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Home2021February

Month: February 2021

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Zero Democrats lend name to the GOP’s compromise bill to the Equality Act

February 28, 2021 compassq Comments Off on Zero Democrats lend name to the GOP’s compromise bill to the Equality Act

Despite signals the Fairness for All Act counterproposal from Republicans on LGBTQ rights and religious freedom would have bipartisan support upon its reintroduction on Friday, the final list of original co-sponsors has no Democrats. Although the list of 21 co-sponsors is…

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It took over 60 years for this gay hero to finally get his varsity letter

February 28, 2021 compassq Comments Off on It took over 60 years for this gay hero to finally get his varsity letter

He was a skinny high school student who had asthma, a high-pitched voice and effeminate mannerisms. He kept his distance from football players, who he said bullied him, but when his Catholic school in New Jersey formed a track team…

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Oscar Wilde’s visit to San Francisco sent the city into a bitter, clamoring frenzy

February 28, 2021 compassq Comments Off on Oscar Wilde’s visit to San Francisco sent the city into a bitter, clamoring frenzy

San Francisco today is a city passionately divided on many issues, from the naming of schools to whether the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park should keep spinning. But in 1882, the city’s chief cause of furor was the arrival of…

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The untold story of gay and lesbian foster families in the 1970’s

February 28, 2021 compassq Comments Off on The untold story of gay and lesbian foster families in the 1970’s

When Don Ward was a child, in Seattle, in the nineteen-sixties, his mother, each December, would hand him the Sears catalogue and ask him to pick Christmas gifts. By the time his parents filed for divorce, the catalogue had become…

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The GOP’s attacks on LGBT people this week in Congress were the worst in decades

February 28, 2021 compassq Comments Off on The GOP’s attacks on LGBT people this week in Congress were the worst in decades

It’s not every week that Congress hits a historical milestone. But this week, Congress did just that — in the worst possible way. In both the Senate and the House, Republicans members engaged in the kind of open anti-LGBTQ hostility that…

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The Equality Act has outlived some of the bill’s original sponsors

February 27, 2021 compassq Comments Off on The Equality Act has outlived some of the bill’s original sponsors

Republicans have been standing in the way of the Equality Act for so long that many of the bill’s original sponsors aren’t around to see its passage. LGBT+ advocates celebrated yesterday (25 February) as the sweeping equality legislation passed through the…

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Pete Buttigieg biking home from work has the internet in a frenzy

February 27, 2021 compassq Comments Off on Pete Buttigieg biking home from work has the internet in a frenzy

People in Washington D.C. are used to seeing political figures and government employees around the nation’s capital, and it seems that the new Secretary of Transportation isn’t going to be an exception to that. City sleuths noticed yesterday that Secretary…

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