Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – The Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus applauds President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus marks one year since the historic House passage of H.R.5, the Equality Act, and urges the Senate to take action on this vital legislation.

Chicago, Ill. – This week, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), along with 34 members of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus and the Congressional Ukraine Caucus sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to take steps to protect LGBTQ+ individuals and other minorities in Ukraine.

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday evening, Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01) and Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) led 27 of their colleagues in a letter urging the leaders of the Florida Legislature to oppose two bills misleadingly titled “Parental Rights in Education” (HB 1557 and SB 1834).

Washington, D.C. – The Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus celebrates today’s House passage of the Global Respect Act (HR 3485) with bipartisan support.

Washington, D.C. – The Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus applauds the historic confirmation of Chantale Wong as the United States Director of the Asian Development Bank. She is the first out, queer woman and first LGBTQ+ person of color to be confirmed in an ambassador-level role.

Washington, D.C. – Leadership of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus today reacted to the Senate’s failure to pass key voting rights measures, noting how various voter suppression proposals across the county would disproportionately affect LGBTQ Americans.

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Representatives Marie Newman (D-IL-03), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Jennifer Wexton (VA-10), Co-Chairs of the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus' Transgender Equality Task Force, led 62 of their colleagues in a resolution to commemorate Nov. 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance to remember the lives lost at the hands of anti-transgender violence.