Toronto Blue Jays’ new GM Ross Atkins and president Mark Shapiro will have to win over title-hungry fans
Ahmadian argued the ‘arts events licence’ program was being exploited by the ‘no-holes-barred’ parties and as a result, legitimate gay nightclubs were losing … attorney general says Canada loses almost 36,000 jobs in November, more
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Honoring a Champion for Human Rights: Jacqueline Berrien
Honoring a Champion for Human Rights: Jacqueline Berrien
Post submitted by Mary Beth Maxwell, HRC Senior Vice President of Programs, Research and Training
The civil rights community lost an incredible champion for human rights far too soon. Jacqueline Berrien, former Chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and long-time civil rights attorney, died of cancer this month at age 53.
What is amazing is that in her too-short life she contributed decades of service and leadership in the most important civil and human rights issues of our time — serving at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Ford Foundation and in the Obama Administration. President Obama, who appointed her to the EEOC, recently said of Jackie that her “leadership and passion for ensuring everyone gets a fair chance to succeed in the workplace has changed our country for the better.”
She indeed fought for everyone. Under her leadership at the EEOC, the Commission took a more strategic and systematic approach to enforcing civil rights laws against employment discrimination – whether based on ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic
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She ensured the EEOC was a force for justice for all of us. Beginning in 2011, the Commission began to apply a robust “sex-stereotyping” approach to protect LGBT individuals under existing federal sex discrimination law. In 2012, the Commission ruled that discrimination based on transgender status or gender identity is inherently a form of prohibited sex discrimination. In 2015, the Commission ruled that sexual orientation discrimination is also inherently a form of sex discrimination, prohibited under current law. Because of these rulings, the Commission has been able to help hundreds of LGBT people who have experienced employment discrimination over the past few years.
“Jackie Berrien was at the helm of the Commission as the agency began to interpret and enforce existing sex discrimination laws vigorously on behalf of LGBT people,” Chai Feldblum, fellow Commissioner who served with Berrien, said. “None of that work could have been done without Jackie’s commitment to issues of justice for all.”
Both of the President and Commissioner Feldblum’s are so true. And one other quote comes to mind – that of Audre Lorde, poet and activist who also died too young from cancer:
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.”
Years before so many of us saw the connections between our many movements for racial, gender, economic and LGBT justice, Jackie did.
Jacqueline Berrien was an incredible leader and a lovely human being. She looked you in the eye, flashed her warm smile and remembered your name. She expected big things of all of us because none of us are free until all of us are free — and all around us we know brothers and sisters are not free of violence or injustice. LGBT activists and leaders honor her, and her contribution to our humanity and our freedom.
British actor Stephen Fry weighs in on gay marriage debate, saying it’s inevitable in Australia
British actor Stephen Fry weighs in on gay marriage debate, saying it’s inevitable in Australia
Unfounded fears … Stephen Fry has weighed in on the marriage equality debate, saying it’s inevitable in Australia. Picture: Supplied MARRIAGE equality in Australia will happen sooner rather than later and opponents to it will quickly realise their …
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Activist wins victory against circulation of online rape videos after Supreme Court asks Centre to file report on child sex racket
Activist wins victory against circulation of online rape videos after Supreme Court asks Centre to file report on child sex racket
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine if the increasing instances of rape videos and online sex rackets could be curbed if social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are made accused along with the perpetrators of sexual violence.
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New protection orders proposed to help those stalked by strangers
New protection orders proposed to help those stalked by strangers
It says such behaviour could include, for example, a patient becoming fixated on their doctor, a work colleague, or it could originate from an online interaction such as a chat room. Studies suggest the number of instances of what could be termed stranger …
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Skype Offers Free Calls to Chennai as It Battles Destructive Floods
Skype Offers Free Calls to Chennai as It Battles Destructive Floods
Skype, which lets users video chat and voice call over the Internet, is the latest tech company to use its reach to help people in a time of need, and follows Facebook’s expanding its Safety Check function last month. Safety Check automatically sends users …
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This Week In History: After 13 dry years, Prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933
This Week In History: After 13 dry years, Prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933
Killjoy,’ was laid to rest in the United States today,” wrote Sam Robertson of the Canadian Press. “The obsequies (funeral rites) are to be gay, with cocktail glasses and flasks replacing handkerchiefs in the hands of the ‘mourners,’ the last …
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Friday Night News: Carrie Fisher, Blue Neighborhood, San Bernardino, Tight End of the Year, Luis Fernando
Friday Night News: Carrie Fisher, Blue Neighborhood, San Bernardino, Tight End of the Year, Luis Fernando
Oliver Hudson details his experience with getting a bro-zilian wax. EQUALITY. UK declares full support for gay couples in the British Virgin Islands: “The United Kingdom has declared its position on how same-sex couples should be treated in its …
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What a Man Who's Paid to Touch Women Discovers About Female Sexuality
What a Man Who's Paid to Touch Women Discovers About Female Sexuality
Bodyworkers, who can get professional certification in California, Switzerland and Canada, among other progressive spots … (He’s happy to work with men, but says men generally prefer a gay bodyworker.) His clients have ranged a from a no-nonsense …
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Most Gay Miamians Aren't on Anti-HIV Drug Because They Don't Know Much About It
Most Gay Miamians Aren't on Anti-HIV Drug Because They Don't Know Much About It
The data comes from a survey on Grindr, the gay-oriented social networking and dating app … and sampled more than 4,700 users throughout the United States. Every week we collect the latest news, music and arts stories — along with film and food …
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