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HRC and SHOWTIME Launch Initiative to Support LGBTQ Businesses Affected by COVID-19

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 comm...

COVID in Incarceration

Incarcerated LGBTQ seniors were already in a precarious situation before the pandemic. Now, elderly people are dying from COVID-19 in Georgia prisons. In the month of May alone, the Georgia Department of ...

Alzheimer’s Association’s Tips for Caregiving During COVID-19 Pandemic

Most likely, dementia does not increase risk for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, just like dementia does not increase risk for flu. However, dementia-related behaviors, increase...

The Real Virus

We are not OK. This is not normal. We all must acknowledge we are in a crisis, that we are in danger and that things are very serious. Things are not right. This is not how we are supposed to be living our live...

Fauci: No Clear Evidence HIV Heightens Coronavirus Risk

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday said it remains unclear whether people with HIV are more vulnerable to the coronavirus. “The story is not yet completely out in individuals with HIV,” he said during a panel that ...

More LGBTQ People are Experiencing Depression and Anxiety for the First Time Due to COVID-19

A new study shows that many members of the LGBTQ community are experiencing anxiety and depression for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic. The survey of nearly 2,300 LGBTQ people found that, con...

HIV Medications May Lower Risk of COVID-19, Study Finds

A new study has revealed that HIV-positive people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications have a lower risk of getting coronavirus, experiencing severe symptoms, and dying from COVID-19-related complication...

BREAKING: Coronavirus Pandemic Moves Atlanta Pride 2020 Online

The Atlanta Pride Committee (APC) announced today (July 1) that the 2020 Pride Festival, originally scheduled for October 10 and 11, will not be held in person due to the coronavirus pandemic. The in-person fes...

HRC Releases Report Detailing Effect of COVID-19 on LGBTQ Domestic Violence

A new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) shows that LGBTQ people are more likely to be victims of interpersonal, intimate violence, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, LGBTQ Intima...

COVID-19 Redraws the 2020 LGBTQ Travel Roadmap

When Dorothy returned from Oz and declared, “There’s no place like home,” that dewy tribute to domesticity made sense, coming from a Kansas farm girl recently abducted by flying monkeys and repeatedly threatene...

Research Details Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Transgender Community

New research from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) and PSB Research reveals the disproportionate economic impact COVID-19 has had on the transgender community. The research found that transgender p...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Trump Staffer Terminated from USAID Upon Anti-LGBTQ Twitter Tirade

Savannah City Council Unanimously Passes Non-discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

4 in 10 Black LGBTQ Men Experience Police Discrimination, Study Finds

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

‘The Ellen DeGeneres’ Show Under Investigation Over Claims of a Toxic Work Environment

LGBTQ Shows and Characters Pick Up Emmy Nominations

WATCH: HRC Releases Video with Billy Porter Urging People to Protest and Vote

HRC and SHOWTIME Launch Initiative to Support LGBTQ Businesses Affected by COVID-19

COVID in Incarceration

Alzheimer’s Association’s Tips for Caregiving During COVID-19 Pandemic

The Real Virus

Fauci: No Clear Evidence HIV Heightens Coronavirus Risk

More LGBTQ People are Experiencing Depression and Anxiety for the First Time Due to COVID-19

HIV Medications May Lower Risk of COVID-19, Study Finds

BREAKING: Coronavirus Pandemic Moves Atlanta Pride 2020 Online

HRC Releases Report Detailing Effect of COVID-19 on LGBTQ Domestic Violence

COVID-19 Redraws the 2020 LGBTQ Travel Roadmap

Research Details Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Transgender Community

Trump Staffer Terminated from USAID Upon Anti-LGBTQ Twitter Tirade

Savannah City Council Unanimously Passes Non-discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo

4 in 10 Black LGBTQ Men Experience Police Discrimination, Study Finds

LGBTQ Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown Indicted for Fraud

New Study Reveals HIV Misinformation and Stigma Common Among Americans

House Votes to Defund Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

HRC and SHOWTIME Launch Initiative to Support LGBTQ Businesses Affected by COVID-19

25 Percent of LGBTQ Youth Use Pronouns Outside the Gender Binary, Survey Finds

WATCH: John Lewis Funeral Procession Pauses at Rainbow Crosswalk to Honor LGBTQ Legacy