Alphonso David

As HRC’s former president fights to salvage his reputation and prove he was treated differently because he is Black, activists and former employees tell LGBTQ Nation the inside story.

“We can’t apply transparency only to white people,” David told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart.

David was fired for allegedly working to discredit a sexual harassment accuser of New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo.

David says some in his own organization want him to leave, without the release of a report on his conduct alongside his former boss, Andrew Cuomo, because they now consider him a “distraction.”

Alphonso David claims that his former boss and co-workers “tried to use me,” but the Human Rights Campaign is now investigating to determine his future.

Alphonso David called on his former boss New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign this week, but now there are calls for David to step down too.

One trans student avoids drinking water at school to avoid the bathroom entirely and then runs home. The lawsuit says that’s denying him equal educational opportunities.

A religious exemption that could allow health care professionals and insurers to refuse care was inserted into an over 2000-page bill signed this past week. LGBTQ and women’s rights advocates are sounding the alarm.

There still remains a risk the legislature could decide to circumvent Edwards’s veto, but doing so would be historic.

The President is ordering all of the federal government to commit to advancing “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.”