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4 02, 2018

RNC Backs President Trump Ban Of Transgender People In Military

By JRL Charts|2026-02-07T22:54:21-08:00February 4th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Defense Department News, John McCain, lgbt politics, LGBT Veterans, transgender military news|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON (JRL CHARTS) — Last Friday the Republican National Committee [RNC] made it official that they are backing President Donald Trump on his order to ban transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. military. In a resolution which is sure to be covered on the mainstream media this week, passed [...]

31 01, 2018

Top DNC Official Jess O’Connell Out Less Than A Year On the Job

By JRL Charts|2026-01-01T19:47:02-08:00January 31st, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: democratic national committee, Democratic party, DNC Chairman, FEC, fundraising, Jess O'Connell Out at DNC, lgbt politics, politics news, tom perez|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confirmed, the recently appointed CEO of the Democratic National Committee is exiting the DNC after less than a year on the job. The Veteran Democrat activist and top operative, Jess O’Connell, took the reigns of the Democratic National Committee back in May 2017 with a mandate to [...]

29 01, 2018

Watch Indonesia Police Arrest 12 Trans Women, Force them to Shave Heads

By JRL Charts|2018-01-29T15:37:50-08:00January 29th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Amnesty International Indonesia, forced to shave heads, Hartoyo, Indonesia police arrest, Indonesian LGBT rights activist, lgbt politics, twelve transgender women, Usman Hamid|

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer Police serving the conservative government of Indonesia's Aceh province, conducted a crackdown on a group of transgender women on Sunday Jan. 28, which resulted in the women being forced to shave their heads and forcing the transgenders to wear men’s clothing. Police took the 12 trans women into custody and [...]

25 01, 2018

EU Court of Justice Bans ‘gay test’ for Asylum seekers

By JRL Charts|2023-01-22T12:01:20-08:00January 25th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Europe|Tags: annonymous Nigerian man, E.U. Court of Justice, gay tests, homophobic, lgbt politics, rejected asylum appeal|

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer Gay asylum seekers will no longer have to submit to arbitrary tests to prove they're LGBT Status after once again the European Union's Court of Justice banned the practice of "gay tests" on Thursday Jan.25. Now one has to wonder why the European Union's Court of Justice had to once [...]

24 01, 2018

Murders of LGBT, Transgenders In the USA Spike Up 86 Percent

By JRL Charts|2018-01-24T00:33:53-08:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: anti-LGBTQ violence, attorney general jeff sessions, bisexual, cisgender (nontrans) men, gay, hate crimes, lgbt politics, LGBTQ community, National Coalition Anti-Violence Programs, NCAVP, New York City Anti-Violence Project, people of color, president trump, queer, transgender victims, transgender women|

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 [...]

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