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President Clinton used a recess appointment to make him ambassador to Luxembourg after anti-LGBTQ resistance in the U.S. Senate; Hormel was a significant contributor to Victory Institute’s public leadership work. James Hormel, a renowned philanthropist and the first...

HHS Office for Civil Rights to Enforce Prohibitions on Sex Discrimination in Line with Supreme Court Decision WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that the Office for Civil Rights will interpret and enforce Section...

SALT LAKE CITY - On Thursday, May 6, the Utah Supreme Court ruled today In Re Gray and Rice (20170046) 2021 UT 13, and confirmed the right of transgender Utahns to change the name and gender marker on their birth...

Today LGBTQ Victory Institute called on President-elect Joe Biden to appoint at least one out LGBTQ person to a Senate-confirmed Cabinet position and said it will provide the transition team with a list of qualified LGBTQ leaders ready to serve....

On Wednesday, the Human Rights Campaign released the following statement ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that considers whether taxpayer-funded foster care agencies can discriminate against LGBTQ people. “Today’s oral arguments...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case about whether or not taxpayer-funded foster care agencies have a constitutional right to discriminate based on the agency’s religious requirements. Catholic Social Services...

Sigourney Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in the Emmy Award-nominated and GLAAD Award-winning movie Prayers for Bobby LOS ANGELES, Ca.—Mary Griffith, iconic crusader for LGBTQ equality, passed away after a lengthy illness on Friday, February 7, 2020 at her home...

NEON rolls out in February during Black History month, and will continue to produce content throughout the year. GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today launched NEON, an ongoing digital content series...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - At an event hosted by the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Alphonso David, on Tuesday, announced that a record 686 of America’s leading...

Troubling federal data shows that of the 7,120 hate crime incidents reported in 2018, more than 1,300 — or nearly 19 percent — stemmed from anti-LGBTQ bias, according to the FBI’s latest Hate Crime Statistics report. “Bias-motivated crimes are a...

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today announced the findings of its annual Where We Are on TV report. Where We Are on TV analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has proposed a federal regulation that critics say will allow adoption and foster care agencies to receive federal grants, even if they choose to reject LGBTQ couples as potential parents for religious reasons. “The...

“…LGBTQ employees have been punished simply for not conforming to the employers’ sex-based stereotypes about how they should behave or who they should be attracted to. The Court has the opportunity to set the record straight and it’s time.” October 8,...

The organizations partnered to submit an Amicus Curiae Brief in cases that could take away federal protections for transgender and gay, lesbian and bisexual people WASHINGTON, D.C. —  Today Family Equality, The Trevor Project, and PFLAG National submitted...

As anti-choice politicians and the Trump administration wage an all-out assault on reproductive freedom in states from Alabama to Ohio to Louisiana, bright spots shined through this past week in Nevada and Illinois. Bucking the trend of states attacking reproductive...

A bipartisan ­majority of the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination throughout daily life. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday, passed The Equality Act (H.R. 5,) by a 236-173 margin. This vote...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Monday, The Washington Blade was the first to break the news of President Donald J. Trump's opposition to the Equality Act, which is expected to be voted on in the U.S. House on Friday. According...

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced, on Wednesday, that more than 200 of the nation’s leading businesses have now joined HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act. With a combined operation in all 50 states, headquarters in 29 states,...

The U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, announced it has agreed to take up a set of potentially game-changing cases involving LGBTQ rights and the rights of transgender people in the workplace, Politico reports. The justices will consider whether existing federal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and SAGE, the world's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of...