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Lawmakers call on HHS to end ban on blood donations from gay, bisexual men
Eighty congressional lawmakers sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, calling for the Department to replace the FDA’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men with a policy based on individual risk factors.
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Biden at Iowa fundraiser: Marriage equality is ‘the civil rights of our day’
Vice-President Joe Biden, speaking at a high profile fundraiser in Iowa on Sunday, took the opportunity to trumpet his own accomplishments, including his support for same-sex marriage that many credit was the catalyst that helped President Barack Obama to finally “evolve” on the issue.
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LGBT-inclusive education reform bill, SNDA introduced in U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced legislation Tuesday to re-authorise the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with language that includes protections for LGBT students.
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Polls: Support grows for workplace protections, marriage equality in Calif.
Support for same-sex marriage has reached a record high in California, while a majority of voters support laws to prohibit anti-gay discrimination, according to various state and national polls released this week.
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Harkin says ENDA ‘will move this year’ in the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Tuesday said that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) “will move this year” in the Senate.
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Nine U.S. senators to Harkin: Time to move on ENDA
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of nine senators is backing the idea of having the Senate panel with jurisdiction over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act advance the legislation to the floor by a committee vote.
