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Sunday, July 27
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Source: LAist , Queerty , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Reporter Not even a widely supported goal like the maintenance of marriage equality in California can bring all LGBT activist groups or the politicians who support them together with the nation's largest and richest advocacy group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was scheduled to give the keynote speech at a major fundraising event for HRC last night in San Francisco. He was a no-show after a last-minute cancellation announced Saturday morning. HRC had promoted the event -- the...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is jumping into the middle of an uproar within the gay community whose causes he has long championed. The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a push in the Senate for a federal ban on job bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals -- but not transsexuals, cross-dressers and others whose outward appearance doesn't match their gender at birth. "We will strongly oppose it," said Roberta Sklar of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "Leaving transgender people out makes that a flawed movement." NTLTF -- "The...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: compiled by seaQwa's Qnews from HRC press release WASHINGTON -- The Human Rights Campaign Foundation on Tuesday released its annual list of the "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality." Companies with good placement on the list have been touting their records in press releases to business journals and local newspapers. The 195 companies that are that included on the list will be able to use the 2008 "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality" seal to distinguish their company as a fair-minded employer, according to HRC. The seal is given to companies who score a perfect...
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Friday, January 04
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Source: Washington Blade Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is expected to push for a Senate vote in 2008 on the same gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that the House of Representatives passed in 2007, a Kennedy spokesperson said this week. Kennedy stated on the Senate floor on Nov. 8, one day after the House passed ENDA by a vote of 235 to 184, that he hoped the Senate would follow suit by passing the employment protection bill in the current Congress, which lasts through 2008. But until this week, Kennedy’s office had not stated publicly where Kennedy stood on the demands by...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: Washington Blade Polling experts are questioning a recent Human Rights Campaign survey that asked gays about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The survey’s results, circulated last month by HRC when many gays were locked in heated debate over the measure’s lack of transgender protections, show most people who responded support the bill as written. But John Stahura, who specializes in survey research and directs the Purdue University Social Research Institute, said the survey’s methodology is problematic. “They’re playing games,” he said after reviewing survey excerpts at the Blade...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: The Nation via Yahoo! News Congressional democrats, civil rights groups and now the New York Times frame The Employment Non-Discrimination Act as an example of the politics of the possible. But an almost-definite Presidential veto makes it look like a convoluted example. An ENDA bill to protect employees from sexual orientation discrimination passed the House Wednesday, after Tammy Baldwin's amendment to include protections for transgendered employees was debated but not voted on. Expect the Senate to also keep transgendered people in the rhetoric but not the legislation. A press release...
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Friday, November 09
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As The Advocate reported earlier this week, a strong majority of gays and lesbians supported passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act even though it did not include protections for transgender people, according to a poll commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign. Since then, The Advocate has obtained the full results of the poll questions about ENDA, which passed the House of Representatives Wednesday in a 235-184 vote. The poll, a random survey of 514 LGBT Americans conducted by Knowledge Networks, Inc., of Menlo Park, Ca., asked participants two questions concerning ENDA. The first asked...
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Friday, November 09
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Source: seaQwa's Qnews According to The Politico , Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), will discuss ENDA, the House-passed bill to bar workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals this Sunday on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” talk show. The show airs at 7 am (PT) and repeats at 3 pm (PT). The only openly lesbian House member, Baldwin faces questions from Lou Chibbaro Jr. of The Washington Blade and The Hill’s Jonathan E. Kaplan. Baldwin sponsored an amendment that would have added job protections for "gender identity" back into the House bill. At the urging of House leaders, however...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to extend the nation's employment discrimination protections to gay workers, the first time the long-proposed measure has passed either chamber of Congress. In the debate, which lasted more than five hours, some members of Congress referred to the historic civil rights fight against racial prejudice while others appealed to the Democratic majority not to infringe on the rights of Christians who consider homosexuality an affront to God. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who survived beatings during marches for civil rights, said that he...
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Wednesday, November 07
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Source: Southern Voice and Windy City Times The House of Representatives today passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), marking the first time a gay employment rights bill reached the House floor in the more than 30 years since such a bill was first introduced. The vote was 235 to 184 and fell mostly along party lines with Democrats largely supporting it and Republicans mostly against it. A Republican-led motion to recommit the bill to committee just before the final vote failed by a similar tally. Earlier, Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced, but later withdrew, an amendment to...
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Wednesday, November 07
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Politics blog by Carolyn Lochhead After weeks of delay and behind-the-scenes skirmishing among Democratic leaders, the House will debate but not vote Wednesday on including transgender people in a job discrimination bill. The apparent point of the exercise is to pacify the transgender community and their allies while shielding increasingly precious freshman Democrats, whose concerns now seem to dominate every controversial policy in the House. Martinez Democratic Rep. George Miller has assured the conservative-leaning freshmen whose victories in 2006 gave Democrats...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: Washington Blade The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s most prominent mainline civil rights organization, called on members of the House of Representatives today to vote for a gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The LCCR made its views known on ENDA in a two-page joint letter signed by LCCR and six other national civil rights groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Human Rights Campaign. HRC was the only gay rights group to sign on to the letter. It was “extraordinarily difficult” to arrive at a position...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: Associated Press via Philly.com WASHINGTON - A leading gay rights group changed course Tuesday to support a job discrimination bill even though it does not include transgender workers. The Human Rights Campaign's decision to back the measure to prohibit workplace bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals provides a boost to bill supporters as a House vote nears. The group had been pushing for transgender worker protections. The organization's president, Joe Solmonese, said passage of the bill , the first federal workplace protection for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, could help pave...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: The Advocate According to a new poll, 70% of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-discrimination Act that does not include transgender people over not passing the bill at all. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign and conducted on October 26, surveyed 500 members of the LGBT community across the country. The Employment Nondiscrimination Act sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank that does not include job protections for transgender Americans was voted out of the House of Representative rules committee Monday night and is very likely to be voted on Wednesday. Rep. Tammy...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: Gay City News Gay City News has confirmed that the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, delayed for the past month due to debate over whether or not the gay rights measure should include protections against bias motivated by an individual's gender identity or expression, will go before the House Rules Committee at 5 p.m. on Monday, November 5. According to Steve Adamske, a spokesman for out gay Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, ENDA's lead sponsor, the Committee will take up the measure in the form it was scaled back to in late September, at Frank's recommendation,...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: TransGriot.blogspot.com by Monica Roberts Why does the transgender community hate HRC? It’s a question I get frequently asked in GLBT settings. Considering the recent GLBT family feud erupting over ENDA, it's an appropriate one to ask as well. Before I get started trying to shed light on it, I need to point out in the name of journalistic integrity that I was the Lobby Chair for the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) from 1999-2002. The roots of the animosity start after Stonewall. In an effort to appear more 'mainstream' to the straight community, Jim Fouratt and...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Minneapolis, Minn -- Proposals some call the most sweeping gay rights protections ever on the national level have divided Minnesota's congressional delegation and fueled debate over free speech, religious liberty and basic tolerance. Two separate bills working their way through Congress would add gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people to the groups that federal law protects from hate crimes and workplace bias. The political sensitivity of the issues surfaced last week, when leaders in the House delayed a vote on the Employee Non-Discrimination Act...
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Friday, October 26
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Source: The Hill (includes material from Washington Blade ) Reps. Tim Walz (Minn.) and Ron Klein (Fla.), leaders of the class of freshman Democrats, carried a message to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday that their fellow first-term lawmakers did not want to vote on an amendment extending civil rights to transgender employees. House Education and Labor panel Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.), whose committee passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, said he told the freshman lawmakers at their Wednesday breakfast with Pelosi that the amendment did not have the votes to pass and would...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: Gay City News With the furor over the removal of protections based on gender identity and expression in the proposed federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) now nearly a month old, the US House of Representatives stepped back from a plan - set in motion two weeks ago by Speaker Nancy Pelosi - to vote on the measure this week. It was the second time that the House Democratic leadership has altered its game plan on advancing the gay rights bill, which it hopes to pass as a sign of its determination to move the agenda it was elected to deliver. When Barney Frank, the out gay Massachusetts...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: Washington Blade Democratic leaders announced they have decided to postpone a vote in the House of Representatives this week on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. The announcement came several hours after the White House issued a statement saying that senor advisers have recommended that President Bush veto the gay rights measure if Congress were to pass it. ENDA supporters were quick to say the postponement had nothing to do with the White House veto threat, but reports surfaced giving separate reasons why House Democratic leaders chose to put off a vote on the bill for at...
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Friday, October 19
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Source: Washington Blade The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance -- Washington’s two most influential local gay political groups -- broke ranks with many of their fellow GLBT groups in states throughout the country by declining to ask Congress to vote against an employment non-discrimination bill that does not include protection for transgender persons. The Stein Club and GLAA signed on to an earlier statement circulated by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force saying they favor advancing a fully inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination...
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Friday, October 19
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle A rancorous breach within the gay community over dropping transgender people from a job discrimination bill widened Thursday when a committee approved the bill and moved it to the House floor. Four Democrats bucked their party leadership to vote against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as Congress' only open lesbian moved to add gender identity back into the bill, which Democrats had hoped would be a signal civil rights achievement on their watch. "This is the first time in the history of the civil rights movement that a bill that does not have the...
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Friday, October 19
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Source: News24 Washington (AP) Democrats sent legislation to the full House of Representatives that would prohibit workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals, despite bitter complaints from some because transgender workers would not be protected by the bill. Democratic leaders pushed forward the current bill on Thursday after discovering that including transgender workers in the legislation would cause it to be voted down in the House and promised to try for additional legislation in the future. "I believe that the step we are taking today will lay the foundation for passing...
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Thursday, October 18
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Source: PageOneQ The House Committee on Education and Labor has sent the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the full House for consideration without the inclusion of gender identity. Four Democrats voted against the bill indicating that they support an ENDA with full inclusion of gender identity. The Democrats are Rush Holt (NJ), Dennis Kucinich (OH), Yvette Clarke (NY) and Loretta Sanchez (CA).
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Thursday, October 18
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Source: Washington Post There's a saying in Congress about passing legislation: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The transgender community is learning that lesson the hard way. Today, the House Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to consider a bill that would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. Originally, the 2007 version of what is called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, introduced in April, also included gender identity. But when Democrats realized that the transgender expansion could cost them a win, they dropped it -- much...
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Wednesday, October 17
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Source: Washington Blade Gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) has announced she will seek to amend the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to restore a provision for gender identity. The announcement, made late Tuesday, came after Baldwin secured an agreement from Democratic leaders to introduce her amendment to the gay-only version of ENDA. That version, known as House Resolution 3685, is set for markup Thursday. A floor vote is likely to occur next week. United ENDA, a coalition of more than 300 state and national gay and transgender advocacy groups that support another version of ENDA that includes...
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Sunday, October 14
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she strongly disagrees with calls by some gay and transgender activists that Congress should refuse to vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act unless it includes transgender protections. Pelosi,...
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Sunday, October 14
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From New York to Seattle, gays are divided over a workplace protection bill in Congress, not because of whom it covers but because of it whom it leaves out: transgender people. At a rally on Seattle's Capitol Hill today, gay-rights activists will...
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Saturday, October 13
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At a late afternoon meeting on October 12 in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, representatives of the Democratic leadership informed key LGBT advocates that it planned to move forward with a vote on a revised version of the Employment Non-Discrimination...
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Friday, October 12
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-San Francisco) office issued a statement late Friday afternoon (October 12) saying the House Committee on Education and Labor would proceed with consideration of a sexual orientation-only version of ENDA next week,...
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