McCann wins top award for Mastercard’s ‘Restroom for All’ campaign

NEW YORK — McCann has announced that McCann XBC, its dedicated client unit for Mastercard, was awarded Best of Show at the Association of National Advertisers’ 2017 Multicultural Excellence Awards. The campaign, created for Mastercard’s ‘Restroom for All’, a restroom open to people from all backgrounds and sexual orientation, debuted at the 2016 NY Pride parade….

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HRC: Is Mike Pence ‘Working for Women’? (VIDEO)

As Vice President Mike Pence received a “Working for Women” award from the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative women’s organization on whose board Kellyanne Conway serves, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a video highlighting Pence’s “achievements.” “What would we do without Mike Pence and his tireless efforts to ban women from making decisions about…

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LGBT-themed ‘Gold Star’ wins top award at 2016 PBS Online Film Festival

Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) today announced that their short film, Gold Star, written and directed by Karla Legaspy, won the top award at this year’s PBS Online Film Festival.  Gold Star follows a young girl who dedicates a love song to her teacher during an elementary school talent show. The ensuing homophobic reactions from school…

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Anti-LGBT activist Jay Sekulow to receive human rights award

WASHINGTON – Last week, The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America, representing one of the world’s largest Christian denominations, announced that Jay Sekulow will be the next recipient of their annual Athenagoras Human Rights Award. Sekulow is the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a group that actively advocated against…

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