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11th Hour Attacks on Transgender Youth Thwarted as Session Comes to a Close

But despite the dire portrait by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, local advocates aren’t giving up

LGBTQ-friendly laws in NJ include second parent adoption, prohibition of discrimination in private employment and transition-related health care.

Twenty-three states now fall into HRC's category of "High Priority to Achieve Basic Equality."

Twenty-three states now fall into HRCs category of "High Priority to Achieve Basic Equality."

Transgender and nonbinary Hoosiers frustrated by abortion ban, feelings of body dysphoria.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute released their State Equality Index, which groups states into four categories based on statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ+ people and their families. Ohio was in the lowest-rated group. Plus, Case Western Reserve University teams with a Cincinnati nonprofit to increase access to fruits and vegetables for people receiving food assistance benefits, and an Akron resident offers a lovely tribute to the late theater...

Fri, 01/29/2021 - 08:32 RALEIGH CITY COUNCIL REFUSES TO EXPAND NON-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE: The city of Raleigh will wait to expand protections for LGBTQ people, Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said, despite other governments expanding their non-discrimination ordinances now that a state ban has ended. “If we are going to pass something that can’t be enforced and isn’t legal, then we are not really accomplishing anything,” Baldwin said. “We are just contributing to the noise." Raleigh City At...

2020 Brought Legislative Progress, Pushback on LGBTQ Issues State legislatures introduced more than 560 LGBTQ rights bills in 2020. An analysis by the Human Rights Campaign finds barriers remain to equal access to housing, employment and health care for the LGBTQ community. Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer   |   January 27, 2021   |  Analysis Half of all Americans live in states that lack statutory protections for LGBTQ citizens, according t...

North Carolina Scores Poorly in New Ranking on LGBTQ+ Rights Durham Pride 2019 Our state has a long, long way to go before LGBTQ+ residents are seen as equal in the eyes of the law. The Human Rights Campaign just named North Carolina one of 25 states that are a "High Priority to Achieve Basic Equality," the lowest in the organizations four-tier State Equality Index. Despite the end of an HB 142 clause that prohibited local governments from enacting anti-discrimination laws locally, the st...