Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation and the National CASA Foundation, today announced the expansion of the highly successful All Children – All Families (ACAF) project. [Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Today New Jersey Governor Chris Christie instructed his Attorney General to withdraw the state’s appeal of a court decision bringing marriage equality to the Garden State.  This action makes New Jersey the 14th state in the nation, as well as the District of Columbia, where lesbian and gay[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- On Oct. 18, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously declined Gov. Chris Christie’s request for a stay of a lower court’s ruling that civil marriage licenses be granted to same-sex couples beginning Monday, October 21st.  Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin issued the following statement in response[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- In response to news reports that an uninsured transgender woman in Colorado who found a lump in her breast was denied federally subsidized mammography based on federal guidance that she is "not genetically female,” the Human Rights Campaign and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) called on[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, is calling on Mount St. Mary’s Academy in Little Rock, AR to immediately cease discriminatory employment practices targeting their LGBT teachers. Yesterday, Tippi McCullough, a teacher at Mount St. Mary’s, traveled to[Read More…]

Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Prairie State College (PSC) Department of Police and Campus Safety, along with PSC students, faculty, and staff, is hosting its annual Halloween Family Fun Fest from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Prairie Center gym, located on the PSC main campus at 202 S.[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2013. The documentary movie ‘Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America’ will be screened at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC), 70 Sycamore Drive, Park Forest, on Saturday, October 26. The evening will begin with an optional pot luck dinner at 6 p.m.[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2013.   In 1957 May Theilgaard Watts, naturalist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois wrote the enchanting book Reading the Landscape. She wrote “there is good reading on the land…The records are written in the forests, in fencerows, in gardens, in tree rings.”  Join us on[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2013. Thorn Creek Nature Center is nestled at the beginning of a three and half mile trail system that meanders through Thorn Creek Nature Preserve.    Housed in a small white wooden church building built in the mid-1860’s, the nature center houses several displays for both adults[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2013. The Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC) and the Faith Caucus of the Campaign for Better Health Care invite you to an informational workshop on ‘Get Covered Illinois: The Official Health Marketplace.’ The workshop will be held on Thursday, October 25 at 7 p.m. at UUCC,[Read More…]