WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced its opposition to President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States. “Never in the history of our movement have we had more at stake as a community, or as a country,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Since the moment…
Following a weekend of mass demonstrations at U.S. airports over Trump’s Muslim ban, President Obama released a statement in which he said he was “… heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country.” The statement, issued under the name of Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis, was the first comment Obama has…
As thousands demonstrated at airports across the country this weekend against President Trump’s latest Executive Order targeting Muslims from specific countries advocacy groups continued to call out his actions calling them “inhumane” and “religious hatred.” “Trump’s latest Executive Order is religious hatred and thinly veiled racism by fiat. In the targeting of specific countries, he…
LGBT people in America face discrimination in their daily lives. A majority of states allow discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. While there are more states every day that strive to pass laws to protect their citizens from discrimination, many legislatures sponsor bills that invoke religion, pre-empt local protections, and target transgender people to…
Donald J. Trump’s inaugural speech may have broken with tradition and to some cast a grim picture of the reality of our country. The Huffington Post reports that Author Randa Jarrar, capturing the grim mood, tweeted a poem she’d written using the Trumpian terms ― supplemented with some common words such as “a” and “my”…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Within minutes of Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday, his administration has removed all mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from the White House Web site, and selected LGBT-related documents have disappeared from the Department of Labor website. The Office of National AIDS Policy appears to have been closed, and its web…
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union has taken legal action seeking documents on conflicts of interest and violations of the Constitution and federal law posed by President Trump’s and his family’s business interests. The organization also released a Seven-Point Plan laying out how it intends to challenge other Trump policies and protect the Constitution. The efforts are made possible by the organization’s new Constitution Defense Fund,…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced that it is to both sponsor and and join in major social justice actions next week in the nation’s capital, raising up our shared and continuing fight for equality for all. A contingent of HRC staff, members and volunteers will be participating in both the We…
Many are absolutely ecstatic that 2016 has come to an end. Whether it is the incredible loss from those who have entertained us to the election of Donald Trump, most were happy to say goodbye to 2016. A new day has come. President-elect Trump will soon be President Trump and nothing can be done to…
LOS ANGELES — As we begin a new year, the February/ March issue of the The Advocate looks ahead at America in the age of Trump. Following the 2016 Presidential election, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen turned to legendary LGBT advocate Larry Kramer for guidance on turning despair into action. Gessen came to the United States…
