News + Politics
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N.Y. governor’s executive order will expand transgender protections
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) plans to issue an executive order that will protect transgender individuals from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education and public accommodations....
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Delgaudio: Paul Ryan is “homosexual lobby’s Trojan Horse for Speaker”
As U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) prepares to assume the mantle of Speaker of the House, announcing his candidacy for the position on Thursday evening,...
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Transgender student appealing Gloucester County restroom policy
Lawyers for a transgender male student from Gloucester County, Va., are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to stop the Gloucester...
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Two men in Philadelphia gay bashing will not serve jail time
Two men charged in the beating of a gay couple in Philadelphia last year have accepted a plea deal that requires them to stay away...
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Florida lawmaker drafts law to legalize refusing service to gay people
Bill would allow Florida adoption services and other businesses to deny service due to religious objections
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Grooming Pink Elephants
How the GOP can cultivate a winning coalition by including LGBT voters
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In Search of a Speaker
"Palace intrigue" during leadership vacuum in wake of John Boehner's retirement exposes rifts among GOP caucus
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Westboro Baptist Church pickets Kim Davis
For the LGBT community, it was likely the battle of the most reviled. On Monday, the Westboro Baptist Church arrived in Rowan County, Kentucky, to...
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Kenyan president says his country won’t allow gay “witch hunts”
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said that his country won’t allow gays to be persecuted by vigilantes, even as he dismissed the idea of legalizing LGBT...
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Model legislation introduced for banning conversion therapy
Whether you call it cookie-cutter politics or a paint-by-numbers approach to legislating, proponents of ending sexual orientation change efforts are offering up model legislation aimed...
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Germantown man arrested in slaying of transgender woman
The man accused of shooting a transgender woman multiple times in a service alley behind the Montgomery Village shopping center in Gaithersburg has been held...
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Hillary Clinton: Most people my age had to evolve on marriage equality
Hillary Clinton thanks "personal relationships" for helping her evolve on the issue
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Houston Texans owner drops $10K to defeat HERO ordinance
Opponents of LGBT rights are having everything seemingly go their way in the closing weeks of their campaign to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance...
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Hate group urges Fairfax voters to oust all Democrats from school board
The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), which has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group for its long record of anti-LGBT...
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Transgender woman shot in head in Gaithersburg
Witnesses told reporters that the shooting sprang from an altercation between the victim and the shooter
