASHINGTON — Equality Federation is partnering in the launch of a groundbreaking ad depicting the challenges faced by transgender people in accessing public restrooms—and highlighting the lack of state and federal nondiscrimination protections for transgender people—that will have its national television debut on FOX News Channel next Thursday, July 21, during the final night of the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friday, 68 major companies joined the Human Rights Campaign’s amicus brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to block some of the most egregious and discriminatory components of North Carolina’s HB2 law. HRC is continuing to gather corporate support for the amicus brief, which will be re-filed at several…
Friday, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law legislation extending commonsense, non-discrimination protections to transgender residents and visitors to the state. While Massachusetts state law already prohibits discrimination against transgender people in housing and employment, the new law extends these same crucial protections to public accommodations, such as access to restaurants, malls, restrooms, and…
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of 10 states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s historic guidance to ensure the dignity and equal treatment of transgender students in public and federally-funded schools. The lawsuit filed by Peterson seeks to rescind the Obama administration’s recent guidance on transgender student rights,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this week’s address, Vice President Joe Biden commemorated the lives of the five police officers who were killed and the seven people who were wounded in Dallas. The police officers were providing safety to those who were peacefully marching against racial injustices in the criminal justice system – and the shocking…
A gay police officer was among those wounded in a shooting that left five of his colleagues dead Thursday night in Dallas, reports The New Civil Rights Movement. Jesus Retana, 39, is now reportedly recovering at home with his husband, former DART officer Andrew Moss. Retana has worked for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) for…
With the nation still reeling from the deaths of two black men – Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Wednesday and Alton Sterling who was killed by police in Baton Rouge, La. on Tuesday – a gunman killed five police officers in an “ambush-style” attack during…
WASHINGTON – Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released guidance on assisting LGBTQ refugees ahead of a U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing next week on global human rights, the first ever to include a witness focused exclusively on the human rights of LGBTQ people. While LGBTQ people around the world have long faced…
