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GLOBE Act introduced in US Senate to support LGBT rights abroad.

Three U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the U.S. to continue to promote LGBTQ rights abroad through its foreign policy. The Greater Leadership Overseas for the Benefit of Equality (GLOBE) Act — introduced by U.S. Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.)…

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While Washington disappoints, more cities protect LGBTs.

Despite some state and federal motions to stymie pro-equality measures, cities across the U.S. are continuing to increase equality standards and protections for all of their citizens, no matter their gender or social orientation, a nationwide index finds.

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Lawsuit shows the continued threats to marriage equality.

More than four years after the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, Alaska appears to be engaged in flagrant discrimination against same-sex couples. On Wednesday, Denali Nicole Smith, a resident of Alaska, filed a lawsuit against..

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Another judge deals blow to Trump’s anti-LGBT ‘conscience rule’.

A second federal judge has ruled against Trump administration’s “conscience rule” allowing health care workers to get out of procedures with which they have religious objections, such as gender reassignment surgery or abortion. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian, an Obama appointee, ruled…

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Trump just scrapped healthcare protections for LGBT patients.

In a rule change announced on Friday (November 1), health programmes receiving grants from HSS will no longer have to abide by nondiscrimination guidelines protecting LGBT+ people. The Trump administration changed the rule in the name of “religious freedom”…

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Taxpayer-funded groups get green light for discrimination.

From taxpayer-funded foster care and adoption agencies to programs that serve individuals struggling with substance abuse and youth homelessness, grantees of the Department of Health and Human Services got a green light from the Trump administration Friday to discriminate against LGBTQ people…