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Gay-Straight Alliances Article
A Gay-Straight Alliance meeting at Stratford High School in Stratford, Connecticut. (AP/ Douglas Healey)

Gay-Straight Alliances

Jerome Hunt explains how gay-straight alliances can help improve the school environment for gay and transgender students.

Jerome Hunt

A State-by-State Examination of Nondiscrimination Laws and Policies Report
The existing state laws and policies provide protections against  discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender  identity, and recourse for such discrimination. But not all states have  these policies. (iStock Photo)

A State-by-State Examination of Nondiscrimination Laws and Policies

Jerome Hunt offers a state-by-state examination of gay and transgender nondiscrimination laws and policies, and argues that the only way to ensure that gay and transgender workers are universally protected from employment discrimination is through the passage of ENDA.

Jerome Hunt

Helping All of Our Homeless Report
A foster care resident watches television at the Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles, which recently received a $13.3 million federal grant to help more homeless gay teens. Around 320,000 to 400,000 gay and transgender youth out of 1.6 to 2.0 million  total homeless youth experience homelessness at some point each year. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Helping All of Our Homeless

Jeff Krehely and Jerome Hunt on how the federal government can more explicitly tackle gay and transgender homelessness.

Jeff Krehely, Jerome Hunt

State Antigay Adoption Policies Need to Go Article
Martin Gill ties the shoelace of his six-year-old son in a park in North Miami on September 22, 2010. A Florida appeals court ruled last month that a state ban on adoption by gay men and lesbians was unconstitutional. (AP/Alan Diaz)

State Antigay Adoption Policies Need to Go

Barring same-sex couples from adopting or fostering children harms all involved, explain Jerome Hunt and Jeff Krehely.

Jerome Hunt, Jeff Krehely