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A transformative gathering in Atlanta on August 27-28 this year unites global voices to champion the rights and health of Black LGBTQ+ communities and beyond.
The "United Not Uniform" theme has never been so prevalent.
When speaking with youth activists at the Commonwealth Youth Forum, the royal couple stated they will put LGBTQ rights at the front of their work together.
A spectator shouted "Have you no shame?" in Boise Friday morning after Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee voted against adding language to the Idaho Human Rights Act that would protect gay, lesbian, and transgender citizens.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged that the United States will "advance a comprehensive human rights agenda that includes the elimination of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” in a speech commemorating Pride month, Wednesday. Aside from the purely political point of her remarks Clinton added, "I was the first First Lady to march in a gay pride parade -- and it was so much fun!"
The Human Rights Campaign PAC will hold a reception Thursday night in New York City to honor U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine for her instrumental leadership to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Last December, the moderate Republican from Maine sponsored the standalone “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal bill with U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Seven other Republicans joined her in voting for repeal, which passed the senate by a vote of 65 to 31.
Human Rights Watch published a report Wednesday that documents violence against the LGBT community perpetrated by state and private actors in Iran. Human Rights Watch published a report Wednesday that documents violence against the LGBT community perpetrated by state and private actors in Iran.
The vacancy of Gavin Grimm's case won't stop anyone from fighting for trans rights.
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is the 1st lesbian activist to win the Martin Ennals Human Rights Defenders award, second only in prestige to the Nobel Peace Prize.
Truth Wins Out, a group dedicated to exposing what it calls the myth of the "Ex-gay movement," launched a Change.org petition asking NBC to take out anchor Rachel Maddow to Russia in 2014.
The proceeds will benefit the Human Rights Campaign!
Russia's LGBT activists get a boost from the Human Rights Campaign.
The drag and transgender stars are waving their flags at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner.
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Karen Atala, a Chilean judge who won a landmark ruling this year at the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, were recognized at A Celebration of Courage, an event hosted by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission this week in New York City.
The openly gay actress accepted this year's Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign over the weekend.
The Human Rights Campaign is denouncing the firing of Tippi McCullough, and her students are petitioning to save the teacher's job.
Actress and LGBT ally Kristen Bell speaks out in a video for the Human Rights Campaign’s American’s for Marriage Equality series.
Maine legislation that would restrict transgender people’s right to use the restroom of their choice drew emotional testimony at the state capitol in Augusta Tuesday, with many speakers opposed to the bill and supportive of transgender rights. Republican state representative Kenneth Fredette put the bill forward in response to a Maine Human Rights Commission ruling that found a school in Orono and a Denny’s restaurant in Auburn discriminated against transgender people by not allowing them to use the restroom of their choice, a right established by the state’s human rights act in 2005.
Following Target’s $150,000 donation that supported advertising for an antigay Minnesota candidate, the Human Rights Campaign entered negotiations with the company, asking that it contribute an equal amount to candidates who support equal rights.
