TORONTO – Egale Canada, a trust that works to improve the lives of LGBTQI2S people in Canada, has announced that, following a successful and revealing first national school climate survey, it will be partnering once again with Dr. Catherine Taylor and Dr. Tracey Peter to do a second national inquiry on the state of homophobia, transphobia…
Today, President Trump continued his attack on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by signing a new executive order which undermines state regulations and ACA protections. Trump’s new executive order could open loopholes that draw younger and healthier people to bare-bones plans, destabilizing the marketplace, inflating costs for ACA participants and undermining protections for people with…
In celebration of today’s National Coming Out Day, Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox and Star Trek: Discovery’s Wilson Cruz sat down for a candid conversation sharing the struggles and the joys of their coming out stories. The video is the first in a series of stories from a new partnership between Barefoot Wine…
NMAC’s second annual Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit will come to the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Dec. 4-5. The Summit brings together hundreds of HIV advocates and experts from health departments, community based organizations, industry, and health care providers around the country to learn how to best incorporate biomedical HIV prevention resources into their plans. Registration…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced a “friend of the court” brief signed by 76 major U.S. companies supporting Jameka Evans, Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, in her efforts to ask the Supreme Court of the United States to hear her case. Evans was was harassed in the workplace and fired…
Today is the 29th annual National Coming Out Day (NCOD) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is celebrating with the release of a powerful new video highlighting the inspiring coming out stories of fifteen prominent celebrities and activists — including actress Sara Ramirez, Jay-Z’s mom Gloria Carter and WNBA star Sue Bird. HRC is also…
LOS ANGELES, Calif.– The TransNation Film Festival, presented by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a community health center in Los Angeles that serves one of the largest populations of transgender patients in the country will run Oct. 13-15 at the Silent Movie Theater in West Hollywood (611 N. Fairfax). Hosted by Zackary Drucker…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 100 Members of Congress wrote to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis asking him to provide any “discussions or correspondence between the White House and the Pentagon” that purportedly informed President Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from serving in the military. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal…
JACKSON, Miss. — Today, HB 1523 is set to go into effect in the state of Mississippi, granting Mississippians the ability to use so-called “religious exemptions” to legally deny LGBTQ people employment, housing, adoption rights, marriage licenses, and even services at a local business. This follows Department of Justice guidance released last Friday which is…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) today announced new funding initiatives to increase advocacy and service delivery for people living with and at-risk for HIV and hepatitis C. In the U.S., EJAF will be launching a new funding initiative to address HIV in Black gay men and transgender individuals, building on…
