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By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer AUSTIN, TX — Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the anti-LGBT discrimination law on Thursday which would allow adoption agencies who continue to receive taxpayer funds, to refuse any placement of children with same-sex parents and/or any other parents that the agencies feel that those parents are living a lifestyle offensive [...]
Celebrated annually in more than 130 countries as the international day against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOT), IDAHOT observes the world health organization’s decision in 1990 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder and tackles the lack of comprehensive information in societies on the situation of the LGBT people and their views on issues of [...]
By: William Lopez, Staff Writer A total of 31 House Democrats have sent a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain urging the Senate to reject Anti-LGBT Tennessee Senator Mark Green, Trump’s nominee for Army Secretary, based on his history of attacks on the LGBTQ community. “LGBT soldiers are willing to make tremendous [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The now former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was permanently suspended last year from his position for refusing to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Same-Sex Marriage. Well he's back and has announced today Wednesday April 26, he is running for U.S. Senate for Alabama. “As United States [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer While the Trump administration is busy attempting to erase our progress for civil rights over the past 8 years, for the second time in one week, a Federal court has handed the LGBTQ community a second legal victory. On Wednesday, a U.S. district judge Raymond Moore ruled that a Colorado [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C ― The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said today that a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bans gender-based discrimination, also protects gay and lesbian employees. The ruling made history as it is the first time that a full federal appeals court ruling has come [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Trump administration Continuing to Cut LGBT Ties from HHS Gay rights advocates are concerned that the Trump administration’s quiet or some might say, sneaky deletion of questions on sexuality from two federal surveys that have been in place for over 3 years. Not only that, there was also a deletion [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer A total of three LGBT groups sent a letter to the White House asking the Trump administration to keep in place and secure transgender protections that were put in place by former President Obama. The LGBT organizations wrote the letter in response to the Department of Justice withdrawing an objection [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer Gay rights groups are closer than ever before in enacting a LGBT discrimination protections Act in Jacksonville, Florida. If they succeed it will be considered a hard-fought victory in a battle that has been going on in the city over the past five years. While Jacksonville has been busy with [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The White House confirmed early Tuesday in a press statement that President Trump will continue to enforce an Obama-era executive order protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees in the workplace. “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the [...]