The fourth annual Truth Awards will be held Feb. 24, 2018 in Los Angeles. The Truth Awards is an awards show that honors and celebrates the African American LGBTQ community and it’s allies. The awards show is presented by Better Brothers Los Angeles (BBLA) in partnership with award-winning actress/activist Sheryl Lee Ralph and her non-profit…
LOS ANGELES — The Better Brothers Los Angeles (BBLA) in association with award-winning actress/activist Sheryl Lee Ralph and her non-profit organization, the DIVA Foundation, have announced that NBA referee Violet Palmer will receive the Lifetime Achievement at the Fourth Annual Truth Awards. The Truth Awards will be held on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Taglyan Cultural Complex, located at 1201 Vine…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Today, Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) responded to the NBA’s decision to bring back the All-Star Game to Charlotte in 2019. The NBA had previously moved their 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte in response to HB2, the deeply discriminatory law that put LGBTQ North Carolinians in harm’s way and…
WASHINGTON — The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), the business voice of the LGBT community, has welcomed the National Basketball Association (NBA) to its list of nearly 200 top corporations and government agencies seeking certified LGBT Business Enterprises (LGBTBEs) into their supply chains alongside other diverse communities. This kind of inclusion not…
The National Basketball Association, has warned Texas lawmakers that any legislative attack on LGBTQ people would factor into a decision as to where big-ticket games, such as the All-Star Game, would be played. The NBA joins the NFL in issuing a warning to lawmakers in Texas, after the National Football League cautioned last week that…
The NBA has decided to move the 2017 All-Star Game to New Orleans The Associated Press reported Friday. Citing the hostile environment created by North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 law, and after repeated warnings the league would move the event if the law remained on the books, the NBA recently announced it was moving the game…
In response to North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 legislation, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced today that the 2017 All-Star Game would be moved from Charlotte, N.C. This marks the first time in US history that a professional sporting event was moved in response to anti-LGBT legislation. The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, better known as…
RALEIGH, N.C. — When is an HB2 “compromise” not a compromise? When it’s even worse than the original. Under pressure from the NBA to repeal HB2 by the end of the summer — or risk losing the All-Star Game in Charlotte — lawmakers have proposed a so-called “compromise” that does nothing to address the most…
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s radical anti-LGBT HB 2 must be changed or the league will move the 2017 All-Star Game out of the state. The commissioner’s comments come just days before the North Carolina General Assembly is scheduled to reconvene. Thursday at the Associated Press Sports Editors’ commissioner meetings,…
In a statement Friday, the NBA reaffirmed its opposition to North Carolina’s H.B. 2, noting that NBA owners are unanimous in opposing the bill, and made clear that the league has not ruled out moving the game. The statement, issued by Mike Bass, executive vice president, Communications read: “During a media availability earlier today following the NBA’s Board…
