HRC Blog

Yesterday, HRC invited our 30 New York field organizers to our DC Headquarters so that the HRC staff could thank them for their hard work in helping win marriage equality in the Empire State.

The Healthcare Equality Index 2011 was released today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Family Project.The report details the results of our most recent HEI survey, rating how equitably healthcare facilities treat their LGBT patients and employees. The survey focuses on four main policy areas: patient non-discrimination, visitation, cultural competencytraining and employment non-discrimination.

HRC is proud to announce the release of it's latest guide and pastoral resource, A La Familia: A Conversation About Our Families, the Bible, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. LGBT people often face unique challenges in Latino/a families and churches. To help in the process of acceptance and inclusion, A La Familia is born out of a profound desire to faithfully integrate an excluded group of people back into the life of their churches and families. This bilingual guide was written by HRC Religion Council member Miguel De La Torre and jointly produced by HRC, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and UNID@S.

NOM is spinning their wheels. A bipartisan supermajority of New Yorkers support marriage equality today. Four years from now- when NOM hopes to reverse marriage equality through a ballot initiative-- this supermajority in the Empire State will only be stronger and more bipartisan. Americans move in one direction on this issue - toward equality, not away from it. The ship has sailed.

The Center for Artistic Revolution (CAR), a statewide LGBT equality group in Arkansas, is holding a vigil outside of the Batesville Daily Guard tomorrow calling on the paper to change their discriminatory policy that prevents committed LGBT couples from being recognized in free obituaries.