All posts tagged "hrc"
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Transgender Army Veteran Selected to Lead Military LGBT-Equality Group
In a historic move, the nation’s largest military LGBT-rights organization has announced Allyson Robinson, a transgender woman, will be the group’s new executive director. Servicemembers...
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Anti-Gay Lawmakers Make Gains in 112th Congress
Overall support in Congress for LGBT rights has decreased significantly over the past two years, according to the Human Rights Campaign’s latest Congressional Scorecard. Despite...
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Victory Fund Eager for Election Day
The morning of Nov. 7 could be a very good day at the downtown D.C. office of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Having wrapped...
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Committee to Advise Census Bureau on LGBT Populations
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the establishment of a committee tasked with advising the organization on LGBT populations for implementing the once-a-decade national census. The...
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HRC Adds $1 Million to Marriage-Equality Campaigns
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT civil-rights organization, announced today that it would contribute $1 million to assist pro-equality groups in four...
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Hail to the Chefs
Want to know the percentage of D.C. chefs supporting marriage equality? Among those chefs food writer David Hagedorn asked to be part of Chefs for...
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Cory Booker at the 2012 HRC Dinner [video]
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., and a rising star in Democratic politics, spoke at the Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner Oct. 6. Booker's...
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Elections in HRC Spotlight
{Chad Griffin with Sally Field and her son Sam Greisman (Photo by Ward Morrison)} With just a month to go before the general election, the...
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Sally Field at the 2012 HRC Dinner [video]
Sally Field was presented with the Ally for Equality Award by her son, Sam, at the 2012 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, D.C....
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Dustin Lance Black at the 2012 HRC Dinner
Dustin Lance Black tells his coming out story at the 2012 HRC
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Liberty Counsel Announces Legal Challenge to California’s “Ex-Gay” Ban
As LGBT-advocates continue to hail Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a bill on Saturday that made California the first state to officially outlaw gay “conversion”...
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HHS Secretary Sebelius Remarks at HRC Event Violated Federal Law
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was found in violation of a federal law on Wednesday for comments she made at a Human Rights...
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FRC’s Tony Perkins Equates Gay People to Drug Addicts
In remarks delivered on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the National Press Club, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins kicked off one of the most high-profile...
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Groups Challenge Values Voter Summit
LGBT-rights organizations are taking aim at one of the conservative movement's most high-profile and controversial events of the year. Thousands of social conservatives will convene...
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The Real McCoy
He's the man about town who seems to know everybody, but who's hard to pin down. Not that you'd have a chance, since Nick McCoy...
