Additional companies call for repeal of HB 2, despite NC Gov. McCrory’s executive order

WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign and Equality NC announced that executives from the American Express Company, AXA Financial Inc., Bloomberg L.P. ,Capital One, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, Campbell Soup Company, CohnReznick LLP, CrowdRise, eMaint Enterprises, LLC, Ernst & Young LLP, the Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., John Hancock Financial, Kohler Co., Logitech, Plum…

Read More

ASPA stands in support of an anti-discriminatory society

WASHINGTON— The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) has called on governments and organizations at all levels to reaffirm their commitment to an inclusive society and to reject laws and policies that are counterproductive to it. ASPA’s Code of Ethics highlights the critical need to increase awareness and commitment to ethical principles and standards among…

Read More

Bullying in schools: LGBT adults report higher incidence of bullying as well as being bullied

NEW YORK — Today’s annual GLSEN Day of Silence will again call attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. In this light, parents, students and educators alike continue to be alarmed at unacceptably high levels of bullying that adversely affect environments at school, at home and online. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…

Read More

2016: What would Jesus do?

Editor’s note: Pastor Dan is away and this week’s column is written by Lee Bowman, Minister of Administration & Communications, MCC San Diego. By the way, be sure to tune in this week for Meet the Press when Chuck Todd takes an in-depth look at what’s been called a contentious, angry even depressing presidential race…

Read More

EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum on North Carolina Title VII discrimination complaints

The anti-discrimination complications of North Carolina’s HB 2 are many, but probably one of the lesser known ones is that HB 2, which limits transgender people’s use of restrooms in state buildings to the gender listed on their birth certificates, is in direct conflict with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) interpretation of Title VII….

Read More

A balancing act: Barrio Logan

It’s a familiar pattern, oft repeated. A forgotten neighborhood is discovered by artists seeking good spaces and cheap rents. They move in and the process of gentrification begins. Before long, the rents are so high and home values so steep, that the artists have to look elsewhere for space. The neighborhood is so no longer…

Read More

Play Ball!

America’s Finest City Softball League celebrates 35 years of LGBT acceptance and inclusion in sports It’s that time of the year again. Time for Americans to flock to the nation’s ballparks to enjoy a good old fashioned baseball game, indulge in hot dogs and cracker jacks and root for the home team. While sports fans…

Read More