“HUD To Probe Housing Bias Cases Involving Sexual Orientation Or Gender Identity“ “LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act” “Trans people can serve openly in the US military once again” “Biden reverses Trump’s transgender military ban” “OP-ED: The US Senate must listen to business on LGBT+ equality” “Pete Buttigieg represents progress, but the LGBTQ community needs more” “Transgender bills spark new corporate backlash against states” “Disney theme parks will now allow employees to show tattoos and wear gender-inclusive costumes” “These transgender people transitioned during COVID-19 and are bracing for a return to the office“
OCTOBER 28 – ABC News 1st American with ‘X’ gender passport speaks out on ‘awesome moment’
JULY 6 – Out Magazine Disneyland Drops Gendered ‘Boys & Girls’ Greeting From Fireworks Show
JUNE 30 – SHRM Pride Month: How Employers Can Be Allies
JUNE 29 – Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility LGBTQIA+ Latinx Equality in Corporate America: An Intersectional Perspective
JUNE 29 – HR Works LGBTQ+ Discrimination is a Major Struggle
JUNE 23 – Market Watch NFL player Carl Nassib donated $100K to The Trevor Project – 5 other LGBTQ groups to support during Pride Month
JUNE 23 – Industry Week Bringing Your Authentic Self to Work
JUNE 23 – SAP Insights Respecting Pronouns: Why Recognizing Employees’ Gender Expression Is Important to the Workplace
JUNE 22 – CNBC For some LGBTQ employees, remote work is a ‘game changer’ for inclusion
JUNE 22 – Human Resource Executive Why every part of HR needs to step up for LGBTQ employees
JUNE 17 – The Hill LGBTQ+ parents respond to SCOTUS decision allowing exclusion by adoption agencies
JUNE 17 – MetroWeekly US Department of Education Confirms Title IX Protects Transgender Students
JUNE 17 – PinkNews Biden administration extends vital Title IX protections to LGBT+ students amid wave of anti-trans attacks
JUNE 16 – Bay Area Reporter Advocates applaud US education department’s application of Title IX to LGBTQ community
JUNE 11 – Denver Business Journal QUEER TO STAY: How to make your Denver office inclusive of transgender and nonbinary workers
JUNE 10 – AI THORITY IBM Study: LGBT+ Discrimination In US Workplaces Remains High, Despite Global Focus On Social Justice
JUNE 10 – IT Online LGBT+ workplace discrimination still high
JUNE 9 – USA Today For LGBTQ employees of color, sexual orientation is the biggest source of discrimination in the workplace
JUNE 9 – Think Advisory LGBTQ Community Still Faces Discrimination in Housing, Employment
JUNE 9 – Them Almost Half of Queer People Say They Face Discrimination at Work
JUNE 9 – Advocate 45% of Americans Believe Employers Discriminate Based on Sexuality
JUNE 9 – MarketWatch Almost half of LGB professionals experience discrimination at work — and it’s even worse for people of color
JUNE 9 – Becker’s Hospital Review Nearly half of LGBTQ employees feel discriminated against by their employer, IBM study finds
MAY 10 – NY Daily News Biden restores transgender health discrimination protections that Trump rolled back
MAY 10 – Rolling Stone HHS Reverses Trump-Era Policy, Restores Transgender Health Care Protections
MAY 10 – Them The White House Says Healthcare Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ People Is Illegal
MAY 10 – Dallas Voice Biden restoring healthcare nondiscrimination protections
MAY 10 – Cleveland Scene Reversing a Trump Policy, the Biden White House is Restoring Transgender Health Protections
APRIL 21 – The Hill Transgender bills spark new corporate backlash against states
APRIL 13 – Insider Disney theme parks will now allow employees to show tattoos and wear gender-inclusive costumes
APRIL 13 – CNBC Disney updates park dress code on hair and jewelry, allows workers to uncover tattoos
APRIL 13 – Orlando Business Journal Disney to relax longstanding worker appearance standard to broaden diversity and inclusion mission
APRIL 13 – The Sun Disneyland adopts ‘gender inclusive’ hair and dress rules for employees
MARCH 31 – Pink News Joe Biden calls upon all Americans to join the fight for trans rights, becoming first president to mark Trans Day of Visibility
MARCH 30 – USA Today These transgender people shifted genders during COVID and are bracing for a return to the office
MARCH 25 – Gay City News In Historic First, Senate Confirms HHS Official Rachel Levine
MARCH 24 – Out Magazine Dr. Rachel Levine Makes History as First Out Trans Senate-Confirmation
MARCH 24 – USA TODAY More inclusive language, more diversity’: How language evolution creates equality
MARCH 1 – PinkNews Virginia to become 12th state to ban abhorrent gay and trans panic defenses. Only 38 more to go.
FEBRUARY 28 – LGBTQNation Ban on so-called gay & trans “panic” defenses will become law in Virginia
FEBRUARY 26 – MetroWeekly Virginia lawmakers pass Danica Roem’s bill to ban gay and trans panic defenses
FEBRUARY 25 – Reuters LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act
FEBRUARY 24 – NorthJersey.com LGBTQ community hopes for ‘same rights’ as everyone else ahead of Equality Act vote
FEBRUARY 19 – Qnotes Biden Administration Steps Up Support for LGBTQ Community
FEBRUARY 16 – Edge Media Network Arne Sorenson, President and CEO of Marriott International and LGBTQ Ally, Dies at 62
FEBRUARY 11 – Housing Wire HUD vows to protect LGBTQ from housing discrimination
FEBRUARY 11 – GoPride Chicago HUD to crack down on LGBTQ housing discrimination
FEBRUARY 11 – NPR HUD To Probe Housing Bias Cases Involving Sexual Orientation Or Gender Identity
FEBRUARY 8 – The Hill Pete Buttigieg represents progress, but the LGBTQ community needs more
FEBRUARY 4 – LGBTQ Nation Biden issues presidential memo protecting rights of LGBTQ people internationally
FEBRUARY 4 – Metro Weekly Biden issues memo calling for protection of LGBTQI+ rights abroad
FEBRUARY 2 – LGBTQ Nation Pete Buttigieg becomes America’s first out Cabinet member
FEBRUARY 2 – Metro Weekly Pete Buttigieg confirmed as U.S Secretary of Transportation
FEBRUARY 2 – The Advocate Pete Buttigieg Becomes First Out Senate-Confirmed Cabinet Member
JANUARY 29 – Washington Blade Va. House subcommittee approves bill to ban LGBTQ panic defense
JANUARY 28 – LGBTQ Nation Gender Binary is Old News
JANUARY 25 – NBC News Biden reverses Trump’s transgender military ban
JANUARY 25 – Vox Trans people can serve openly in the US military once again
JANUARY 25 – MetroWeekly President Biden repeals Trump’s ban on transgender service members
JANUARY 21 – Edge Media Network White House Website Now More Inclusive Thanks to Pronoun Options
JANUARY 21 – The Bay Area Reporter LGBTQ Agenda: Queer advocates laud Biden Day 1 executive orders
JANUARY 20 – The Bay Area Reporter Chase announces $5M in grants to LGBTQ groups
JANUARY 20 – MetroWeekly President Biden issues executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination
JANUARY 18 – Fintech Zoom JPMorgan Chase Donates $5 Million to LGBTQ Organizations Amid Pandemic
JANUARY 18 – LGBTQ Nation 6 organizations to donate to in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day
JANUARY 14 – San Francisco Business Times JPMorgan Chase donates $1 million to Out & Equal — the LGBTQ nonprofit’s largest gift ever
JANUARY 14 – The Hill JPMorgan Chase is donating $5 million to these LGBTQ+ causes