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NCAA cancels North Carolina championship events over LGBT law
Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. And the fallout may not be over. After the NCAA announced it is pulling seven championship events from North…
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The Orlando Pulse shootings: an unspeakable tragedy with unacknowledged roots
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Orlando: 50 dead in local nightclub shooting
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Report: Religious Exemption Laws Lead to Discrimination
Suzanne Potter TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The impact of so-called religious freedom laws on women and the LGBT community is the subject of a new report from the Movement Advancement Project. The report found the federal – and a similar state law in Florida – allow citizens and companies to exempt themselves from laws they feel…
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Major Corps Announce Support for Landmark LGBT Legislation
WASHINGTON – In advance of this afternoon’s introduction of the historic Equality Act in Congress, today 3 major American companies announced their support for comprehensive federal non-discrimination legislation that would establish full, federal equality for all LGBT Americans. Each of the leading corporations – which include Apple, The Dow Chemical Company, and Levi Strauss & Co., –…
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Taking the T Out of LGBT
by Nicola Jane Chase It has taken time, but now the public has more appreciation for what the T in LGBT stands for. They may still have some way to go in understanding what it actually means to be transgender, however considerable progress has been made. We can partly thank Caitlyn Jenner for expanding that…
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Memo to Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Lawmakers: Pass LGBT Non-Discrimination Protections Now
WASHINGTON – Over 100 technology leaders – including titans of the industry such as Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg – have joined in an unprecedented statement calling on legislators around the country to immediately pass non-discrimination laws that protect lesbian, gay,…