Kelley’s Weekly Message: April 2024
Check out these updates from Kelley Robinson highlighting key issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community in a special note for members and supporters of HRC.
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A Celebration in Mexico City: Recognizing Achievements At Our Executive Event
HRC Foundation's Global Workplace Equality Program team along with implementing partners from ADIL
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Global Workplace Equality Program traveled to Mexico City for a first-of-its-kind executive…
Ryan Walters Appointee Chaya Raichik, Creator of “LibsOfTikTok” Hate Account, Added to Southern Poverty Law Center’s List of Hate Extremists
Raichik joins “Extremist Files” list alongside figures like David Duke & organizations like the “Proud Boys”
Ryan Walters’ Horrible Election Day: Oklahoma Voters in Enid and Tulsa Soundly Reject His Destructive Education Policies and Coddling of Extremists
In Enid, Voters Recalled a White Nationalist City Council Member Who Was Enthusiastically Supported By A Member of Walters’ Faith Advisory Council
All Three Tulsa School Board Candidates Who Opposed…
NEW DATA: LGBTQ+ Community Continues to Face Financial Challenges Compared to Peers
Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) report finds LGBTQ+ community twice as likely to report feeling financially unwell; three in ten report experiences of discrimination while accessing financial services
Uganda’s Constitutional Court Largely Upholds Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the Constitutional Court of Uganda upheld the majority of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act, striking down only four provisions. The law, signed by President Museveni last May, severely and…
Honoring Meraxes Medina, Young Trans Woman Killed In Los Angeles
Meraxes Medina, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman, was called a “sister” by her friend Alisha Veneno on a GoFoundMe page, saying Meraxes “was more than just my friend.” According to…
In Wisconsin, a Crucial Election Battleground, Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks are Dead on Arrival
Governor Evers vetoes bills that would restrict transgender students’ participation in school sports and forcibly out students to their families
ICYMI: Ryan Walters’ Week of Backlash, Criticism, and Continued Upheaval at State Dept. of Education
Mass Exodus at OSDE Continues: “The state Education Department's attorneys are all gone.”
HRC’s Weekly State Fights Report: Two Governors Poised to Veto Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills
TOPLINE TAKEAWAYS:
32 states are currently in session as of March 2910 states have ended session as of March 29So far, HRC is tracking about 810+ bills205+ pro-equality430+ anti-LGBTQ+Thirteen anti-LGBTQ+…
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