WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released a detailed report of Scott Lively’s anti-LGBT record – particularly his record of exporting hate overseas. According to the well documented report, Lively describes being gay as a “personality disorder” and his struggle against equality as “a war” in which only one side can prevail, but…
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – In partnership with acclaimed storytelling Web site Cowbird, Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) today announced Getting to “I Do”: Our Journeys to Marriage Equality, a project to collect and share multimedia-rich personal stories about relationships, family, marriage, advocacy, and equality as a means to educate and continue to change hearts and minds…
SHE4ME, the Marriage Equality PSA, has been officially selected to screen at Immaginaria A day of independent lesbian movies (Rebels, Lesbians, Eccentrics…”) at the International Women’s Film Festival in Rome, Italy May 31. The organizers of the event Screening the Girls, Lista Lesbica Italiana (LLI) and Fuori Salone delle Lesbiche/Lesbians Outhall n.4, were thrilled to…
Speaking to more than 1,000 LGBT rights supporters at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles gala, SaturdayVice President Joe Biden said the United States will be a world leader in the fight for LGBT equality. His keynote address, which lasted 28 minutes, outlined the administration’s commitment to stand up for the human rights of LGBT…
WASHINGTON – Americans for Marriage Equality, a new bipartisan coalition formed with the help of the Human Rights Campaign, officially has launched with new resources that will provide up-to-the-minute information and analysis on national and state marriage equality cases, legislation, and other developments. A new daily Playbook-style email tipsheet called “A.M. Equality” will deliver a…
Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the HRC’s Los Angeles Dinner Saturday, March 22. Vice President Biden will be joined by Dr. Jill Biden. “Vice President Biden has been a champion of civil rights for his entire career, from his leadership on the Violence Against Women Act to his strong support…
The progress of the LGBT community during the last five years, which also coincides with the election of President Obama, is unprecedented. While the so-called Arab Spring was a series of civil protests in Arab countries that led to the ouster of many Arab leaders, our LGBT Spring is kinder, gentler and quite effective. While…
Last night, the Human Rights Campaign made history as the first organization or business to take home three awards from the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Awards Ceremony. SXSW and its judges honored HRC as the 2013 leader of digital design and innovation with the awards for Best of Show, Digital Campaign of the Year…
SEASIDE, Ore. – The government can’t tell you who to love, and it shouldn’t tell you who to marry. That is the message Freedom Oregon leaders took to participants at the 50th Annual Dorchester Conference in Seaside last weekend. It resulted in the first-ever endorsement of marriage equality at a Republican-dominated gathering of Oregon political…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, has released a comprehensive state-by-state report detailing LGBT-related legislation in 2013, a year marked by huge victories for the LGBT community from statehouses across the nation to the United States Supreme Court. The…
