... special diplomatic envoy at the State Department for LGBTQ rights. Her responsibilities will involve ensuring that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect LGBTQ rights around the world. Stern is currently executive director of OutRight Action International, which defends human rights and works to prevent abuses of LGBTQ ...
... sexual orientation or gender identity but does collect data on “same-sex couples.” For years, this data has been all that’s available on the LGBTQ+ community, a severe limitation that omits a number of queer people. Lack of political will has stymied efforts to change national surveys. The other ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday signed into law legislation allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone because of religious or moral objections, a move opponents have said will give providers broad powers to turn away LGBTQ patients and others. The measure says health care workers ...
... links Turkey's ruling party. Police and protesters have clashed several times. The 12 students were detained Thursday after they displayed the flags of the LGBTQ rights movements during a protest. They were denouncing the rector's appointment as well as Erdogan's decision to pull Turkey out of a ...
TOKYO (AP) — Activists submitted a petition with over 106,000 signatures to Japan's ruling party Thursday, calling for an LGBTQ equality law to be enacted before the Tokyo Games, saying Japan as host nation should live up to the Olympic charter banning gender and sexual discrimination. Their action came ...
The Senate judiciary committee held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the Equality Act, a bill that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ people. Watch in the video player above. The legislation is a top priority of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. Yet after winning approval ...
The Supreme Court provided the LGBTQ community with a resounding victory last year in a 6-3 ruling that said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied to LGBTQ workers when it comes to barring discrimination on the basis of sex. Civil rights groups have encouraged Congress to follow up ...
... first priorities. Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon said her home state of Pennsylvania was one of about 30 that doesn't have legal protections for LGBTQ people. She said the Equality Act is needed to end "the patchwork of state laws" around gay rights and create "uniform nationwide protection." "It ...
The advocacy group noted that nearly half of all LGBTQ representation in prime-time scripted cable is seen on just three networks — FX, Freeform and Showtime. It urged other networks to follow their lead. The report also found that nearly one in every five LGBTQ characters is connected to just ...
Ivette Feliciano: I think the conversations that really stick out for me are the ones that I had with activists who were organizing all over the country and all over the world around a range of issues; climate justice, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, during quarantine, when it ...
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