WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released an inspiring video message featuring many of the breakout stars from the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Their message of hope and power marks the one-year anniversary of the final night of the convention, which featured the moving address by Gold Star father Khizr Khan and…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Michaela Mendelsohn, CEO of one of the largest El Pollo Loco franchises in the country and the founder of the California Transgender Work Project (CTWP) transcanwork.org – a program formed with the mission of promoting a trans positive work climate throughout the state of California, is speaking up about President Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Friday on News One Now, guest host Ray Baker interviewed Harper Jean Tobin, the policy director of the National Center for Transgender Equality about the Department of Justice having filed an unsolicited amicus brief on Wednesday stating that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not cover job discrimination based…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Friday that the Public Policy Committee of HRC’s Board of Directors has voted to endorse Dr. Ralph Northam for Governor of Virginia in the upcoming November 2017 election. With an estimated 185,366 eligible LGBTQ voters and hundreds of thousands more allied voters in Virginia, HRC’s get-out-the-vote effort…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Obamacare repeal died in the GOP-controlled Senate early today. The final vote for the Health Care Freedom Act, designed to eliminate core components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), went down on a 49-51 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with…
NEW YORK – GLAAD Thursday released a fact check calling out White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for peddling lies surrounding President Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday to ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in “any capacity” within the United States armed forces. Without any resources to justify the president’s clear discrimination, the Trump Administration…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today released the following audio of Tony Perkins, the president of anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), claiming that the Trump administration is set to reveal additional executive orders next week that could allow people to use “religious exemptions” as an excuse to openly use a violent and discriminatory agenda…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department filed a brief Wednesday arguing that LGBT people are not protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. HUFFPost reported tha DOJ lawyers, arguing under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in which they…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The presidents of the San Diego Democrats for Equality, Veterans Democratic Club of San Diego and the San Diego Progressive Democratic Club each a veteran of the United States military add their voices to the bipartisan outrage over the discriminatory ban on transgender military service proposed by President Donald Trump. “The…
Editor’s note: The following piece by San Diego LGBT Weekly publisher Stampp Corbin was originally published on HuffPost June 6, 2015. As usual, our publisher was prescient in his assessment of Donald Trump and what was going to happen. We have all watched with great interest the transition of Caitlyn Jenner who has finally become…
