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15 06, 2020

Supreme Court says Civil Rights Act Protects LGBTQ workers

WASHINGTON D.C. — (06-15-20) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made history in a 6-3 Decision ruling that Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Are Protected by the Civil Rights Act. The ruling that employers who fire someone “merely for being gay or transgender” is a Civil Rights violation under federal law. Such a sex-based [...]

21 04, 2020

Trump Signs Executive Order Suspending All Immigration

By JRL Charts|2025-07-11T14:49:13-07:00April 21st, 2020|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: coronavirus legal immigration ban, covid-19 immigration ban, executive order ban legal immigration, immigration ban, Immigration News, LGBT Politics USA, National Foundation for American Policy, Trump bans Legal Immigration|

By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C — (04-21-20) — Heads are turning as President Trump bans all Legal Immigration into the United States. In the late hours of Monday April 20, Trump announced via twitter that he will “temporarily suspend immigration into the United States.” Highly Recommended [...]

2 04, 2020

White House: ICE Consider Release of HIV detainees

By JRL Charts|2025-07-11T14:50:30-07:00April 2nd, 2020|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: CDC, coronavirus pandemic, Covid19 guide, high risk, Homeland Security Chad Wolf, ICE detention, ICE HIV detainees, Immigration News, LGBT Politics USA|

LAS VEGAS — (04-02-20) — The White House announced on Wednesday that ICE is considering releasing HIV detainees on a case by case basis due to the coronavirus pandemic. After receiving pressure from both sides of the political aisle, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said that ICE is looking into the issue on [...]

1 03, 2020

Gov. Andy Beshear defends Photo with drag queens

By JRL Charts|2025-07-08T11:08:11-07:00March 1st, 2020|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Andy Beshear, gay Kentucky news, Gov Andy Beshear, Kentucky Fairness Campaign, LGBT Politics USA, Order of the Sisters Perpetual Indulgence, Phillip Wheeler, Senator Phillip Wheeler|

FRANKFORT, KY — (03-01-20) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) found himself defending his decision to pose for a photo with drag queens. The photo was taken at a recent LGBTQ rights rally after a anti-LGBTQ Republican lawmaker took offense at the photo, accusing the state's governor of threatening traditional values. The photo in taken [...]

7 10, 2019

Federal Judge Strikes Down Tampa Conversion Therapy Ban

By JRL Charts|2025-07-08T10:50:38-07:00October 7th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Amanda Arnold Sansone, conversion therapy Tampa Florida, gay Tampa news, LGBT Politics USA, Liberty Counsel, Tampa conversion therapy ban, U.S. District Judge William Jung|

TAMPA, FL — (10-07-19) (Gay News) (Gay Politics) — Federal judge William Jung, struck down the City of Tampa' ordinance banning conversion therapy on minors, cited that he doesn't believe the city has the jurisdiction to pass such a ban. In his 41-Page Ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge William Jung said last Friday that [...]

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