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As Labor Day approaches, Lambda Legal has launched its newest section of the Know Your Rights information hub. Know Your Rights Workplace provides information for LGBT and HIV+ people who face discrimination at work.
“Among callers to our Legal Help Desk, workplace issues are a top concern year after year—second only to relationship recognition,” said Greg Nevins, Counsel and Workplace Fairness Project Strategist based in… Read the rest

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Johnson & Johnson’s corporate-wide anti-bullying and LGBT equality initiative is expanding as it kicks off its third year in June.  Since 2012, donations raised through CARE WITH PRIDE have supported PFLAG’s anti-bullying efforts and this year, The Trevor Project and Family Equality Council are newly added beneficiaries.  By the end of 2014, it is projected that CARE WITH PRIDE ™ will have raised more than… Read the rest

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Event will empower the LGBTQ community by promoting equal access to education
Point Foundation today announced May 21, 2014 as the date for the inaugural educate2impact day and launched the website www.educate2impact.org. Everyone deserves equal access to education and educate2impact day will bring attention to the importance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students attending and graduating from high school and college.
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Offers investors a “new kind of socially responsible investing”:
Equality Funds, a nationally certified lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) business enterprise, has announced it is launching investment products and options for those who wish to invest in LGBT-friendly businesses.  They also revealed the criteria used to determine whether or not a business qualifies as LGBT-friendly, offered statistics demonstrating that investing in LGBT-friendly businesses could… Read the rest

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HRC Foundation Honors 304 Major U.S. Employers 
Historic year for Corporate America’s leadership in fight for LGBT equality
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, will honor 304 major U.S. employers as its 2014 ‘Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality” at the 12th Annual LGBT Workplace Awards Reception tonight.  This… Read the rest

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The seventh annual Out & Equal Executive Forum convened 55 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) executives from many of the world’s largest companies to share success stories and advance LGBT equality in the workplace. Over the course of the two-day symposium, held March 12 and 13 at Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco, leaders rallied around the theme: Better Together.
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MassMutual Joins Forces with NGLCC to Support LGBT Business Owners and Showcase Diversity of Talent in LGBT Communities
Bring Hands-on Road Shows to LGBT Businesses in California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and Ohio
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) announced today that it has become a corporate partner with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) to help that organization advance the economic equality… Read the rest

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Brewers Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Say No to Discrimination, Drop Sponsorships of St. Patrick’s Day Parades
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today hailed the decisions of major brewers, Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams for dropping sponsorships of St. Patrick’s Day parades which discriminate by excluding openly LGBT participants.
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