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GOP Rep wants to cut HIV housing funding because “we gotta cut something”
He complained that the funding is only for people living with HIV and not other diseases.
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Christian college’s lawsuit about transgender student housing
The college was trying to overturn a rule that said schools can’t discriminate against transgender students.
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Biden administration will investigate claims of anti-LGBTQ housing discrimination
It’s illegal to kick someone out of their apartment because they’re LGBTQ.
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The Trump administration is erasing transgender people from government websites
While multiple references to the LGBTQ community have disappeared, trans people are specifically being erased entirely.
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The Equality Act passed an important House committee. Every Republican voted against it.
Republicans tried to stall by making a clerk read the entire bill aloud. Twice.
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A lesbian who was brutally harassed in her home just won a landmark court case
“I look out the window, I’ve got a cemetery out there. That’s when I’ll stop being made fun of because I’m gay.”
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Ben Carson strips anti-discrimination language from HUD statement
Are they making room to allow for anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing?
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Everything you need to know about our world right now in under 4 minutes
From Colorado to Chechnya, Matt Baume’s got you covered with this week’s debrief.
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HUD: Same-sex couples often face discrimination in housing rentals
WASHINGTON – Same-sex couples experience unequal treatment more often than heterosexual couples when responding to internet ads for rental units, and findings show that gay male couples experience more discrimination than lesbian couples, according to a groundbreaking study released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Kerry, Nadler introduce bills targeting LGBT discrimination in housing, credit
Legislation was introduced on Thursday in both chambers of Congress that would amend existing federal law to protect LGBT people in the housing and credit markets. The legislation, which was introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the House and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the Senate, is known as the Housing Opportunities Made Equal […]