I can safely say this was a year for the record books, and in some ways that we’d never expected. Given the Trump administration and the Paul Ryan (R-WI)/Mitch McConnell (R-KY)-led House and Senate efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, we were in danger of losing so much ground. Read the full article HERE.
December is the month for retrospectives about the year’s most interesting news stories, and my nominee is the tale of the Russian Facebook advertisements, which burned across front pages a few months ago. The ads in question were memes, manufactured and posted to a number of bluntly named… Read the full article HERE.
There’s no denying 2017 has been a bitch of a year. But as it draws to a close, it’s worth acknowledging all the forward momentum we gained. Here are 11 wins the global LGBT community chalked up in 2017. Australia, Germany, and Malta legalized marriage equality. Read the full article HERE.
In the first year of Trump’s tumultuous presidency, many businesses stood on the side of fairness and equality, just as threats to LGBTQ rights mounted. Last March, for example, business leaders pushed North Carolina to revise its discriminatory HB2 legislation, which barred transgender people from using restrooms in government buildings and… Read the full article HERE.
Among the remarkable overreactions to the repeal of net neutrality rules, one of the most bizarre claims asserted that the decision placed LGBT people in harm’s way. I do not pretend to fully understand all the aspects of this topic, but I am certain that how an Internet service provider… Read the full article HERE.
Last week, 127 LGBT organizations and allied groups, including ours, demanded that Congress pass a clean Dream Act before the end of this year. The lives and livelihoods of an estimated 800,000 people, including over 36,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, depend on Congress acting now. Read the full article HERE.
This week marks a key hearing in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could have drastic implications for our LGBTQ residents. The case, which concerns a Colorado bakery that refused to serve a same-sex couple, threatens the very freedoms on which this country was founded… Read the full article HERE.
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