HRC applauds the Arizona legislature for repealing this damaging ban on LGBTQ-inclusive education in our public schools and thanks the LGBTQ Caucus for its leadership in ensuring a bipartisan solution.
For HRC Foundation’s HIV and Health Equity Director J. Maurice McCants-Pearsall, community engagement is the foundation of the work to end HIV.
Massachusetts is the 16th state in the U.S. to protect youth from this egregious practice.
Check out some wonderful poems by young people who are celebrating love, acceptance and standing up for what is right.
Critically important bill protecting LGBTQ youth from dangerous practice of “conversion therapy” to be signed by nation’s first openly gay Governor.
Five anti-equality bills are scheduled for action in the legislature, and HRC will be watching should more emerge.
This year, to celebrate National Poetry Month, HRC asked young people nationwide to write poems about what equality means to them, and to share them with us -- and you.
HRC reacted to a vote by the Massachusetts Senate to pass bipartisan legislation protecting LGBTQ youth from the dangerous and discredited practice of so-called “conversion therapy.”
Puerto Rico joins 15 states and Washington, D.C. in protecting minors from the discredited practice.
The bill now heads to the Massachusetts Senate.
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