HRC Blog

Live blogging the Mississippi Second-Chance Prom

May 8, 2010

HRC's Candace Gingrich-Jones live blogs the "Second-Chance Prom" hosted by the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition.

Twelve Colleges Now Offer Trans-Inclusive Health Insurance

May 6, 2010

Like the nation's top private companies, colleges and universities are removing discriminatory transgender exclusions from their health insurance plans in order to provide more inclusive insurance for students and staff. On many campuses today, much of the activism is centered on transgender and genderqueer issues, such as adding gender identity to the school’s non-discrimination policy and implementing gender-neutral housing and locker room facilities. A newer area of focus is ensuring that health insurance policies provide transgender-inclusive coverage.

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Cadets, Students Stand For DADT Repeal at Virginia Tech

April 30, 2010

Yesterday, the Virginia Tech and New River Valley communities came together for another leg of the Voices of Honor tour here in Virginia. The event, which was preceded by a campus flag display on Tuesday, brought out over a hundred students and local residents. Volunteers from the Virginia Tech Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance helped install the 800 flags, which symbolized the 800+ specialists with mission-critical skills who have been discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

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Boilermakers Support DADT Repeal

April 30, 2010

On our final Voices of Honor Tour stop here in the Hoosier state, we spent the day in the Big Ten town of West Lafayette. Purdue University came out to show their support for repealing “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.” We gathered on the Memorial Mall setting up 800 flags to represent the 800 specialists that have been discharged under the DADT policy since it was enacted. With the students of PQSU, Purdue's LGBT student group, the flags were set up in no time.

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