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HB 142 Meets With NCAA Approval, Civil Rights Groups’ Criticism

Critics of the bill’s replacement, House Bill 142, said that it continues the same discriminatory practices of HB2. Some referred to it as “HB2.0.”

Shane Windmeyer, director of Campus Pride

Project Aims to Help School Nurses Tackle Suicide Rates

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers in New Mexico, California and Maryland are working with public school nurses in hopes of curbing suicide rates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by making school grounds safer. University of New Mexico pediatrics professor Mary Ramos and colleagues at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the […]

University of Colorado Weighs Asking Applicants for Sexual Orientation

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado is considering asking student applicants to disclose their sexual orientation. The Daily Camera reports that many colleges have already added this question to their applications and CU officials believe it will create a more welcoming environment. University officials say they are also considering adding the question to better […]

Matthew Adams Not Hesitant to Stand Out on Campus

Dr. Matthew Adams has heard that there are other LGBT staff members at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, but he hasn’t met any of them.

Dr. Matthew Adams (Photo courtesy of New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Faculty & Staff

Gordon College Professor Says Promotion Denied Over LGBT Stance

WENHAM, Mass. — An associate professor at a Christian college in Massachusetts says in a complaint against the school she was denied a promotion for denouncing its LGBT policies. The Salem News reports that Gordon College social work professor Margaret DeWeese-Boyd says in the complaint filed Wednesday with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination she was […]

Perry Blasts Election of 1st Openly Gay Texas A&M Student President

AUSTIN, Texas — Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal, is inserting himself into an unusually small political dispute: an election for student body president at Texas A&M. In an op-ed submitted to the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor suggested that his alma mater’s first openly gay president may have […]

Partnership Aims to Boost LGBTQ Inclusion at HBCUs

The Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania is teaming up with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to launch a three-year initiative to develop LGBTQ-inclusive programming at HBCUs across the nation.

Mary Beth Maxwell is a senior vice president at HRC.

N.C. Governor Calls for ‘BathroomBill’ Repeal in State of State

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper urged lawmakers gathered Monday night to repeal the state’s “bathroom bill” very soon, saying the law is “the dark cloud hanging over our state of promise” by harming North Carolina’s economy and reputation. Delivering his first State of the State speech as governor to the Republican-controlled legislature, Cooper […]

Guillermo: Trump’s Sense of Equality Doesn’t Include Transgendered

Trump’s words do not match his deeds, when it comes to civil rights or bathroom rights. Trump, who just a month ago vowed to protect the rights of all Americans, is going backward.

Angela Gilmore, left, a North Carolina Central University law professor, and Joaquin Carcaño, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill employee, have a lawsuit pending which claims that North Carolina’s “bathroom law” is unconstitutional. (Photo courtesy of Lambda Legal)

By Redefining Diversity, Trump Making America Small Again

The size of the audience in Washington aside, the vision of the inaugural speech of Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, was definitely small.

Leaders: Women’s March Much More than ‘Anti-Trump’

On the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, more than 100,000 people are expected to descend on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington.

Bob Bland, one of the four national co-chairs of the march.

University of North Carolina: Job Candidates Say No, Citing Bathroom Law

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Academics being recruited by North Carolina’s public university system have ruled out moving to the state because of a law limiting legal protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people. That’s according to University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings, who also told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday she’s unaware […]

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