WASHINGTON – HRC has asked to meet with ABC executives to discuss its midseason comedy Work It, featuring two men who dress as women to secure employment. According to ABC, the show centers on two unemployed men who have “learned the hard way that the current recession is more of a ‘man-cession’ and their skills…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has announced that it is launching the first-of-its-kind Jewish Organization Equality Index (JOEI) survey. Modeled after HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), JOEI is designed to measure LGBT inclusion in the programs and employment practices at Jewish non-profit organizations. JOEI is supported by a…
Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall is featured in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the web ad, Hall confidently explains, “Over time, equality wins – that’s the beauty of America.” Hall is a playwright and performer from Memphis, Tenn. and is perhaps…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a new video featuring civil rights pioneer and NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond as part of their Americans for Marriage Equality public-education campaign. “There are few who have so dramatically changed this country for the better like Dr. Julian Bond,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “We…
A few columns ago I wrote that I believe the HRC, when it comes to transgender community issues, is an anvil and not a hammer; a thermometer and not a thermostat. I stated this in relation to a Martin Luther King Jr. quote from Strength To Love: “Longfellow said, ‘In this world a man must…
House Republicans are dumping more and more money into their fight to uphold DOMA, but the Senate Judiciary Committee is pressing ahead with the Respect for Marriage Act – historic legislation that would repeal DOMA once and for all. DOMA deprives same-sex couples of over 1,100 federal rights, benefits, and responsibilities of marriage. It’s not…
WASHINGTON – As pressure grows on GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to stand by his remarks and prove “gay is a choice” the The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has renewed calls for Cain to meet with Dr. Jack Drescher, MD, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and a member of the DSM-5…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched a new video campaign that features Cory Booker, Mo’Nique, and Julian Bond in its latest public campaign for marriage equality, and that’s no accident, according to The New York Times. The videos are part of the Americans for Marriage Equality campaign, which aims to educate Americans about same-sex…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has called on school leaders in Tennessee’s Monroe County to stop subverting the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at Sequoyah High School in Madisonville. This follows the latest incident in Monroe County, Tenn. where, not only did Principal Maurice Moser deny his school the right to have…
WASHINGTON – Academy Award winning actress Mo’Nique has partnered with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization – in a video for its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the video, the comedienne and actress states, “Gay and lesbian couples believe in commitment, family and…
