Lowe's Home Improvement abandons DEI after threats from fringe online extremists
Robby Starbuck continues to use his influence to make American workplaces worse.
AUGUST 27, 2024
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LGBTQ+ people want to foster or adopt kids, but fear of discrimination stops them (exclusive)
That's among the findings just released from a study by Gallup and the children's charity Kidsave.
JANUARY 24, 2024
Walmart rolls back DEI & Pride funding after direct pressure from far-right extremist
The nation's largest retailer is the latest company to cave to far-right pressure targeting diversity and equity programs.
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NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Gay Couple Harassed at Lowe's
Two men say Lowe's employees yelled gay slurs and threatened to come to their home.
JULY 11, 2012
Professor at Antigay University to Head Juvenile Justice Program
Caren Harp is a professor from the Liberty University School of Law, which is the brainchild of many antigay and anti-transgender legal efforts.
DECEMBER 19, 2017
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Molson Coors beer company abandons DEI after fringe online conservatives complain
In response to the targeted attacks, the HRC has created an online portal allowing consumers to directly message corporate executives in protest.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Former KKK Leader David Duke Banned From Twitter
Twitter is more aggressively tamping down on hate and lies.
JULY 31, 2020
Latinx LGBTQ+ Youth Have High Suicide Risk, Other Challenges: Trevor Project
But support in families and schools reduces this risk as does pride in one's identity, the Trevor Project's new report says.
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Whirlpool
100 years of improving life in the home. Whirlpool Corporation has a long history of support for the LGBT community as the first and only appliance manufacturer to receive a 100 score from the Human Rights Campaign.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Companies dropping DEI will face consequences — 80% of LGBTQ+ adults support boycotts: report
80 percent of LGBTQ+ would boycott a company that rolled back DEI initiatives,including stopping shopping at, utilizing, and/or purchasing its services.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
More companies than ever have this DEI practice, despite anti-LGBTQ+ push
The number of businesses participating in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is only growing, according to the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, even as conservatives pressure corporations to stop.
JANUARY 7, 2025
Major companies are ending DEI programs. Here's how an LGBTQ+ group is taking them to task
Molson Coors, Tractor Supply, and others have all cowered to the far-right. The Human Rights Campaign isn't having it. Here's what they are doing.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Op-ed: 10 Drastic Changes Congress Should Make Now
We've got a long road ahead of us if we want to be seen as completely equal in the eyes of the law.
JULY 25, 2013
Former Lowe's Employee Sues for Antigay Discrimination
After more than a decade of work at a suburban New York Lowe's, Adam Haimowitz says he was fired in retaliation for testifying in a colleague's 'sex-based harassment' suit.
JANUARY 13, 2015
Target becomes latest corporation to nix DEI programs after once being a champion of equality
The retailer will sunset its REACH program focused on racial fairness and stop participation in HRC's Corporate Equality index.
JANUARY 24, 2025