All posts tagged "LGBTQ"
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Bowser and other mayors urge Tennessee governor to veto counseling exemption bill
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her fellow big-city mayors are rallying to the defense of Tennessee’s LGBT community. Bowser is a member of Mayors Against...
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Man puts transgender flag, rainbow toilet on North Carolina’s highest mountain
Neal Gottlieb made the grand gesture as a show of support for the state's trans community
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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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Business Backlash
Corporate America is leading the fight against anti-LGBT state laws
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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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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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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...
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North Carolina’s Constitutional Challenge
Law professors comment on a lawsuit to overturn North Carolina's anti-LGBT law -- it's going to be a tough fight
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D.C. joins bandwagon banning official state travel to North Carolina
D.C. becomes fifth major city to prohibit employees from planning official trips to North Carolina
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Leslie Jordan named grand marshal of Capital Pride Parade
You may remember him as the diminutive, flamboyant Southerner Beverly Leslie, who frequently locked horns with Karen Walker, on Will & Grace. But now, Emmy Award...
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McAuliffe vetoes Virginia religious exemption bill
Activists in Virginia are breathing a sigh of relief, after Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) vetoed a bill that would give people leeway to discriminate...
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ACLU challenging North Carolina’s HB 2 that overturned LGBT ordinances
Here come the lawsuits, North Carolina. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the ACLU of North Carolina, Lambda Legal and Equality North Carolina,...
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Georgia governor will veto anti-gay “religious freedom” bill
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) will veto a bill that could allow individuals or businesses to discriminate against LGBT people. In a press conference on Monday...
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Pelosi: North Carolina moving against tide on LGBT rights
–U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), responding to a question from a reporter from The Charlotte Observer about North Carolina lawmakers’ decision to pass an...
