Tag: HRC
New Emails Reveal North Carolina HB 2 Author Compared LGBTQ Advocates to Taliban
After nearly two months, Gov. McCrory, Senator Berger, and Speaker Moore have still not released public records on how and why HB 2 was passed.
HRC Alabama Blasts Disgraced AL Chief Justice Roy Moore Over Latest Stall Tactics
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Alabama blasted disgraced Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for engaging in stall tactics to delay responding to charges by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission that his defiance of federal marriage equality rulings violated judicial ethics rules.
Cyndi Lauper Meets With LGBTQ Youth in Raleigh on Impact of North Carolina’s Discriminatory HB 2
Last Saturday, award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBTQ equality advocate Cyndi Lauper met with LGBTQ youth at the LGBT Center of Raleigh to learn more about their lives, the challenges they face, and the damaging impact of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s deeply discriminatory HB 2 law.
HRC and Equality NC Grateful for Dead & Company ’s $100,000 Commitment to Repeal HB 2
HRC President Chad Griffin cites generous support from the band, which includes the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and singer John Mayer.
HRC Calls on Republican Leadership to Condemn Lawmaker’s Attacks on LGBT People as “Worthy of Death”
HRC Senior Vice President of Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof issued the following statement after media reports that Georgia Republican Representative Rick Allen opened a conference meeting by reciting a Bible verse saying LGBT people are “worthy of death”:
Leaders from Aon, Cummins and Alaska Airlines Join 200+ Business Leaders Opposed to HB 2
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC announced that executives from Alaska Airlines, Aon plc., BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Cummins Inc., Hunter Douglas Inc., Leidos, RSM US LLP, and Sabre have signed onto an open letter that now includes more than 200 leading CEOs and business leaders urging North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and the state’s General Assembly to repeal the deeply discriminatory HB 2.