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Meet the five biggest anti-LGBT Judicial nominees.

Today, HRC aimed a bright spotlight on five federal judicial nominees — Jeff Mateer, Damien Schiff, Leonard Steven Grasz, Mark Norris, and Stephen Schwartz. If confirmed by the Senate, the nominees could seriously threaten the future of LGBTQ equality in America… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality

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In Kentucky town, gay-marriage opponent Davis still divides.

The last place Lincoln Caudill expected to see his eastern Kentucky hometown was on a television in a Philadelphia restaurant, yet there it was in the summer of 2015, flickering back at him from a newscast about a defiant county clerk… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality

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Oops! A male anti-LGBT Republican resigns for having sex with a man.

An Ohio Republican state legislator who consistently touts his faith and his anti-LGBT stances resigned this week after being caught having sex with a man in his office. Representative Wes Goodman, who is married, was reportedly seen by someone who is not a staffer… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality

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LGBT Elder Americans Act named after West Palm Beach couple.

n Nov. 2, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-22) reintroduced the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Elder Americans Act, named after Jewish lesbian couple Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz of West Palm Beach to Congress. Deutch noted that the Ruthie and Connie LGBT Elder Americans Act… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality

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Why Roy Moore’s election is an LGBT issue.

The potential election of Roy Moore to a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama is, among other things, a serious issue for the LGBT community. Few — if any — members of the U.S. Senate are as virulently anti-LGBT as Moore. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality  

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Gay conversion therapy is dying in Florida.

A network of LGBT Floridians has rapidly passed 17 local conversion therapy bans in as many months—a feat that no other state besides Ohio has come close to replicating. In June 2016, Miami Beach banned conversion therapy for minors… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality