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Human Rights Campaign

Marriage

Op-Ed: My Supreme Court Marriage Rally Transphobic Experience From Hell

by Guest Author ● 6:00 PM April 8, 2013
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Openly identified transman Bryan Ellicott became a target of several HRC staffers who asked him to remove the trans flag he was holding near the rally stage. Ellicott’s essay painfully outlines the deep animus broadly directed toward transgender people in America.

Gay Agenda

On Our Radar – LGBT Legal Groups Sacrifice Three-Year-Old Jacob For A More Favorable Venue

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 9:09 AM March 10, 2013
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As the special needs son of a lesbian couple, three-year-old Jacob’s rights should have been championed by the LGBT legal organizations. Instead, they sabotaged the lawsuit that would have granted him two legal parents. Today, the decision to sacrifice Jacob in the hopes of a more favorable venue, is On Our Radar.

Discrimination

One In Seven Fortune 500 Companies Gave To The Boy Scouts

by Andy Birkey At The American Independent ● 2:47 PM March 4, 2013
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One in seven Fortune 500 corporations each donated at least $10,000 to the Boy Scouts of America in 2010 despite the organization’s longtime ban of gays and lesbians.

ENDA

Mr. President, Sign ENDA Executive Order; Call On Congress To Pass ENDA

by Tanya Domi ● 8:00 PM February 12, 2013
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GetEQUAL LGBT activists have been pressuring President Obama to sign an executive order extending non-discrimination for LGBT workers employed by federal contracts.

Analysis

Where Are The Women, President Obama?

by Tanya Domi ● 9:26 AM January 12, 2013
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Dust-up in D.C. as Hillary Clinton prepares to step down, to be replaced by John Kerry, leaving a national security team to be composed of all white males that would make even Ronald Reagan happy

News

2012 In Review: Obama Coalition Enshrines Liberals As America’s New Moral Majority

by David Badash ● 12:23 PM December 29, 2012
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2012 was a watershed year that historians — and all Americans — will look to as the moment reborn Democratic politics won the nation, and liberals and progressives became enshrined as the voice of America’s new moral majority.

DOMA

LGBT Orgs To Congress: Stop ‘Harming LGBT People’ By Spending Taxpayer Dollars To Defend DOMA

by David Badash ● 11:42 AM December 18, 2012
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LGBT organizations have sent a letter to top Republican lawmakers in the House demanding they stop “harming LGBT people” by spending taxpayer dollars defending DOMA.

Hate Crimes

HRC Urges FBI To Investigate Beating Of Alabama Lesbian As Hate Crime

by David Badash ● 4:51 PM November 27, 2012
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HRC is asking the FBI to investigate as a hate crime the Thanksgiving severe beating of Mallory Owens, a lesbian whose girlfriend’s brother allegedly beat her.

Bigotry Watch

Pro-LGBT Catholic Group Petitions Knights Of Columbus To Stop Funding Anti-Gay Hate

by David Badash ● 2:29 PM November 20, 2012
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Catholics United today is protesting at the Knights of Columbus offices and handing the KoC 5000 signed petitions demanding they stop funding anti-gay hate.

Marriage

Gay Marriage: What Are The 7 States Advocates Believe They Can Now Win?

by David Badash ● 1:04 PM November 20, 2012
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Advocates now believe marriage could be extended to same-sex couples in Oregon, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Colorado, Hawaii and New Jersey after recent wins.

Marriage

Just Two Of America’s 300 Million People Are Funding Almost All Of NOM’s Hate

by David Badash ● 11:52 AM November 17, 2012
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Out of 308,745,538 Americans, 75% of the National Organization For Marriage’s funding came from just two of those donors, and NOM’s funding dropped dramatically.

Marriage

Gay Marriage Opponents Spent $11.3 Million In Four States — And Lost

by David Badash ● 12:37 PM November 15, 2012
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Opponents of same-sex marriage spent at least $11.3 million to fight ballot measures on LGBT equality in four states this year, and lost every single battle.

News

LGBT Orgs Pushing Obama For Federal ENDA Executive Order He Refused

by David Badash ● 10:27 AM November 12, 2012
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LGBT organizations will push Obama to sign an executive order banning the federal government from discriminating against LGBT people — a federal ENDA — again.

Civil Rights

What America’s Top LGBT Leaders Think Obama Must Do Next

by David Badash ● 2:45 PM November 10, 2012
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10 LGBT leaders answer the question: What should President Obama do next in his second term to move the civil rights of people in the LGBT community “forward”?

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