Search results for "Virginia House of Delegates"
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Virginia bill proposes Kim Davis-style clerk exemptions
A Virginia Senate committee has set the stage for what could be an inevitable showdown between opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage, as embodied by...
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Virginia Senate committee approves nondiscrimination bills
A Virginia Senate committee has approved two measures that would prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination in public employment and housing, with both bills earning bipartisan support as...
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Nine anti-gay bills loom large over Virginia in 2016
Marriage equality may be the law of the land following last year’s Supreme Court decision, but anti-gay lawmakers in the Virginia General Assembly are hitting...
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“Family Values” delegate to run for Virginia AG post
Del. Rob Bell (R-Charlottesville, Elkton, Cunningham) will challenge Attorney General Mark Herring to be Virginia’s top law enforcement officer in 2017. Bell, who was first...
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Equality Virginia PAC rounds out endorsements
EV PAC is backing 39 candidates for seats in Virginia's General Assembly
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Good news for LGBT supporters in Virginia primary results
Supporters of LGBT rights have a lot to celebrate after Tuesday’s primaries in Virginia resulted in the defeat of the last remaining anti-LGBT Democrat in the General...
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Primary Battles: 7 Virginia Party Contests to Watch
Today, Tuesday, June 9, is primary day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Later this year, candidates seeking 4-year Senate terms and 2-year terms in the...
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Pot, Meet Kettle: Virginia, Meet Indiana
Activists puzzled by attempt to portray Virginia as somehow more progressive on LGBT rights than Indiana
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Equality Virginia, HOME launch initiative for Fair Housing Month
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, and Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. (HOME), a Richmond nonprofit and housing counseling agency, are launching an...
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Nail in the Coffin: All LGBT Bills Dead in Virginia
Virginian LGBT public employees who do not work for the state must wait another year to gain workplace protections after a bill that would have...
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Better Know a Committee: House General Laws
Meet 22 Virginia lawmakers who get to decide whether you can be fired for being LGBT
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Educating Virginia
If you knew James Parrish more than two decades ago, the thought of him helming Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, would be...
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Virginia’s Anti-Gay Discrimination Bill Tabled
A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee dealt the LGBT community in the commonwealth a rare bit of good news after the eight-person panel rejected a bill...
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Conversion Therapy Ban Fails in Va. House
A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee on Wednesday dealt the final blow to hopes for a bill that would have prohibited the practice of so-called...
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Virginia Gay Marriage Statute Stays in Place
A day after the Virginia Senate rejected a bill to start the process of repealing the Marshall-Newman Amendment, the commonwealth’s constitutional ban prohibiting the recognition...
