All posts by John Riley
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More than 670,000 people sign petition calling for release of hanged trans woman’s autopsy
Online petition alleges that Tete Gulley was not suicidal and urges Portland police to probe deeper into her death
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HRC President Alphonso David: Senate Republicans’ policing “reform” bill is “offensive”
Civil rights groups call Republican bill a "non-starter" and the "wrong solution" to addressing racial bias in policing
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California bans official state travel to Idaho in protest of anti-transgender laws
California AG Xavier Becerra calls birth certificate and transgender athlete bills "plain and simple discrimination"
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Prominent “ex-gay” conversion therapy group Hope for Wholeness disbands
Group's founder came out as gay last year and denounced the central premise behind conversion therapy as "a lie."
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Trump administration defends Idaho’s anti-trans athlete law
Attorney General William Barr says allowing trans athletes to compete in women's sports is "fundamentally unfair to female athletes"
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Whitman-Walker Health and others sue Trump administration for stripping LGBTQ health care protections from ACA
Lawsuit argues that rolling back protections will harm LGBTQ people, and overly burden the organizations that serve them
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HRC endorses Mondaire Jones in suburban New York congressional race
Progressive candidate would be the first openly gay black member of Congress if elected
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Transgender woman’s family says prison video footage shows her death was preventable
Lawyer for Layleen Polanco's family alleges guard knocked on her cell door for more than 90 minutes before seeking medical help
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LGBTQ groups praise Supreme Court’s decision preserving DACA program for “Dreamers”
Several pro-equality groups praised the Supreme Court's decision preserving the DACA program for young immigrants, including LGBTQ youth.
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United Nations report calls for an end to “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” conversion therapy
U.N. report says that conversion therapy practices around the world "may amount to torture"
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Federal court orders State Department to recognize citizenship of gay couple’s daughter
Court finds that the children of married same-sex couples, at least one of whom is a U.S. citizen, are entitled to U.S. citizenship
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Wyoming Supreme Court clears path for transgender woman to change the gender marker on her birth certificate
Lower court had refused to issue a court order to allow a trans woman to amend her birth certificate
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Chicago high school student charged with fatally shooting transgender woman
Orlando Perez told police that he returned to Selena Reyes-Hernandez's apartment a second time to shoot her lifeless body
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No charges will be filed against Colorado State Patrol trooper who shot transgender woman in May
HRC says Thompson's behavior prior to shooting demonstrates she was "in crisis" and should have received help
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Supreme Court LGBTQ Ruling: 5 Bizarre Excerpts From Conservative Dissents
Five arguments the high court's dissenting conservatives made that may have gone unnoticed
