WASHINGTON – After conducting a secret two-year review leaders of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have announced that their ban on gay Scouts and leaders will remain. Criticizing the decision, Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign president said, “This is a missed opportunity of colossal proportions. With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of…
WASHINGTON – A petition in support of Minnesota-based Fortune 500 company General Mills by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has gotten nearly five times more signatures than an anti-equality petition launched by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). HRC launched the petition after General Mills CEO Ken Powell announced the company opposed the state’s proposed…
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a series of legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, upholding the historic law passed in the last Congress to reform our nation’s healthcare system. As part of that reform, the Act created or paved the way for important new protections…
HRC‘s groundbreaking new survey of LGBT youth in the U.S. is a call to immediate action. Thousands of youth who don’t feel accepted by their parents or classmates reported being verbally harassed – twice as many as their straight peers. What’s more, only 37% of LGBT youth say they’re happy, compared to 67% among their…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have announced that retired Staff Sgt. Eric Alva will be a special guest at the first HRC San Diego dinner. Alva was the first Marine seriously injured in the Iraq War. He lost his right leg from a land mine, March 21, 2003. After 13 years of military service, Alva…
DENVER – The member-delegates of the 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have passed a ground-breaking resolution at their 2012 national conference in Denver last week. The resolution states that SEIU local groups and members will bargain for transgender-inclusive health care coverage as part of their contract negotiations with businesses and employers. “This is…
I recently listened to a trans activist talk around a table about the work of his trans-specific service organization. The organization provided antidiscrimination training that complied with a particular government mandated sexual orientation and gender identity training requirement for a particular service sector. There were no broader LGBT organizations in the immediate area providing that…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced its involvement in a variety of activities around the 19th International AIDS Conference (known as AIDS 2012), which will be the first to be held in the U.S. in 22 years. HRC will be hosting panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt open for public viewing in…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released never-before-seen financial documents Friday from the National Organization for Marriage showing a $10,000 donation from Mitt Romney’s PAC in 2008. HRC called on Mitt Romney to disavow the racially divisive tactics of the National Organization for…
As many of you know, Chad Griffin has been selected to lead the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest advocacy group dedicated to the achievement of LGBT equality. With his appointment, Griffin instantly becomes one of the most powerful figures in the LGBT civil rights movement. Griffin is not unfamiliar with how to be an…
