Day: October 13, 2015
Puerto Rico adopts LGBT-friendly uniform policy
Puerto Rico is taking a small and simple step towards LGBT rights and gender equality.
New York Attorney General Answers HRC’s Call, Launches Inquiry Into Turing Pharmaceuticals
Today, at the urging of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the New York attorney general has begun investigating whether Turing Pharmaceuticals, which recently imposed an unconscionable 5000 percent price hike on the life-saving drug Daraprim, may have violated antitrust laws by limiting its distribution. Chad Griffin, President of HRC, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, released the following statement:
Figures reveal a ‘shocking’ rise in homophobic hate crimes
Forces recorded 5,597 hate crimes against gays and lesbians in 2014-15, a rise of 22 per cent
Tom Bosworth: British Olympics hopeful comes out as gay
Race walker Tom Bosworth competed for Great Britain at the World Athletics Championships, is set to feature at the Rio Olympics and is the first athlete on the team to come out as gay.