News + Politics
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Ted Cruz: North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill is “perfectly reasonable”
Ted Cruz told NBC "men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls"
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Cosponsor of Tennessee’s “bathroom bill” accused of sexual harassment
One of the cosponsors of a Tennessee anti-transgender “bathroom bill” poses a risk to “unsuspecting women.” That’s according to the state’s attorney general, CBS News reports....
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Incremental Activism: GLAA celebrates 45 years
GLAA reflects on 45 years of working for LGBT rights
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Business Backlash
Corporate America is leading the fight against anti-LGBT state laws
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Mississippi Gov Bryant: Critics of religious freedom law are “overreacting”
— Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R), responding to critics of the “religious freedom” law he signed into effect. The bill allows individuals, businesses and government...
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Louisiana governor signs LGBT nondiscrimination order
Gov. John Bel Edwards says order balances religious freedom and LGBT rights
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Chinese court refuses to recognize gay marriage
The couple sued the local government after it failed to recognize their relationship as a marriage
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Half of population carries “gay gene,” study finds
"Gay gene" carried by straight men and women, ensuring gay people will continue to be born
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Musicians and writers stand with LGBT community amid wave of anti-gay bills
With the passage of anti-LGBT laws, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee have come under fire from the business community, who is trying to use its...
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N.C. Gov. McCrory signs nondiscrimination order — with exceptions
After weeks of bearing the brunt of criticism over his signing of North Carolina’s HB 2 law into place repealing local LGBT ordinances, Gov. Pat...
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Deutsche Bank halts plans for expansion in North Carolina
Deutsche Bank has frozen plans to expand in North Carolina following the passage of an anti-LGBT law last month, becoming the latest business to express...
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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing exemptions for therapists
Therapists could cite not only religious beliefs, but moral principles, in refusing to treat clients
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Tennessee AG expresses concern over resurrected bathroom bill
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R) has expressed concern over the impact of a resurrected “bathroom bill” that would require transgender students in educational institutions...
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Pennsylvania governor signs two nondiscrimination orders
As the adage goes: “If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” In the case of Pennsylvania, since the...
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Pope Francis’ “family life” exhortation stands firmly against gay unions
Surprising no one who has followed the Vatican’s pronouncements on homosexuality over the past few years, Pope Francis issued a papal exhortation reiterating the Roman Catholic...
