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Alabama Senate Passes Anti-LGBTQ Bill; HRC Alabama Calls on Governor Ivey To Reject It
Alabama Senate Passes Anti-LGBTQ Bill; HRC Alabama Calls on Governor Ivey To Reject It
Today, HRC denounced the Alabama State Senate and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh for passing the anti-LGBTQ H.B. 24. HRC Alabama calls upon Governor Kay Ivey to not sign this bill, which would most harm the children in Alabama’s child welfare system.
The bill, deceptively titled the “Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act,” would enshrine discrimination into Alabama law by allowing state-licensed adoption and foster care agencies to reject qualified prospective LGBTQ adoptive or foster parents based on the agency’s religious beliefs.
“Plain and simple — H.B. 24 is discrimination dressed up as a ‘solution’ to a fake problem,” said Eva Kendrick, HRC Alabama State Director. “It creates an unnecessary hardship for potential LGBTQ adoptive or foster parents in Alabama and primarily harms the children looking for a loving home. It’s unfortunate that leaders continue to push this bill, even as child welfare organizations, faith leaders and fair-minded Alabamians are standing up and calling this bill out for what it is: discrimination. We now ask Governor Kay Ivey to not sign into law this harmful bill.”
As of this morning, more than 50 faith leaders have joined an open letter to legislators in Montgomery opposing this unnecessary, harmful bill. In it, they note their faith does not call for them to discriminate, but instead, to serve all — regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or any other perceived “difference.”
H.B. 24 would allow state-licensed child-placing agencies to disregard the best interest of children, and turn away qualified Alabamians seeking to care for a child in need — including LGBTQ couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other parents to whom the agency has a religious objection. The measure would even allow agencies to refuse to place foster children with members of their own extended families — a practice often considered to be in the best interest of the child. A qualified, loving LGBTQ grandparent, for example, could be deemed unsuitable under the proposed law.
Research consistently shows that LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in the foster care system, as many have been rejected by their families of origin because of their LGBTQ status, and are especially vulnerable to discrimination and mistreatment while in foster care. This bill would only exacerbate the challenges faced by LGBTQ young people.
In 2014, HRC launched Project One America, an initiative geared towards advancing social, institutional and legal equality in Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi. HRC Alabama continues to work to advance equality for LGBTQ Alabamians who have no statewide protections in housing, workplace, or public accommodations; or legal state recognition for their relationships and families. Through HRC Alabama, we are working toward a future of fairness every day — changing hearts, minds and laws toward achieving full equality.
Tennessee State Senate Committee approves #SlateofHate's dangerous “LGBTQ Erasure Bill”
Tennessee State Senate Committee approves #SlateofHate's dangerous “LGBTQ Erasure Bill”
Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD – the world’s LGBTQ media advocacy organization, released the following statement after the Tennessee State Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 1085, a measure that’s a part of Tennessee’s #SlateofHate. If signed into law, SB 1085 could invalidate marriages of LGBTQ couples and legal documents that affirm a transgender person’s true identity by stating that any “undefined” words be given their “natural and ordinary meaning.”
“The Tennessee State Senate is trying to sneak through an anti-LGBTQ bill that uses carefully worded language to hide its attempt to discriminate against LGBTQ Tennesseans. This mean-spirited bill could undermine marriages of gay and lesbian couples and nullify a transgender person’s true identity under law. Lawmakers should be spending time improving lives not pushing forward state-sanction discrimination.”
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: TENNESSEE’S REMAINING #SLATEOFHATE
SB30/HB33 – Requires words “father,” “mother,” “husband,” and “wife” be “based on the biological distinctions between men and women,” thereby targeting LGBTQ parents and couples.
- Especially impacting LGBTQ families, a child’s parent, if not the biological parent, might not be recognized as such by law
- Transgender people’s gender identity may not be recognized by law
SB1085/HB1111. – States any “undefined” words be given their so-called “natural and ordinary meaning,” opening non-traditional/LGBTQ couples and families up to discrimination.
- Affects every undefined word in the Tennessee code
- May interfere with the marriages of same-sex couples and LGBTQ families
- Transgender people’s gender identity may not be recognized by law
SB1153/HB1406 – Claims children conceived through artificial insemination are not “legitimate” children of their parents by repealing statue that protects them.
- Targets LGBTQ couples, single parents, and their children
- Allows the government to refuse to recognize LGBTQ families and only list one parent
- Creates roadblocks for LGBTQ parents trying to adopt their own children
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Arabic Media Shows Anti-LGBT Bias — But That Could Change
Arabic Media Shows Anti-LGBT Bias — But That Could Change
After compiling a study on media in the Arab world, OutRight International is developing a training program to improve coverage of LGBT issues.
www.advocate.com/world/2017/4/18/arabic-media-shows-anti-lgbt-bias-could-change
Pride’s got Talent Heat 4 at the Halfway2Heaven Pub, London
Pride’s got Talent Heat 4 at the Halfway2Heaven Pub, London
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London, 18th April 2017; Pride’s got Talent competition Heat 4 at the Halfway2Heaven pub in London; An act at the end of the event
Police Investigating Hate Letter Threatening Toronto Pride Parade
Police Investigating Hate Letter Threatening Toronto Pride Parade
A hate letter filled with homophobic language and including threatening references to Toronto’s Pride parade was sent to the office of the only LGBT-identified city councilor, Kristyn Wong-Tam, this past Wednesday.
A line from the letter reads: “Now with the police not at your f_g parade, it makes it easy to hurt you all in a big way.”
“I think it’s really important for us to recognize that when language that is used is hateful and discriminatory, it actually creates a climate of fear and violence,” Wong-Tam said. “It can lead to violence, and I don’t want people to feel unsafe.”
After contacting security at City Hall, Wong-Tam and her team were told to report the incident to Toronto Police, who is now investigating.
The return address listed on the envelope is that of CityNews, a publication that is itself under investigation for its neo-Nazi views and imagery. Its editor-in-chief has denied any association with the letter, and police are considering the possibility that the address was used as a misdirection.
Wong-Tam noted the irony that she received the hateful missive on the Day of Pink, an international observance against bullying, discrimination, homophobia and transphobia.
Today I received new homophobic hate mail on #DayofPink. #irony #stopbullyingnow #lovetrumpshate #Toronto pic.twitter.com/Ysjs3PAncy
— Kristyn Wong-Tam (@kristynwongtam) April 12, 2017
She also thanked supporters for their expressions of solidarity in reaction to the letter in a follow-up tweet: “Thank you everyone for the positive messages. You represent the best of Toronto.”
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Police Investigating Hate Letter Threatening Toronto Pride Parade
CDU-Präsidiumsmitglied Spahn: “Homosexuelle Partnerschaften werden eher akzeptiert als alleinerziehende Mütter”
CDU-Präsidiumsmitglied Spahn: “Homosexuelle Partnerschaften werden eher akzeptiert als alleinerziehende Mütter”
In einem Interview hat CDU-Politiker Spahn das schlechte Ansehen alleinerziehender Mütter beklagtHomosexuelle Partnerschaften seien in manchen Kreise…
Weiterlesen: Nachrichten, Politik, Jens Spahn, Alleinerziehend, Eltern, Homosexuell, Germany News
www.huffingtonpost.de/2017/04/18/spahn-alleinerziehende-homosexuelle_n_16083260.html
Human Rights Group Hopes to Evacuate Gay Men From Chechnya
Human Rights Group Hopes to Evacuate Gay Men From Chechnya
A group is hoping to start a “rainbow railroad” from Chechnya to Canada.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/4/18/human-rights-group-hopes-evacuate-gay-men-chechnya
As L.A. Pride embraces anti-Trump resistance, advertisers head for the exit
As L.A. Pride embraces anti-Trump resistance, advertisers head for the exit
“The community is behind us.”
Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears Announces Five City Solo Tour
Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears Announces Five City Solo Tour
Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears today announced a five city solo tour in June through cities in the U.S. south: Louisville, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, and New Orleans.
Shears made the announcement on Instagram.
Tickets go on sale this Friday. Perhaps we’ll soon be hearing the first new music in years from the Scissors frontman.
He recently played with Sofi Tukker at Coachella.
And he’s been playing around in the studio.
We shall see.
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