by admin | Nov 6, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
It’s taken a long time, but United States legislation is finally turning a corner on LGBT rights and related issues. There is still a lot of work to be done towards securing freedoms for gay and trans individuals, but current legislation and legislators seek to...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Sunday the 11th was National Coming Out Day, and to engage with the day the Fire Department of New York released a video PSA for the It Gets Better project, targeted at LGBT youth. Federal legislation, like the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and the Supreme...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Politics
This weekend Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech in support of gay rights in the 2016 presidential race, promising that she would end discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people. The fact that this would now be a central pillar of Clinton’s...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News
Quite a lot, legally speaking, as both issues are often subject to the scorn of parties who wish to deny them rights. Before now, federal courts upheld legislation that companies who wished to deny employees birth control under the umbrella of “religious objection”...
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Though people around the country are arguing that Kim Davis, the Kentucky law clerk recently jailed (and released) for refusing to issue same-sex marriages in Rowan County, is practicing civil disobedience, that term does not accurately describe what Davis has done....
