The National LGBTQ Task Force has announced that U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez will be speaking at the annual Creating Change conference Friday, Jan. 22 at 1:30 p.m. CT. The conference, the nation’s largest gathering of LGBTQ activists and allies, will take place Jan. 20-24 at the Hilton Chicago. Close to 5,000 LGBTQ…
Rep. Bob Dold (IL-10), today became the first Republican member of Congress to co-sponsor the Equality Act – landmark federal legislation that would guarantee explicit, permanent protections for LGBT people from discrimination in many of the most important aspects of their lives. In statement released today Dold said, “Illinois has a long and proud history…
Right Wing Watch has revealed that five Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to speak this weekend at a “religious freedom” event hosted by a conservative pastor who has repeatedly declared that AIDS is God’s punishment for gay people’s “immoral act” and has called for a “class action lawsuit” against homosexuality. Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted…
A federal judge has ruled that the state of Kentucky must pay $1.1 million to the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs who successfully challenged the state’s gay marriage ban last year. ABC News reports that in 2014, U.S. District Judge John Heyburn ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Attorney General Jack Conway refused…
WASHINGTON – After legal threats by an anti-LGBT hate group forced a school in Mount Horeb, WI, to cancel plans last month to support a transgender student by reading “I Am Jazz,” a book by transgender teen and HRC Youth Ambassador Jazz Jennings, more than 600 residents showed up at a public reading organized by…
Still shocked at the death of David Bowie, Madonna paid an emotional tribute to the iconic artist at her Houston show Tuesday night. “He changed my life when I went to see him in concert in Detroit,” she said. “He showed me it was OK to be different.” Madonna then went on to play Bowie’s…
Next week, Russia’s State Duma will decide on whether to ban people from coming out as gay. GayStarNews reports that two senior Russian Communist MPs Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev have presented a bill calling for people who come out as LGBTI to serve up to 15 days behind bars. Any public displays of affection…
In his final, historic State of the Union address, President Obama reflected on some of the gains the LGBT community has made as well as some of the challenges we continue to face. Here the Human Rights Campaign’s Hayley Miller outlines five highlights from his address: 1. White House Guest List Included Members of LGBT Community…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. —A new study provides clinical data to support growing evidence that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more prevalent in children and adolescents with gender dysphoria than in the general population. Among youths seen at a pediatric gender clinic who were screened for ASD, 23% possibly or likely had Asperger syndrome, according to…
Tonight, President Obama will deliver his eighth and final State of the Union address. From a record number of appointments of LGBT judges and ambassadors, to the institution of far-reaching administrative and regulatory policy changes, President Barack Obama has been a stalwart champion of the LGBT community. President Obama has signed the only signature pieces…
