ADDED ON: 10/20/2018
What is it with the right’s persecution complex? Conservatives are quick to cry “identity politics” and denigrate women or minorities who complain about discrimination as snowflakes who should toughen up. However, they…
ADDED ON: 10/20/2018
LGBTQ civil rights organizations from Maryland and North Carolina have issued a warning to the Senate Judiciary Committee about President Trump’s most recent pick for a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit…
ADDED ON: 10/18/2018
Precisely on cue with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, anti-LGBT groups have filed lawsuits challenging LGBT rights that may in the near future serve to test the…
ADDED ON: 10/18/2018
Ugandan LGBTI activists have been on edge this year. Lawmakers have discussed bringing back the stringent version of an anti-homosexuality bill, LGBTI organizations have been denied legal registration, and events and spaces…
ADDED ON: 10/14/2018
Stacey Abrams has become the first major-party nominee for the Georgia governorship to participate in the Atlanta Pride Parade, one of the largest LGBT parades in the Southeast. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports…
ADDED ON: 10/14/2018
It has been 20 years since Matthew Shepard died, days after being brutally tortured and tied to a fence in Colorado. Shepard’s death gained national coverage in the United States, and pushed…
ADDED ON: 10/13/2018
A coalition of 27 LGBTQ civil rights organizations is warning that, yet again, the Senate stands poised to confirm two judges with a history of anti-LGBTQ animus. The coalition wrote a letter…
ADDED ON: 10/12/2018
Matthew Shepard was savagely killed in Wyoming in 1998 at the age of 21 and went on to become a symbol of anti-gay violence in the US. After being robbed by two…
ADDED ON: 10/11/2018
More than two dozen churches in Texas are suing for the right not to hire LGBTQ people for church jobs. They also want the right to bypass women as clergy. They are suing…
ADDED ON: 10/09/2018
An Orthodox synagogue on Long Island, New York is openly welcoming LGBTI Jews. Considering Orthodox Judaism doesn’t condone homosexuality, many are seeing this inclusion as groundbreaking. ‘It is very unusual for an Orthodox synagogue…
ADDED ON: 10/08/2018
Students in a Virginia middle school gym class were supposed to shelter in nearby locker rooms during a school lockdown — but one student was barred from going into either of those…
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