All posts tagged "valerie jarrett"
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White House supports banning conversion therapy for minors
— Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, responding to a petition on the White House website which called for a ban on all...
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White House backs conversion therapy bans
The Obama administration on Wednesday came out in support of ending the practice of so-called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy on minors in an effort to...
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Federal contractors can no longer allow anti-LGBT discrimination
President Obama's Executive Order on LGBT Workplace Discrimination takes effect
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Chuck Hagel celebrates LGBT Pride month at Pentagon event
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel marked June as LGBT Pride month at an event at the Pentagon today, describing gay and lesbian servicemembers as “integral...
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Two Coasts, Two Visions of Equality — for AFER and SLDN
[Photo: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network co-founder Michelle Benecke speaks at SLDN’s 20th annual dinner, where the plaintiffs of the organization’s ongoing lawsuit seeking equal spousal...
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DOJ Announces Expanded Rape Definition to Be Used in Federal Crime Reporting
The national understanding of rape, as defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s data collection program, now includes what Vice President Joseph Biden called a...
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Man in the Middle
As a young boy in New Jersey, just about yay-tall, Jonathan Capehart knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: a television...
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Twelve Years Ago, Lessons for Today
On the evening of October 11, 1998, NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling began telling a story on All Things Considered that would become a part of the...
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Valerie Jarrett speaks at HRC's National Dinner [video]
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement,
