NEW YORK — In the most comprehensive investigation of transgender-related homicide to date, Mic Thursday released “Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives,” a project looking at trans murder in America. Working in collaboration with transgender advocacy organizations, activists, academics and victims’ loved ones and families, a team of reporters at Mic has launched an interactive database of…
According to a new report, Donald Trump will stay on as an executive producer of NBC’s The Celebrity Apprentice. Media Matters for America (MMA) has put out a Call to take action citing that the president of the United States having a financial relationship with a major media conglomerate is a clear conflict of interest…
https://youtu.be/CnOJgDW0gPI LOS ANGELES — K Rocco Shields, director and co-writer of the provocative film Love Is All You Need? is creating a one million dollar fund to be distributed to twenty nonprofits that partnered with her during the film’s “MovieMent” tour. Love Is All You Need? toured twenty cities in tribute to true events depicted…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced The BRIDGE Act, bipartisan legislation to provide legislative relief to nearly 800,000 DREAMers with DACA. The act would maintain the protections of President Barack Obama’s DACA program. More than 740,000 young people were granted deportation reprieve and work permits under the…
The first large-scale survey of LGBT people following the election of Donald Trump reveals a growing climate of fear about what a Trump presidency will mean for the 6% of all adults in the US who from part of the LGBT communities. In a survey conducted by the global LGBT consulting body Out Now – http://OutNow.LGBT – Mike Pence,…
WASHINGTON – GLSEN’s Director of Public Policy, Nathan Smith, thanked the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for its leadership and work to protect and ensure the success of all students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students (LGBTQ), upon Thursday’s release of OCR’s Fiscal Year 2016 Report to the…
The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, warned Thursday that e-cigarettes are dangerous, especially for kids. In a new report Dr. Murthy states, “Adolescent years are times of important brain development. Brain development begins during the growth of the fetus in the womb and continues through childhood and to about age 25. Nicotine exposure during…
Thursday, the U.S House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The final version of the legislation did not include a House-passed provision that would have dramatically expanded religious discrimination with taxpayer funds and undermined President Obama’s executive order prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination in federal contracting. The provision —…
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the National Center for Transgender Equality released the findings of the U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of transgender people in the United States. Conducted in 2015, the anonymous, online survey examines the experiences of 27,715 adults from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as three U.S….
SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride announced today that due to the success of this year’s Pride event, they are able to donate $80,000 of their proceeds back to 40 LGBT-serving organizations through their annual Pride Community Grant Program. Each year Pride works to return profits from the annual LGBT Pride weekend to the…
