Senate Committee Takes Historic Step to End “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
On May 27th the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 16-12 to repeal the failed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. This historic[…]
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Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2010 Introduced in U.S. Senate
May 20th, 2010 – The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights[…]
Read moreProgress Toward Ending the Blood Ban
An announcement has been made in the Federal Register of a meeting of the U.S. Department of Health and Human[…]
Read moreHuman Rights Campaign Calls on U.S. Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops to Put an End to Policies that Punish Children of LGBT Families
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality,[…]
Read moreHuman Rights Campaign Praises President Obama’s Nomination of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today hailed President Obama’s[…]
Read moreHRC Statement on George Alan Rekers
Upon news that George Alan Rekers – a founder of the Family Research Council and a leading voice in the[…]
Read moreMarriage Equality in Washington, D.C.
A new law permitting same-sex couples to wed in the District of Columbia took effect on March 3, 2010, with[…]
Read moreTexas Textbook Standards Threaten to Re-Write Civil Rights History
On Wednesday, May 19th, NAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous joined former U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige in Austin,[…]
Read moreNAACP Joins Legal Challenge To Arizona Racial Profiling Law
The NAACP in coalition with other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today challenging Arizona’s new law requiring[…]
Read moreNAACP Endorses Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
On May 15, 2010 —The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, unanimously endorsed Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s[…]
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