Results for: be the change
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Score One for Lesbian Parental Rights with Judge’s Landmark Ruling
A Virginia Beach judge ruled a lesbian parent has the right to custody of her non-biological child, California’s got a lot of LGBT-friendly laws going into effect this year, more “religious freedom” bills in Georgia, Creating Change un-invites ICE from speaking at the conference, and more!
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Indiana Lost $60M After Passing Anti-Gay Law Last Year, Doesn’t Stop Them From Proposing New Ones This Year
Indiana’s tourism took a hit after last year’s RFRA law was passed and they have six new anti-gay bills up for debate tomorrow, a grand jury indicts anti-choice activists who shot undercover video of Planned Parenthood, Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles, a bisexual Jamaican receives asylum and more news!
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US Marine Found Guilty in Jennifer Laude’s Death but Not of Murder, Given Short Sentence
Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted for the death of transgender woman Jennifer Laude, the New York Times uses the gender-neutral honorific Mx., Canada welcomes LGBT Syrian refugees and more news!
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Daily Fix: Kim Davis’s BFF Mike Huckabee Says Religious Freedom “Most Important Issue of Election” and More News
Mike Huckabee is running on a Kim Davis platform, Baltimore offers a settlement to Freddie Gray’s family, James Blake is tackled by NYPD officers and more.
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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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Daily Fix: Black Lives Matter Calls on Hillary to Stand with Black Trans Women and More News
The Black Lives Matter movement also repudiated the Democratic National Committee’s endorsement, a Maryland judge refuses to drop charges against the six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, a professor received a grant to study health in bisexual women and more news stories.
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Daily Fix: California First State to Pay for Trans Inmate’s Surgery and More News Stories
Lesbian couples in Mississippi are challenging the state’s gay adoption ban, while Mexico found their gay adoption ban to be unconstitutional and Chelsea Manning is threatened with solitary confinement for “absurd” violations and more news.
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Daily Fix: New South Wales Education Minister Nixes High School Showing of “Gayby Baby” and More News
Kids in New South Wales won’t see Gayby Baby at school for Wear It Purple Day, Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of his press conference, women vote in Saudi Arabia, Walmart no longer selling assault weapons, and more.
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More Brits Than Ever Are In Between on the Kinsey Scale, New Survey Shows
In poll results published Sunday by YouGov, a full 49% of 18-24 year olds identified as something other than exclusively heterosexual on the Kinsey scale.
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Voting Yes: A Guide to the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum
Ireland could be the first country in the world to have voted, as a population, for marriage equality. Though she be small, she is mighty.
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Daily Fix: Everyone’s Talking About #TalkPay and More News Stories
Bernie Sanders, long-serving independent, is running for President as a Democrat, what the #talkpay hashtag is all about, May Day protests around the world 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: This Straight Couple Will Divorce If That’s What it Takes to Save Marriage and More News Stories
Eric Casebolt of McKinney is resigning, Apple’s new period-inclusive HealthKit, India has its first lesbian couple in a commercial, abortion access restrictions being upheld in Texas, and more!
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Times A-Changing: Even the Church of England Thinks This Ridiculous Homophobic Vicar Is Wrong
Aimi and Victoria Leggett wanted to have their son baptized into the Church of England but were rejected by the local vicar. Thankfully, the rest of the Church of England also thinks this is ridiculous.
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UK Home Office Says Aderonke Apata Can’t Be Gay Because She Has Children, Duh
“By ignoring the complexities of coming out both those who identify as bisexuals and lesbians with mixed dating histories like Ms. Apata are seen as demonstrating the idea that people can choose their identities with relative ease, and therefore the threat they face is technically self-inflicted.”
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Denmark’s New Law Makes Legal Gender Recognition A Lot Easier
The law, which allows trans folks to legally change their gender without any medical or surgical requirements, is the first of its kind in Europe and could hopefully set new precedents in the region.
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Daily Fix: The Tale of the Indiana Wedding Pizza and Other News Stories
Rihanna speaks out against Indiana’s anti-gay bill, a revenge porn website operator is off to jail, a lesbian couple is suing a Georgia sperm bank and more news!
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Daily Fix: No New Friends for Scott Walker This Week and More News Stories
Bill O’Reilly’s dumb thoughts, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, some really alarming high school educators, violence against a trans woman in Brazil, an anti-abortion lawsuit in Virginia, and more!
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Asylum Seekers and “Dishonest” Sexualities: Bisexuality at the Border
The UK Home Office has a questionable track record when it comes to LGB asylum seekers, and for bisexual asylum seekers, narratives of “proving” sexuality or being “gay enough” can be deadly.
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Recent EU Court Ruling Might Make Life Less Miserable For LGB Asylum Seekers
Last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice is being hailed as a “landmark” change for LGB asylum seekers – that is, if you’re willing to overlook how asylum seekers in the EU are regularly detained, demonised and deported.