OutServe announced Thursday the first OutServe Capital Summit to be held May 14-15 in Washington D.C. focusing on the theme “Our Families Matter”. The two-day event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, and Courage Campaign organizations. The Summit will aim to focus on the legal rights of gay and lesbian…
Just two weeks ago, Mitt Romney said in New Hampshire that he opposed discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. Yet his tax returns tell a different story. In 2006, Romney donated $10,000 to the Massachusetts Family Institute and $25,000 to the Beckett Fund – two anti-gay organizations focused on the “protection” of marriage…
WASHINGTON – Washington magazine, the Weekly Standard has sent a fundraising email on behalf of one of its sponsors, the anti-gay organization Public Advocate of the United States that called LGBT Americans “sexual deviants” and asked recipients to contribute financially to efforts aimed at defaming the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA). Earlier this year, the organization…
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…
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…
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…
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, will announce his retirement from the organization in a press release on Saturday, August 27, 2011. Solmonese has served as president of the organization since 2005. Pam’s House Blend first reported the news late on Friday evening. While the subject of the Pam’s House Blend report is correct, there are…
The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling finding the prohibition of adoption by unmarried couples who live together to be in violation of the Arkansas Constitution. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest and most vocal organization in support of LGBT civil rights, applauded the Arkansas Supreme Court today for its…
