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The 'CDC', Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deny the rumors going around stating that it plans to remove LGBT questions on a federal health survey, regardless of reports that state otherwise. The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, released a formal statement on May 17 accusing the CDC of planning to [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer As Trump's Justice Department continues to roll back any progress in LGBTQ civil rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DOJ is removing questions pertaining to gender identity and sexual orientation from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) about violence. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) which is administered [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer When Secretary of Education Besy Devos appeared before the House appropriations subcommittee, she was met with a grilling from Rep. Katherine Clark who has for over a year pressed the Devos to say yes or no on whether Federal dollars should be used for private schools that have policies to [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing Masterpiece Cakeshop vs Colorado Civil Rights Commission and LGBTQ activists are concerned that with a conservative majority on the court, their decision could set America back 50 years and they are not taking any chances! Over 80 pro-LGBTQ organizations are determined to make [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration another defeat as the judges voted 10 to 3 on Monday that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and bisexual workers from sexual orientation discrimination. The ruling is a stunning defeat for the anti-LGBT Trump administration and its mouth [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Plans for the first ever LGBTQ PRIDE Parade were shattered after local leaders in the town of Starkville, Mississippi, denied a permit to LGBTQ support group Starkville Pride to hold what would have been the historic first ever gay pride parade in the town with a population of 26,000. Needless [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer LGBT Politics — Following the disgraceful GOP legislature voting to defund the University of Tennessee LGBT Center, Alumni and LGBT groups step up to fund the university's diversity and Inclusion office. The Tennessee GOP legislature voted to defund the University of Tennessee's Office of Diversity and Inclusion which would have [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — According to the White House budget for Fiscal year 2018, cuts are being proposed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which covers programs on HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis as well as outreach programs on sexually transmitted diseases education. President Trump becomes the first president since President [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — According to the 2017 study conducted by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, there was a disturbing increase in hate-related homicides of LGBT and HIV-affected people in the U.S.A. The study showed a staggering increase of hate-related crimes as high as 52 cases which according to the [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what many are calling a backwards step, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to hear challenges to Mississippi’s “License to Discriminate” Law, the court announced Monday Jan. 8, 2018. You will remember last year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that [...]