Brett Kavanaugh invoked during his confirmation hearings language against anti-gay discrimination, but his refusal to say whether he supports landmark Supreme Court rulings in favor of gay rights leaves LGBT legal experts unsatisfied.During his confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh was queried on gay rights before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker(…)
Charles Russell Rhines was convicted of murder in 1993. (Photo via South Dakota Department of Corrections) The ACLU and four LGBT legal groups are asking a federal appeals court to allow a gay South Dakota man convicted of murder in 1993 to present new evidence showing that anti-gay bias may have motivated the jury to(…)
Steve Negron A Republican Congressional candidate has defended voting against a ban on gay ‘cure’ therapy. New Hampshire state lawmaker Steve Negron is the GOP candidate for the US House of Representatives in the state’s Second Congressional District. Negron picked up the Republican nomination in a narrow primary vote on Tuesday, just weeks after he publicly(…)
Londonn Moore was found shot to death in the early hours of Saturday morning. (Londonn Moore/Facebook) PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world A transgender woman of colour has been found shot dead in Charlotte County, Florida. Londonn Moore is believed to(…)
Chris Pappas won the congressional primary in New Hampshire. (Photo courtesy Pappas) Gay candidate Chris Pappas prevailed Tuesday night in New Hampshire’s congressional primary, setting himself up for a chance to become the first out member of Congress from the Granite State.Pappas claimed a plurality of 42.4 percent of the vote in the bid for(…)
Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration defended a new military policy that will allegedly result in HIV-positive service members being fired in violation of their constitutional rights when it takes effect Oct. 1. The “Deploy or Get Out!” directive is intended to improve military readiness by weeding out soldiers who can’t deploy overseas for more than(…)
Marshall McPeek (Screen Capture) The emcee at an LGBT journalists’ organization annual conference Saturday night called attendees “things and its.” Marshall McPeek, a meteorologist at a Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate station in Ohio later apologized and resigned his membership to The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA). “Ladies and gentlemen, things and its,” were the words McPeek chose(…)
President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh shifted to the ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case — which came down in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a custom-made wedding cake for a same-sex couple — when asked Thursday whether he supports the historic ruling for same-sex marriage nationwide.(…)
Senate Democrats sought to put the brakes on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday as they called for a delay in proceedings on a contentious first day of his confirmation hearings. The partisan breakdown on the Senate Judiciary Committee was clear as Democrats decried the absence of available material — an estimated(…)
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reports: Peter Avsenew, convicted of killing a Wilton Manors couple days before Christmas 2010 and stealing their car to escape to north Florida, who told a jury in January that he had no regrets and a judge in March that he had killed before and would again, has been sentenced to(…)