Tag: HRC
HRC Hails NY AG Schneiderman For Investigating NFL Policies After Discriminatory Incident
The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today joined New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in calling on the NFL to explain and address deeply disturbing reports that some prospective players are being asked inappropriate questions about their sexual orientation.
Missouri Senate Advances Attack on LGBT People to the House of Representatives
The extreme ‘First Amendment Defense Act’-style ballot measure proposal goes far beyond ‘religious freedom’ and enshrines discrimination into the Missouri Constitution.
HRC Announces 60 Companies Launch Business Coalition for the Equality Act
Business support comes as more than 100 grassroots supporters and advocates fan out across Capitol Hill to urge Members of Congress to support the bipartisan Equality Act.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen Introduces Global Respect Act in U.S. Senate
HRC hailed the introduction of the Global Respect Act in the Senate by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). The bill would provide a new mechanism to prevent the world’s most anti-LGBT state actors from receiving a visa and entering the United States. The Global Respect Act would make clear to the world that the U.S. is not open to those who abuse, harass, and murder LGBT people.
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Alabama Court’s Refusal to Recognise Same-Sex Adoption
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, praised a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of the United States reversing an Alabama Supreme Court’s refusal to recognise an adoption by a lesbian non-biological mother. HRC joined a coalition of organizations on an amicus brief urging the court to hear the case.
HRC, National Organisations Target “Conversion Therapy” Quacks with Historic FTC Fraud Complaint
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a federal consumer fraud complaint against People Can Change, an organisation that preys on vulnerable LGBT people and families by using damaging and discredited claims that it can change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.