News + Politics
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California seeks to intervene in lawsuit challenging Trump’s military service ban
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) has filed a motion to intervene as a plaintiff in Stockman v. Trump, one of four separate lawsuits challenging President...
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Republican candidate Roy Moore: “The transgenders don’t have rights”
Amid allegations he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl, Roy Moore is attacking his Democratic opponent for supporting transgender people
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Transgender airman reflects on Trump’s service ban
Sterling Crutcher is just one of thousands of service members who could lose out if transgender ban takes effect
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Most Republicans think America has “gone too far” in accepting trans people
Meanwhile, most Democrats think we haven't gone far enough in accepting transgender people
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USDA will allow employees to be openly anti-gay at work
USDA guidance will allow employees to share anti-LGBTQ sentiments without fear of retribution
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Senate Judiciary Committee approves anti-LGBTQ lawyer’s nomination
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Gregory Katsas to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....
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Federal court hears arguments over injunction to stop transgender military ban
On Thursday, a federal judge in Baltimore heard arguments in a third of four lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s policy of banning transgender military members...
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Anti-gay Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexually groping 14-year-old girl
The Republican nominee for the upcoming special U.S. Senate election in Alabama is the latest public figure to be accused of sexual indiscretion after a...
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Local LGBTQ group to hold memorial birthday happy hour in honor of Matthew Mickens-Murrey
Impulse DC, a local LGBTQ advocacy group, will hold a memorial happy hour in observance of what would by the 27th birthday of Matthew Mickens-Murrey,...
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Forum: LGBTQ people are in the midst of a global crisis
America's top leaders have remained shamefully silent on matters of global LGBTQ persecution.
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Anti-gay Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis will seek re-election in 2018
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who became a conservative cause célèbre after she went to jail rather than adhere to a judge’s...
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Dozens of LGBTQ candidates win elections from coast to coast
At least 35 of 61 openly LGBTQ candidates running for political office swept to victory on Tuesday night, boosted in part by a national wave...
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Democrats could take control of Virginia House of Delegates
Democrats swept to larger-than-expected victories in Virginia, winning all three statewide offices on the ballot and picking up at least 14 seats in the House...
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Danica Roem reacts to her historic Virginia win
Roem focused on issues that mattered to her constituents, not personal attacks or social issues
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Danica Roem becomes first transgender legislator in nation
Defeats incumbent Bob Marshall to become nation's first transgender legislator
