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Illinois' first openly gay congressman isn't done yet: A conversation with Eric Sorensen
February 23, 2024
In The News

By Lua Calzada

Windy City Times

A Rockford-born meteorologist, U.S. Rep. Eric Sorenson didn't plan on being a politician. But after seeing how his work in broadcasting impacted his viewers in both the Rockford and the Quad Cities areas, he wanted to take his service to northwest Illinois to the next level.
Sorensen came out while attending Northern Illinois University and enjoyed being out while in his broadcast jobs in Illinois, even taking an active role in the Quad Cities' LGBTQ community. His journey being out at work, however, was not always bright—he was fired from his first job in south Texas for being gay.

In Congress and courts, a push for better care for trans prisoners
February 21, 2024
In The News

By Olivia Bridges

Roll Call

Congressional Democrats are pushing for more information about the living conditions of transgender inmates in federal prisons and jails amid a spate of lawsuits about alleged civil rights violations, including a refusal to provide gender-affirming care.
Advocates, lawmakers link nonbinary Oklahoma teen’s death to anti-LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric
February 21, 2024
In The News

By Brooke Migdon

The Hill

As the shocking death of a nonbinary Oklahoma high school student reverberates through the LGBTQ community, advocacy groups and state and federal lawmakers say hateful rhetoric and laws that target LGBTQ individuals are to blame for the teenager’s untimely passing.

Equality Caucus report documents GOP’s anti-LGBTQ attacks in 2023
February 13, 2024
In The News

By Christopher Kane

Washington Blade

The Congressional Equality Caucus on Monday released a 36-page report titled “Obsessed: House Republicans’ Relentless Attacks Against the LGBTQI+ Community in 2023,” which meticulously documents a year of anti-LGBTQ legislative activity in the lower chamber.
House GOP has attacked LGBTQ+ people hundreds of times in just the past year
February 13, 2024
In The News

By Alex Bollinger

LGBTQ Nation

A new report from the Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC) released today outlines the hundreds of attacks on LGBTQ+ equality that have taken place in the House since Republicans established a majority in the chamber last year.
House Republicans are 'obsessed' with attacking LGBTQ+ people, say Democratic lawmakers
February 13, 2024
In The News

By Alex Cooper

Advocate

The Congressional Equality Caucus is calling out House Republicans in a new report, slamming the conservative lawmakers as “obsessed” with attacking LGBTQ+ people.
Equality Caucus Drops Report on House GOP’s Obsession with Attacking LGBTQI+ Community
February 12, 2024
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Congressional Equality Caucus published its report, Obsessed: House Republicans’ Relentless Attacks Against the LGBTQI+ Community in 2023, and released the following statement:
Gay lawmaker demands to know extent of U.S. Christian group's ties to Uganda's deadly antigay law
February 1, 2024
In The News

By Trudy Ring

Advocate

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, is demanding to know if the right-wing group known as the Fellowship Foundation, a.k.a. the Family, is supporting Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Gay Democratic reps demand Pentagon resolve cases of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ dishonorable discharges
January 30, 2024
In The News

By Christopher Wiggins

Advocate

Three gay Democratic U.S. congressmen have sent a letter to the Department of Defense demanding a quicker response to resolving cases of LGBTQ+ people dishonorably expelled from the military under the former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and the outright ban that preceded it.
Chair Pocan Writes to Fellowship Foundation on their Anti-LGBTQI+ Activities
January 30, 2024
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) sent a letter to Katherine Crane, President of the Fellowship Foundation (also known as The Family), regarding the Foundation’s potential involvement in legislation abroad that imposes the death penalty for LGBTQI+ people, including the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Acts (AHA), and their involvement with both international and domestic anti-LGBTQI+ causes.