A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to prevent the U.S. military from accepting transgender recruits starting Jan. 1, the second court to issue such a ruling this week. Four federal judges around the country have issued injunctions blocking Trump’s ban on transgender people from… Read the full article HERE.
Four gay couples planning to marry at sea on Bermuda-registered ships will be able to tie the knot after all, despite the ruling Progressive Labour Party’s push to end marriage equality, the Government has confirmed. Marriage banns have been posted by the Registrar-General for the unions, with two of the ceremonies due to take… Read the full article HERE.
A Tennessee county commission has rejected a symbolic resolution condemning same-sex marriage. News outlets report four Hamblen County commissioners voted for the resolution Thursday, while five voted against it and four abstained. The commission meeting was preceded by around 50 people demonstrating against the resolution outside the courthouse. Read the full article HERE.
The U.S. on Thursday announced it has sanctioned former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh under a 2016 human rights law. A press release from the Treasury Department notes the Trump administration has used the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that former President Obama signed in 2016 to freeze the assets of Jammeh and a dozen other “serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors.” Read the full article HERE.
The former fire chief of Atlanta has lost his discrimination case, a federal court ruling on Wednesday that the city had the right to fire him after he passed out an anti-gay book and then campaigned against his subsequent suspension. Kelvin Cochran passed out a book he self-published, called… Read the full article HERE.
Anyone who knows their history knows that we didn’t get our rights without a fight. That fight was long, it was hard, it spanned decades (centuries, in fact) and it was led by the part of our community that’s now reaching old age. We have the pioneers of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s to thank for… Read the full article HERE.
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