Bianca Del Rio at Capital Pride 2014
By Metro Weekly Contributor
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June 10, 2014
Bianca Del Rio performs at the 2014 Capital Pride Festival in Washington, D.C. [NSFW]
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have adopted a new rules package that allows a proposed transgender sports ban to be fast-tracked and voted on without a chance to offer amendments.
Under the text of the rules package, 12 bills that Republican lawmakers have long prioritized -- primarily having to do with immigration, anti-abortion measures, and fracking -- are to be voted upon "as read."
Among those is a measure to "amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth."
Several RuPaul's Drag Race fans are calling on host RuPaul Charles to strip Season 2 winner Tyra Sanchez of her title following nasty remarks she posted on social media.
Sanchez, formerly known as "King Tyra," whose real name is James Ross, made the comments on January 5, in response to news that The Vivienne, the winner of the inaugural season of Drag Race UK, had died.
The Vivienne, whose real name was James Lee Williams, tragically died at age 32 over the weekend at a residence in Chorlton-by-Backford, England. The cause of death is not yet known.
The U.S. Department of Defense has reached a historic settlement with more than 30,000 LGBTQ veterans discharged under the now-defunct "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
A group of five LGBTQ veterans who were discharged between 1980 and 2011 under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and its predecessor policies -- which categorically banned any LGBTQ person from serving -- sued the department last year in federal district court.
They claimed that they were harmed by the Pentagon's failure to grant them "honorable" discharges or remove biased language specifying their sexuality from their military records after "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed.
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