3 Reasons Immigration is an LGBT Issue
Deepak Bhargava is Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Deepak shares three reasons he believes immigration is an LGBT issue. He explores how the LGBT and immigrant-rights movements...
View ArticleImmigration is an LGBT Issue
Rachel Tiven is the Executive Director of Immigration Equality, an organization working to gain equal immigration rights for LGBT and HIV-positive people. Rachel shares a brief history of immigration...
View ArticleLatino/LGBT Collaboration
Janet Murguía is President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Using the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act and...
View ArticleNumbers Behind the Immigration & LGBT Movement
Tony Tapia is the Board Co-Chair for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees. Tony discusses the history of immigration reform, what immigrant demographics look like today, and the...
View ArticleA Conversation on LGBT and Immigrant Rights
Five leaders share their perspectives from the intersection of the LGBT and immigrant rights movements—from the boycott in Arizona and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
View ArticleAn Education is a Civil Right
Rocío Inclán, Director of the Human Civil Rights Department of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, discusses NEA’s current and future work surrounding LGBT...
View ArticleIncluding LGBT Youth
Jerry Newberry, Executive Director of the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA-HIN), talks about the unprecedented media coverage of LGBT youth suicides in 2010 and the...
View ArticleEveryone Deserves a Diploma
Marguerite Kondracke, President and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance (Alliance), explains the essential role allies can play in making sure all LGBT youth feel safe, secure, and nurtured – at school...
View ArticleGLSEN: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Eliza Byard, Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), provides a brief snapshot of GLSEN and the critical work they do as a leading advocate for safe and affirming...
View ArticleEquality Without Borders
Cary Johnson is executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Sass Rogando Sasot has been a transgender rights activist in the Philippines and Europe since...
View ArticleDonor Stories
OutGiver John Bare (Vice President for Programs, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation) shares his reasons for giving, highlighting the personal giving strategies behind his philanthropy, the passion that...
View ArticleAmerica’s Challenges are LGBT Challenges, Part 1
Assessing LGBT issues through a prism of defining national challenges helps to illuminate the unique ways in which “American” issues impact LGBT people and vice versa. This sobering look at the...
View ArticleEquality Snapshot
Anna Greenberg (Greenburg Quinlan Rosner Research) and Brad Sears (Williams Institute) will crunch the important numbers and distill essential data in order to present a clear and informative snapshot...
View ArticleAmerica’s Challenges are LGBT Challenges, Part 2
Advocates and donors offer a sobering look at the challenges faced by the most vulnerable among us. Featuring: School Climate: Geoffrey Winder (GSA Network) and Ryan Pedlow (Ziff Brothers Investments /...
View ArticleBreaking Through in Sports, Religion, Business & Families
The Rev. Delman Coates, Patrick Burke, Todd Sears, and Ingrid Duran — pioneering allies and LGBT leaders — join in a conversation facilitated by Catherine Pino about recent campaigns and other efforts...
View ArticleAdapting to a New Media Environment
Prominent LGBT and progressive communications experts share ideas for capitalizing on the new media landscape and strategizing on how to best counter our opponents in an era where misinformation is an...
View ArticleA Mother’s Hope
From Friendswood, Texas, Ann Elder talks about her family and shares her hope for her son’s future.
View ArticleThe Texas Moment
Texas is the second largest state in the nation, but it provides no protections from discrimination for LGBT Texans. Now is time to secure equal treatment in the Lone Star State.
View ArticleThe Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Transgender Americans
Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Colorado regulatory agencies clarified the state’s nondiscrimination law to ensure that insurance companies were covering transition-related care for...
View ArticleNAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond on Religious Exemptions
Across the country, opponents of LGBT equality are attempting to advance religious exemptions that would allow businesses and individuals to use religion as an excuse to discriminate. Here’s Julian...
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