LGBTQ

Indiana Senate Bill 220 passed the senate 34-16 and will now advance to the state House. This bill would offer the possibility of judges to impose harsher sentences to convicted criminals whose actions targeted victims based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, disability, national origin, ancestry or sexual orientation. Indiana …

At her hate crime sentencing today, the 25-year-old daughter of a suburban police chief, Kathryn Knott received 5-10 months jail time with two years probation in the September 2014 attack by Knott and two friends that left victims, homosexual couple Zachary Hesse and Andrew Haught for dead in Philadelphia’s City Center. …

The US Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality was not only a landmark case for the rights of LGBTQ persons to legally wed, but it also effectively wiped out anti-gay adoption laws which sought to favor heterosexual couples seeking to adopt children over identically similar homosexual couples. Kraig Powell, a Utah …

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently ended a seven-stop tour of Iowa in lieu of its caucus next week, assuring voters of his stances against marriage equality and transgender-inclusive policies, which he said represented a great ‘crisis’ facing America today. Via Think Progress: His remarks came in response to a …

Comparing the LGBTQ people to serial killers and pedophiles, Indiana State Representative Woody Burton (R) recently went on record as saying his opposition to equal rights for the LGBTQ movement stems from the fact that “fat white people” enjoyed no special rights. Via Raw Story:  At a town hall event over …

A transgender woman in Seattle has filed a civil suit against People’s Bank after repeatedly being denied service because her voice did not register as feminine enough to confirm her identity over the phone.  According to Lizzi Duff, age 70, her masculine-sounding voice is the reason the bank’s employees would …

New legislation introduced by Duma proposes banning homosexuals from public displays of affection. They would be fined for kissing, holding hands, or any intimate touching otherwise permitted amongst heterosexual partners. In the eyes of the bill’s authors, homosexuality is a western ideology purposefully planted in the minds of Russia’s youth …

Last week, noted homophobe Theodore Shoebat posted a video claiming that “all dykes are criminals” and that SWAT teams must begin raiding the homes of gay parents in order to seize their children, presumably to “de-gay them.” Via lgbtqnation: Beside himself with rage over reports about a lesbian couple accused …

A new study by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is showing that a surprising number of Americans are still quite homophobic. A study released today titled The Accelerating Acceptance Report revealed disappointing realities about the lack of understanding many Americans still have regarding the rights of America’s LGBTQ population. Via …

A violent case comes to rest in Brooklyn after the sentencing of 26-year-old Mashawn Sands, the man convicted of assaulting a transgender woman with a piece of plexiglass. The crime has left its victim with permanent damage after traumatic brain injury. Brooklyn District  Attorney Ken Thompson announced that the man …

Raw Story: “A bill filed by a Virginia lawmaker this week would require schools to be certain that children are using the restroom corresponding to their “correct anatomical sex.” The legislation, which would prohibit transgender students from using the bathroom matching their gender, is being sponsored by Republican Del. Mark Cole. House Bill …

Ben Carson’s own words on the subject of same-sex marriage during an interview on Catholic TV Network EWTN: “You see how silly this is. I mean, it’s beyond ridiculous that you take the most abnormal situation and then you make everyone else conform to it. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. …

In blatant violation of federal court rulings, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has asked all probate judges to maintain Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban by denying marriage licenses. Six months ago a Supreme Court decision rendered the ban illegal, yet Roy Moore has continued to ignore federal law.  VOX explores …

Protesting the death of Mario Woods, 9 Black Lives Matter activsts were arrested yesterday in San Francisco.  See the protests through their own eyes: Protests on the 405 South have the freeway stopped for miles #405south pic.twitter.com/j8hJ9ISrJf — Tory Barneson Benoit (@ToryWithaWhy) December 23, 2015 We shutdown the highway for …

Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled that the seven officers investigated for the messages they exchanged with their former sergeant (fired and convicted of corruption last year) could not face punishment because the strict one-year statute of limitations had expired. All of the officers will be keeping their jobs. The officers had …