Moving Equality Forward
With the election of Barack Obama and more fair-minded lawmakers in the U.S. Congress than ever before, there are new opportunities to advance equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The Obama administration and the 111th Congress can begin to take critical steps forward to improve access to medical care, workplace equality, family protections, public health, community safety and more for the LGBT community.
The Human Rights Campaign has drafted two key documents outlining how the Obama administration and Congress can take definitive action to move equality forward.
HRC and the Obama Administration
Read blog postings, on HRC Back Story, about our work to advance equality under the new administration.
- Eric Holder and the LGBT Community
- Human Rights Campaign releases its 111th Congress legislative plan: 'Roadmap for Congressional Action'
- Senate Judiciary Committee approves Eric Holder
- Family benefits for State Department Employees: HRC will lobby Secretary of State Clinton to reward equal service with equal rights
- TAKE ACTION: Ask your Senators to support Eric Holder, President Obama's nominee for Attorney General
- UPDATE: Vote on Attorney General nominee Eric Holder postponed
- Official White House website outlines LGBT platform
- NYT Op-ed: U.S. Civil Rights Commission should make LGBT equality a top priority
- Update: Holder Confirmation Hearings
- David Medina joins list of LGBT people slated to join Obama Administration
- TODAY: Janet Napolitano confirmation hearing for Secretary of Homeland Security
- Today: Eric Holder confirmation hearing for Attorney General
- VIDEO: Change.gov coverage of Obama transition team meeting with LGBT leaders
- State Department LGBT group welcomes Clinton support for reviewing unequal policies
- Joe Solmonese: The Next Step...
- Eric Shinseki, Obama's nominee for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, faces confirmation hearing today
- John Berry poised to manage the largest civilian workforce in the U.S.
- Openly gay Mark Dybul to remain U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
- HAPPENING NOW: Arne Duncan confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education
- HAPPENING NOW: Senator Hillary Clinton confirmation hearing for Secretary of State
- Obama's spokesman: Don't Ask Don't Tell will go
- Cabinet confirmation hearings to take place next week; Eric Holder to go before Senate on January 15
- BREAKING: Fred Hochberg to lead U.S. Export-Import Bank
- Advocate: Brian Bond to serve as Deputy Director of Obama's Public Liaison Office
- Civil rights leaders head to Capitol Hill to encourage U.S. Senate to confirm Eric Holder
- HRC, civil rights leaders to hold press conference in support of Eric Holder for Attorney General
- Obama taps Brad Kiley to oversee White House operations
- Over 220 candidates endorsed by Human Rights Campaign PAC sworn in as 111th Congress begins
- Obama's nominee for Education Secretary sees LGBT high school dropout rates as a problem
- Obama nominates Arne Duncan as Education Secretary
- Colin Powell wants a review of Don't Ask Don't Tell
- Joe Solmomese writes open letter to President-elect Obama
- Obama to name openly gay Nancy Sutley to head White House Council on Environmental Quality
- TAKE ACTION: HRC joins federal employee groups in pushing for full partner benefits
- Obama-Biden transition team publishes plan in support of the LGBT community
- Obama transition team to implement transinclusive hiring practices