All posts tagged "human rights campaign"
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Threat Prompts D.C. Evacuations
Following a reported bomb threat, the Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT organizations in Washington evacuated their offices today. According to Fred Sainz, HRC's vice...
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Praise for HRC's Donna Payne
Donna Payne, the D.C.-based associate director of diversity for the Human Rights Campaign, as well as a founding board member of the National Black Justice...
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Bowie State Opening Center for LGBT Students
Bowie State University will make LGBT history come April 2. On that Monday, the university will become the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU)...
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HRC Releases 2012 CEI UPDATED
In the D.C. area, LGBT-friendly corporate practices aren't just a sop to appease a special interest group. Rather, local businesses say it's a bargaining chip...
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Office Depot among 207 companies that include gender reassignment surgery in health insurance plans
“Realistically, we just looked at it as a necessity. Our executive V.P. said, ‘It’s the right thing to do, it’s something we support and we...
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Prosecutorial Discretion
Responding on behalf of President Barack Obama, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid detailing that the...
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Victoria Kirby
Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....
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Résumé Reveal
A few years ago, Riley Folds applied for a job at a company with a poor reputation toward gays and lesbians. He debated how of...
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Valerie Jarrett speaks at HRC's National Dinner [video]
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement,
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Legislatively Lacking
The House Agriculture Committee has no out lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender representation. Then again, nor do the House Appropriations, Armed Services, Budget, Foreign Affairs,...
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The Promised Land
Ugandan politics took a sad walk onto the world stage at the end of 2009, when David Bahati, a member of Parliament, introduced a bill...
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Hyacinth Alvaran
The Next Generation Awards 2010 Hyacinth Alvaran's story may have started in the Philippines, but her story is being told most forcefully in here in...
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Tom Goss Performs ''Who We Are'' [video]
Openly gay singer-songwriter Tom Goss gave a rich, stirring performance of ''Who We Are'' at the Human Rights Campaign's rally for repeal of ''Don't Ask,...
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Coming Out ''Mike-sexual''
The evolution of the District is fast-paced these days. The population is growing, streetcars are on their way, and there's once again a first lady...
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Weekend Warriors
It was the inverse of the ''perfect storm.'' Rather than forces of nature converging for maximum destruction, elements of society were converging for maximum exposure...
