Equality California Condemns Senate Gun Safety Vote, Calls for Reforms
Equality California Condemns Senate Gun Safety Vote, Calls for Reforms Los Angeles – In response to today’s defeat in the U.S. Senate of four gun control measures addressing gun violence, Equality...
View ArticleCapital Public Radio – LGBT Groups Push For “Common Sense” Gun Safety Measures
Drew Sandsor | Capital Public Radio Spurred on by the Orlando nightclub massacre, LGBT groups have announced a campaign pushing what they call common sense gun safety measures. Gay rights leaders say...
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Why LGBT Pride Is So Personal for Me as a Gay Man – Sup. Scott Wiener
It’s Pride month, a time when San Francisco and cities around the world celebrate the strength, resilience, and sheer fabulousness of the LGBT community. If last year’s Pride was marked by celebration...
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Senate Votes Down Gun Control, Leaves Change up to Voters
By Karen Ocamb, contributing journalist Roberta Flack’s Vietnam War era song now hangs like a moral pall over America: “Business goes on as usual, except that my baby is dead.” Once again, despite the...
View ArticleAmerica Feels ‘Deeper Than Sadness’ After Shootings
By Karen Ocamb, contributing journalist A touch of madness is sweeping the land, laying bare bubbling bias and carving societal fissures so deep, caring souls fear never being able to repair the...
View ArticleEquality California: FADA Hearing is Slap in the Face to the LGBT Community
Equality California: FADA Hearing is Slap in the Face to the LGBT Community Los Angeles – In response to today’s congressional hearing on the so-called First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), Equality...
View ArticleAJR 45: Equality Act Resolution
The federal Equality Act would ensure that vulnerable communities have equal protection from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equality Act updates the federal definition of public...
View ArticleBay Area Reporter op-ed – Gun safety: A step forward in CA, an uphill fight...
http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=guest_op&article=571 By Rick Zbur, Equality California Executive Director As the LGBT community continues to reel from the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in...
View ArticleLGBTs debate gun laws
By Seth Hemmelgarn As the U.S. reels from recent gun violence that includes the massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the fatal police shootings of two African-American men in...
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State Education Board Adopts LGBT-Inclusive History-Social Science Guidelines
Sacramento – The California State Board of Education today adopted a new History-Social Science Framework. The Framework sets out guidelines for K-12 schools to implement content standards for history...
View ArticleEquality California Condemns Pence as Trump VP Choice
Los Angeles – In response to reports that presidential candidate Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur issued the...
View ArticleEquality California: Anti-LGBT GOP Platform an ‘Insult’ to Millions of...
Equality California: Anti-LGBT GOP Platform an ‘Insult’ to Moderate Republicans Los Angeles – In response to the anti-LGBT platform announced this week by the Republican National Committee, Equality...
View ArticleSF Chronicle – California school officials adopt landmark LGBT coursework
By Jill Tucker Updated 8:50 pm, Thursday, July 14, 2016 State officials on Thursday added the evolution of gay rights and the contributions of lesbian and gay figures in history to the list of topics...
View ArticleSanta Barbara Independent – Brown Signs Bill to Recognize Marriage Equality...
Friday, July 15, 2016 by SHOMIK MUKHERJEE Over a year removed from the Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on June 5 to broaden the...
View ArticleSF Chronicle – Pence would be good VP choice for Trump’s base, analysts say
By Melody Gutierrez July 14, 2016 Updated: July 14, 2016 7:58pm http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Pence-would-be-good-VP-choice-for-Trump-s-base-8379297.php SACRAMENTO — Republican...
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Equality California/Equality California Institute Field Associate Job Description Organizational Background: Equality California (EQCA) is California’s largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
View ArticleMother Jones – California Now Has an LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum
By Becca Andrews | Tue Jul. 19, 2016 12:05 PM EDT Last week, the California Board of Education unanimously voted to approve a new history-social science curriculum for students from elementary through...
View ArticleInternational Business Times – California is first US state to teach LGBT...
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/california-first-us-state-teach-lgbt-history-schools-1571181 By Harriet Sinclair July 18, 2016 12:14 BST California is to become the first state in the US to teach LGBT history...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times – California’s students will soon learn more LGBT history...
By Joy Resmovits California’s students will soon be learning more about LGBT people and their struggles after state education officials voted to include contributions from the community in history and...
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