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5 07, 2017

Oregon Adopts Third Gender Option On Drivers’ Licenses

By JRL Charts|2017-07-05T18:10:56-07:00July 5th, 2017|Categories: Transgender News|Tags: adminitrative rules, David House, DMV of Oregon, Drivers' Licenses, learner’s driving permits, lgbt politics, Oregon, state driver’s licenses, Third Gender Option|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer SALEM, OR — The DMV in Oregon has become the first state in the USA to allow residents who don’t identify as male or female to mark their gender as “not specified” on applications for identity cards, learner’s driving permits and state driver’s licenses. According to Oregon’s Driver and Motor [...]

3 07, 2017

Man Indicted On Hate Crime Charges Over Anti-Gay Attack on Q-Train

By JRL Charts|2017-07-03T13:08:07-07:00July 3rd, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: anti-gay slurs, anti-lgbt, Brooklyn Supreme Court, Hate Crime – LGBTQ Attacks, Threats & Global Reports | JRL CHARTS, indicted for assault, lgbt politics, Q train, Thomas Antoine|

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer BROOKLYN, NY — A 27 year-old Flatbush man Antoine Thomas, was indicted Monday on charges of assault and battery with a special circumstance put on as a hate crime after spewing anti-gay slurs at a couple aboard a Q train right before sucker punching one of the victims which resulted [...]

29 06, 2017

Gay Pride London 2017 Is on Track to Be the Largest Ever Recorded

By JRL Charts|2017-06-29T15:45:20-07:00June 29th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics, World LGBT News|Tags: asexual, bisexual, gay, Lesbian, LGBT Community, lgbt politics, London PRIDE 2017, queer, transgender|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer LONDON, ENGLAND — The London Pride Season is turning out to be the largest Pride event ever recorded worldwide. In fact this year's London PRIDE celebration kicked off in the capital on Saturday June 24 and is set to run through Sunday July 9. RELATED: Lovehoney Celebrates PRIDE With New [...]

26 06, 2017

Supreme Court Rules Gay Couples Entitled to Equal Treatment on Birth Certificates

By JRL Charts|2025-08-12T17:59:59-07:00June 26th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Arkansas Supreme Court, birth certificates, constitutional right, Gay couples, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr, lgbt politics, obergefell vs hodges, Pavan v. Smith, US Supreme Court|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff WRiter WASHINGTON D.C — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday to reaffirmed its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right for same-sex marriage, ruling that states can not treat married same-sex couples differently from others in issuing birth certificates. As expected, the only dissents in the unsigned ruling were Justice Neil [...]

23 06, 2017

Gay Actor Sir Ian McKellen Slams Trump on LGBT Rights

By JRL Charts|2017-06-23T15:21:06-07:00June 23rd, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Harry Potter, LGBT Political News, lgbt politics, president barack obama, president Donald Trump, Sir Ian McKellen, Variety, workplace discrimination, X-Men|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD, CA - The legendary actor who is best known for his roles as Gandalf in Harry Potter and Magneto in the X-Men franchise, Sir Ian McKellen, opened up about how he feels about the “Un-American” attitude of president Donald Trump on not following through on his campaign pledge to [...]

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