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Justice Kennedy delivered 2018’s most preventable disaster.

In 2015, the year of the Obergefell marriage equality ruling, I published a book, It’s Not Over, warning against the temptation of “victory blindness” and anticipating, among other potential dangers, that the fortunes of LGBTQ people and other threatened minorities could…

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The fate of LGBT workplace rights lies with Mitch McConnell.

Sen. Mike Lee’s opposition to lesbian Chai Feldlum could lead to the closure of the EEOC, which enforces civil rights law in the workplace—unless Mitch McConnell intervenes. One senator’s opposition to LGBT rights could indefinitely shut down the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission come 2019.

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Gay conversion therapy movies are helping fight for ban.

Recent films have been associated with helping raise awareness of the fight to ban gay conversion therapy. Conversion therapy was a hot topic for Hollywood this year. Both Boy Erased and The Miseducation of Cameron Post received critical acclaim upon…