Alphonso David: Last News

Despite avoiding celebrity news like idiocy were contagious, even I could’ve predicted Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s separation would break the internet’s bottom floor and chart new depths for marital toxicity. I can’t name Kanye’s last five albums or tell you the last time Kim did that thing that makes her noteworthy (whatever it is), but of course I knew their divorce and custody dispute would eventually be adjudicated via Instagram.

voted to terminate David in September 2021 after he was accused of providing the confidential personnel file of Lindsey Boylan to aides of ex-N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo.

conduct a 30-day internal investigation into David’s role in the sexual harassment scandal. But according to David’s lawsuit, HRC’s Board co-chairs Morgan Cox and Jodie Patterson — who had previously issued a statement supporting David — called him at the start of Labor Day weekend to demand that he resign.David asked what the investigation had uncovered, and whether a report would be issued explaining what he was accused of doing wrong.

The Human Rights Campaign has fired Alphonso David, right, who had been the organization’s president since 2019 and was being widely criticized for helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, respond to sexual harassment accusations. Photo: YouTube screenshot.

168-page report found that Cuomo violated federal and state laws, and that his actions created a toxic culture of harassment and fear in his office. Investigators claimed the governor subjected women to unwanted kisses, groped their breasts or buttocks or touched them inappropriately, made insinuating remarks about their looks and their sex lives, and fostered a work environment “rife with fear and intimidation,” reports The Hill.Cuomo has denied ever touching anyone inappropriately, but many Democrats — both in New York and nationally, including President Joe Biden — called on him to resign.

Orlando Sentinel. The original bill would have mandated genital inspections and physical examinations of athletes in order to ensure transgender athletes are not competing on sports teams that match their gender identity.

committed to reversing the Trump administration’s dozens of attacks on LGBTQ rights and enacting pro-LGBTQ legislation.In addition, Biden has nominated multiple LGBTQ people to his cabinet and wider administration, including the first openly gay and transgender Senate-confirmed cabinet appointees.The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, celebrated the start of what is expected to be “the most pro-equality presidency in history.”“A new day has begun in our nation.

Washington Blade reports.Alphonso David, president of the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, slammed any attempt at LGBTQ outreach by the Trump administration.“This news is just too little too late and directly contrary to 4 years of discriminatory and oppressive anti-LGBTQ policies from the Trump administration,” David said.“As an example, rather than acknowledging the existence of Pride Month, the Trump-Pence administration used the month of June to significantly heighten their aggressive attacks on LGBTQ people — releasing new rules that sanction discrimination against LGBTQ patients and sharing plans to restrict transgender people’s access to emergency shelters,” he continued.“This election, LGBTQ people made their voices heard

With LGBTQ advocacy organizations eager for change in the new Biden administration, the Human Rights Campaign has laid out proposals lighting the way forward with a detailed guide on administrative actions to reverse President Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies.

Eli Countryman Lena Waithe said embracing her identity has ultimately helped her navigate Hollywood.“People assume that because I’m Black, or because I’m queer or because I’m a woman, those are going to be the things that I’m bumping up against all the time,” the Emmy winner said Thursday during the Legacy Keynote Conversation at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s HBCU Leading in Truth Symposium. “But in truth, it was something that worked for me because people wanted someone that checked more than one box to be in the room.

After days of thorough ballot counting, former Vice President Joe Biden emerged as the victor of the 2020 presidential election on Saturday, ousting President Trump from the White House as a one-term president.

LOS ANGELES – This year LGBTQ people faced a difficult dilemma on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day: come out, be authentic, and jump into the progressive fight for full equality – or stay closeted, silent, and sheltered from the gathering storm of anti-LGBTQ animus threatening to blow down LGBTQ rights like a house of cards. Since his first day in office, the Trump administration has been rendering invisible or rolling back LGBTQ rights and is now working hard to put Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court to replace iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Pose; Tori Cooper, the director of community engagement for HRC’s Transgender Justice Initiative; Nakiya Lynch, an HRC Youth Ambassador; Alexis Abarca, a youth HIV prevention coordinator at Howard Brown Health in Chicago; and real-life trans couple Sybastian Smith and Brandi Smith. The spots will begin airing on WarnerMedia channels on Sept.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe Human Rights Campaign Foundation has teamed up with WarnerMedia for a new series of PSAs supporting the trans and non-binary communities.The inaugural video features “Pose” star Dominique Jackson proclaiming, “I could not live without love, more importantly respect.”The series of short PSAs will begin airing Thursday and throughout the fall on all WarnerMedia channels.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and SHOWTIME, who scored a perfect 100 on HRC’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index, partnered up to launch an initiative supporting and preserving businesses that serve the LGBTQ community.

applications by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Aug.

The Williams Institute, the leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy, is hosting a virtual panel on LGBTQ rights and the recent Bostock Supreme Court decision.

Harper Jean Tobin, center, speaks at a rally for transgender health in front of the White House on May 29, 2019. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico on Wednesday indicted two men accused of murdering two transgender women last month.

The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday laid off 22 employees because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday laid off 22 employees because of the coronavirus pandemic.