Alphonso David

HRC’s former president Alphonso David had accused HRC of underpaying, belittling, and firing him for being Black.

She will be the organization’s first Black woman president.

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.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis held a ceremony at a Christian school to sign a bill banning transgender girls from participating in school sports. Happy Pride Month!

A segment on transgender healthcare devolved quickly to focus on people who stop transitioning instead of the actual health care problems trans people face.

Just after Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill to force businesses to warn customers if they allow trans people to use the bathroom, he’s banning health care access for trans youth.

In less than five months, politicians have made attacking the rights of trans people the newest American wedge issue.

Montana has now made it illegal to mention gender identity or sexual orientation in schools unless parents opt-in to it in advance. Montana also became the seventh state to ban trans youth in sports.

A bill passed the Tennessee legislature that would require bathroom facilities that trans people are allowed to use be designated as allowing use by “either biological sex.” It now goes to the governor’s desk.

“We will see West Virginia in court,” the ACLU tweeted as Gov. Jim Justice signed the discriminatory law.

A hate group leader praised the “Big Sky leader” for making Montana the latest state with a law “restoring” religious exemptions to discrimination laws.