Equality

The Refuse to Repeat campaign officially kicked off this month with the goal of raising $100,000 in just 100 days thru July 15, 2015 to support LGBT equality on the state level. With over 100 discriminatory bills working their...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in both houses of Congress on Thursday introduced legislation to promote LGBT human rights as a priority in U.S. foreign policy. The International Human Rights Defense Act, introduced by Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Alan...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama White House was again the setting of history this morning as the president signed a sweeping executive order protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers from job discrimination. With the stroke of a pen,...

Marriage Equality victories in the courts continues its unbroken record in a string of over 20 cases that now includes today’s Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling allowing same-sex couples to marry in Oklahoma. This was the second ruling where...

Dozens of civil rights organizations and a group of Democratic lawmakers have signed letters this week asking President Barack Obama not to exempt “religiously affiliated contractors” from a planned executive order protecting LGBT employees of federal contractors. The letters come...

Support for the LGBT-inclusive Missouri Non-discrimination Act (MONA) MONA continues to grow as 500 Missouri-based companies from across the state, including two of the Fortune 500, are now voicing their support for workplace protections. The legislation was introduced in...

St. Louis and Columbia have once again earned a perfect score in the Municipal Equality Index (MEI) conducted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, in partnership with the...