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Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Get A Makeover into “Privacy Acts,” Take Hold in These Six States
With just a few days into the new year, lawmakers in Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Washington have introduced new bathroom bills they’re calling “privacy acts” and ensuring we have a long year of battles ahead of us.
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The Other Shoe Drops: North Carolina and Mississippi Both Face Federal Lawsuits for Anti-LGBT Laws
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says some truly awesome words to trans people and against North Carolina’s HB2, The ACLU of Mississippi is challenging the state’s “religious freedom” law, a group of parents and students filed a federal lawsuit because they believe they’re being discriminated when a trans girl uses the correct facilities at their school and more news.
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Daily Fix: Ray Tensing Is Indicted for Murder of Sam DuBose and More News
Restoring the defaced mural honoring Sandra Bland in Ottawa, an Arizona Republican who wants to protect college students accused of sexual assault, the drive to defund Planned Parenthood, and more.
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Daily Fix: All the New Research You Can Shake A Stick At and More News
Research on nationwide LGBT legal equality, bisexuals in the UK, racism in the university classroom, and religion. PLUS updates on your fave/least fave Republicans, police practices overhaul in Cleveland, new laws and more!
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Daily Fix: So Many Made-Up Studies on LGBT People and More News
Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress at graduation, Michael Brown should have been 19 this week, a young trans girl who’s banned from the correct bathroom, support for same-sex marriage at an all-time high, and more!
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ENDA Passes the Senate: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going?
What just happened with ENDA, and what do you need to know to make sense of it? Everything you’ve ever needed to know about ENDA right up to the minute is right here!
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North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays” Are Moving Forward to Protest a Backwards Government
As Moral Monday grows, their initial impetus—the universality of the struggle for justice—remains steadfast. As NC NAACP President Rev. William Barber chants (and everyone repeats) at the demonstrations, “Forward Together, Not One Step Back.”
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Why We Should Be Wary Of Republican Support For Marriage Equality
Republicans are coming out in number to express their support for marriage equality. How can this end well?
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Michigan, Not Our Michigan: How MI’s Reactionary Politics are Driving Away Young Grads
I’m one of the countless numbers of educated young people who left the Detroit area. And it’s not just the economy, stupid, but the state’s constant refrain of anti-women, anti-labor, anti-LGBT politics that drove me away.
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Paul Ryan: GOP Darling, Romney’s Running Mate, and Terrifying VP Prospect
Mittsy’s new running mate is “thrilling,” “intellectual,” “a firebrand,” and also a regressionist who wants to take America back to 1932.
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Republican Women’s Policy Committee Shows Little Interest In Helping Women Outside the Committee
24 Republican female legislators have formed a Women’s Policy Committee, but it’s way less exciting than it sounds.
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Violence Against Women Act May Be Stripped of LGBT Protections Because of Awful Republicans
The Violence Against Women Act was going to be updated to include protections for gay people, undocument immigrants, and Native American communities, but House Republicans are doing their best to make sure it isn’t.
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Pro-Gay Vote Might Be Democrats’ Secret Weapon in 2012 Election
The Republicans have already decided that they don’t need the gays for the 2012 election, but Obama may feel differently.
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Washington Has Enough Votes For Gay Marriage Bill to Pass, We May Win A Thing
“What we’re asking you to do is vote in favor of civil rights. Not what your district says,”
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Republicans Try to “Stomp a Mudhole” in Trans* Rights
Why are transphobic politicians so concerned about where I pee?
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Rick Perry Finds Hating On Gays Doesn’t Work As Only Campaign Strategy
Rick Perry can’t stop talking about how much he hates the gays, and Newt Gingrich can. How’s that working out for them?
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Everything You Never Knew About The Modern GOP And Were Afraid To Find Out
“…a disciplined minority of totalitarians can use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy itself.”
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Gay Republicans Replace Crazy H8ers at the Conservative Caucus Table
A bunch of people who hate gay people are really upset that the GOP has gay people just like everything else in the world.
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Court Appeals Injunction Of DADT and The Painted Pony Goes Up and Down
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was over but then a court appeal made it not over anymore, and everyone is asking why but no one is telling.
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The Bachmanns Say They Don’t Pray Away the Gay for Pay
The Bachmanns claim their clinic doesn’t practice gay conversion therapy and is completely legitimate, but plenty say otherwise. Do you buy it?