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Michigan one step closer to banning LGBT discrimination.

A ballot drive has turned in more than 483,000 signatures for an initiative to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in Michigan by amending the state’s civil rights law. If election officials determine roughly 340,000 are valid, the bill would be placed before…

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Push by MEPs for a Europe-wide ban on conversion therapy.

More than 60 members of the European Parliament have joined calls for the European Commission to enforce a Europe-wide ban on conversion therapy. So-called ‘conversion therapy’ refers to the dangerous and discredited practise of trying to change a person’s sexuality or…