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High court decision spotlights GOP divide over LGBT rights

High court decision spotlights GOP divide over LGBT rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Democrats flooded Twitter and email inboxes this week with praise for the watershed Supreme Court decision shielding gay, lesbian and transgender people from job discrimination. Republicans — not so much. The court's 6-3 ruling came just two days after an event that played out in the opposite direction. Freshman GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, who’d officiated at a same-sex wedding, lost his party’s nomination in...

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Meet Dave Welch, the 'Pastor of Pastors' who Mobilizes Texas Churches Against LGBT Rights

Meet Dave Welch, the 'Pastor of Pastors' who Mobilizes Texas Churches Against LGBT Rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The Houston conservative's ability to blend politics and religion makes him a particularly potent force.

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Sessions deals another blow to the LGBT community

Sessions deals another blow to the LGBT community | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The self-righteous drive to make others suffer for not living Evangelical beliefs appears unstoppable with Trump in power

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How the LGBT movement came together to fight Trump’s transgender military ban

How the LGBT movement came together to fight Trump’s transgender military ban | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The movement has had major rifts -- but not this time.

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LGBT employees protected from workplace discrimination, appeals court rules

LGBT employees protected from workplace discrimination, appeals court rules | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBT employees, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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LGBT Groups: Don’t Be ‘Fooled’ by N.C.’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Compromise

LGBT Groups: Don’t Be ‘Fooled’ by N.C.’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Compromise | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
LGBT rights groups say that the ‘compromise’ bill HB142 that sailed through North Carolina’s legislature is far from pro-equality, and enshrines prejudice and discrimination.
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Omits LGBTQ People from 2020 Census

BREAKING: Trump Administration Omits LGBTQ People from 2020 Census | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The Trump Administration recently submitted a list of data categories it will collect for the 2020 Census and the American Community Survey (ACS). Although the Supreme Court, in 2013,  struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, paving the way for the census to change the way it tracks same-sex households, the White House has sent yet another powerful signal that it considers LGBTQ rights as frivolous.

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Although “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” were proposed subjects in the appendix, today’s version of the report excluded LGBTQ people from the list of subjects for the Census and ACS, suggesting that data collection for these subjects may have been in the works for an earlier version.

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The NCAA's Selective Support Of LGBT Rights

The NCAA's Selective Support Of LGBT Rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
In 2015, the NCAA took an unusual political stand in opposing Indiana’s RFRA. But as March Madness returns to Indy two years later, the organization’s LGBT advocacy is as inconsistent as a team headed for a first-round exit.
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Inside the Trump White House’s Fight Over LGBT Rights

Inside the Trump White House’s Fight Over LGBT Rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Don’t rely on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s influence. LGBT allies are few in the Trump administration—which could spell disaster for civil rights and equality.
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Trump Victory Alarms Gay and Transgender Groups

Trump Victory Alarms Gay and Transgender Groups | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency sent panic through much of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, which for the first time in eight years will face an administration hostile to its civil-rights goals and a president-elect who has expressed a desire to reverse many of its political gains.

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LGBT Group's Ad Asks How Anyone Can Support Trump

LGBT Group's Ad Asks How Anyone Can Support Trump | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The nation's largest gay rights group combines its campaign for stricter gun laws with its effort to elect Hillary Clinton.
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The digital ads, produced by the Human Rights Campaign and featuring a mother who lost her son in the June massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando, are part of the ongoing campaign to elect Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to the White House. The group has invested heavily to mobilize at least 10 million LGBT voters, and its digital efforts are targeting specific voters.

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’Beyond I Do’ Campaign Launches to Raise Awareness about the Prevalence of Discrimination Against LGBT Community

’Beyond I Do’ Campaign Launches to Raise Awareness about the Prevalence of Discrimination Against LGBT Community | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A campaign launching today aims to raise awareness about the prevalence of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the United States, despite the widespread misconception they have basic protections.

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GOP leaders decry North Carolina governor's LGBT rights deal

GOP leaders decry North Carolina governor's LGBT rights deal | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

North Carolina’s Republican leaders said Thursday that a federal court should reject a deal by the Democratic governor that would affirm the rights of transgender people to use restrooms corresponding to their gender identity.

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How Edie Windsor Championed Gay Rights: ‘She Was Everywhere’

How Edie Windsor Championed Gay Rights: ‘She Was Everywhere’ | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Into her late 80s, Ms. Windsor continued to leverage her national profile as a winning Supreme Court plaintiff to support her favorite LGBT causes.

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Trump administration signals loss of ground for LGBT rights

Trump administration signals loss of ground for LGBT rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Just over 13 months later, Trump’s Justice Department, in a case between private parties that involved no government agency, has told a federal appeals court that discrimination based on sexual orientation is legal under federal law. 

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Trump nixes Obama order preventing federal workers from being fired because they’re LGBT

Trump nixes Obama order preventing federal workers from being fired because they’re LGBT | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
With a stroke of his pen Trump has knocked the teeth out of federal compliance regulations protecting LGBT workers
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This Is Why The Erasing of LGBT Americans On The 2020 Census Matters

This Is Why The Erasing of LGBT Americans On The 2020 Census Matters | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
LGBT will not feature on the 2020 Census as a category. This official prejudice matters for both practical and symbolic reasons.
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The Trump Administration, Bathroom Litigation, and the Future of LGBT Rights

The Trump Administration, Bathroom Litigation, and the Future of LGBT Rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Grimm’s lawsuit, and other cases like it such as the challenge to North Carolina’s so-called transgender bathroom law (also known as House Bill 2), is of great importance, because it addresses the question of whether transgender individuals are legally entitled to do something that everyone else is permitted to do, namely to use bathrooms (and similar facilities such as changing rooms) that match their gender identity. But cases like Grimm’s raise an even more fundamental and important question: whether federal law protects sexual and gender-identity minorities from discrimination to begin with.

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New York Today: Refugee, Immigrant and Citizen

New York Today: Refugee, Immigrant and Citizen | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

When Luis Mancheno was 14 and living in Quito, Ecuador, he knew he had to learn English, and fast.

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The Profit North Carolina Sees in LGBT Prejudice

The Profit North Carolina Sees in LGBT Prejudice | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
North Carolina is already counting the multimillion-dollar cost of its ‘bathroom bill.’ But for the bill’s backers, anti-LGBT ideology trumps economics.
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Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund internet videos to support LGBT state candidates; pushes gun issues

Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund internet videos to support LGBT state candidates; pushes gun issues | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The national Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund is going up with digital video commercials in Florida to support several gay candidates for Florida House seats and attack their Republican opponents for voting with the gun lobby.

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The 30-second commercials begin by pegging onto the June 12 mass murder at Orlando’s popular gay nightclub Pulse, saying “it happened right here” in Orlando or in Florida, depending on the spot. In that massacre, gay-hating, ISIS-pledging madman Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 others before he was killed by law enforcement storming the nightclub.

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