Healthcare Equality Index Released
May 12, 2009
Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association released the 2009 Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). The HEI project was started three years ago to educate healthcare policymakers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender healthcare consumers to get rid of barriers and biases that keep us from taking care of ourselves and each other.
Continue Reading ►This week’s HRC headquarters phonebank
May 11, 2009
Last week the HRC Field Team and volunteers celebrated Cinco De Mayo by sharing burritos and dialing for marriage equality in New Hampshire at our weekly phone bank. The calls helped us cross an important threshold for our spring season of Dialing for Equality: volunteers have now had over 3,000 conversations about equality in six different states!
Continue Reading ►Cybill Shepherd at HRC’s Atlanta Dinner
May 11, 2009
And yes, she talks about her time on "The L Word"
Continue Reading ►New York Assembly to vote on marriage equality tomorrow
May 11, 2009
Members of the New York State Assembly in Albany are scheduled to vote tomorrow on marriage equality legislation (A7732). The Assembly passed similar legislation in 2007, but leaders in the State Senate refused to take up the bill that year.
Continue Reading ►Who’s behind depriving Mainers of equality?
May 8, 2009
I spent a couple of weeks in Maine in 2005 on the "Maine Won't Discriminate" campaign where we successfully upheld an inclusive nondiscrimination law from a "people's veto" so I'm particularly interested in how the process will play out with the recent marriage decision. Getting a newly passed law on the ballot follows a standard set of guidelines and doesn't require all that many signatures.
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