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GLAAD Calls Attention to Trump’s Inaction on Global Anti-LGBTQ Human Rights Abuses

GLAAD has condemned Trump for his inaction on anti-LGBTQ state violence in Egypt, Chechnya, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Azerbaijan as he takes the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “As Trump addresses a room of global changemakers, his unconscionable inaction on the growing epidemic of anti-LGBTQ violence  around the world must not be ignored,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “GLAAD has been on the ground in Davos, calling attention to the erosion of LGBTQ acceptance under President Trump’s watch and vowing that we will not be silent while the Present stands idly by in […]

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Hundreds of LGBT Military Families to Gather in Washington, DC

Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) announced that industry giants and military family champions Comcast NBCUniversal and USAA will be joint presenting sponsors of the 5th Annual AMPA National Gala — the nation’s largest LGBT military event of the year — held on Saturday, May 12, 2018, at the Washington Hilton. Attended by hundreds of LGBT service members, military spouses, veterans, and allies from across the country and around the world, the event honors modern military families for their service and sacrifice to our nation. “Ask anyone who has been, and they’ll tell you the AMPA National Gala is an inspiring evening […]

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ConnXus Partners with National LGBT Chamber of Commerce to Increase Inclusive Procurement Efforts

ConnXus has announced its corporate partnership with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), accelerating the supplier management company’s mission to open inclusive procurement opportunities to diverse businesses. NGLCC is the nation’s exclusive certifying body for LGBT owned and operated businesses. LGBT business owners make up a significant part of the American business landscape, contributing an estimated $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy. Since its inception in 2010, ConnXus has become a reliable source for over 1.8 million certified suppliers in their database seeking inclusive business opportunities. Justin G. Nelson, NGLCC president and co-founder looks to ConnXus as a strategic […]

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HRC: Congress Must Find Agreement that Funds Crucial Priorities, Protects Dreamers

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) issued the following statement on the Senate’s short term deal to reopen the government while continuing to negotiate overall funding levels including parity between defense and domestic discretionary programs to ensure funding for HIV/AIDS, opioid programs and other key programs,  protections for DACA recipients, disaster relief and other important priorities: “The fight continues. We need to keep our eye on the ball. We have a short amount of time to ensure our elected leaders protect vulnerable Americans, including kids who need health care, seniors, troops and hundreds of thousands of Dreamers, including 75,000 LGBTQ […]

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Lambda Legal: Senate GOP Leaders Attempting to Jam Through Anti-civil Rights Judicial Nominees

This week, under the shadow of a looming government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a slate of 17 of Trump’s judicial nominees, along with a number of other controversial executive branch nominees. Among the group of judicial nominees on the agenda for tomorrow are five men who have spent their careers working to undermine civil rights, especially for LGBT Americans: Kyle Duncan to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Supreme Court “short-lister” David Stras to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; Matthew Kacsmaryk to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas; Thomas Farr to […]

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EJAF Awards $1.6 Million to Programs Advancing the Health and Human Rights of People Affected by HIV/AIDS

The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), a leader in the global effort to end AIDS, today announced nearly $1.6 million in grants awarded in December 2017 to 26 organizations addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in critical and innovative ways. This final grant cycle brings EJAF’s total investments for 2017 to almost $9.5 million, and builds on the Foundation’s ongoing strategy to strengthen organizations doing essential work at local and national levels throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. “The Elton John AIDS Foundation remains deeply committed to supporting organizations working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic,” said EJAF Chairman David Furnish.  “At a […]

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Equality California 2017 Legislative Scorecard Demonstrates Impact of Advocacy of Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

Equality California’s Legislative Scorecard for 2017, rates lawmakers in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C. on how they voted on Equality California’s highest priority legislation. “For the first time ever, our scorecard shows the strength of our advocacy not only in the California Legislature, but also in Congress,” said Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality California. “We aren’t allowing the threats of the Trump Administration to go unanswered and will use these scores to educate our community about legislators’ stances on LGBTQ issues and hold them accountable for their votes in the upcoming 2018 elections. Despite the barriers we face, particularly in […]

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New Project Makes Historic LGBT Newspaper Available Online

An initiative to put the full contents of the longest-running continuously published LGBT weekly in the United States online has reached its first milestone with the posting of five years of historic back issues. The GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco has been working for a year to digitize the Bay Area Reporter, founded in 1971. The newspaper’s own website offers articles published since 2005, but earlier issues of the publication had previously been available only at the society’s archives or via microfilm in a handful of research libraries. “The Bay Area Reporter is an exceptional resource for historians, students, […]

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Sonoma County Supervisors Commit Funds to Combat Rive Area Homelessness Issues

Sonoma County supervisors last week approved $450,000 for projects targeting homelessness on the lower Russian River where a growing number of people have been living on the streets and in roadside encampments in recent years. The projects are part of a community effort to alleviate homelessness and its impacts, with the stated goal of placing 50 people from the area into permanent, stable housing by January 2019.  The approved plans do not include housing-stock additions, in part because of the disqualification of a proposal that included construction of 20 tiny homes. Its rejection by the Community Development Commission leaves an […]

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State Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex Parenting Case That Tests Scope Of Marriage Equality

The Supreme Court of Hawai’i today heard oral argument in the case of C.C. v. D.D., in which Lambda Legal is urging the Court to uphold a lower court ruling that, just like different-sex spouses, same-sex spouses must be treated as the presumed parents of children born during their marriage, with equal rights and equal responsibilities, including legal parentage and child support. The case involves a dispute between a married same-sex couple regarding whether the non-biological mother, C.C., is a legal parent to their child and thus responsible for paying child support. Lambda Legal is representing the biological mother, D.D., […]

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