Tag: USA
On Memorial Day, TLDEF Urges Pentagon to End Ban on Open Transgender Military Service
As the nation commemorates Memorial Day, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) honours the transgender men and women who lost their lives in the line of duty and renews its call for the Defense Department to allow transgender people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.
Historic Victory for Marriage Equality in Ireland says HRC
Saturday the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, hailed the historic victory for marriage equality in Ireland.
5 Actions the Obama Administration Can Take Immediately to Improve the Lives of LGBT Service Members
Yesterday, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense strongly urging him to update equal opportunity policies across the Department of Defense “to prevent discrimination, harassment or intimidation of service members based on sexual orientation” – an important step the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organisation, has repeatedly called for.
HRC Urges Boy Scouts of America to Take Full Step to LGBT Equality
Boy Scouts’ move to allow gay adults to participate in organisation marks a moment, but falls short of goal of full inclusion.
The Banyan Tree Project Commemorates 10th Annual U.S National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Asians and Pacific Islanders speak up about HIV in a new series of personal digital stories. These stories, facilitated by the Banyan Tree Project, are created by community members across the US and Pacific to show the deep impact of HIV and stigma in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
First Federal Bill to Prevent Dangerous Anti-LGBT Conversion Therapy Introduced in Congress
Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) will introduce the “Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act” – the first federal legislation to prohibit the practice of providing “conversion therapy” to any person in exchange for monetary compensation or advertising such services.