All posts tagged "ticker"
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Roy Cooper negotiating deal to repeal HB 2
North Carolina Governor-elect Roy Cooper (D) says that a deal may be in the works to repeal the state’s HB 2 law after the Charlotte...
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Connecticut official questions anti-LGBT group’s charitable status
Kevin Lembo is considering making the American Family Association ineligible for state employee charitable giving program
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6th Circuit: Ohio school must allow transgender student to use girls’ restroom
In a first-of-its-kind move, a federal appeals court has slapped down an Ohio school district that wants to force an 11-year-old transgender female student to use the...
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Anti-gay Louisiana Attorney General’s brother speaks out
This week, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) successfully argued to a judge that LGBT state workers are not entitled to the same workplace protections their heterosexual...
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Trans 9-year-old makes history on National Geographic’s January cover
"The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy"
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Mississippi’s “religious freedom” law now before 5th Circuit
A Mississippi law that purports to protect people’s exercise of religion by allowing them to refuse goods or services to LGBT people or others who...
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LGBT groups praise Obama’s picks for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
LGBT advocates are praising President Barack Obama’s selection of two appointees to six-year terms on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. On Thursday, Obama appointed...
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An Irish Carol: Keegan Theatre’s ode to Dickens
Keegan Theatre offers company member Matthew Keenan's homage to Dickens
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Khush DC at the DC Center, a group for queer South Asian people
When Anish Tailor was emerging from the closet in early 2015, he felt confused and alone. He didn’t know any out LGBT Indian people, save...
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Craig Wallace on “A Christmas Carol” and being Scrooge in a time of Trump
If only Donald Trump and his minions were to see A Christmas Carol, it might do a world of good. “The thing that I think...
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore appeals his suspension from the bench
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is down, but not out. Now, the controversial justice is appealing his suspension from office to a special...
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Out On the Town: What’s Hot in D.C. for the week of Dec. 15 – 21
Things to do in Washington, for the week of Dec. 15 - 21, 2016
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Louisiana governor’s pro-LGBT executive order overturned
A Baton Rouge judge has thrown out Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive order protecting LGBT state employees, claiming that the governor was attempting to...
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Anti-gay N.C. GOP legislature makes last-minute power grab
If North Carolina Republicans had a motto, it’d be: “If you can’t beat them, change the rules until you win.” Following the defeat of incumbent...
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The Kinsey Way: The Kinsey Sicks’ A Capella Drag is More Relevant Than Ever
The election of Donald Trump has made the dragapella group The Kinsey Sicks more relevant -- and necessary -- than ever
