All posts tagged "nondiscrimination laws"
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Equality Virginia’s Day of Action brought LGBTQ people face-to-face with lawmakers
Equality Virginia's Day of Action emphasizes personal connections as Virginians lobby on behalf of pro-LGBTQ bills
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Activists launch “No Gay? No Way!” campaign to influence location of Amazon HQ2.0
Campaign urges Amazon to set up second headquarters in a state with full LGBTQ protections
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Virginia Senate candidate E.W. Jackson “regrets” anti-gay rhetoric
Conservative pastor still opposes LGBTQ rights, but hopes to communicate his views in a less strident way
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LGBTQ advocates mourn death of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who became the city’s first Asian-American mayor in 2011, died of a heart attack. According to the San Francisco...
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Dueling rallies: The LGBTQ community faces off against homophobes at Supreme Court
Refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding at center of conflict between free speech and nondiscrimination laws.
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Gay couple behind Supreme Court wedding cake case say civil rights at risk
LGBTQ advocates warn that allowing religious exemptions for businesses could undermine nondiscrimination laws
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Senate Judiciary Committee approves anti-LGBTQ lawyer’s nomination
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Gregory Katsas to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....
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Congress members file SCOTUS brief in support of gay couple denied wedding cake
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced that 35 senators and 175 U.S. House members have joined...
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Oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop SCOTUS case scheduled for Dec. 5
The Supreme Court has set oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission for Tuesday, Dec. 5. The case is considered a...
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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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Supreme Court to hear case of Colorado bakery that denied service to gay couple
Case centers around whether the First Amendment allow baker's religious beliefs to override nondiscrimination law
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Discrimination against transgender renters prevalent, even in Massachusetts
Suffolk University study finds gender-nonconforming people are 61 percent more likely to receive disparate treatment
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NCAA pulls seven sports championships from North Carolina over HB 2
The NCAA has pulled seven collegiate championship events from North Carolina and will relocate them to other states in protest of the Tar Heel State’s...
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D.C. nondiscrimination laws go into effect today
Two contested D.C. Council bills appear to have survived a 30-day congressional review period required of all District legislation and are slated to go into effect today, Saturday, May...
