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Chad Griffin stepping down from leadership of Human Rights Campaign

Chad Griffin, the Arkansas native who's become one of the country's most influential voices in the fight for equal rights based on sexual orientation and gender, is stepping down as leader of the Human Rights Campaign.
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Arkansas gets poor score on LGBT rights in Human Rights Campaign's state equality index

The Human Rights Campaign today released its 2015 State Equality Index. Arkansas, along with twenty-seven other states, was ranked in the lowest-rated category, “High Priority to Achieve Basic Equality.”
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Hutchinson to hold press conference on HB 1228

Gov. Asa Hutchinson will hold a press conference to discuss a so-called "religious freedom" bill at 10:30 a.m. today.

Anti-gay legislation prompts Human Rights Campaign to run ad in Silicon Valley newspaper

At a press conference today, Chad Griffin, Arkansas native and president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest LGBT advocacy group, announced that his organization will run a full-page ad (see below) in the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's largest paper, suggesting that Arkansas is closed for business due to HB 1228, the discriminatory, anti-gay measure making its way through the legislature. It could be up for consideration by the Senate today.
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Coming out: A son's unsent letter to his father

Chad Griffin, the Arkansas native who now heads the Human Rights Campaign, the country's leading LGBT civil rights organization, wrote on op-ed Thursday in the LA Times for National Coming Out Day. It was about his struggle to tell his father about his sexual orientation and a letter he never sent.

Rights group wants federal recognition for same-sex couples married in Arkansas

The Human Rights Campaign, led by Arkansas native Chad Griffin, has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to to ensure federal recognition of couples married in Arkansas during the week after Judge Chris Piazza's marriage equality ruling and before the state Supreme Court stayed the order while the case was on appeal.
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The world is watching Arkansas — at least briefly a civil rights leader

Judge Chris Piazza's ruling that struck down the same-sex marriage ban is drawing enormous attention worldwide. A reddening Deep South state the first to see a same-sex couple married within its borders? That's news. Interest is phenomenal and an event Monday morning in Little Rock should get even more attention.

Human Rights Campaign targets Arkansas in effort for equality in the South

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's leading lobby for equal rights for LGBT people, is targeting three Southern states, including Arkansas, in an effort to bring equality to the South. HRC head Chad Griffin is from Arkansas, so that probably helps explain the focus here. Plus need, as evidenced by the Arkansas legislature.
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Chad Griffin's role in getting Obama onboard with same-sex marriage

Sunday's New York Times magazine offers the first excerpt from Times reporter Jo Becker's "Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality," which hits bookstores on Tuesday. For four years, Becker was embedded with the team who worked to overturn California's Prop 8 and provided nearly unlimited access. Hope native Chad Griffin is featured prominently.

Chad Griffin and Human Rights Campaign rally for Taylor Ellis

Human Rights Campaign director Chad Griffin spoke on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol today in support of Taylor Ellis, the 17-year-old Sheridan High School junior who recently had his coming-out story censored from inclusion in the Sheridan High School yearbook. Griffin was joined by Ellis, Ellis' parents and around a dozen students from Sheridan High School.
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Human Rights Campaign scores cities on LGBT friendliness; Arkansas cities rate low

The Human Rights Campaign yesterday released the second annual edition of their Municipal Equality Index, which measures cities and towns on the basis of how inclusive their laws and policies are of LGBT people.

Mount St. Mary Academy and the firing of Tippi McCullough

'I just wanted to teach,' says McCullough.
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