Tag: President Obama
Only In America : HASC Votes to Strip Away Important LGBT Non-Discrimination Protections
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) strongly condemned an amendment approved during the House Armed Services Committee markup of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
#DoYourJob – HRC Renews Call for Senate Hearing on Judge Garland
Distinguished nominee Judge Merrick Garland deserves a fair hearing, Senators Urged to #DoYourJob.
HRC: Mike Huckabee is Blinded by His Own Bigotry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief
Other candidates should immediately condemn Huckabee’s smear of Eric Fanning.
130 Major Organisations Urge Obama Administration to Rescind Discriminatory Bush-Era Memo
Memo has dangerous and erroneous conclusions with far-reaching and discriminatory consequences.
How Can the Obama Administration Advance Fairness & Equality for Transgender Americans?
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, highlighted specific steps the Obama Administration should take to improve the lives of transgender people.
Testimony from Stonewall Historian David Carter
The Stonewall Uprising was a series of street demonstrations by the LGBT population against the police that centered around the gay club known as the Stonewall Inn. The demonstrations began spontaneously early in the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, when the morals police carried out a more muscular than usual raid on the club. On the first night hundreds of protestors forced the police to retreat inside the club they had raided. When the trapped police were rescued by the Tactical Patrol Force, more commonly known as the riot police, a fight for control of the streets around the Stonewall club ensued. This contest endured for a total of six nights, eventually involving thousands of protestors, an effort to claim, to use more recent terminology, LGBT space.