Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban marriage equality, and one of them got so upset at a constituent complaint that he told the constituent to “tell it to Satan.” State assembly Republicans in North Carolina are trying to pass…
The LGBTQ community is no stranger to state overreach — when legislatures swoop in to eradicate local nondiscrimination measures or take other sweeping actions that, ultimately, hurt our ability to live, work, and raise our families free from discrimination. In fact…
D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) and Council member David Grosso (I-At-Large) introduced separate versions of a bill this week calling for banning the so-called LGBT panic defense in criminal trials in the District. Eight states, including California and New York, have…
Roee and Adiel Kiviti, a same-sex couple from Maryland, are suing the State Department over its refusal to grant birthright citizenship to their infant daughter, Kessem, who was born via surrogacy in Canada. The fathers say their daughter is being…
Among the wildly dressed marchers this year at New Orleans’ Southern Decadence parade were “100 people dressed as police officers, politicians, and preachers” protesting “Louisiana’s 214-year-old law banning ‘unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same sex,’…
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a North Carolina law that makes it difficult for same-sex victims of domestic violence to obtain protection. Currently, North Carolina state law only allows full protective orders for couples who are “of the opposite sex.”…
While working at an auto dealership in 2016, Kathleen O’Donnell said mechanics frequently would sling insults behind her back, calling her a gay slur and referring to her as “Bob” or “Joe” because of her closely cropped hair. A few days before her…
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