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Neighbors Come Together after Charleston Family’s Pride Flag is Burned

A family in Charleston, South Carolina, said their rainbow pride flag was torn down from the front of their house and burned in their driveway last weekend. “We were taken aback and thought, ‘Wow, somebody must be really bothered by this to go to this end here to do this.’ But we called the police to let them know about it,” the homeowner, who lives with his wife and three young children, told NBC News. “There’s people on our street that have South Carolina flags, United States flags, different college flags, garden flags … obviously the rainbow is what attracted […]

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Philadelphia Can Exclude Foster Agency that Won’t Work with Gays, Court Rules

Philadelphia can exclude a Catholic foster care agency from a program for placing children with foster families because it refuses to work with same-sex couples, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. In a 3-0 decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Catholic Social Services failed to show that the placement freeze amounted to religious persecution or bias, violating its First Amendment rights to free speech and religious freedom. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro said Philadelphia was trying merely to stop what it considered a “clear violation” of a city anti-discrimination law covering sexual orientation, making a preliminary injunction […]

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Nevada to Allow Nonbinary People to Self-identify on IDs

Nevada has become the 10th state to permit gender-neutral IDs for transgender, nonbinary and intersex residents. Starting Monday, residents of the Silver State can obtain “X” gender markers on driver’s licenses and state ID cards, in addition to the traditional “M” and “F” markers for male and female. According to Alexandra Walden, public information officer at the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, the efforts have been years in the making. “The Nevada DMV staff have been working diligently for quite some time in order to offer the nonbinary or ‘gender X’ option to Nevadans,” Walden told NBC News in a […]

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SCOTUS To Hear LGBT Workplace Discrimination Cases

CNBC reports: The Supreme Court on Monday took up job discrimination cases that could for the first time resolve at a national level whether lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers can be fired based on their identity. The cases come as federal courts as well as independent agencies within the Trump administration remain divided over whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which says that employers may not discriminate based on “sex,” prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. There is no national law that explicitly bars discrimination on those grounds. State and local laws barring such discrimination […]

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Health Department Proposes Nixing Data Collection on LGBTQ Foster Youth

The Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it intends to ax an Obama-era measure that called for data collection on LGBTQ foster youth and parents. The data included the sexual orientation and gender identity of youth in foster care, along with their foster parents, adoptive parents or legal guardians. The stated goal of the rule, adopted in December 2016, at the end of the Obama administration, was “to help meet the needs of LGBTQ youth in foster care.” The Trump administration delayed its implementation and is now proposing to remove the LGBTQ data elements entirely. “While we understand […]

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Mississippi Man Brutally Beaten because Attackers ‘Thought He Was Gay’

A Mississippi man’s jaw was broken in two places during a brutal beating because his attackers thought he was gay, according to his family. Trevor Gray’s jaw was wired shut after the horrifying attack in Waynesboro, Mississippi, on April 12. According to the Clarion-Ledger, Gray met alleged attackers Landon McCaa and Toman Sion Brown at a local bar. Mississippi man attacked ‘because he was different’ Gray was part of a group that went on to continue drinking at McCaa’s home when the bar closed, but some of the men turned on Gray and decided to attack him. A video of the attack filmed […]

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Sonoma Developers Face Local Backlash over LGBTQ Views

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A husband-and-wife team of developers faced mounting backlash in Sonoma this week after a series of anti-gay online posts made by the wife went viral this month. Stacy Mattson who, together with her husband Ken, has spent $80 million the past three years purchasing 26 properties throughout Sonoma Valley, made the controversial comments on her then-public Facebook page. In one post, she described herself as “disgusted” by the 2013 Rose Bowl Parade being “high-jacked by the gay agenda,” adding that “the last thing I want to see in the parade is promotion of sin by being forced to watch a […]

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Indya Moore, Ryan Murphy Lead TIME 100’s Influential LGBT People

TIME magazine has released its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2019. The collection includes a number of LGBT icons, including trans actress Indya Mooreand the lawyers who helped decriminalise homosexuality in India. The list also includes homophobic Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. The Latin American leader is described by TIME as a “poster boy for toxic masculinity… intent on waging a culture war and perhaps reversing Brazil’s progress on tackling climate change.” Other notable names include LGBT+ allies Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, as well as actor Rami Malek who won an Oscar for his portrayal of queer icon Freddie Mercury. Indya Moore celebrated by TIME 100 Janet Mock, the first trans […]

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LGBTI Journalist Lyra McKee Shot Dead Reporting on Northern Ireland Riots

A 29-year-old LGBTI journalist has been murdered while reporting on ‘dissident republican activity’ in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. A masked gunman allegedly shot Lyra McKee to death while she covered riots in Londonderry – also known as Derry – on Thursday (18 April). Police said a group known as the New IRA ‘are likely to be the ones behind this’. Cell phone footage shows a masked gunman crouching down and opening fire with a handgun at about 11pm. McKee was wounded as she stood by a police SUV according to police. ‘A single gunman fired shots in a residential area of […]

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LGBTI Rights Lawyer Richard Green Dies at 82

Richard Green, a lawyer and psychiatrist who made a name for himself fighting for LGBTI rights, has died at 82. He died of esophageal cancer at his home in London. His son, Adam Hines-Green, survives him. Green spent decades of his life battling against LGBTI discrimination and oppression. Both his work as a lawyer and psychiatrist reflect the passion and resilience he possessed for this endeavor. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936, he went on to study medicine at Johns Hopkins under John Money, a well-known sex and gender psychologist. When training as a psychiatrist at UCLA, he worked with gender identity […]

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