CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2017. Visitors to Chicago and Illinois have a guide to help navigate LGBTQ and mainstream events and places to see: The 2017 OUT! Chicago and Illinois LGBTQ Visitor’s Guide is now available. The 124-page guide, published by weekly LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times, includes sections on things to[Read More…]
Life and Living
As Advocates Observe Equal Pay Day in the US, New Brief Examines International Approaches to the Gender Wage Gap
Protesters wave placards as they gather in Sydney during a nationwide protest calling for equal salaries for women, June 10, 2010. AP/Rick Rycroft Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2017. As equal pay advocates in the United States observe Equal Pay Day today, women continue to earn on average just 80 cents for every[Read More…]
National Journalists Associations Launch LGBTQ Guide for Spanish-Language Media
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The National LGBTQ Task Force, NLGJA – The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) have launched a Spanish-language stylebook for journalists reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. First published by NLGJA and NAHJ in 2005, “El Manual de[Read More…]
HRC Calls on Trump Administration to Reinstate Sexual Orientation Question in National Senior Survey
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, lambasted the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ALC) for removing a question about sexual orientation from the National Survey of Older Americans[Read More…]
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Signs Anti-LGBTQ SB 17 Into Law
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, called out Governor Matt Bevin for signing SB 17 into law, a measure that allows student groups at colleges, universities, and high schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students. “Governor Bevin’s[Read More…]
HRC: Neil Gorsuch’s Anti-Equality Record is Disqualifying
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Last month, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, took the unprecedented step of opposing President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court of the United States before his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing because[Read More…]
U.S. Supreme Court Sends Gavin Grimm Case Back Down to Appeals Court
Gavin Grimm WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2017. The Supreme Court announced today that it is sending a landmark transgender rights case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to be reconsidered in light of the Departments of Justice and Education rescinding of a Title IX guidance clarifying protections for transgender[Read More…]
The Trans Liberation Collective to Hold Trans Liberation Protest on Friday, March 3rd
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 3, 2017. As we gather tonight at 6 p.m. at Wacker and Wabash in Downtown Chicago, to take to the streets for our liberation, we affirm the statement released earlier in the week, and emphasize the need to keep trans voices at the front and center of all conversations[Read More…]
National Leaders, Groups, Individuals File Briefs in Supreme Court Supporting Gavin Grimm and Transgender Rights
Transgender High School Student, Gavin Grimm Business Leaders, Educators, Students, Medical Professionals Among the Diverse Range of Voices Urging Support for Trans Rights WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2017. Today, individuals and institutions from across the country representing a diverse and extraordinary cross-section of interests, perspectives, and concerns filed friend-of-court briefs in[Read More…]
NOW: ‘Shame on Donald Trump for Rolling Back Rights for Transgender Students’
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)– February 23, 2017. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Donald Trump’s decision to discriminate against transgender students is a shameful and unconstitutional attack on civil rights and human decency. Title IX is clear—the federal law prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational programs. Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Betsy[Read More…]
