Actors’ Equity Association Celebrates Trans Day of Visibility
Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, is celebrating International Transgender Day …
The Fight for LGBTQ Human Rights and Equality is Far From Over
By Erik Olvera, Chief Communications Officer, SPLCenter
We’re celebrating three historic moments in the fight for LGBTQ equality this month. Five years ago, on …
In Celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month and Stonewall 50
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented four special awards to trailblazers in the LGBTQ+ community
By New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer
This June is a poignant moment in the history of New York City. Fifty years ago …
New York May Soon Reverse 1992 Ban on Having Children Through Surrogacy
New York is one of only two states in the country to criminalize surrogacy...
By Lisette Voytko
[…a four-year-old bill in Albany…] would not only legalize surrogacy but add protections for surrogates, including health insurance provided by the …
Trans Women Are Fighting Back Against Police Abuse
transgender people are often profiled as sex workers and targeted with bogus arrests
By NYCLU
On her way home from the bus stop on a spring night in the Bronx last year, Linda Dominguez cut across a …