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Governor to force Cayman Islands to recognize gay couples.

British Governor of the Cayman Islands Martyn Roper has announced he will push through recognition for same-sex relationships after rebel legislators blocked passage of a domestic partnership bill. The battle over marriage equality in the British Overseas Territory has been particularly…

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SCOTUS ruled on a landmark LGBT rights case. DOJ ignores it.

For Chris Sanders, June 15 changed everything.  That day, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected LGBTQ people against work discrimination.  “We would not be able to get a piece of legislation through…

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Legalization of gay rights has Haiti churches up in arms.

An overhaul of Haiti’s archaic 185-year-old criminal laws provides stiffer penalties for rape, decriminalizes begging and, for the first time, addresses modern-era crimes like cyber security and terrorism financing while giving a clearer definition of what constitutes sexual harassment…

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LGBT candidates keep winning in 2020’s ‘rainbow wave.’

Primary election season may be winding to a close, but LGBTQ+ candidates just keep winning in election races across the country. That includes Kansas’ Stephanie Byers and New York’s Ritchie Torres, the latter of whom had to wait more than…

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Gay billionaire funded an anti-LGBT candidate and he still lost.

Gay billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel funded the campaign of an anti-LGBT+ Republican running for US senate in Kansas. Kansas US senate candidate Kris Kobach lost the GOP primary to representative Roger Marshall, a less divisive Republican, on Tuesday, 4 August…