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Month: July 2018
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These five court cases could change the future of LGBT rights.
The possibility of a right-wing Supreme Court Justice has LGBT campaigners rightly nervous. Trump’s appointment will also coincide with key LGBT equality cases hitting the courts. The Supreme Court nominee President Trump is expected to announce on Monday could play as large a role in unraveling LGBT rights as retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy did in recognizing them.
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Maine Governor vetoes ban on gay conversion therapy, cites religious liberty.
Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage vetoed a bill Friday that would have banned gay conversion therapy, the controversial practice to change a person’s sexual orientation, because it was “bad public policy” and was a “threat to an individual’s religious liberty.” “Parents have the right to seek counsel and treatment…
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7 statistics that show business support for Pride has a lasting impact.
LGBT Pride can have a lasting positive effect on work culture in the following seven ways. The Pride in London Parade is a celebration that follows a summer of events in support of sexual diversity. Managers at both large and small UK organisations are increasingly publicly voicing support for the movement, and there is evidence…
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Scarlett Johansson’s transgender casting is part of an issue worth revisiting.
Here’s a story we’ve heard before: A cisgender actor has been cast as a trans character for an upcoming movie. This time around, the cis actor is Scarlett Johansson and the movie is Rub & Tug, helmed by her Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders. According to trade reports, Johansson will star as…
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Web reshapes the lives of China’s LGBT community.
Increasing openness and free expression on social platforms have brought China’s LGBT community an unprecedented visibility. But is that exposure a sign that more LGBT people are coming out of the closet? Nearly 48 percent of China’s LGBT people refuse to tell their family about their sexual orientation, according to “Being LGBTI in China…
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