Making a Change on Campus: Q&A with HBCU Student Zion Gates Norris
The last four years inspired a whole new generation of people to get involved like never before and take up the issues impacting their daily lives. This is especially true…
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Senate Republicans Prioritize Demonizing Transgender Youth Over COVID-19 Relief for Desperate American Families
Post submitted by Viet Tran (he/him/they/them), former HRC Press SecretaryToday, Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) is likely to offer an amendment during the Senate’s “vote-a-rama” debate on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion…
HRC Mourns Jenna Franks, White Transgender Woman Killed in North Carolina
HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jenna Franks, a 34-year-old white transgender woman who was killed in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in February. Her body was discovered…
Major Health, Education, and Child Welfare Organizations Oppose Anti-LGBTQ State-Based Legislation
Today, the nation’s leading child health and welfare groups representing more than 7 million youth-serving professionals and more than 1000 child welfare organizations released an open letter calling for lawmakers…
Advocating for LGBTQ Rights Worldwide: Q&A with HRC Global Innovator Andrea Ayala
President Biden has restored the United States leadership and engagement on the world stage, ushering in an administration committed to bringing us together as a global community. This is especially…
46 Days & Counting: Celebrating LGBTQ Progress Under the Biden-Harris Administration
Joe Biden ran to be a president for all Americans. A president who supports LGBTQ people. That was no malarkey.
Saturday, March 6 will mark the 46th day of our…
Supporting Trans, Non-Binary and Gender-Expansive Youth: Q&A with PTEC Parents Vanessa and JR Ford
Parents of trans, non-binary, and gender expansive youth faced profound uncertainty during the Trump administration. Now, with President Biden in office, we are starting a new chapter. Pallavi Rudaraju (they/them),…
Human Rights Campaign: Congress Must Advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Post submitted by Viet Tran (he/him/they/them), former HRC Press SecretaryHRC praised House passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and urged the Senate to act expeditiously to take…
South Dakota Sends Religious Refusal Bill to Gov. Noem, First Major RFRA Threat In 6 Years
Last night, the South Dakota Senate passed Senate Bill 124, a religious refusal bill that would grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people across a wide range of goods…
BREAKING: First Anti-Trans Bill of 2021 Heads to Mississippi Governor’s Desk
Today, Mississippi passed SB 2536, an anti-transgender sports bill. This bill marks the first piece of specifically anti-transgender legislation this year to be sent to a governor’s desk and comes…
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