All posts tagged "anti-LGBTQ"
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Texas senators split on support for Trump judicial nominee Jeff Mateer
The two home-state senators of President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas are split on how they are...
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Candidate who said homosexuality should be illegal wins GOP Senate primary runoff
Alabama Republicans chose a twice-suspended former State Supreme Court Justice as their nominee for the election to fill the seat once held by Attorney General...
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Minnesota videographers’ lawsuit to refuse service to same-sex couples dismissed
Case is the latest in a string of lawsuits arguing that the right to discriminate should be protected by the First Amendment
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Ex-N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory gets radio show as he considers running in 2020
Don’t be shocked if former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s name appears a ballot in the next few years. Last week, McCrory, a Republican who...
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HRC calling on Trump to withdraw judicial nomination of Jeff Mateer
–Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, in a statement calling on President Trump to withdraw his nomination of Jeff Mateer, an assistant attorney general in...
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Law that “repealed” HB 2 in name only being challenged in court
Four LGBTQ North Carolinians who had originally sued to block and overturn North Carolina’s controversial HB 2 law are now targeting the law that claims...
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Lesbian couple receives community support after getting threatening note
St. Peter police are looking into the crime and could consider bias enhancements to any charges that are filed
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Man’s jaw broken in possible anti-gay hate crime in Brooklyn
A gay Brooklyn man has had his jaw broken after trying to break up a fight in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood last week. The 27-year old...
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Liberty Counsel head: Anti-gay groups being treated like Jews in Nazi Germany
Mat Staver takes issue with Southern Poverty Law Center's characterization of his organization as a "hate group"
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North Carolinians split on McCrory returning to run for governor
North Carolina voters are divided on whether they’d like to see Gov. Pat McCrory return to the governor’s mansion in 2020, according to a poll...
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Civil rights leaders urge U.S. Senate not to confirm anti-gay judge
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has written a letter urging the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Damien Schiff, a legal...
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Calls to suicide hotline spike after introduction of trans military ban and Texas bathroom bill
The Trevor Project says that the number of transgender youth calling into its suicide prevention hotline spiked following the announcement of President Trump’s proposed ban...
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Big Oil and Houston-area corporations oppose Texas’ proposed bathroom bill
In a move that is likely to be ignored and disregarded by most Republican members of the Texas legislature, more than 50 business leaders have...
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Senate paves way for confirmation of anti-LGBTQ judge to 6th Circuit
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted for cloture, or to end debate, on the nomination of a lawyer who has demonstrated deep-seated animus towards members...
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov doubles down on denying existence of gays in Chechnya
Chechen leader continues to deny reports that gay and bisexual men are being tortured in his country
