TRANS RIGHTS POST-SOTU: TEXAS COURT, HHS AND ADVOCATES RESPOND

by Jenny Huh | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Living, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – A day after President Biden’s State of the Union, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents for providing gender-affirming health care to...

Supreme Court To Decide If Web Designer Can Refuse Service For Same-Sex Weddings

by Maia Pandey | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal concerning a Colorado website designer’s refusal to create same-sex wedding websites. The web designer, Lorie Smith, said that while she is willing to serve LGBTQ+ customers, she refuses to design...

HRC: Corporate Support for LGBTQ+ Workplace Equality Continues to Rise

by Ellisya Lindsey | Jan 27, 2022 | Business, Featured

WASHINGTON — A record-number of corporations participated in the Human Rights Campaign’s 20th annual workplace equality survey, the organization announced on Thursday.  “We are never going to reach a destination but will always be on a path of continuously improving...

IN ABSENCE OF FEDERAL LAW AGAINST LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION, OPENLY LGBTQ MAYORS ADVOCATE FOR COMMUNITIES IN DIFFERENT WAYS

by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics

In 2009, Carrboro, North Carolina Alderman Lydia Lavelle asked the state legislature for permission to include LGBTQ people in Carrboro’s laws banning housing discrimination. Lawmakers said no. North Carolina’s statewide anti-discrimination law does not include...

Infographic: LGBT communities see recent wins and losses globally

by Mary Kate Hayes | Feb 25, 2014 | Living

  LGBT activists and journalists led a panel Tuesday to discuss oppression of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the United States and internationally. “We’re the new civil rights movement,” said Mandy Carter, vice president of...