... 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 ...
Many gay and lesbian service members described living and serving in limbo, knowing there was no longer a ban on them per se, but that their careers would still be at risk if they were found out. That began to change on Dec. 22, 2010.
... People who take kids as foster parents aren't often willing to take teenagers in general. And then, you know, you say, well, they're LGBTQ on top of that and they really don't want to deal with it. They frequently wind up in residential treatment centers or group ...
“It is my hope that a young LGBTQ kid here in Delaware or really anywhere in this country can look at the results and know that our democracy is big enough for them, too,” McBride said as her victory was confirmed Tuesday night. McBride interned at the White House ...
... decision, as was deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, whose judicial philosophy Barrett has said mirrors her own. Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group that opposes Barrett’s confirmation, said his group fears “a far-right Supreme Court that could undermine the rights of marginalized communities ...
... and have a certain disdain for trans and queer people," said Tori Cooper of the Human Rights Campaign, a national organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community. Cooper is the director of community engagement for the organization's Transgender Justice Initiative. A survey of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teens ...
... spoken in the employee's defense and a state prosecutor is suing the IKEA manager who fired him. Brudzinski also waded into the debate about LGBTQ rights in the summer, saying on Twitter that “Poland without LGBT is most beautiful.” His tweet included an image of Jesus and eggs in ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Soraya Santiago, the first openly trans person to run for office in Puerto Rico and a longtime icon for the U.S. territory’s LGBTQ community, died Tuesday. She was 73. Santiago died of cancer at her home in the north coastal city of Carolina ...
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