All posts tagged "platform"
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GOP Platform: Soft on Gay Marriage, Savage on Trans Rights
The Republican Party's official 2024 platform no longer explicitly opposes same-sex marriage but harshly opposes transgender rights.
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Kansas GOP Wants to Fully Condemn Gay Marriage
The Kansas Republican Party’s 2024 platform, once again, condemns same-sex marriage as insufficient to replace “traditional family” structures. According to the Kansas Reflector, in an...
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California Republicans Reject Platform Change on Gay Marriage
Delegates at the California Republican Party state convention rejected a proposed language to "soften" the party's platform on social issues.
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Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel apologizes for poor communication regarding gay outreach initiative
Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel sent an email to party members apologizing for failing to explain the party's new LGBTQ outreach initiative.
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North Dakota GOP director apologizes for anti-LGBTQ statements in party platform
Platform opposes LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination laws and contains offensive tropes about LGBTQ people
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Republican National Committee adopts its 2016 platform verbatim, including anti-LGBTQ provisions
Platform planks on same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and conversion therapy run counter to GOP's insistence that Trump is pro-LGBTQ
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Idaho Republican speaks out against state GOP’s anti-gay marriage platform
26-year-old Dom Gelsomino says the GOP should be more inclusive and more focused on promoting individual liberty
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Caitlyn Jenner: Trump has set transgender community “back 20 years”
Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner said in an address to the British Parliament that President Donald Trump has set the transgender community in the United...
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Danica Roem to be among headliners at DNC’s LGBTQ Gala
Roem made history when she was elected, becoming America's first openly transgender state lawmaker
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Equality March for Unity and Pride to hold post-march rally
Organizers of the Equality March for Unity and Pride have announced they will hold a rally on the National Mall following the march on Sunday, June...
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Democrats putting on “gayest convention ever”
When it comes to LGBT issues, Democrats aren’t clowning around. In looking to provide a contrast with the Republicans, who held their convention in Cleveland...
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Dan Savage slams Log Cabin Republicans as ineffective
Columnist decries "useful idiots" who help to mask GOP's bigotry in order to help anti-gay Republicans win office
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Cleveland City Council approves pro-transgender bathroom ordinance
Council votes to allow transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity
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UPDATED: DNC Marriage-Equality Platform Language Revealed
The language supporting marriage equality agreed upon by the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee was revealed earlier today. BuzzFeed reports that the draft reads as follows:...
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Obama Senior Advisor Gibbs: “I Don’t Know” if Marriage Equality Will Be in the Platform
The question of whether marriage equality will be...
