A national survey was released today as part of the 2016 Out & Equal Workplace Survey released today for National Coming Out Day.
A poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released yesterday has found that 72% of Americans favor passing legal protections from discrimination for LGBT people.
A couple of diarists reported about the poll yesterday but buried the lede in favor of the information of the presidential numbers.
My partner, sphinxmoth, has been the leader of Bisbee for Bernie, Democratic precinct captain and assistant chair in our county, poll watcher, vote-counting watcher and helper, and addressed the County Board of Supervisors, urging them not to certify the Primary vote here in Arizona until some issues were cleared up. No dice; they had a deadline. I have helped her however and whenever I could, around the margins of my job. This campaign is certainly not over, for either of us.
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn writes at Health IT News about health disparities faced by the LGBT community in America.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, has an over-arching goal to improve the health, safety, and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The CDC points out that LGBT individuals face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination, and denial of civil and human rights. These challenges have been associated, in clinical peer-reviewed literature, with higher rates of psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide.
Experiences of violence are frequent for LGBT individuals
--CDC
At around 2 am Florida time on June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen walked up to a Florida gay club with an AR-15 and started shooting. The security officer engaged him, but was unable to stop him. The gunman went in, killed 50 people, wounded many more. Eventually, a SWAT team went in and killed the shooter.
Last night the North Carolina Legislature and the Governor blindsided the people of North Carolina with a heinous anti LGBT bill. We, the people, knew nothing about it. Kudos to the Democrat Senators who walked out refusing to be a part of this farce. I know fellow progressives here are heart sick about this and will work hard to get it over turned in court.
The letter, signed by over 100 senior church officials, was sent to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
The archbishops are meeting attending a meeting of 39 primates from the global Anglican Communion this week,
The letter calls for the church to acknowledge that LGBT members around the world have been treated as "second-class citizens."
[F]or too long the church has treated gay, lesbian and transgender people as a 'problem to be solved'.
-The Very Reverend Mark Boyling, Dean of Carlisle Cathedral
The meeting is being held in an effort to prevent a schism between liberals and conservatives.
I'm not normally a follower of the program American Law Journal, so I just recently stumbled across this video of their program Transgender at Work: the EEOC, Supreme Court & LGBT rights on the job. The program originally aired in November.
Yesterday The administration officially endorsed the amending of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect LGBT Americans from discrimination.
As of yet, there is no federal law that explicitly prevents people from being fired, evicted, or refused service on account of their sexual orientation or gender identity. A proposal just to ban employment discrimination for LGBT Americans (ENDA) has been continuously stymied since 1994.
The Equality Act, which the White House announced it would support Tuesday, aims to provide a wider range of protections, and in the most direct way possible. The bill would insert language about gay and transgender people into legislation created by the 1964 Civil Rights Act — the historic measure that banned many forms of discrimination by race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Every time the LGBT community suffers a significant political loss, such as HERO in Houston or California's Prop 8, or ENDA in the US Congress, one can count on a campaign to drop the T from the end of LGB.
This time it takes the form of a Change.org petition. The petition so far has 1229 signatories.
We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.
So far there have been public rejections from GLAAD, HRC, and the Advocate.
