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President Obama signed the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act into law in 2009. But the effort to pass this landmark legislation started much earlier. Legislative ...
As president, Obama signed a renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2010. [104] Obama then signed another renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2011 while on a trip in Europe. [105] [106] In 2015, Obama signed the USA Freedom Act which, along with reinforcing the powers of the NSA, included the renewal of certain parts of the USA PATRIOT Act. [107] [108 ...
Ten days later, Obama signed a related Executive Order 13673, "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces." [25] It required companies receiving federal contracts over a half-million dollars to demonstrate compliance with labor laws, including those with LGBT protections. On March 27, 2017, President Trump revoked Executive Order 13673, meaning that ...
A resolution commemorating the 44th anniversary of the deaths of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while working in the name of American democracy to register voters and secure civil rights during the summer of 1964, which has become known as "Freedom Summer". ATS: 110 S.RES. 628
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gay rights advocates are renewing their push for President Barack Obama to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against gay employees. The ...
Dustin Lance Black – American screenwriter, director, television producer, and LGBT rights activist; Julian Bond – chairperson of NAACP and former Georgia State Senator who has often likened the US gay rights movement to the Civil Rights Movement, as he did in a Washington Post op-ed explaining his reasons for participating in the march [11]
On April 18, 2013, the governor of Montana signed a bill repealing that state's sodomy law; it had previously been nullified by the Montana Supreme Court. [34] On April 23, 2014, the governor of Virginia signed a bill repealing that state's sodomy law. [35] Utah and Alabama repealed their sodomy laws in 2019 and Idaho did in 2022.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday gave its final approval to a bill that enhances legal protections for same-sex marriages. It passed with the support of a dozen Republicans who said it also protects ...