Family Equality Coalition and Human Rights Campaign Deliver Business Research to Senators
March 25, 2009
Family Equality Coalition, a Hawaii-based organization dedicated to securing equal marriage rights for LGBT) and the Human Rights Campaign, which has more than 2,500 supporters in Hawaii, delivered research to state senators today showing that many of Hawaii’s major employers offer the same types of benefits to their employees as would be granted with civil unions.
Continue Reading ►HRC’s Corporate Equality Index Ranks High With America’s Top Law Firms
March 25, 2009
HRC's General Counsel Rob Falk lays out an airtight argument for why law firms should not only participate in HRC's annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) survey, but why they should actively work to rank among the highest scores.
Continue Reading ►VICTORY!! Amendment 1 DEFEATED in Gainesville, Florida!
March 24, 2009
Gainesville, Florida voters SAID NO to Amendment 1 which would have eliminated protections against discrimination and made it legal to fire someone from their job or kick them out of their home because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Continue Reading ►Voters to decide on anti-discrimination law next week in Gainesville, Florida
March 19, 2009
With the ballot vote that would repeal Gainesville’s anti-discrimination law just five days away, the campaign is heating up on the ground and across the airwaves. The proposal, Charter Amendment 1, would require the City of Gainesville to have anti-discrimination laws that do not go beyond state law in Florida.
Continue Reading ►HRC volunteers work the phones ahead of March 24 vote on anti-gay amendment in Gainesville, FL
March 19, 2009
Last night 10 volunteers showed up, from all over the DC metro area, to our HRC Headquarters here in Washington, D.C. for another Equality is Gainesville’s Business/Vote No on Charter Amendment 1 phonebank.
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