WORLD NEWS

Russian lawmaker incites hate towards LGBT people and only gets a slap on the hand.

The State Duma ethics committee will reprimand ultra-conservative St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov for inciting hatred against the LGBT community. Activist Alexey Timoshenko published a petition on the website change.org calling for the Duma ethics committee to punish Milonov for his repeated public statements “aimed at inciting hatred and enmity toward certain social groups.”

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The Elder LGBT Long Term Care Bill of Rights to fight against discrimination in Philadelphia.

Gigi Nikpour needs conversations about the city’s LGBTQ community to focus more on its aging population. People’s lives depend on it. Through the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs’ LGBTQ Elders Committee, the Community Legal Services paralegal is creating an Elder LGBT Long Term Care Bill of Rights to fight against discrimination older queer and trans adults face in the surrounding area.

POLICIES

A Tennessee school board voted to keep LGBT protections in place.

A Tennessee county’s school board has voted to keep protections for LGBT students and employees in place. News outlets report Knox County school board members who were to vote Wednesday on a proposal to eliminate specific protections for gender identity and sexual orientation instead passed a substitute motion to keep existing language.

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Sponsors line up behind this Olympic hopeful.

Coming out as an openly gay Olympic freestyle skier has been great for Gus Kenworthy as a person, since he can be his true self. It’s also been great for Kenworthy in terms of visibility and endorsements, as Sports Business Journal found.