Tag: anti-LGBT
Speaker Boehner Should Remove Hateful Anti-LGBT Lawmaker From Leadership of Finance Committee
Representative Garrett refuses to clarify why he is opposed to LGBT people serving in Congress.
Anti-LGBT So-Called “FADA” Would Have Dangerous and Far-Reaching Consequences
Being pushed by anti-LGBT extremists on the far right, intended and unintended consequences of the legislation range from blatant taxpayer-funded discrimination to frivolous lawsuits.
Rep. Scott Garrett Shocks Committee With Anti-LGBT Bigotry
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, responded to Representative Scott Garrett’s (R-NJ) hateful anti-LGBT objections to supporting his party’s congressional campaign committee because, according to Politico, it “actively recruited gay candidates and supported homosexuals in primaries.”
Indiana’s Expensive PR Contract To Fix Anti-LGBT RFRA Damage Cancelled
Last Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, responded to news that the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) cancelled the expensive public relations contract it had signed to help repair the tremendous damage caused when Governor Mike Pence signed the anti-LGBT so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law.
Turkish Government Must Respect and Protect LGBTI People’s Right to Peaceful Assembly
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today condemned the Turkish government’s use of pepper spray, water cannons, and rubber bullets to stop the 13th Istanbul lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Pride Parade, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 28.
Jury Finds That Anti-LGBT Conversion Therapy Is Fraud
Today, in Michael Ferguson v. JONAH – a case brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center in New Jersey Superior Court against practitioners of so-called “conversion therapy” – the jury found that the defendants providing this dangerous and discredited anti-LGBT practice are guilty of fraud under New Jersey’s consumer protection laws.