Late yesterday, Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., announced thated that he, along with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., were introducing the Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act – legislation that would amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit banks, credit card companies, retailers and other entities from discriminating in the provision of credit based on sexual orientation or gender [...]
In a deeply disappointing decision, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) formally stated today that it will not provide spousal benefits to the same-sex spouse of an employee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. (The Advocate reported about the announcement this afternoon, and the full statement from OPM is available [...]
If you’re headed out shopping this weekend, don’t forget to take HRC’s Buyer’s Guide with you. The handy guide rates hundreds of popular American brands on their businesses’ treatment of LGBT employees. “Buying for Equality 2010†divides businesses and their consumer products into red, yellow and green categories based on their score on the HRC [...]
Yesterday, three guests from Puerto Rico who are working hard there to make life better for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Puerto Ricans came to HRC to discuss ways we could work together to make change. Guillermo Mena was the first openly gay President of the Student Government at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio [...]
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