Hate Crimes Act Awaiting Obama’s Signature

The hate crimes act has now passed both the House and Senate. All that is left is for the President to sign it. The new law is the first expansion of civil rights protections since 1968. Read more

Immediate Response Needed…PLEASE ACT NOW!

We’ve received word that the House will vote on the Matthew Shepard Act TOMORROW (4/29).

We also know far right groups are flooding Congress with calls, emails and sickening “fact sheets” claiming that sexual orientation means criminal acts like bestiality and necrophilia, and that this bill protects those behaviors. Shame on them. Read more