Tag: New York City
Par and Perrigo Pharmaceuticals Urged to Address and Remedy the National Shortage of Injectable Oestrogen
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is leading a national coalition – with partners from Fenway Health in Boston and Treatment Action Group in New York City – that has collected 570 signatures for a petition calling on pharmaceutical companies Par and Perrigo to address and remedy the national shortage of injectable oestrogen.
PepsiCo to Receive HRC Corporate Equality Award at the 2017 HRC Greater NY Gala
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organisation, announced that PepsiCo will receive the HRC Corporate Equality Award at the 2017 HRC Greater New York Gala on Saturday, February 11, 2017, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The award recognises PepsiCo’s exceptional commitment to equality for the LGBTQ community.
TLDEF Set for The Freedom Awards – Celebrating 10 Years of Change
On Monday, June 1, The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will commemorate a decade of transgender advocacy at its Freedom Awards benefit. The event will honor the Golden Globe Award-winning television series Transparent, and long-time TLDEF partners BNY Mellon and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP for their extraordinary contributions to the advancement of transgender rights. The Freedom Awards will be held at The Art Directors Club Gallery in Manhattan.
Even with shift, NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade draws gay protests
Gay rights activists and elected officials said on Tuesday they would continue to protest New York City’s main St. Patrick’s Day parade even as organizers prepared to let a gay group carry a banner this year for the first time in the parade’s history.
Irish Gay Rights Activists Protest First LGBT Group in St. Patrick’s Day Parade
A month after organizers of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade made the historic announcement that it would let an LGBT group march openly, activists are ramping up demands that the organization withdraw from the event because, they claim, the procession still excludes Irish gays.
Name Change Victory for Transgender Woman in New York City
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today commended the Civil Court of the City of New York for issuing a decision on April 30 deleting language from a woman’s name change order that unnecessarily singled her out as a transgender person.