Tag: Chris Sgro
Additional Companies Call for Repeal of HB 2, Despite NC Gov McCrory’s Executive Order
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, and Equality NC, the state organisation working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBT North Carolinians, announced that executives from the American Express Company, AXA Financial Inc., Bloomberg L.P. ,Capital One, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, Campbell Soup Company, CohnReznick LLP, CrowdRise, eMaint Enterprises, LLC, Ernst & Young LLP, the Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., John Hancock Financial, Kohler Co., Logitech, Plum Organics, RBC Capital Markets, REI, Strava Inc., The Hartford, Time Warner Cable, United Airlines, Visa Inc. and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. have signed onto an open letter that now includes more than 160 leading CEOs and business leaders urging Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal the radical provisions in the deeply discriminatory law that was rammed through the legislature on March 23rd. These companies are continuing their support after Governor McCrory announced an executive order that does nothing to fix the discriminatory provisions signed into law through HB 2.
Watch LGBT Advocates Insist Governor McCrory Meet With Transgender North Carolinians
New video shows HRC President Chad Griffin insisting that Governor McCrory’s chief of staff allow transgender North Carolinians to meet with the governor.
More Than 100 Major CEOs & Business Leaders Urge North Carolina To Repeal Anti-LGBT Law
Letter from major business leaders across the country to be delivered by HRC President Chad Griffin and Equality NC Executive Director Chris Sgro this morning to NC Governor Pat McCrory urging him and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal the radical provisions of discriminatory HB 2 in upcoming legislative session.
Bank of America, American Airlines, Cisco, Miramax, & Uber Join List Demanding Repeal of NC HB 2
Leaders from major corporations continue to join the growing chorus of business voices from across the country speaking out and calling on NC Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal radical provisions of discriminatory HB 2 in upcoming legislative session.
Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Challenging North Carolina’s Sweeping Anti-LGBT Law
Today, Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, HB 2. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Attorney General Roy Cooper, and the University of North Carolina, is on behalf of two transgender North Carolinians, Joaquín Carcaño, a UNC-Chapel Hill employee, and Payton McGarry, a UNC-Greensboro student, and Angela Gilmore, a lesbian and North Carolina Central University law professor.
Gov. McCrory and Legislature Begin Costly Special Session to Overturn LGBT Equality Measure
At $42,000 a day, anti-LGBT NC Gov. Pat McCrory and conservative state lawmakers are hell-bent on burning tax dollars and stripping local control from Charlotte’s elected leaders.