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White House: Worker protections will stay, doesn’t rule out religious exemptions
Trump could sign an executive order carving out a religious exemption which would allow for discrimination, while still keeping Obama’s order in place.
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Democratic Convention will include first openly transgender speaker
“I’m honored for this opportunity to share my story and to be the first transgender person to speak at a major party convention.”
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Protesters vow to keep fighting discriminatory Mississippi law
The law, which takes effect July 1, is to allow religious groups and some private businesses to deny services to same-sex couples and transgender people.
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HRC president delivers apology to transgender community for past divides
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin has delivered a public apology to the transgender community for past mistreatment by the HRC, and “for the times that the transgender community has been underrepresented or unrepresented” by his organization. Speaking Friday at the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, one of the nation’s largest conferences for the transgender …
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Driving Rosa Parks: Lessons from Jo Becker’s book, ‘Forcing the Spring’
For all the consternation the book “Forcing the Spring” has caused, Jo Becker’s trespass in portraying American Foundation for Equal Rights founder Chad Griffin as the Rosa Parks in the fight for marriage equality is not much worse than all the many times newspapers, magazines, and even knowledgeable people in the LGBT community have casually pronounced Stonewall as the start of the gay civil rights movement and rioting drag queens as the pioneers. The movement started decades earlier, and its pioneers were people who pushed back against discrimination in many different ways…
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HRC plans three-year LGBT rights campaign in three Deep South states
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization is launching a three-year, $8.5 million campaign to promote LGBT equality and push for new legal protections in three Southern states dominated by conservative politics and religion and known for resistance to change: Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Book ignites media slugfest over history of marriage equality movement
To say there’s been a flurry of discussion around the release of a new book Tuesday on the legal case that challenged California’s Proposition 8 would be an understatement. The book, “Forcing the Spring,” by The New York Times writer Jo Becker, has been thoroughly pilloried by many plugged-in LGBT activists and journalists this week, both publicly and privately.
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Ark. economic development chief backs effort to legalize same-sex marriage
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ top economic development official on Monday called for legalizing gay marriage and said that treating same sex couples equally under the law could make the state a leader in the South and attract new business.
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Participants to history: Plaintiffs depart for historic day at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin and plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, met with reporters earlier this morning, before departing for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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HRC statement: ‘We mourn today’s horrific tragedy’ in Newtown, Conn.
HRC: “The entire HRC family mourns today’s horrific tragedy in Newtown. We extend condolences, thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims as well as to the entire state of Connecticut which is still reeling from this senseless act violence.”