SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- As the decade draws to a close, a new report shows the past 10 years have been a period of dramatic gains in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in America. Two-thirds of the 36 statistical indicators compiled in A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights showed significant advances, including sharp increases in the number of LGBT Americans protected by nondiscrimination and family recognition legislation at the state level. Just over a quarter of the indicators were negative, and two showed mixed results. The report is a joint project of the LGBT Movement Advancement Project and the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr., Fund. The report is available at www.lgbtmap.org.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Shepard Fairey will judge an art contest based on graphic "remixes" of his poster DEFEND EQUALITY LOVE UNITES which he produced by commission from FAIR (Freedom Action Inclusion Rights), a grass-roots organization formed to promote equal rights and combat homophobia. The contest launched over two weeks ago on deviantART.com, the largest community of artists ever assembled. The contest, which challenges deviantART members to re-conceive Shepard's 'Defend Equality Love Unites' image, has exploded since its debut. To date, there is a contentious but organic online dialogue from the deviantART community with comments numbering more than 6,000 individual posts and over 1400 submissions. These numbers make this one of deviantART's most popular contests ever. Full details on the contest can be found at http://news.deviantart.com/article/99837/.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantis Events, Inc., the world's largest company specializing in all-gay and lesbian vacations, is offering guests on the first ever gay cruise to mainland China, South Korea and Japan a special roundtrip airfare of only $399*. These fares are good between any continental U.S. or Canadian city arriving in Shanghai and departing Hong Kong. Customers who book any outside or balcony stateroom by Jan. 12, 2010 can take advantage of this exclusive promotion.
This post on our continuing grassroots efforts toward an inclusive ENDA comes from HRC’s organizer David Turley: I have spent the past week in Oswego, which is about five hours north of New York City in upstate New York and the largest town in NY-23. I first got to know Oswego when I was here two months [...]
Today New York Governor David A. Paterson issued an executive order extending anti-discrimination policies to gender identity for state employees. HRC Associate Director of Diversity Allyson Robinson was on hand and provided the photos from this historic event. Said HRC President Joe Solmonese: “Governor Paterson has taken significant action to advance equality for all New York state [...]
This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee marked up and passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act. In stark contrast to the lengthy and often contentious consideration of the legislation in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month, the Senate Committee took up and passed the bill in a [...]
Lake Worth commissioners OK $250,000 loan for gay, lesbian center Compass
As the decade draws to a close, a new report shows the past 10 years have been a period of dramatic gains in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in America. Â Two-thirds of the 36 statistical indicators compiled in A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights showed significant advances, including sharp increases in the number of LGBT Americans protected by nondiscrimination and ...
Police in Lancashire say many sexual assaults in the gay, lesbian and transgender community are not reported.
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