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A gay criminal case could help bring marriage equality to American Samoa
A U.S court has finally intervened in the case of a 72-year-old American man accused of gay statutory rape in American Samoa. The man says a homophobic prosecutor hijacked his case, and the details are harrowing.
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Minister who railed against gay people caught sexually harassing young men
“This can’t be happening. Eric is known as the guy who hates gay people. We’re the church that built our church based on anti-homosexuality.”
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Whistleblower reveals Alaska deliberately discriminates against same-sex couples
The state still distributes booklets that tell same-sex couples they aren’t eligible for benefits because of the state ban on marriage equality.
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Trans people are suing because Illinois has banned them from changing their names on ID cards
“You just kind of walk around feeling incomplete as a person.”
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Gay police officer was accused of pedophilia for coming out to teens. Now he’s suing.
He was the department’s LGBTQ liaison, but his supervisors said it was “inappropriate” to come out to teens in a youth program.
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Indiana wants to make it harder for trans people to get drivers’ licenses
The state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles has stopped approving gender neutral licenses as well.
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Matthew Shepard will be honored with a plaque at the National Cathedral
The young gay man’s violent death spurred calls for a nationwide hate crime law.
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170 trans inmates are suing out Gov. Jared Polis for rape & assault in Colorado’s prisons
Often transgender women are placed in solitary confinement “for their own protection,” something which is tantamount to psychological torture.
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A lesbian widow was denied Social Security survivor benefits
She was with her partner for 27 years. But since they couldn’t get married before her partner died of cancer, she’s being denied benefits.
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Young people are a lot more accepting of transgender equality than older Americans
While adults worry about how trans issues will affect children, they’re worried about how it will affect trans people.