PRO-GAY LEGISLATION DOUBTFUL GIVEN SENATE PRESIDENT DAVID L. WILLIAMS’ VOTING RECORD AND PUBLIC COMMENTS – EQUALITY AWARDS TO BE GIVEN TO SENIOR KENTUCKY LAWMAKERS WHO FIGHT FOR EQUALITY Kentucky Equality Federation supports and continues to push Kentucky House Bill 106, and Senate Bill 138 to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Kentucky Civil […]
The time has come for Kentucky to pass a law to prohibit terminations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. You can be fired for being gay, but you cannot be fired for being a smoker. What kind of logic is that? In 1966, Kentucky became the first state in the South to pass a
The time has come for Kentucky to pass a law to prohibit terminations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. You can be fired for being gay, but you cannot be fired for being a smoker. What kind of logic is that? In 1966, Kentucky became the first state in the South to pass a
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Lexington, KY — Kentucky Equality Federation and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association have formed a coalition to push House Bill 35 sponsored by Kentucky Senior Representative Jody Richards using a petition in partnership with change.org. Kentucky House Bill 35 would expand the protective order statute to allow persons who are dating, or have dated, but
Funeral services concluded today for Dustin Sizemore, a former volunteer for Kentucky Equality Federation. Mr. Sizemore died at the age of 23 years old. When volunteering for Kentucky Equality Federation, Mr. Sizemore was the Leslie/Perry County Coordinator from 2007-2008. Kentucky Equality Federation acknowledges that Mr. Sizemore had problems with school bullying and harassment growing up
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Marriage Equality Kentucky™ today announced that long-term Kentucky Equality Federation™ volunteer Halyn Roth was named managing director of Marriage Equality Kentucky™. “Being nominated and appointed Managing Director of Marriage Equality Kentucky™ is very important to me,” stated Roth who was recently the Campaign Manager for Democrat Jim Holbert, who opposed Republican U.S. Representative Hal Rogers
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Lexington, KY — Nearly a month after the United Nations General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee approved an Arab and African proposal to cut the reference to slayings due to sexual orientation from a resolution on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, international pressure lead by the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, as
Culture war at the United Nations ends with victory for gay rights organizations. Read More »
Lexington, KY — Ark Encounter LLC, a for-profit entity, and Answers in Genesis, Inc. the nonprofit ministry that built the Creation Museum in Petersburg, will partner to build the $150 million Ark Encounter on a 160-acre site, including Noah’s Ark and Tower of Babel with Kentucky taxpayer money! Previous pictures taken inside the “Creation Museum”
Today, we celebrate victory as more than 300 people are removed from the Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program (KADAP). Kentucky Equality Federation and 11 other organizations urged lawmakers during the 2010 Kentucky Legislative Session to keep the program alive since this program was a last resort to people who could not afford the life saving
Victory: Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program Funded! Read More »
Lexington, KY — Kentucky Equality Federation, the Commonwealth’s largest all-volunteer lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex organization today condemned the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee for voting to remove “sexual orientation” from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions. The action has been condemned by Human Rights Watch (not to be confused
