WASHINGTON – Today the Department of Labor announced the final rule for the federal government incorporating the executive order signed earlier this year by President Obama prohibiting workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees and LGBT employees of federal contractors. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), praised the implementation of the new rule and vowed to continue…
A grand jury voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, The Huffington Post, reported. Pantaleo put 47-year-old Garner into a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on July 17. In a viral video of the arrest, Garner can be seen screaming “I…
This week, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, released the fourth ad in its groundbreaking LGBT public education campaign, All God’s Children. This latest television ad features Blossom Brown, a transgender woman from Greenwood who is pursuing a degree in…
The push to blunt tobacco use across the country is nothing new, but after years of increased restrictions on tobacco use and sales, the number of cigarette smokers in the United States has hovered stubbornly around 20% for the better part of the past decade—with LGBT Americans more than twice as likely to take up…
Last week, Matthew Barela and his friends got together to shoot their own version of a Beyoncé video — Boyoncé, reports the Huffington Post. “We drove upstate with a car full of boys and a dog,” Barela told The Huffington Post in an email. “I’ve been doing short fun vids of my friends for Instagram,…
Cameron Esposito, is back with a new installment of her video series Ask A Lesbian. Buzzfeed asked its readers to send in questions they have about being a lesbian and received over 3,000 responses. Esposito is now digging through those queries and answering a handful of them at a time. In this third video she…
Today, the District of Columbia’s “Conversion Therapy for Minors Prohibition Amendment Act” was passed unanimously and is expected to be signed quickly by the city’s mayor. HRC, in partnership with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, played a lead role in organizing the coalition behind this bill. HRC praised the passage of DC B20-501, and…
A mom in Queensland, Australia has taken out a classified ad to show of support for her son, who just a week ago was a daughter known as Beth. The Courier-Mail reports that in the births section of the newspaper, Yolanda Bogert of Jimboomba placed a light-hearted birth retraction. “In 1995 we announced the arrival…
Director Mischa Kamp’s (Winky’s Horse) critically-acclaimed, award-winning gay romance Boys debuts across all digital platforms including iTunes and WolfeOnDemand beginning Jan. 6, before making its DVD debut Feb. 3 from Wolfe Video. In this beautiful and uplifting drama, two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their…
What a difference a decade makes. In 2004, Poland, a former Soviet bloc country, deeply conservative and deeply Roman Catholic, had just joined the European Union. Bans on gay pride marches were strictly enforced and homosexuality was a cultural taboo that dare not speak its name in public. Fast forward ten years and, as Poland…
