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Tennessee passes bill to allow adoption agencies to ban gay & lesbian parents
The governor is expected to sign the bill, which creates a religious exemption for adoption agencies.
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Conservatives are outraged that Elizabeth Warren supports trans prisoners’ rights
Conservatives are calling Warren “batshit” because she doesn’t think trans women and cis men should be housed together.
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Girl expelled from Christian school for wearing a rainbow sweater
The school said the sweater was a “lifestyle violation” and expelled her. Her mom said the sweater had nothing to do with LGBTQ equality.
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Gay Republican accuses Democrats of supporting “Sharia Law” & beheading gays
The Log Cabin Republican leader said that Democrats will kill LGBTQ people while Donald Trump has expanded gay rights.
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Two LGBT students are suing an evangelical college for expelling them
In what may lead to a landmark judiciary decision, two students are suing Fuller Theological Seminary for banning them over their same-sex marriages.
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Employee fired for publishing man’s name & HIV status in misleading report
CBS published (then deleted) an article that made it seem that HIV could be spread through saliva. Even worse – the police officers that supplied the info are still promoting that as fact.
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Woman allegedly calls in bomb threat over school recognizing same-sex marriages
The indicted woman’s lawyer defended her by saying, “It’s not like she cried fire in a crowded theater.”
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Janelle Monáe, others celebrate gender non-conforming people on social media
Janelle Monáe may have taken the opportunity to come out as genderqueer by joining others in posting #IAmNonBinary.
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Federal court rules Trump can’t discharge soldiers just for being HIV-positive
The judges wrote, “This ban is outmoded and at odds with current science. Such obsolete understandings cannot justify a ban.”
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Arizona senator drops plans to ban the word “homosexuality” from schools
The state superintendent of public education is “appalled” at the bill and says it will inevitably bring a wave of lawsuits.