Human Rights Campaign Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Nina Pop – Photo: Facebook

The sun is out, an early summer beckons and if not for the masks and gloves and deserted streets in once-popular ghost towns, restless Californians may not know that a silent highly contagious plague is sweeping the land. Even more silent is the ignored erasure of the LGBTQ community.

The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday laid off 22 employees because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A scene from New York City Pride; this year’s event has been cancelled. (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

Donald Trump — Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr

Ralph Northam – Photo: Facebook.

The Hungarian Parliament in Budapest (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

This month the LGBTQ community and the world at large were shocked by the news that reverberated across the country regarding the grievous murder of Monika Diamond. A young, black transgender activist, this thirty-four-year-old businesswoman who was co-owner of an event promotion company was active in the Charlotte, North Carolina community as the Co-CEO of the International Mother of the Year Pageantry System that honors LGBTQ mothers.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little – Photo: Facebook.

Photo: Whitman-Walker Health.

Monika Diamond – Photo: Facebook.

El movimiento LGBTQ está preocupado y alerta en Chile.

Source: Ted Eytan – Flickr

Demonstrators protest a South Dakota bill that sought to bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care in February 2020. The bill was defeated in committee. – Photo: Greg Latza/ACLU.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released their March voter snapshot, which gives insight into the power of LGBTQ and pro-LGBTQ voters in states casting their votes this month.

A D.C. conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs among Latinos opened on Monday with a moment of silence for a transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Puerto Rico last week.

Vice President Mike Pence defended President Trump’s decision to appoint him to lead the White House’s response to the threat of coronavirus, pointing to his response to various public health crises during his time as governor of Indiana.

Ernesto Olivares and Evan Minton testified about the discrimination they endured as LGBTQ people. (Blade photo by Michael Key).

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released its 2020 presidential questionnaire, a collection of responses from the Democratic presidential candidates regarding their LGBTQ policies.

Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, aka Alexa – Photo: Twitter.

Tennessee State Capitol Senate Chamber – Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, via Wikimedia.

Speaker-designee Eileen Filler-Corn – Photo: Equality Virginia

Laya Monarez: Yellow Peeschool Needs, 14×18, Acrylic on Canvass

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) co-introduced a bill calling for strengthening the enforcement of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

Pete Buttigieg – Photo: LGBTQ Victory Fund.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has endorsed staunch LGBTQ ally Rep. Lucy McBath for reelection.

Dan Levy – Photo: GLAAD.

Dan Levy at the recent SAG Awards in Los Angeles (Image via Instagram)

Don Lemon — Photo courtesy of CNN

(Clockwise from top left) U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, Sen. Doug Jones (center), Jaime Harrison, Mark Kelly, Sen. Gary Peters – Photos: Facebook.