Director Drew Stephens is a self-confessed film hobbyist – he makes films as a hobby. But he’s not doing it just for fun. He’s also using his “hobby” to teach the world a thing or two on equality and bullying.
(CNS) – The FBI’s Los Angeles field office launched a multi-lingual campaign Wednesday to raise awareness about hate crimes and encourage victims to report them. The FBI considers hate crimes to be criminal offenses against a person or property that is motivated at least in part “by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, […]
Melanie Notinger wrote and directed the short film “Dress Code” as a way to understand gender identity. The result is a poetic look on representation and finding your truth. I spoke with Notinger about the making of her film on NBC Palm Springs’ The Morning Show. “Dress Code” premieres Sunday, September 19th at 12:15 pm […]
Doctor Mark Ghaly, the California Health and Human Services secretary announced that laboratories and health providers must now include sexual orientation and gender identity in COVID-19 testing reporting data. In addition to the collection of this new data, this also calls for the improvement on race and ethnicity reporting. Ghaly says this data will help […]
(CNN) — Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed into law a bill banning the controversial practice of “conversion therapy” for minors, according to a release from his office Tuesday. The legislation, House Bill 386, adds the commonwealth to a growing list of states that have issued similar bans on the widely discredited practice, which attempts to forcibly […]
Utah is now the 19th state to outlaw conversion therapy for minors after a new rule from its governor went into effect late Tuesday. The ban issued by Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, comes a year after an effort to end the practice in the conservative state stalled in the legislature. Conversion therapy is an attempt […]
A Dallas judge has ruled that both parents should have joint custody of a 7-year-old whose gender identity became central to their court battle, which drew attention from politicians across Texas. The judge’s order came just days after a jury rendered a verdict giving the mother sole conservatorship of the child. In her ruling, Judge […]
Berkeley, California, a city with a long history of progressivism, is moving forward with a plan to remove all gendered language from its city code as part of an effort to recognize its nonbinary residents. Soon, in the Bay Area city just east of San Francisco, all instances of “he” and “she” in the city code will […]
