Foundations Recovery Network, an innovative behavioral health company and integrated treatment provider, has announced the opening of a new facility for outpatient services in San Diego. City officials and company executives will be on hand to celebrate the event, which will include a speaking program, ribbon cutting and tours of the facility Wednesday, March 11 3-6…
Following on the heels of the Arkansas legislature’s successful effort to ban local communities from enacting LGBTQ non-discrimination measures, a Texas legislator, state Rep. Rick Miller has introduced a similar bill at the Austin Statehouse. House Bill 1556 would bar cities from adopting or enforcing non-discrimination ordinances that include protected classes not contained in state…
Planet Fitness, a successful fitness chain and home of the trademarked ‘Judgment Free Zone,’ has banned a woman who repeatedly complained that a man was using the women’s room. According to a report on MassLive.com, Yvette Cormier of Midland County said this week that corporate officials told her she was no longer welcome after she…
NEW YORK, — Three years after its launch in 2012, Mayors for the Freedom to Marry have signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to end marriage discrimination nationwide. The brief also includes 226 individually named mayors as well as 40 cities across the country, from towns as small as Thompson, North Dakota,…
The Virginia-based Performance Institute has announced that Carl DeMaio will be returning to the organization as a senior fellow. The Performance Institute, originally founded by DeMaio in 2000 is described as a, “… nonpartisan, private think tank seeking to improve public and private sector performance through the principles of transparency, accountability, performance and engagement.” DeMaio…
This April, join in the fight against AIDS by simply enjoying a great meal with family or friends for Dining Out For Life hosted by Subaru,a delicious event held in 60 cities across North America. The fundraiser was dreamed up twenty-five years ago by a volunteer at ActionAIDS in Philadelphia and is magnificent in its…
Friday, HRC delivered its historic “People’s Brief” — with 207,551 signatories calling for full nationwide marriage equality — to the US Supreme Court. Longtime HRC member Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage equality case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 28, joined HRC to hand-deliver…
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden has affirmed his support for federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people while giving remarks at the Spring Equality Convention for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Addressing the tremendous progress made for the LGBT community – from marriage equality to open and honest military service by gay, lesbian, and bisexual…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Army announced today it is elevating authority to discharge transgender service members to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), the highest level at which that authority has ever been reserved. Prior to today’s announcement, local unit commanders were authorized to approve transgender soldiers’ separation orders. This…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that would have allowed same-sex couples in Nebraska to marry starting on Monday. The Huffington Post reported that the order came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear oral arguments on April 28 on the question of…
