Senate Easily Approves Transgender-Inclusive Jobs Protection Bill
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a 64-32 vote on the afternoon of November 7, the United States Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which provides protections against bias in the...
View ArticleThe Unfortunate Road to Religious Exemptions
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | When the Senate last week, in a 62-34 bipartisan vote, approved the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the achievement was noteworthy primarily for one reason –– it was the...
View ArticleIt is Time to End Anti-Transgender Violence
BY MICHAEL SILVERMAN | The 15th Transgender Day of Remembrance provides an opportunity to reflect on the many transgender people whose lives have been cut short by brutal violence simply for living as...
View ArticleCritics Worry Marriage Fight Diverting Community Energy
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | As Massachusetts approaches 10 years of legal same-sex marriage, licenses filed with that state’s health department suggest that most gay and lesbian residents there have not taken...
View ArticleOut of Prison, CeCe McDonald Experiences Empowerment
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | CeCe McDonald, a 25-year-old African-American transgender woman from Minneapolis, speaks with considerable and informed passion about the ignorance too many people in society have...
View ArticleHomeland Security’s Rentboy Raid All Too Predictable
BY NATHAN RILEY | The raid on rentboy.com by the US Department of Homeland Security is no fluke. It follows the April passage of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act by lopsided majorities in...
View ArticleAs LGBT Groups Call For Decriminalizing Sex Work, Government Moves on...
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Leading LGBT rights legal organizations in the US, on August 20, issued a joint statement supporting Amnesty International’s recent resolution advocating for the human rights of...
View ArticleCy Vance: Don’t Blame Me for Rentboy.com Raid
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The Manhattan district attorney’s office had its name removed from the press release issued by the Brooklyn-based Office of the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York that...
View ArticleWith Much Work Remaining, First Transgender White House Official Signals...
BY JILLIAN T. WEISS | The White House has appointed the first openly transgender person to serve as a staff member there, as director of Outreach and Recruitment for the White House Personnel Office....
View ArticleWhen the Feds Punish Tougher for the Same Crime
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Depending on the charges they eventually face, the seven defendants in the rentboy.com case could face significantly increased prison sentences under federal law as compared to the...
View ArticleCiting Win on Cuomo’s Trans Rights Directive, Pride Agenda Folds Up Tent
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Citing its success in winning new state regulations protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination, the Empire State Pride Agenda has announced it will close down major...
View ArticleDespite New State, City Regs, Transgender Leaders Go After ESPA
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Even as New York State adopts new regulations interpreting the Human Rights Law to provide transgender nondiscrimination protections and the city issues a new, stronger guidance on...
View ArticleWhere Laurie Metcalf Takes On John Wayne
BY ED SIKOV | The toilet that once dared not speak its name now won’t shut its lid. Judging by the profusion of bathroom coverage, the backlash to the backlash to trans rights is in full flush, and the...
View ArticleAmidst Raleigh Protest, Bathroom Barrier Breached
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the North Carolina Legislature convened on April 25 for the first time since enacting that state’s anti-LGBT HB 2 last month, hundreds of activists descended on the Capitol in...
View ArticlePotential Retreat on Comprehensive Civil Rights Push Draws Fire
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While not walking back comments she made in a Buzzfeed article about controversial LGBT rights legislation in Pennsylvania, the head of the National Center for Transgender Equality...
View ArticleRESIST!
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As we face what already seems an exhaustively daunting challenge wrought by Donald Trump’s presidency, the first thing we can agree on is that each of us should do something. A...
View ArticleObama LGBTQ Protections Safe, Or a Trump Head Fake?
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Amidst all the confusion created by White House senior advisor Steve Bannon’s “shock and awe” campaign during the Trump administration’s opening days, the president’s team may just...
View ArticleSessions Quickly Begins Retreat on LGBTQ Rights
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a clear and disturbing sign that the Justice Department is in full retreat from the Obama administration’s advocacy for transgender students — and trans people, generally —...
View ArticleDenouncing Trump’s Transgender Reversal, Advocates Point to Progress on Other...
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | LGBTQ rights advocates responded with outrage to the Trump administration’s reversal of an Obama era guidance that guaranteed transgender school students access to bathrooms...
View ArticleLGBTQ Job, Housing, Safety Disparities in Stringer Survey
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | A survey of LGBTQ residents of New York recently completed by City Comptroller Scott Stringer points to clear disparities in employment and housing opportunities, food security, and...
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