News + Politics
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Sponsor of Tennessee “bathroom bill” pulls legislation — for this year
It was the legislation that seemed to keep coming back from the political graveyard like a zombie, despite the best efforts of LGBT advocates. But...
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Homicide victim in Rockville hotel room identified as transgender female
Montgomery County police have identified the victim of a homicide in a Rockville hotel as a transgender female, according to The Washington Post. Police initially said...
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CDC reports first Zika virus transmission from gay sex
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported what appears to be the first known case of Zika virus, a blood-borne pathogen primarily...
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Political strategists charged in Maryland robocall against openly gay candidate
Maryland’s state prosecutor has charged two Republican strategists with allegedly violating state election laws by distributing an illegal robocallduring the 2014 election that critics say...
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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...
