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The Equality Act was formally reintroduced in the US House

The Equality Act, which would ban anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination throughout the nation, was formally reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday. The act would amend existing civil rights laws, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act…

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Wording in COVID church bills can be used to discriminate

At first, advocates wondered if it wasn’t a mistake. South Dakota’s Senate Bill 124 aimed to give churches leeway to operate during the pandemic, but it contained four lines that, in advocates’ generous reading, were vague, too broad, or perhaps just…

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Chasten Buttigieg just made one final, epic clapback at Rush

Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor and current U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, issued one last snarky shutdown of conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh. The same day of Limbaugh’s death, Chasten simply posted a picture of…

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GOP want to funnel money to anti-LGBT religious schools

Republican lawmakers in West Virginia are considering a bill which would effectively funnel state money into anti-LGBT+ religious schools and encourage parents to send their children to such schools. House Bill (HB) 2013 would extend the Hope Scholarship programme, which…

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Facebook has blocked Australian LGBT pages in news purge

Facebook on Thursday blocked access to the pages of some of Australia’s leading LGBTQI organisations, including Equality Australia and Midsumma Festival. The pages got caught in the social media giant’s ban on news that has prevented users in the country…