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Anti-gay adoption rules tossed when officials realized the cost.

Maricopa County, Arizona has abandoned an anti-gay adoption policy, after the county attorney realised it was costing $750,000 a year to keep in place. The county provides free legal services for parents seeking uncontested adoptions, but a policy imposed in 2015 had…

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Supreme Court’s LGBT ruling could have ‘broad implications.’

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia — which was widely praised by LGBTQ advocates but condemned by social conservatives — will likely have broad ramifications that go far beyond employment protections, according to several legal experts…

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Who are the LGBT plaintiffs in the historic SCOTUS ruling?

The surviving plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that determined whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace on Monday said he is “ecstatic” by the justices’ ruling in his favor. “When somebody was finally…

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A court struck down a pro-LGBT law, so this city passed it again.

On Tuesday, a 15-4 vote by the Jacksonville City Council restored the town’s LGBTQ non-discrimination protections after a Florida appeals court struck it down due to a legislative technicality in May. Mayor Lenny Curry has signaled that he will sign the…