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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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The United States is becoming more liberal, despite what the election itself might suggest. Just look at the data.
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The treatment of transgender people was central to the race
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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.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
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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The nation's largest gay rights group combines its campaign for stricter gun laws with its effort to elect Hillary Clinton.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
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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Once known as a bastion of social conservatism, Scotland has changed dramatically in a generation, not least through the election of gay candidates.
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Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos has been permabanned from Twitter just 20 minutes before his “Gays for Trump” event at the GOP Convention.
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The legal filing, in conjunction with the Human Rights Campaign, says the law condones "invidious discrimination."
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Todd Sloves, president of the LGBT Congressional Staff Association, said only in a group like his would you consider Republicans part of a diversity effort.
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Sworn in Friday, the 16-member LGBTQIA+ Advisory Council will provide quarterly updates to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto.
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The poster boy of Hong Kong democracy, Joshua Wong, has distanced himself from his father Roger Wong, who has launched an anti-LGBT campaign
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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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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made stops at Mary Brickell Village, a Fort Lauderdale black church and a gay-friendly nightclub in Wilton Manors during campaign stops in South Florida.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
The rally, called a Community for Unity, was held at The Manor Complex. It was organized by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights group in the country, Hotspots Media Group, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
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“I had to figure out how to not make ‘lesbian’ my last name,” said Annise Parker, the former mayor of Houston, in a speech to UT students Thursday night at the SAC Auditorium.
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Although Donald Trump has pledged to be an advocate for gay Americans, Hillary Clinton argues that he would appoint federal judges opposed to same-sex marriage.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Friday picked up the endorsement of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, a group that had not previously endorsed a presidential candidate in its nearly 15-year history. In a statement, Chance Mitchell, the organization’s co-founder and chief executive, said the community had “come too far to lose our seat at the table” and called Clinton “the progressive champion our businesses and our families need to thrive.”
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Bolivia has a new gender identity law that might put it in Latin America’s vanguard on LGBT rights — but the story behind the measure reveals how far the Andean nation still has to go before ending homophobia. That’s according to Carlos Parra, aka Paris Galán, the country’s best known drag queen and a prominent gay rights campaigner.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Signed into law in May, the measure allows people to change their gender on official identity documents. It means that Bolivia joins Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia as the only four nations in the deeply Catholic region to recognize the needs of transsexual and transgender citizens in this way. Unveiling the new law, Vice President Alvaro García Linera said it would put an end to the “social hypocrisy” in which many Bolivians had previously refused to acknowledge the existence of the LGBT community.
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Much has changed during the Obama administration — including the legalization of same-sex marriage. The president praised that Supreme Court decision, but activists have not always applauded him.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Gay and lesbian activists gather at the White House Thursday for a celebration marking LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Pride Month. It's become an annual event, tied to the monthlong commemoration of the Stonewall riots, which helped launch the modern gay liberation movement. President Obama's years in office have seen a flowering of gay and lesbian rights, culminating a year ago when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
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The 38-year-old, who came out as gay during the same-sex marriage referendum campaign in Ireland in 2015, has dropped to 2/5 with Paddy Power to become the next leader of Fine Gael, which leads a minority government.