Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sent letters to prominent business leaders who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC). HRC urged these high-level private sector speakers, many representing companies that have already demonstrated a deep-seated commitment to LGBT equality, to raise the issue of Egyptian human rights abuses in…
Friday, HRC delivered its historic “People’s Brief” — with 207,551 signatories calling for full nationwide marriage equality — to the US Supreme Court. Longtime HRC member Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage equality case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 28, joined HRC to hand-deliver…
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden has affirmed his support for federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people while giving remarks at the Spring Equality Convention for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Addressing the tremendous progress made for the LGBT community – from marriage equality to open and honest military service by gay, lesbian, and bisexual…
Following withering criticism from the Human Rights Campaign and LGBT advocates across the country for his offensive suggestion that prison proves that sexual orientation is a choice, presidential hopeful Ben Carson has tried to “walk back” his rhetoric. HRC’s Fred Sainz released the following statement: “Ben Carson’s “apology” wasn’t particularly genuine, but what it does…
Today Psychology Today made the decision to stop accepting online listings from mental health practitioners who offer to “cure” LGBT people. In a letter last week to the leadership of Psychology Today, HRC requested that they stop publishing such listings, and, to build on the publication’s history of LGBT inclusion and affirmation, also post an article…
WASHINGTON – In reaction to the latest anti-LGBT rhetoric from retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, the Human Rights Campaign’s Fred Sainz issued the following statement. Carson’s history of anti-LGBT rhetoric includes comparing same-sex marriage to NAMBLA and bestiality. “The only thing that’s really been proven here is that when Ben Carson says what he really thinks, he reveals…
MONTGOMERY—Today, the Alabama state Supreme Court issued a ruling ordering a halt to same-sex marriages in the state. In the ruling, the Court granted an emergency petition by two anti-LGBT groups, the Alabama Policy Institute and Alabama Citizens Action Program, who sought to stop probate judges from issuing marriage licenses across the state. The order…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Psychology Today to stop accepting online listings from mental health practitioners who offer to “cure” LGBT people. HRC leadership made the request directly to executives of the publication in a letter that further urged them to build on Psychology Today’s history of LGBT inclusion and…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced that 207,551 Americans from all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands have joined as signatories on its unprecedented “The People’s Brief” in support of marriage equality. Authored by prominent lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who successfully defeated the key section…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released comprehensive research reports on potential presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio that highlight their record opposing LGBT equality. The research document marks the Human Rights Campaign’s first effort to chronicle where potential 2016 presidential candidates stand on LGBT equality. The document, which will be hosted…
