Bathroom Cop from Funny Or Die Funny or Die have now turned their attention to transphobic “bathroom bills” that bar trans people from using facilities that correspond with their gender identity. Watch Officer Tammy Cox and the Bathroom Police in their official training video to the public to ensure the safety of public restrooms everywhere.
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC have sent letters to chancellors and presidents of the University of North Carolina and North Carolina Community College systems urging them to reverse implementation of the deeply discriminatory HB2. The letter from the two civil rights organizations come after the Department of Justice notified Margaret Spellings,…
WASHINGTON, DC— Many Voices, a Black church movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) justice, has launched a first-of-its-kind video campaign in partnership with Morgan State University (MSU), to increase awareness about LGBTQ life on historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses, and the ways in which it is shaped by the Black Church…
More than three have passed weeks since the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC filed an open records request seeking information from the office of Gov. Pat McCrory, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, and House Speaker Tim Moore about their communications with anti-LGBT activists to pass the disastrous HB 2 into law. With the legislation…
JOHANNESBURG — Jozi Cats – Africa’s first gay and inclusive competitive rugby club has launched a bold new initiative to recruit more players. The campaign, spearheaded and created by the Head of Havas PR South Africa, Chris Verrijdt, uses players from the rugby team in a series of shots with derogatory gay terms that question…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The North Carolina law requiring transgender individuals to use the bathroom matching the gender on their birth certificate has had far-reaching effects. Businesses, as well as religious and spiritual communities, have responded in a variety of ways. One spiritual community has a welcome sign on its door: The Self-Realization Community of Greater…
Friday evening, May 20, Long Beach women will take to the streets in Long Beach’s 4th Annual Rally and Dyke March. The Dyke March and Rally are free events at Bixby Park. The goal of a Dyke March is to increase lesbian visibility and support the rights of all women regardless of labels, including bisexual and…
https://youtu.be/5BCsU6uPX4Q NEW YORK –As part of the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s (EJAF) strategy to strengthen the resilience of the HIV/AIDS movement and to support initiatives that empower community-based leaders from diverse backgrounds, EJAF has joined the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in announcing the inaugural HIV 360° Fellowship Program. Ten outstanding young leaders will receive nine…
A Disney fan has started a Care2 petition urging Disney to #GiveElsaAGirlfriend in the upcoming sequel of the 2013 film Frozen. The Care2 petition captures the support surrounding the viral hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend, which was started by Twitter user Alexis Isabel on April 30. Julie Rodriguez, who who started the petition, writes, “I was a huge Disney princess…
