PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2022 Salt Lake City, UT – Doubling down on their harmful attack directed at transgender youth, GOP lawmakers led an effort to override Governor Cox’s veto of H.B. 11, banning transgender girls from participating in school sports competitions. Chase Thomas, executive director for Alliance for a Better Utah, issued
“… Being American is more than a pride we inherit,it’s the past we step intoand how we repair it……For while we have our eyes on the future,history has its eyes on us.”– Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb Earlier this week, I asked friends on Twitter what I should write about for this blog post.
Happy Holidays! I hope everyone had a peaceful Thanksgiving day with minimal family drama, plenty of great food, and a moment to reflect on the historical, cultural and political meaning of this holiday. As a U.S. born citizen, the Thanksgiving holiday has been embedded in my traditions as a day of gratitude for the country
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2018 Salt Lake City, UT – On Monday, it was reported that Utah Senator Mike Lee has chosen to block a nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for her alleged views on LGBTQ rights and religious freedom, even though the nominee has clarified that her positions have been
This article originally appeared on KUTV. Read it in its entirety here. (KUTV) — For the first time ever, a sexual orientation question will be added to a national student survey. This is a shift in policy that schools have been reluctant to talk about in the past. According to the Centers for Disease Control
This article originally appeared on Fox13now.com. Read it in is entirety here . SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is being criticized for signing on to a legal filing supporting a rollback of employment protections for LGBTQ people. The liberal-leaning think tank Alliance for a Better Utah criticized Reyes for signing an amicus asking
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2018 SEAN REYES SIGNS ANTI-LGBTQ AMICUS BRIEF Salt Lake City, UT – Yesterday, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes joined other Republican attorneys general in signing an amicus brief seeking to reverse federal LGBTQ employment discrimination protections. The amicus brief, which can be found here, was submitted to the
On June 4th, 2018 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood Colorado, in his decision to deny a same-sex couple one of his wedding cakes on the basis that it went against his religious beliefs. The couple filed with the Colorado Civil
Salt Lake City, Utah – This past week, the Alliance for a Better Utah joined fellow members of the Ballots Not Bullets Coalition — a group of organizations from across the country concerned by the increasing use and threat of violence to influence public policy — in denouncing the possibility of armed confrontation in response
Utahns will gather today in Taylorsville to honor members of the transgender community who lost their lives to violence over the last year. The international Transgender Day of Remembrance, which today enters its 15th year, began in San Francisco in 1998 after Rita Hester, a trans-woman, was stabbed to death in her apartment in the
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