All posts tagged "civil rights"
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Same-Sex Couples Fear Losing Right to Marriage
A Williams Institute report finds 80 percent of couples concerned for the end of Obergefell, as legal eagles sound alarms.
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‘Rustin’ Review: Truth Be Told
A stirring portrait of an oft-unsung civil rights hero and queer trailblazer, 'Rustin' doesn't deliver on all of its promise.
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Americans Oppose Anti-LGBTQ Religious-Based Discrimination
A new poll finds that an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults oppose allowing individuals to justify denying services to LGBTQ people by citing their personal...
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NAACP, HRC Issue Florida Travel Advisories
Civil rights groups have issued travel advisories to Florida in response to new laws targeting diversity initiatives and the LGBTQ community.
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‘Gloria: A Life’ Review: Chronologically Speaking
Theater J's 'Gloria: A Life' merely reenacts events in the life of feminist icon Gloria Steinem rather than dramatizing them.
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Republican Says Civil Rights Don’t Apply To Gay People
A Georgia Republican candidate for Congress said that civil rights for Black people shouldn’t apply to gay people because “they can actually change” to become...
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New film ‘Cured’ documents the fight to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness
Award-winning documentary Cured chronicles the activist struggle to remove homosexuality from the APA's list of mental illnesses
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Film Review: My Name Is Pauli Murray
"My Name Is Pauli Murray" sharply illuminates its subject's heroic lifelong fight for human rights.
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Sarah McBride on her historic state Senate win in Delaware
Delaware State Senator-elect Sarah McBride hopes her victory gives comfort to those “struggling with their place in the world.”
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HRC president Alphonso David will help create Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue in Brooklyn
Commission is comprised of family, friends, and colleagues of Ginsburg's, as well as civil rights leaders
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California posthumously pardons gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin
A new initiative will allow Californians convicted under the now-defunct sodomy laws to apply for, and obtain, pardons
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Trump is undoing ‘decades of progress’ on LGBTQ rights, bipartisan civil rights agency says
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights calls findings "devastating," says Trump has "blatantly and deliberately" targeted LGBTQ people
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Education Department launches investigation into Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy
Student-athletes' complaint argues allowing trans women to compete in women's sports violates their civil rights
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Madonna at GLAAD Awards: “It is every human’s duty to fight, to advocate” for equality
Musical icon honored with Advocate for Change Award for her longtime advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community
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Vice President Pence breaks tie to end debate on Thomas Farr’s judicial nomination
On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence used his tie-breaking vote to approve cloture, or ending debate, on the nomination of Thomas Farr for a seat...
