Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, President Biden called for the need to increase equality of LGBTQ individuals around the globe. He also told the global leaders gathered at the meeting that it was their responsibility to draft and approve laws…
America’s LGBTQ veterans have big news to celebrate. To mark the 10th anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military policy that shamefully encouraged military personnel to hide their LGBTQ identity, the Veterans Affairs Department has issued a notice confirming all LGBTQ veterans discharged under the policy…
RuPaul Charles is already an LGBTQ icon, the most famous drag queen on the planet and executive producer of a global reality TV empire, but he can now add another crown to the list of honors he has received. With a record-breaking 11 Emmy wins, the latest of which occurred…
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis continues to make LGBTQ political history. In 2008, he became the first openly gay man ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A decade later, he became the first openly gay man elected to the position of state governor. And now, with his marriage to…
In 2018, transgender individuals living in North Carolina, employed by the state, and enrolled in the state’s health care coverage plan lost the right to seek out vital and needed transition-related treatment. But a new 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court ruling has reversed that decision. Barbara Grzincic of…
Justice has been served for a Georgia teenager whose violent high school attack was captured on video and has since gone viral on social media. According to reports, the culprit faces juvenile charges for attacking another student wearing an LGBTQ Pride flag after being egged on by peers with a…
President Biden issued guidelines earlier this year telling employers and schools that illegal discrimination against LGBTQ individuals had no place in the country and wouldn’t be tolerated. Still, not everyone appears to believe those recommendations apply to them. The Advocate’s Trudy Ring has reported that in a new court filing,…
When school board members in Newberg, Oregon, decided to ban all displays of LGBTQ Pride, Black Lives Matter and other signs with supposed “political” meaning, a couple living on a farm nearby decided it was up to them to stand up for and support the rights and identities of impacted…
U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Tuesday, August 17, that he and his husband, Chasten, were in the process of becoming parents. It’s a historic step for the D.C. couple — Buttigieg is the first openly gay individual ever confirmed by the Senate to serve in the President’s Cabinet….
The Virginia Tech campus has been rocked by a series of anti-LGBTQ attacks in recent weeks. Cynthia Silva of NBC News reported that “for the third time in two weeks, a rainbow Pride flag was stolen from outside a religious center on the Virginia Tech campus.” During the previous attacks,…
