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Featured article A blast from the queer past Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was a US American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and LGBT rights. He was a leading activist and strategist of the civil-rights movement from 1947–1968, helping to initiate a 1947 Freedom Ride to challenge with civil disobedience racial segregation on interstate busing. He recognized Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen King's leadership; Rustin promoted the philosophy of nonviolence and the practices of nonviolent resistance, which he had observed while working with Gandhi's movement in India. He was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony. (more...) |
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Featured actionPass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act! The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is a proposed anti-discrimination bill in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by civilian, nonreligious employers with at least 15 employees. ENDA has been introduced in every Congress, except the 109th, since 1994, albeit without gender identity protections, but gained its best chance at passing after the Democratic Party broke twelve years of Republican Congressional rule in the 2006 midterm elections. However, some sponsors believed that even with a Democratic majority, ENDA did not have enough votes to pass the House of Representatives with transgender inclusion, and dropped it from the bill, which passed and subsequently died in the Senate. LGBT advocacy organizations were divided over support of the changed bill. In 2009, on the heels of the 2008 elections that strengthened the Democratic majority, and after the debacle of the 2007 ENDA divisions, only a transgender-inclusive ENDA was introduced by House representative Barney Frank. Frank reintroduced the bill in 2011. Shortly thereafter, the bill was introduced in the Senate by Jeff Merkley. President Barack Obama supports the bill's passage. (More...)
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