A May 4 preliminary hearing has been set for a naked guy who was found inside someone’s bathroom and who told the occupant he only broke in to take a shower. The nude prowler was discovered at 12:10 a.m. March 17 inside the first floor apartment in the 8700 block of Spring Valley. The occupant…
Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement, CA Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA), GetEQUAL, Juntos, Orange County Immigrant Youth United (OCIYU), Arizona-Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (AZ-QUIP), Arcoiris Liberation Team, the Transgender Law Center (TLC), and the TransLatin@ Coalition have called for Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) and the Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) immediately release all LGBTQ-identified…
SACRAMENTO – The Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee voted Thursday with bi-partisan support to pass Assemblymember David Chiu’s Assembly Bill 959, a bill that would move California public policy closer towards meeting the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities. “Excluding LGBT communities from statewide collected data keeps these individuals and…
In a blog post this week, the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI) endorsed nationwide marriage equality in support of thousands of youth in need of foster or adoptive parents, writes Hayley Miller on hrc.com. April Dinwoodie and Kimberly Paglino authored the post, titled, “In Good Conscience,” and outlined the significant positive impact nationwide marriage equality could have…
A transgender woman arrested during the anti-police riots in Baltimore was detained Wednesday in an all-male holding facility. She was released Friday. According to an Advocate.com report, Deairra Venable, 30, was originally booked as female, but when central booking authorities discovered she was trans, she was transferred to an all-male facility, Venable’s lawyer, Astrid Munn…
May is National Foster Care Month. Throughout the month, HRC, in partnership with FosterClub, will highlight the issues facing LGBTQ youth in foster care and the families and organizations that work to support them. In the United States, nearly 400,000 children and youth are in foster care because they have been removed from their homes due to abuse…
Back in early 2009 when almost nobody thought an out lesbian could be elected mayor of Houston Annise Parker captured the deep respect of the city’s business community, but didn’t have their support because, they told her, a lesbian couldn’t win. Then Parker received the endorsement of the Victory Fund giving her campaign a financial…
The ol’ boys club of corporate leadership so poignantly portrayed by “Mad Men” should end at the same time as the TV show. In the place of corporate boards who undervalued women, LGBT people and minorities, there is now a growing sentiment that a diverse board of directors is essential for business. Times have changed….
In the race for the Third District seat on the San Diego City Council, there has been an outpouring of pervasive dialogue insinuating that the District Three Councilmember must be from the LGBT community. This insinuation has even gone so far as to suggest that every seat on the San Diego City Council is reserved…
For the second year in a row, Novartis Pharmaceuticals has taken the top spot in DiversityInc’s annual ranking of some of world’s top corporations for its commitment to equality in hiring, promotion and a host of other metrics. The top five also include (by rank) Kaiser Permanente, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EY (Ernest & Young) and Sodexo (French-based…
