With Sweeping New Ruling, Marriage Equality Must Begin in All 50 States
Governors, Attorneys General, and officials everywhere should heed the call of history, begin issuing marriage licenses to loving same-sex couples
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New Poll: As Nation Awaits SCOTUS Verdict on Marriage Equality, Opposition Grows Costly for 2016 Can
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released new polling ahead of an expected ruling in the…
State Department Report Documents LGBT Human Rights Violations
Today HRC lauded the 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for once again including information about the rights of LGBT people worldwide. A compilation of the information from the…
HUGE LEGAL VICTORY: Jury Finds That Anti-LGBT Conversion Therapy Is Fraud
WASHINGTON – Today, in Michael Ferguson v. JONAH – a case brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center in New Jersey Superior Court against practitioners of so-called “conversion therapy” –…
New Study Defies Anti-LGBT Parenting Critics
Findings show kids of same-sex parents no different from those with opposite-sex parents
Kyrgyzstan Passes Draft Anti-LGBT “Propaganda” Bill That’s Worse Than Russia’s Law
Today HRC condemned the vote by the Kyrgyzstan National Assembly to pass new and discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation during its second reading. The legislation passed through an initial reading in October,…
How Can the Obama Administration Advance Fairness & Equality for Transgender Americans?
HRC 2015 Blueprint for Positive Change highlights specific steps the administration should take to improve the lives of transgender people
Judge Rules Proposed California “Sodomite Suppression Act” Is “Patently Unconstitutional”
WASHINGTON – Today, Judge Raymond M. Cadei of the Superior Court of Sacramento County in California, prevented a proposed ballot initiative known as the “Sodomite Suppression Act” from moving forward…
OPM Announces FEHB Healthcare Plans Cannot Have Blanket Exclusions on Transition-Related Care
WASHINGTON – Today, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that Federal Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) providers will no longer be permitted to have blanket exclusions on all transition-related services…
Out of Touch With America? With New Anti-LGBT Marriage Legislation, Congress Must Prove Otherwise
WASHINGTON — This week, anti-equality Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the so-called First Amendment Defense Act (S. 1598, H.R. 2802) – legislation that would create…
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