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British LGBT Tourists Warned About Visiting North Carolina and Mississippi
Hudson Hongo · 04/20/16 10:45PMNorth Carolina Governor Revises Anti-LGBT Law To Be Slightly Less Anti-LGBT
Rich Juzwiak · 04/12/16 04:45PMCiting “misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion, a lot of passion and frankly, selective outrage and hypocrisy,” North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has issued an executive order amending his state’s outrageous House Bill 2, which, among other things, requires transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates in government buildings, and kills local anti-discrimination ordinances. So if you said, “Hey, that’s fucked up!” when you read about this law, well, you were just misinformed and here’s some new information to digest. This how McCrory delivers “common-sense solutions to complex issues.”
Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/16 02:55PM
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Will Veto Georgia's Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Bill
Rich Juzwiak · 03/28/16 11:15AMLogic and Human Decency Don't Seem To Matter Much in North Carolina
Rich Juzwiak · 03/24/16 03:04PMTrans people are not a threat, but they are threatened. There are no recorded incidents of trans people attacking cisgender people in bathrooms. In fact, trans people experience hate violence at rates disproportionate to their cisgender counterparts, and sometimes these anti-trans attacks occur in bathrooms. It’s counterintuitive for someone who presents as female to use a restroom designated for males (and vice versa), and all the proof of the resulting absurdity you need is captured in the picture above, which transgender woman Kelly Lauren posted on Facebook in November in response to the public’s voting down of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance: “Houston, do you REALLY want me in the same restroom as your husband or boyfriend?”
South Dakota Governor Vetoes Bad Transgender Bathroom Bill
Andy Cush · 03/02/16 08:41AMCatskills Town Accused of Preventing 160 Hasidic Jews From Voting
Allie Jones · 02/02/16 04:04PMLast January, the board of elections in the tiny Catskills village of Bloomingburg, New York, attempted to cancel the voting registrations of 160 Hasidic residents, claiming that they needed to provide more proof of residency to vote. Ten of those residents filed a federal lawsuit against the board claiming voter discrimination, and today, the Sullivan County Board of Elections settled for $575,000.
Former Donald Trump Organizer Accuses Campaign of Discrimination Against Women
Melissa Cronin · 01/31/16 02:33PM22 Trans/Gender Non-Conforming People Were Found Murdered in 2015: Were There More Murders or Better Reporting?
Rich Juzwiak · 12/28/15 01:12PMThe Anti Violence Project responded to 22 homicides of transgender/gender-nonconforming people in America in 2015. In 2014, the number was 12, as Zach Stafford pointed out in The Guardian in November. He wasn’t alone in highlighting that astronomical number this year, especially in accordance with the Trans Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20. The New York Times, The Melissa Harris Perry Show, The Advocate, Mother Jones, MTV.com, Fusion, and the Daily Dot are just a few of the outlets that have highlighted this epidemic.
A Dirty Corner of Warren Buffett's Empire
Hamilton Nolan · 12/28/15 10:49AMU.S. Bars Muslim Family Headed to Disneyland From Entering Country
Andy Cush · 12/23/15 10:09AMRich Juzwiak · 08/14/15 01:58PM
Gay couple David Moore and David Ermold, who documented the Rowan County Clerk’s refusal to grant them a marriage license last month in a viral YouTube video last month, returned to the Kentucky office yesterday and were once again denied a marriage license. This shit is still happening. It’s not over.
County Clerk in Kentucky Filmed Denying Gay Couple Marriage License
Rich Juzwiak · 07/08/15 12:10PMThe footage above is incredible, perhaps era-defining. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to a man named David V. Moore and his male partner of 17 years when they went to the Rowan County Clerk’s Office in Morehead, Kentucky on Monday. The pair were made to wait around while others cut ahead of them. When they finally were acknowledged by those working in the office, they were told to go to another county courthouse to obtain their license.
Local Jails Are Insatiable Monsters
Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/15 12:12PMTarget's Dumb Internal Guide to Millennials (and Other Generations)
Hamilton Nolan · 01/09/15 12:27PMTexas Student Says Frat Didn't Give Him a Bid Because He's Gay
Allie Jones · 10/07/14 10:25AMUniversity of Texas student Diwu Zhou says the Asian interest fraternity Lambda Phi Epsilon didn't give him a bid this fall because he's openly gay. In the wake of this allegation, LPhiE headquarters has suspended the chapter. Zhou says brothers asked him a "derogatory" question during the interview process.
Teen Suing DMV for Making Him Remove Makeup to Get His License
Jay Hathaway · 09/02/14 01:52PMHamilton Nolan · 07/24/14 02:58PM
Fired Editor Sues for His Religious Freedom to Write About "Gaystapo"
Adam Weinstein · 07/24/14 09:58AMBack in May, the Newton Daily News of Iowa fired its editor-in-chief for comments he'd made on his personal blog. This week, the editor filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming he was fired for his sincere religious beliefs, which compel him to fight "the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo" to the last.