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May 18, 2023 | HRC Staff

Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Equidad CL Recognizes 57 Employers in Chile For Their Commitment to LGBTI+ Inclusion

Fifth Annual Survey Continues Trend of Higher Participation; Impacts Over 315,000 Employees in Chile

May 17, 2023 | HRC Staff

All In For Equality Coalition Statement on Harassment and Threats Against LGBTQIA+ Texans

Houston, Texas — Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. However, in Texas, the day is being observed with a barrage of attacks on the safety of trans…

May 17, 2023 | HRC Staff

Parents File for an Emergency Order to Block SB 254 as Governor DeSantis Signs Discriminatory Law Criminalizing Transgender Healthcare

Florida families have added a challenge to SB 254 to their pending lawsuit against the bans issued by the state’s Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, and are seeking an…

May 17, 2023 | HRC Staff

ICYMI: Arizona Legislature Passes Two Discriminatory Education Bill Targeting LGBTQ+ Youth

Phoenix, Arizona – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, denounces Arizona legislators for passing two hateful anti-LGBTQ+…

May 17, 2023 | HRC Staff

Gov. DeSantis Signs Slate of Extreme Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills, Enacting a Record-Shattering Number of Discriminatory Measures Into Law

Florida is enacting a record six expressly anti-LGBTQ+ laws this year, more than the last seven years combined

May 17, 2023 | Kathryn Smith

Human Rights Campaign Honors International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) by Highlighting Impacts of Global Small Grants Program

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, is commemorating International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) by…

May 16, 2023 | HRC Staff

BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign Condemns the Louisiana House for Advancing Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth

Baton
Rouge, Louisiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign
(HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
(LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, condemns the Louisiana House for passing
House…

May 16, 2023 | Cullen Peele

Weekly Roundup of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation Advancing In States Across the Country

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As extremist lawmakers in state houses across the country continue advancing a record-breaking number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in state legislatures, the Human Rights Campaign — the nation’s…

May 12, 2023 | HRC Staff

All In For Equality Coalition Statement on Critical Health Care Ban for Transgender Youth Advancing in House

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House voted today to advance Senate Bill 14, which will ban evidence-based, life-saving health care for transgender adolescents in Texas.
S.B. 14 bans puberty blockers…

May 11, 2023 | Cullen Peele

HRC on Passage of so-called “Secure the Border” Act: “Members of the House Majority Will Sacrifice Everything, Including our Country’s Values, to Prove their Xenophobia and Indifference to LGBTQ+ Lives”

WASHINGTON – Today, the anti-equality majority in the U.S. House narrowly advanced HR 2, the so-called “Secure the Border” Act, a Republican-led bill designed to limit entry opportunities for asylum…