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17 07, 2019

GOP Senate Candidate John Merrill angry over ‘Homosexual Activities’ on TV

By JRL Charts|2019-07-17T13:17:23-07:00July 17th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Alabama Senate Race, anti-LGBT voters, homosexual activities, John Merrill, lgbt politics, Roy Moore, Senator Doug Jones|

MONTGOMERY, AL — (07-17-19) — Alabama Secretary of State and GOP Senate candidate John Merrill, is angry over “homosexual activities” replacing “good TV shows”. In his mind, Americans no longer have TV shows like those of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. “There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke', ‘Bonanza', 'The Virginian', 'Andy [...]

15 07, 2019

Gay NYC Councilman Ritchie Torres Announce Run for Congress

By JRL Charts|2019-07-15T22:30:22-07:00July 15th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: bid for Congress 15 District, lgbt politics, NYC Councilman, Ritchie Torres, Ruben Diaz Sr.|

BRONX, NY — (07-15-19) — Openly Gay NYC councilman Ritchie Torres, announced his bid to run for the Bronx 15 congressional district seat, which is soon to be vacated by the longest-serving Hispanic representative, José E. Serrano. Ritchie Torres is eager to run against well known homophobic and Pentecostal minister Ruben Diaz Sr., another NYC [...]

11 07, 2019

NYPD Investigates Vandalized Megan Rapinoe Posters as Hate Crime

By JRL Charts|2019-07-11T10:03:29-07:00July 11th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: anti-lgbt, hate crimes task force, homophobic, lgbt politics, Megan Rapinoe hate crime investigation, NYPD, president Donald Trump, vandalized posters in Manhattan|

NEW YORK, NY — (07-11-19) — NYPD hate crimes task force has said they are launching an investigation after posters of soccer champion Megan Rapinoe posters were vandalized with misogynistic comments and homophobic slurs at a Manhattan subway station. The Megan Rapinoe posters were on display around the Bryant Park subway station.stop, when on Monday [...]

10 07, 2019

Catholic High School Caves to Pressure, Fires Gay Teacher

By JRL Charts|2025-09-07T10:25:17-07:00July 10th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Archbishop Charles Thompson, Attorney Kathleen DeLaney, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory, Cathedral High School, Catholic Church, fired gay teacher, lgbt politics, LGBTQ Education Rights|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — (07-10-19) — Last month we reported on Catholic School Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory, defying the church to fire a recently married gay teacher and now, Cathedral High School has caved into pressure and fired their gay teacher. While the school decided to side with Archbishop Charles Thompson of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to [...]

8 07, 2019

Gov. Cuomo Signs Bill to Release Trump’s State Tax Returns

By JRL Charts|2019-07-08T10:56:24-07:00July 8th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Brad Hoylman State Senator of New York, Donald Trump state tax returns, Donald Trump tax returns, Gov. Cuomo signs bill Trump tax returns, lgbt politics, paul goldberg, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin|

NEW YORK, NY — (07-08-19) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), signed a state bill on Monday that permits the state Tax commissioner to release President Donald Trump’s tax returns for investigative purposes by Washington Congressional committees. The bill specifically requires New York’s tax commissioner to release any state tax return requested by the [...]

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