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Biden nominates out lawyer Casey Pitts to federal bench

Long time San Francisco litigator P. Casey Pitts was nominated to take up judicial robes to serve on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California the White House announced Friday. Pitts, a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP…

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Internet service company blocks homophobic hate site

In a tweet Saturday afternoon, Matthew Prince, the CEO and co-founder of internet content delivery and security services company Cloudflare announced that his firm had blocked Kiwifarms. Kiwifarms is an American Internet forum dedicated to the inflammatory and often homophobic…

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Targeting LGBT rights are part of the authoritarian playbook

In the last three decades, protections for LGBTQ people’s rights have advanced rapidly in many countries and regions. However, rising populist authoritarianism poses a significant threat to this progress because abolishing sexual freedom is often at the heart of repressive…

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Federal judge allows anti-gay photographer to discriminate

A federal court has sided with a Louisville photographer who refuses to shoot same-sex weddings due to her religious beliefs, finding that a local nondiscrimination law violated her First Amendment rights. In a 44-page ruling issued on August 30…

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‘Not gay’ Lindsey Graham’s 10 gayest moments

The senior senator from South Carolina is nothing if not confounding. He’s a political chameleon cloaked in a MAGA cap. He’s a two-stepping litany of surprises. Everybody’s got something to hate about Lindsey Graham. And he’s right where he wants…