Tag: Emily Hecht-McGowan
Acceptance is Key to Ensuring Transgender Young People Are Safe, Healthy, and Thriving
New Campaign Calls on Parents and Communities to Share Their Stories of Growing to Accept and Support Transgender Youth.
Biden Foundation releases «As You Are» educational acceptance video
As part of its family and community acceptance campaign, «As You Are», and in partnership with the Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work, the Biden Foundation today published an educational animated video about family acceptance for LGBTQ youth.
Family Equality Council Statement on President Obama’s Immigration Announcement
Family Equality Council commends President Obama following tonight’s historic announcement that he will take executive action to protect five million eligible undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally. But the organisation urges further steps by Congress to create long-term solutions to the nation’s immigration crisis.
Family Equality Council Statement on Hobby Lobby Ruling by Supreme Court
Family Equality Council®, the national organisation which connects, supports, and represents the estimated three million parents who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer in the United States and their six million children of all ages, today reacted to the United States Supreme Court Ruling in the Hobby Lobby case.
Same-Sex Married Couples Now Eligible for the Family and Medical Leave Act
Family Equality Council® today praised the U.S. Department of Labor for issuing a proposed rule that makes workers eligible for leave to take care of a same-sex spouse under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), whether or not they live in states that recognize their marriages.