NEW YORK — After careful review of the executive order covering the Johnson Amendment signed by President Trump yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union has determined not to file a lawsuit at this time. American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero issued the following statement: “Today’s executive order signing was an elaborate photo-op…
NEW YORK – After last month’s failure, the Trump Administration is once again lobbying House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The emerging reworked repeal contains language to defund Planned Parenthood, which is one of the largest providers of transgender health care in the United States. On top of providing LGBTQ-inclusive sexual and reproductive…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that would allow religious organizations to endorse political candidates and expand participation in politics. The executive order signed today also enables private employers to use religion as a pretext to deny reproductive health care to their employees. “Faith is deeply embedded into the history of…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Hornet, the premium gay social network, recently surveyed its French users regarding France’s presidential election. The findings of Hornet’s survey show that gay men under 30 years of age were more likely to prefer far-right party candidate Marine Le Pen than were gay men over 30. This online consultation was conducted by Hornet among its users between April 27-28, 2017….
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign joined other LGBTQ organizations, civil rights leaders and hundreds of supporters in front of the White House to rally and speak out against Trump’s #LicenseToDiscriminate Executive Order that would put millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk. Yesterday, Politico first reported that Donald Trump is planning to sign his…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today, GLAAD joined Tennessee Equality Project and other local LGBTQ groups and civil rights organizations in Nashville to call on Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam to veto HB 1111/SB 1085, an anti-LGBTQ bill which would require all words in the Tennessee state code to be defined as their so-called “natural meaning” – ushering…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Prominent faith leaders from across the country joined forces today in urging Texas legislators to oppose a series of anti-LGBTQ measures advancing rapidly through the state legislature, specifically calling out controversial anti-trans bathroom bills, HB 2899 and SB 6, and several religious refusal bills that provide businesses and government entities a license to…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — After seven days of deliberations, a federal jury Tuesday convicted David Enrique Meza of murdering his wealthy boyfriend in Mexico in order to inherit his estate. The eight woman, four man jury also convicted Meza, 26, of conspiracy to obstruct justice in which he used his pregnant girlfriend to arrange for…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–The Immigrant Tenant Protection Act, a bill by Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) that strengthens state law to protect immigrant tenants from intimidation and retaliation in their homes, today passed the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. All seven Democratic Assemblymembers on the 10-member committee voted aye on the bill, Assembly Bill (AB)…
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a religious exemptions executive order this Thursday. Politico reports that Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on that day for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty. Earlier this year, a leaked draft of this discriminatory…
