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TALLAHASSEE, FL — (02-24-22) — Florida's Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed their discrimination bill, 'Don't Say Gay' Thursday. The anti-LGBT bill would prohibit "classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity" in the state’s primary schools. The legislation — titled the 'Parental Rights in Education' bill aka "Don’t Say Gay" bill, now heads to the [...]
WILTON MANORS, FL — (02-04-22) — LGBTQ activists, Florida LGBTQ and Heterosexual students and local leaders staged a massive protest against the GOP run state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill last Tuesday night. According to local media outs, at least 100 people gathered outside the Pride Center in Wilton Manors to rally against yet another anti-LGBTQ [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — (01-23-22) — A Florida GOP House committee passed their latest anti-LGBT bill entitled, "Don't Say Gay" last Thursday. The anti-LGBT legislation passed last Thursday bans discussions of sexuality and gender identity in school classrooms. The passage drew immediate backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates who say the bill will effectively “erase” LGBTQ+ culture, history, [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (07-02-21) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, declined to review a case over a Washington state florist's refusal to service a wedding for a same-sex couple, letting stand Washington state court's ruling that the florist engaged in unlawful discrimination over sexual orientation. The case, Arleans Flowers v. Washington, No. 19-333, began [...]
NASHVILLE, TN — (05-05-21) — GOP lawmakers in Tennessee are being slammed over blocking a measure honoring openly gay Brothers Osborne singer TJ Osborne. The resolution honoring TJ Osborne for becoming a “trailblazer and a symbol of hope for country music artists and fans alike, who may have felt ostracized for being LGBTQI. The measure [...]
RICHMOND, VA — (02-14-21) — Virginia is getting the spotlight this month as it moves to repeal the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Following the move initiated by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks in Nebraska to have her state repeal its ban on same-sex marriage, Democratic state Sen. Adam Ebbin is sponsoring SJ 270, which [...]
AUSTIN, TEXAS — (09-05-20) — Assistant attorney general Nick Moutos of Texas, has been fired after Media Matters for America exposed his anti-Gay, anti-Muslim, misogynist and racist tweets. Former AG Nick Moutos “no longer works for the Office of the Attorney General,” Kayleigh Date, spokeswoman for the Attorney General's office told JRL CHARTS on Friday. [...]
AUSTIN, TX — (04-21-20) — An openly gay Texas judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez, says she was forced to remove her rainbow gay pride flag and other colorful materials after a local defense attorney filed a complaint over the gay pride flag comparing the symbol to a swastika and Confederate flag. Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez told [...]
COFFEE COUNTY, TN — (06-04-19) — Tennessee DA Craig Northcott has created a fire storm over his comments saying that Gay people aren't entitled to domestic violence protections. The controversial comments by the Tennessee prosecutor who recently faced calls to resign for calling Muslims inherently 'evil', has once again put his foot in his mouth [...]
MANILA — (05-31-19) — Philippines’ president Rodrigo Duterte made headlines yesterday in Japan when he said 'I used to be gay before I met my wife, but then I cured myself and became a man again'. Duterte said those comments during a visit to Japan yesterday where he made headlines by claiming to be an [...]