WASHINGTON— The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights today sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging senators to reject President Trump’s nomination of John K. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The letter states in part, “Mr. Bush has a record of extreme partisanship and does not…
GENEVA — In a speech Tuesday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley criticized the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) threatening that the US might withdraw from the body if reforms aren’t made to “re-establish the Council’s legitimacy.” “If the Human Rights Council is going to be an organization we entrust to protect and…
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott today announced a special session at the Texas State Capitol with an agenda that includes passing a so-called anti-trans “bathroom bill” which openly targets and discriminates against transgender Texans for living their lives according to their gender identity. The so-called “bathroom bill” has already received negative attention as…
An Egyptian hospital turned off a British gay man’s life support May 30 and are refusing to send his body home, reports Gay Star News. Adrian Nicholas King, 39, had been on vacation in Cairo, Egypt when he suffered kidney failure and fell into a coma. Elaine Gilbert, King’s mother, told Gay Star News there…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. –The Senate Public Safety Committee today passed a bill authored by Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) and sponsored by Alameda District Attorney Nancy O’Malley that would help reduce the number of untested sexual assault evidence kits throughout California. AB 41 will for first time require law enforcement agencies to report to the California…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has once again refused to affirm that schools that receive funding from the federal government would be held accountable for discriminating against LGBTQ students. DeVos’s statement was an answer to Sen. Jeff Merkley’s question on the issue and came before a subcommittee within the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. Her statement immediately follows…
LGBT Network CEO David Kilmnick Sunday blasted President Donald Trump, who has yet to declare June as Pride Month despite issuing more than a dozen proclamations – even one for “Financial Capability Month” since he took office in January. “It’s shameful that the president of the United States has failed to recognize such a historically…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) Friday invited her colleagues in the California Legislature to reaffirm the state of California’s commitment to reaching the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement that the Trump Administration withdrew the United States from Thursday, while also calling upon other states and cities to…
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign has proclaimed the month of June as #UniteResistEnlist Month as follows: WHEREAS, the month of June has long been observed as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride month in recognition of the 1969 Stonewall Riots with Pride celebrations being held across the nation in cities large and…
OTTAWA – The Canadian government has marked the beginning of Pride Season with a statement celebrating “… all those who seek to be who they truly are …” Thursday, the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 issues, M.P. Randy Boissonnault, issued the following statement: “June marks the beginning of Pride season across the…
