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Thirty-Five LGBTQ and HIV Advocacy Groups Mark Pride Month with Joint Statement on HIV/AIDS
Executive Directors Urge Broader LGBTQ Movement to Re-engage in Fight to End the Epidemic (San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2013)—As the nation marks the opening of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, executive directors from 35 LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations from across the United States have released a joint letter committing themselves and their organizations to re-engaging the broader LGBTQ community in the fight against HIV. While issues like marriage equality and...Press Release
NCLR Commemorates World AIDS Day, Commends Obama Administration for Working to End the Pandemic
Statement by NCLR Federal Policy Director Maya Rupert, Esq. (Washington, D.C., December 1, 2011)—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights joins advocates around the world commemorating World AIDS Day to remember those we have lost to this disease, to acknowledge the significant advances we have made, and to raise awareness about how far we still must come in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the struggle to protect those living with infection. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates...Press Release
President Bush Signs Legislation to End Statutory Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants
A Statement from Executive Director Kate Kendell (San Francisco, California, October 30, 2009) — The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) praised President Obama’s announcement today that a final rule repealing the ban on entry to the United States by people with HIV will be published on Monday, November 2. The repeal will take effect in early January, 2010. Statement from Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights: “The ban on entry by HIV-positive...Press Release
Gay, HIV-Positive Man from Pakistan Seeks Refuge in the United States
LGBT, HIV/AIDS, and Immigrant-Rights Organizations Submit Brief in Support of His Asylum Claim (Falls Church, VA, August 4, 2008)—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed an amicus brief with the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia on behalf of a number of other lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), HIV/AIDS, and immigrant-rights organizations in support of a gay Pakistani man with...Press Release