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Lawmakers Introduce LGBT Anti-discrimination Bill

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), and more than 200 other members of Congress today introduced the Equality Act, a comprehensive federal bill that prohibits discrimination against LGBT people and women. In addition to providing explicit nondiscrimination protections to LGBT people, the Equality Act fills gaps in our nation’s civil rights laws for women and people of color. Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student whose lawsuit against his school board over its refusal to allow him to use the boys’ restroom helped bring the fight for transgender rights to the national stage, had the following reaction: “I […]

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SAGE: Trump Administration Erasing LGBT Elders From National Aging Survey

SAGE is launching a 30-day campaign to tell the Trump administration that LGBT elders MUST NOT be erased from an important national survey on aging. We need you to help amplify their message. The backstory: The National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants is used to determine what services will be provided to older Americans in need. Trump wants the survey to stop gathering information about LGBT elders. If they aren’t represented, their needs won’t be met. It’s a first step in erasing the LGBT community from the American map. So many of our LGBTQ seniors survived the AIDS epidemic. They don’t deserve […]

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HRC Launches Timeline of Trump’s Unprecedented Attacks on LGBTQ Community

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) launched a Web site — HRC.org/Trump — chronicling the Trump Administration’s unprecedented attacks against the LGBTQ community. The timeline, which will continue to be updated, spotlights efforts to undermine the LGBTQ community from rescinding guidelines protecting transgender students, to appointing Jeff Sessions to the nation’s highest law enforcement post, to threatening a “license to discriminate” Executive Order and erasing LGBTQ people in federal data gathering — as well as how the community is fighting back. “Since the moment he walked into the Oval Office, Donald Trump has attacked our progress and undermined the rights […]

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UNAIDS Welcomes Passage of India’s Landmark HIV Legislation

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed a new law passed by the Indian Parliament providing strong legal protection against HIV-related discrimination. The law provides a broad legislative framework for the response to HIV in India and is the first national HIV law in South Asia. The legislation prohibits discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV in a range of settings, including employment, education, housing and health care, as well as with regard to the holding of public or private office, access to insurance and freedom of movement. It also bans unfair treatment of people […]

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Victory Fund Endorses Eight LGBTQ Candidates; Danica Roem Could Make History

  Danica Roem Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, endorsed eight candidates in state and local races. Danica Roem, running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, received a spotlight endorsement, and would become the first state legislator to win as an openly transgender candidate if elected. “We have a groundbreaking opportunity to make Danica Roem the first state legislator to win as an out trans candidate – and we are determined to help her to a primary victory this May,” said Aisha C. Moodie-Mills, President & CEO at Victory […]

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Lawmakers Highlight Disastrous Impact Trump’s Wall Will Have on California Economy

California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) and Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) held a press conference Thursday to highlight the disastrous impact building another wall along the US-Mexico border will have on California’s economy, environment and people. The lawmakers spoke as the California Legislature prepares to debate two bills that oppose Trump’s border wall, which could cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. “Trump’s ‘big, beautiful wall’ will be a multi-billion-dollar blight dragging down California’s economy, hurting our environment and dividing our communities,” said Sen. Lara. “With Senate Bill 30, we are asking companies to take taxpayers’ side against […]

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$200,000 gift boosts scholarships for LGBT and Critical Gender Studies students at UC San Diego

  David Gubser with his partner, Richard Lieboff. It was time to give back, he decided. As David Gubser started to revise his will, he began to think of the causes that meant most to him. In the wake of the hate-based shootings that occurred last year at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub with a largely gay clientele, Gubser resolved to offer support to local LGBT programs. Among his plans, he established a $200,000 endowment through his estate that will support scholarships for LGBT students as well as Critical Gender Studies majors at UC San Diego. “We are inspired by Mr. […]

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Why is Fort Lauderdale’s Mayor Hosting an Anti-LGBTQ Prayer Breakfast?

Jack Seiler, mayor of Fort Lauderdale, one of the most highly LGBTQ-populated cities in the world, is hosting a prayer breakfast led by one of the nation’s leading anti-gay activists. Jim Daly, president of Focus On The Family, will lead the 55th Annual Fort Lauderdale Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, on April 28, 2017. Focus On The Family donates money directly to campaigns that battle LGBTQ equality and also to campaigns to elect anti-gay political officials. Focus On The Family also advocates for “conversion therapy,” including sponsoring the Love Won Out campaign, a traveling conference advocating “reparative therapy.” Love Won Out has since closed, […]

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Nicole Murray Ramirez Elected as a National Co-chair for National March for Equality

  Nicole Murray Ramirez San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez has been elected as a national co-chair of the upcoming National March for Equality set for June 11 in Washington, D.C. Commissioner Ramirez, who has been a Latino gay activist now for almost half a century, holds the distinction of being the only gay activist to be elected to all six of the LGBT marches on Washington. The first march was held in 1979 and the last one in 2009. Ramirez has also served as a national co-chair of three national marches as well as an elected national chair […]

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LGBTQI Elder Information and Assistance Program Launches

The second year of local programs to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors has started, including the launch of the LGBTQI Elder Information & Assistance Program to increase elders’ access to social services for the healthy aging. (LGBTQI = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex.) “We have partnered with Sebastopol Area Senior Center to provide a county-wide LGBTQI specific information and assistance service that will encourage LGBTQI seniors to feel comfortable in identifying their needs and accessing services,” according to Adult & Aging Division Interim Director Gary Fontenot. Because of experiences of discrimination, LGBT seniors are […]

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