Sentences with phrase «of lgbt»

Commissioner Donna Corrado for the Department for the Aging said that the increased funding was needed to meet the unique needs of the LGBT community in New York.

Because he's Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., that's why — the Democrat state senator from the Bronx who's been a vocal opponent of LGBT progress in New York since at least 1994, when he tried to keep the Gay Games from his city.

On the same day that Carmen Fariña was named the new schools chancellor — and said that school safety had «improved by and large» — the departing Bloomberg administration quietly released a two - year - old study showing that nearly a third of LGBT students in city schools reported having been bullied.

«We need to applaud all of those transgendered and members of the LGBT community who have served both me and you and all of us,» James told the crowd.

The people of New York can be proud that they came together and sent a clear message to our elected leaders that they will not tolerate the use of the LGBT civil rights as a political bargaining chip.

James endorsed City Councilmember Fernando Cabrera in his challenge to State Senator Gustavo Rivera, a longtime ally of the LGBT community.

Gillibrand, who is running for re-election in 2012, has emerged as a major advocate of LGBT causes, while Diaz is a staunch opponent of same - sex marriage.

«We are absolutely supportive of all LGBT issues,» Wymore said.

The IDC's members have long been strong supporters of LGBT rights and argued that their alliance with the GOP leadership offered an opportunity to bring a progressive voice to the discussion of Senate priorities.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

Most recently, Rodriguez lost the endorsement of LGBT group Stonewall Democrats after he publicly endorsed Ruben Diaz Sr., a controversial, anti-LGBT candidate running for City Council in The Bronx.

«I do not see this as an issue of LGBT concern.»

Dromm also said that members of the LGBT community should team up with immigrant communities and support issues pertaining to immigrants such as the Park51 mosque to fight against hate and prejudice.

This year, he was able to secure $ 200,000 to advance the integration of LGBT issues in curricula, far from the millions that will be required to bring all schools up to speed in this area and make them safe for LGBT students and staff.

«Unlike all the Democratic candidates for Attorney General, Republican Dan Donovan would pursue a policy of discrimination against members of the LGBT community.

At 11:30 a.m., Suffolk County Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory and LGBT Network President / CEO Dr. David Kilmnick will join other officials to discuss the steady rise of LGBT harassment in schools and the workplace, Suffolk County Legislature, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, William J. Lindsay Complex, Smithtown, Long Island.

However, it's clear that a certain segment of the LGBT community feels it's necessary to take a less pragmatic approach in dealing with Sampson and the Senate Democrats.

After marching in the Brooklyn Pride Parade Saturday, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said: «(Y) ou will see Chirlane at this parade or me at this parade, but you will not see us at a parade that excludes members of the LGBT community.»

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a celebration of New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will take place on Friday, August 28th to formalize what has been an informal gathering at the fair by members of the LGBT community.

In a statement, Amida Care labeled the decision «a grave violation of LGBT anti-discrimination law» that «[revokes] key protections and rights for the Puerto Rican Senate's transgender employees.»

He has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights who blocked equal - marriage legislation and sought to remove LGBT victims from the country's listed hate crimes laws.

The Washington Post notes that a 2014 Gallup poll found 21 % of LGBT Americans are Republican or lean Republican.

It was founded to fight for all LGBT rights, and to create a strong voice within the Democratic Party that would represent the interests and concerns of the LGBT community.

Excerpt: «Chuck Lavine is a long - time supporter of LGBT rights.

Wasserman Schultz is pro-choice on some issues [clarification needed], supports gun control legislation, and is a supporter of the LGBT community.

California: Carl DeMaio (pictured) is the second person vying to become the first openly gay Republican elected to Congress, but his effort has been lost traction — first, by failing to win the support of the LGBT community, and, second, by being waylaid by a former campaign aide's claim that DeMaio sexually harassed him.

The closest GENDA ever came to reaching the full Senate was in 2010, when the Democrats were in the majority and the Judiciary Committee took up the bill, only to see if fall short when Bronx Democrat Ruben Diaz, Sr., an implacable foe of the LGBT community, joined every committee Republican to block it from getting any further consideration.

We need to insure that the memebers of the LGBT community are safe, and not riddled with questions of confusion.

DeMaio, a former member of the San Diego City Council, failed to win the support of the LGBT community and has been troubled by claims of sexual harassment from two former campaign aides.

Now that same - sex marriage has taken effect in New York, more than a dozen lawmakers and elected officials are holding a forum tonight on the future of the LGBT community's political obstacles.

Activist Mannan's magazine, Roopbaan, was launched two years ago and has become a platform for promoting the rights of LGBT people in Bangladesh, where homosexual acts are illegal.

Frankly, it was a shameless display of the very worst tactics of some members of the LGBT activist community and despicable display of political cowardice by career pols who should have been shown the door long ago.

The bill just barely passed, and it passed only because a small handful of career politicians were threatened wih joblessness if they didn't surrender to the threat of LGBT money from outisde their disrict targeting them.

Cuomo is supporting a legal challenge to North Carolina's new law limiting the rights of LGBT people.

At 2 p.m., Rep. Carolyn Maloney, co-chair of the House Census Caucus, will be joined by CEO of the LGBT Network David Kilmnick to speak out against the Commerce Department's decision to reverse its plan to add questions to the 2020 census regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, 1651 3rd Ave., Suite 311, Manhattan.

«Stonewall boasts that its stated purpose is to «promote equality,» yet it is ignoring the unequal treatment of LGBT people in this bill.

The LOFT offers a wide variety of vital programs and services focused on Advocacy, Education and Celebration of the LGBT people, and the community as a whole.

Hidden carefully by Sen David Koehler in SB 1123, a bill to assist the blind - like an arsenic pill hidden in a crême brulé - beneath text allowing for raises for County Clerks, the Conservatives waited until 5 pm today, in the 11th hour of this bill before its Wednesday committee vote, to slide in amendments that seek to do everything possible to tear apart the lives of LGBT people in Illinois.

In advance of next week's vote on the Same Sex Marriage Bill, Emma Burnell interviews James Asser — co-chair of LGBT Labour

With President Bill Clinton in his corner, Sean Patrick Maloney, who is gay, is doing everything he can to defeat Rep. Nan Hayworth, who has been supportive of some LGBT issues — including saying that she «respect [s]» the decision to pass marriage equality in New York.

The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) on Friday announced the official launch of an LGBT tourism marketing effort

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed to be a champion and friend of the LGBT community while pitting them against Muslims, doubling down on his calls to ban them from the U.S.

I look at the issue of LGBT equality as one of basic fairness.

In response, Azzopardi said, «There is a fundamental difference between legislative actions that strip members of the LGBT community of their rights and taking affirmative steps to help change long - standing practices in a foreign country.

She noted that when Trump tried to replace Eric Fanning, the first openly gay Army Secretary with Mark Green — an anti-LGBT state senator from Tennessee — thousands of LGBT advocates fought back, forcing him to withdraw his name from consideration for the position.

«Putin's promise that gay and lesbian Olympians and spectators will be safe in Sochi is meant to distract from his country's oppression of its LGBT citizens,» said Andrew Miller, a member of Queer Nation, a gay rights group based in New York.

PHOTO ESSAY BY WILLIAM ALATRISTE In a June 15 vigil outside the Bronx County Courthouse on the Grand Concourse overlooking Joyce Kilmer Park, members of the LGBT community and allies gathered to commemorate the murder four nights earlier of 49 patrons of the Pulse nightclub, who were gunned down by Omar Mateen, who also -LSB-...]

Bringing up his three college - age daughters who he said are frightened about the new direction of the country, Cuomo ripped what he called the new «extreme right wing agenda that will trample on our rights» and has placed women, immigrants and members of the LGBT community under attack.

Now, she says with two vacancies on the state's highest court, it's time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who championed the legalization of gay marriage in the state in 2011, to appoint a member of the LGBT community to the New York State Court of Appeals.