Diversity Management, News and Updates
Conversion therapy has never been scientifically proven to be effective. In fact, the opposite has happened. Conversion therapy can be mentally, emotionally and even physically damaging. North Carolina is the first southern state to try and bring that area of the country out of the dark ages by banning the…
Lynn Starkey was a guidance counselor at the Catholic Roncalli High School in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for nearly 40 years — until the archdiocese fired her for marrying another woman. Now, she is suing for discrimination. Starkey filed the lawsuit July 29, alleging the archdiocese and the school discriminated against her…
Two LGBTQ former Dell employees who claimed workplace discrimination against their employer spoke out in an NPR article on July 15. Dell has been on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity lists in the past, but in a company with over 100,000 employees and offices throughout world, policy can be…
Soccer player Jaelene Hinkle got her 15 minutes of fame among Christian conservativesafter the Women’s National Soccer Team won the Women’s World Cup in France and when a year-old clip of Hinkle resurfaced on Twitter last week and famous homophobe Franklin Graham jumped to defend her. In the video, Hinkle was speaking on Pat Robertson’s 700…
Kansas is currently one of three states, including Ohio and Tennessee, that does not allow transgender people to amend the names and assigned genders on their birth certificates. That restriction is about to change. Democratic Governor Laura Kelly withdrew opposition to a lawsuit by Luc Bensimon, a transgender man, and…
New York City is expecting another interesting Congressional race as Rep. José Serrano, the longest-serving Hispanic member of Congress, retires due to illness. Vying for his upcoming open seat are Ritchie Torres, a 31-year-old Black gay man and Rubén Díaz Sr., a 76-year-old Pentecostal minister. Díaz has spent the last…
Zoe Spears, a transgender woman, was found shot to death on a sidewalk in a suburb outside of Washington, D.C. on June 13. She was found at the same intersection as another murdered transgender woman, Ashanti Carmon, who was friends with Spears. Prince George’s County police announced Thursday that they…
Brittney Ready and her wife Stacey wanted to enroll their youngest daughter Callie in the daycare program of Parkview Christian Academy of Waco, Texas, hoping that she would receive the same religious views at school as she did at home. But that’s not what happened. In a public Facebook post, Brittney…
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló (D) has thousands of people all over the world protesting him after leaked messages between Rosselló and administration officials showed Rosselló using the word “faggot” repeatedly to refer to political rivals. Officials also referred to rivals as with other derogatory terms and implied that they were…
When former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, took office in 2011, he immediately tried to get rid of Chris Godfrey, a state official in a six-year term. He was Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner. Branstad couldn’t fire Godfrey – so he asked for his resignation. Godfrey refused. In retaliation, Branstad…