Task Force to debt commission: First do no harm
By Task Force staff, April 29, 3:10 pm
As President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform holds its inaugural meeting, advocates for LGBT rights are taking note.
More than 200 Organizations Demand Immediate Action on ENDA
By Task Force staff, April 22, 9:51 am
Earlier this week, the nation’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations, along with allies in the faith, labor and civil rights communities, issued the following statement to members of the United States Congress:
Update in Clear Channel controversy
By Task Force staff, April 14, 3:35 pm
BREAKING: Late Thursday afternoon, Clear Channel issued a statement saying that it will "remove the Exodus organization from its referral system and remove links to Exodus from its website." The action was taken in response to community outcry over the controversy outlined in this blog.
Hundreds demand equal Social Security benefits for same-sex couples
By Task Force staff, April 12, 3:23 pm
An energized crowd of hundreds of people rallied at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and marched more than a mile to the Social Security Administration office in Hollywood on April 11 to demand an end to the unconscionable discrimination that deprives same-sex couple taxpayers of more than $120 million in Social Security benefits every year.
Rock for Equality to end Social Security discrimination!
By Task Force staff, April 9, 2:42 pm
The L.A Gay & Lesbian Center and the Task Force, in coalition with the AIDS Community Action Foundation, are holding a Rock for Equality rally to spotlight the discrimination against same-sex couples in receiving Social Security benefits and demand an end to this costly inequity.
‘Pope Benedict, the world is watching and waiting’
By Task Force staff, April 7, 10:46 am
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and its National Religious Leadership Roundtable are condemning the handling of the evolving scandal of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
We’re Queering the Census big time!
By Task Force staff, April 2, 2:59 pm
The Task Force’s Queer the Census campaign continues to spark widespread community excitement and media attention. More than 100,000 Queer the Census stickers, which get slapped on census envelopes and ask the Census Bureau to count LGBT people, have already been ordered. On April 1 — National Census Day — more than 1,400 people spread the word by changing their Facebook profile photos and status messages to Queer the Census. That same day, Task Force Deputy Executive Director Darlene Nipper addressed a National Census Day congressional briefing, where she talked about the campaign and the importance of ensuring LGBT people are counted. Read more.
It's National Census Day: Time to Queer the Census!
By Task Force staff, April 1, 8:20 am
Today is National Census Day! What does that mean for LGBT people?
If you haven't already, fill out your census form, seal it with a Queer the Census sticker, and mail it back!
