ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anti-equality activists have submitted 8,500 signatures in an attempt to qualify for a ballot measure in Anchorage, Alaska, aimed at gutting protections for transgender residents and visitors in the city’s non-discrimination ordinance. The city clerk must verify that at least 5,753 signatures are from registered Anchorage voters in order for the discriminatory initiative to be placed…
RALEIGH, N.C. – Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal announced they have taken steps to expand the federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law HB 2 to include a challenge to its discriminatory replacement, HB 142, which left many of the harms caused by HB 2…
Canada’s popular comedy, The Switch, is coming to the U.S. via VOD and digital platforms Aug. 15. The world’s first transgender half-hour sitcom, this fun and heart-warming series features a predominantly transgender cast (with all trans roles played by trans actors) as they try to solve whatever crises they encounter – or create. On their…
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown City Council has unanimously passed and Mayor Ed Pawlowski has signed a measure protecting LGBTQ youth from the dangerous and discredited practice of “conversion therapy.” The ordinance prohibits licensed mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with minors within the city and imposes potential business license revocation for violations.. Allentown…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (GLMA), and several other prominent LGBTQ groups announced that they will join Our Lives on the Line’s nationwide day of action July 29 to continue the fight against the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. For the day of…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Last weekend’s San Diego Pride parade and festival had a huge beneficial impact on the city’s economy according to one of its many sponsors, local Southern California law firm Claery and Hammond, LLP. According to the law firm, San Diego Pride, created the largest several-day philanthropic economic event in the city’s history….
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wednesday, the Senate confirmed John K. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Bush’s confirmation is in line with an alarming trend of the Trump-Pence Administration appointing anti-LGBTQ nominees at all levels of government. “Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell should never have advanced this nominee who is clearly…
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against four federal agencies demanding documents from the Trump administration that provide clarity on how the administration plans to implement its ‘religious freedom’ executive order. The ACLU initially filed records requests with the Departments of Health and Human…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), intends to bring up to the Senate next week would result in 32 million fewer Americans having health coverage, health insurance premiums doubling and the insurance market destabilizing over the next 10 years according to a report the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published Wednesday….
GENEVA/PARIS —UNAIDS has released a new report showing that for the first time the scales have tipped: more than half of all people living with HIV (53%) now have access to HIV treatment and AIDS-related deaths have almost halved since 2005. In 2016, 19.5 million of the 36.7 million people living with HIV had access…
