“As a black person, I’m against any form of discrimination – against whites Hispanics, gays, lesbians, however you want to phrase it,” The 2017 NBA All-Star Game may be 10 months away, but Charles Barkley is already strongly urging the NBA to pull the league’s highlight-reeled weekend out of Charlotte …
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Newly elected Supreme Court justice once said “homosexuals and drug addicts who do essentially kill themselves and others through their own behavior deservedly receive none of my sympathy” Wisconsin voters have officially elected Rebecca Bradley – the bigoted anti-LGBT conservative who has made repeatedly discriminatory remarks towards gay, lesbian, transgender, and …
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Global currency exchange company announces Tuesday morning it would be abandoning plans for a global operations center in Charlotte “Unequivocal” that its decision was made because of the state’s passage of HB2 When Governor Pat McCrory signed HB2 into law, a sweepingly discriminatory law against the LGBT community essentially blocking …
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WRAL reports that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory met with the LGBT-activist organization Human Rights Campaign’s president Thursday, along with the executive director of Equality N.C. and a transgender advocate. The civil liberties groups called for the repeal of HB 2, the widely controversial bill signed by the governor last …
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House and Senate have passed HB 1523, “Religious Liberty Accommodation Act” Allows state employees, corporations, individuals, healthcare providers, and nonprofit organizations to use religion as a justification for discrimination In the wake of North Carolina’s outrageous legislation outlawing LGBT protections and prohibiting cities or towns from enacting stricter guidelines, newly …
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Sponsors bill forcing transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their ‘biological sex’ Said LGBT persons should ‘receive treatment’ instead of legal protections A Minnesota Republican state representative named Glenn Gruenhagen has sponsored a bill which would force transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their “biological sex” instead of their identified gender. …
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Says “When there’s a majority of people in our state that thinks LGBT rights are an important issue, and thinks that they want representation to do that, it’ll happen” Says First Amendment Allows LGBT To Be Discriminated Due To “Religious Liberty Nebraska Republican State Senator Bill Kintner had some choice words …
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After a long holiday weekend, advocacy groups working against anti-LGBT legislatures, including the ACLU and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo began action against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory for signing a ban on anti-discriminatory legislation into law. On Monday, Governor Cuomo released a statement and executive order banning non-essential travel …
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First State to act in response to North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT legislation Similar order to Cuomo’s in 2015 responding to Indiana’s “Religious Freedom” Bill In a statement released Monday from his office, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order banning all non-essential state travel to North Carolina, …
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NYPD sources have reported that a 25-year old transgender woman was raped late last Saturday night at New York City’s Stonewall Inn, the bar famous as the setting for the Stonewall riots in 1969 which are widely-considered to make the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. According to reports, …
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On Wednesday the North Carolina General Assembly approved HB2, the bill which would block local governments from passing non-discrimination measures based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The legislation was able to clear the General Assembly in under nine hours. This comes primarily as an attack on Charlotte, which decided earlier …
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Republicans in Missouri’s state senate have broken a nearly 40-hour Democratic filibuster and voted to pass an anti-gay bill that would legally protect persons and organizations actively opposed to same-sex marriage. The GOP state senate passed the bill, Senate Joint Resolution 39 (SJR 39), with an overwhelming 23-9 vote Wednesday …
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The Supreme Court quickly weighed in Monday morning to reaffirm the legality of same-sex relationships and adoption rights, issuing a summary decision reversing the Alabama Supreme Court, which had repeatedly refused to recognize a same-sex’s couples legal adoption from a different state. The decision was seen as a matter of legal …
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South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed a controversial bill today that would have forced transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth. South Dakota HB 1008 received nationwide attention in recent weeks for its initiative to deny transgender students of civil …
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On Friday, the Republican-majority Georgia Senate passed a bill to allow legal discrimination of gays and lesbians as part of “religious freedom.” The bill, which passed 38 to 14 along party lines, would allow for faith-based organizations to refuse service to same-sex couples. The bill, which is a hybrid of …
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