Category: LGBTQIA+

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Over 60 mayors who represent more than 21 million constituents joined the National Center for Transgender Equality in submitting a public comment and letter opposing a proposed federal rule attempting to undermine the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Equal Access Rule, which ensures protections for transgender people seeking federal housing and safe shelter. Powered […]

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Our country deserves better. Powered by WPeMatico

The seat held by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg must not be filled until after a new Senate and possibly a new President is seated in January 2021. Powered by WPeMatico

Today, the United States lost an irreplaceable giant. Powered by WPeMatico

The National Center for Transgender Equality, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, GLSEN, and more than 235 civil rights and education organizations today called for an end to discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, educators, faculty, and staff. Highlighting the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Powered by WPeMatico

Today, Lambda Legal and the Modern Military Association of America (MMAA) asked a federal district court to bar the Trump Administration and the Pentagon from discriminating against people living with HIV by denying them the opportunity to enlist, deploy, or commission as an officer. Powered by WPeMatico

A federal district judge today adopted the recommendation of a magistrate judge and struck down as unconstitutional the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) categorical denial of survivor’s benefits to surviving same-sex partners who were barred from marrying due to discriminatory state marriage bans. Powered by WPeMatico

Henry van Ameringen, a philanthropic giant and early supporter of LGBTQ equality, passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Powered by WPeMatico

The new shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees is teeming with anti-LGBT extremists and dangerous ideologues. Powered by WPeMatico