With more than three months to go before the start of the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, and with criticism of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws intensifying, the online activist organization FCKH8.com plans to mail 10,000 copies of Misha & His Moms Go to the Olympics coloring books. The group, which sells T-shirts and hoodies…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Al Franken (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Christopher Coons (D-DE) and Mark Udall (D-CO) today sent a letter to Dr. Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), expressing concern about…
The Barilla pasta company has announced that it’s taking steps improve its image on LGBT equality following its chairman’s comments about LGBT-headed households. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Barilla has set up a Diversity & Inclusion Board in order to establish goals and strategies for improving diversity and equality in the company’s workplace,…
As part of their campaign calling on the Russian government to stop the crackdown against lesbian, gay, bi and trans people that is fuelling anti-gay violence, All Out have produced a video ahead of the Sochi Winter Games. All Out’s petition urging leaders around the world and within Russia to work to eliminate all anti-gay…
WASHINGTON – With the Sochi Olympic Games just a few months away, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today launched its “Love Conquers Hate” campaign to support the members of Russia’s LGBT community, who are being targeted by a hateful “anti-propaganda” law that prohibits…
WASHINGTON – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities around the world face stigmatization, harassment, violence and blatant human rights violations. To combat these horrific acts and to advance the cause of LGBT justice internationally, The Paul E. Singer Foundation is teaming up with the Daniel S. Loeb Family Foundation to award the Human Rights…
Todd Sears, an LGBT activist who has successfully lobbied the financial sectors in New York (Wall Street) and London (the City)in advancing the equal rights struggles of our community, is now turning his attention to the ‘emerging’ markets of Asia. “There are significant issues moving talent from the U.K., from the U.S., to places like…
Around the world, LGBTI rights defenders are threatened, harassed and attacked as a result of their peaceful and legitimate human rights work. The situation in Honduras, one of the most violent countries in the world, has drastically deteriorated since the 2009 coup, with 101 crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity committed between 2010…
In a move that is being widely criticized by international Human Rights Groups, members of the Gulf Cooperation Countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – are working on a test that they argue can detect a person’s sexuality. If all goes according to plan, these six nations will…
STOCKHOLM — Live and Let Love is a message to the Russian LGBT-people that they are not alone, but also an urging to Russian leaders to choose love instead of hate and fear when making laws to rule over people’s lives, their human rights, and above all, their love. Oct. 6, Live and Let Love will…
