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15 08, 2019

Contractors Can Refuse LGBTQ Workers Under New Religious Policy

2026-05-12T09:44:19-07:00August 15th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , |

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (08-15-19) — Federal Contractors can now refuse to hire LGBTQ workers thanks to the Trump administration's "New Religious Policy". Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella said in a statement yesterday...“Today’s proposed rule helps to ensure the civil rights of religious employers are protected,” said Pizzella. “As people of faith with deeply [...]

19 06, 2019

U.S. Senate advances another anti-LGBT Court Pick by Trump

2026-05-01T11:41:29-07:00June 19th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON, D.C ― (06-19-19) ― The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a well known anti-LGBT activist judge named Matthew Kacsmaryk. Matthew Kacsmaryk is up for a lifetime federal judge position and if confirmed, is sure to be an anti-LGBT activist on the bench. Despite strong protests from Democrat Senators and one [...]

4 06, 2019

Tennessee DA Craig Northcott Outrageous Statements on Gay Rights Goes Viral

2026-05-01T11:41:30-07:00June 4th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

COFFEE COUNTY, TN — (06-04-19) — Tennessee DA Craig Northcott has created a fire storm over his comments saying that Gay people aren't entitled to domestic violence protections.  The controversial comments by the Tennessee prosecutor who recently faced calls to resign for calling Muslims inherently 'evil',  has once again put his foot in his mouth [...]

24 05, 2019

Trump Rolls back Transgender Healthcare Protections

2026-06-14T23:41:32-07:00May 24th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics, Transgender News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (05-24-19) — The Trump administration Friday, announced the cancellation of an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients. This is latest attack and rollback of federal protections for transgender Americans. The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that they are rewriting an Obamacare regulation that [...]

22 05, 2019

HUD OK’s Discrimination Against Homeless Transgender People

2026-05-01T11:41:31-07:00May 22nd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics, Transgender News|Tags: , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON, D.C — (05-22-19) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is pushing to roll back protections instituted by the Obama administration, for homeless transgender people, by enabling HUD-funded providers of shelters to consider a person’s sex or gender identification in determining whether they can be admitted. The new anti-LGBTQ proposal that was [...]

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