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September 17, 2007 | HRC Staff

Challenging Anti-Marriage Amendment

HRC is working with Fairness for All Families and Florida Red & Blue, non-partisan campaigns to defeat a proposed anti-marriage amendment to the Florida constitution.The proposed amendment would restrict marriage…

September 5, 2007 | HRC Staff

Human Rights Campaign on the Passing of Cheryl Spector

WASHINGTON - Cheryl Spector, a longtime activist in the Washington, D.C., community, passed away this week after a battle with leukemia. Upon hearing of her passing, Human Rights Campaign President…

August 31, 2007 | HRC Staff

Kansas Governor Signs Anti-Discrimination Executive Order

HRC Hails Action to Provide Basic Fairness for State EmployeesWASHINGTON - Today, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed an executive order that will prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender…

August 24, 2007 | HRC Staff

Your Weekly Dose of Political News

Get the inside scoop from Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff on this week's edition of HRC's radio show, The Agenda with Joe Solmonese. Tune in Monday from 6-8 p.m. Eastern…

August 22, 2007 | HRC Staff

Waving Their Flag for Equality

When a lesbian couple was banned from holding their civil union ceremony in a local pavilion, fair-minded residents of Ocean Grove, N.J., put out their Equality flags and spread the…