The Equality Act was introduced with gusto last summer — a cabaret of celebrity Democratic Congress members taking turns at a lectern extolling the bill to ban LGBT discrimination federally. But nine months later, the legislation languishes without a hearing. On Thursday morning, several of those same lawmakers will press
The National Basketball Association has no plans to move next year’s All-Star Game outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, despite the state’s controversial anti-LGBT law, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced on Friday. “The law as it now stands is problematic for the league,” Silver said at a news conference in New
Six U.S. senators wrote a letter to the head of the NBA this week calling on him to move the league’s 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte to protest a state law banning anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people. In their letter, the senators — five Democrats and one Republican — urged Adam Silver, the
WASHINGTON, DC – Hoy, el Senador de Oregón Jeff Merkley y los Senadores Mark Kirk (R-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) y Patty Murray (D- WA) escribió al comisionado de la NBA, Adam Silver, instándolo a trasladar el Juego de Estrellas de la NBA 2017 lejos de Charlotte, Carolina del Norte. El llamado de los senadores
WASHINGTON, DC – El Senador de Oregón, Jeff Merkley, agradeció hoy el apoyo de 60 corporaciones líderes que anunciaron que están formando una coalición de apoyo a la Ley de Igualdad, legislación histórica bipartidista de derechos LGBT presentada por Merkley y el Representante David Cicilline (D-RI) en 2015. La formación de la Coalición Empresarial
A newly formed business coalition that consists of 60 members — including Apple, Coca-Cola and Target Corp. — will urge passage of comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination legislation known as the Equality Act, the Human Rights Campaign announced on Thursday. The initiative, known as the Business Coalition for the Equality Act, consists
Washington, DC – Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley, junto con los senadores Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT) y Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), presentaron la Ley de Respeto Global, legislación que impondría sanciones a personas extranjeras responsables de violaciones de derechos humanos contra lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y
Jim Obergefell’s name will forever be linked to same-sex marriage in the United States, and yet he remains mostly unknown to most Americans. The real estate agent and technology consultant from Ohio, who lost his husband to ALS, began a battle to have their marriage recognized by their home state in 2013
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, may run into Kim Davis at President Obama’s final State of the Union address. And if he does, Obergefell has a message to deliver. Obergefell, invited to sit in First Lady Michelle Obama’s box in the
If there are two people who represent opposite poles in the gay marriage debate, it’s Supreme Court plaintiff Jim Obergefell and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. And they’ll both be in the House chamber for the State of the Union on Tuesday night. Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the landmark
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