From classrooms to courtrooms: How Equality Florida champions LGBTQ rights with nearly half a million supporters
Read full article: From classrooms to courtrooms: How Equality Florida champions LGBTQ rights with nearly half a million supportersFounded in 1997, Equality Florida has grown into one of the largest statewide LGBTQ advocacy networks in the country.
How to deal with same-sex unions? It's a question fracturing major Christian denominations
Read full article: How to deal with same-sex unions? It's a question fracturing major Christian denominationsReaction among Catholics around the world is sharply divided over the Vatican's recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples.
Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo
Read full article: Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of TokyoOrganizers of the 2024 Paris Games intend to seize on the Olympic spotlight to push a message that LGBTQ rights need to progress outside France.
San Francisco to repeal boycott of anti-LGBT states
Read full article: San Francisco to repeal boycott of anti-LGBT statesSan Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights after determining the boycott is doing more harm than good.
'Deeply troubling': UN rights chief on Uganda anti-gay bill
Read full article: 'Deeply troubling': UN rights chief on Uganda anti-gay billThe U.N.’s top human rights official is urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to block an anti-LGBTQ bill that prescribes harsh penalties for some homosexual offenses, including death and life imprisonment.
Club Q shooting survivors press Congress to act on guns
Read full article: Club Q shooting survivors press Congress to act on gunsSurvivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub have testified to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the LGBTQ community as they urged lawmakers to pass a law banning some semiautomatic weapons.
Biden seeks to counter 'legislative attacks' on LGBTQ rights
Read full article: Biden seeks to counter 'legislative attacks' on LGBTQ rightsPresident Joe Biden signed an executive order to stymie what the White House says are discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community by Republican-controlled states.
Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online
Read full article: Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric onlineA few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government.
Duval County School Board reworks LGBTQ+ support guide, may notify parents of name change
Read full article: Duval County School Board reworks LGBTQ+ support guide, may notify parents of name changeA 37-page document, which describes itself as “a critical tool at a critical time,” is now under intense scrutiny within Duval County Public Schools.
Florida’s Education Dept. scrubs link to anti-bullying portal from its website
Read full article: Florida’s Education Dept. scrubs link to anti-bullying portal from its websiteThe Florida Department of Education is defending its decision to remove a page from its website that provided links to anti-bullying resources, including those specifically geared toward LGBTQ youth.
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Local sub shop drops Cinotti’s Bakery after backlash over anti-LGBTQ posts
Read full article: Local sub shop drops Cinotti’s Bakery after backlash over anti-LGBTQ postsA well-known Jacksonville Beach bakery returned to normal business Tuesday in the wake of an apology it issued after one of its owners posted anti-LGBTQ messages to her social media page.
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In blue and red states, milestone wins for LGBTQ candidates
Read full article: In blue and red states, milestone wins for LGBTQ candidatesAccording to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which recruits and supports LGBTQ candidates, that leaves only Alaska, Louisiana and Mississippi as states that have never elected an LGBTQ legislator. With the addition of Jones and Torres, there will be nine openly LGBTQ members of the House as of January. Two other Democrats became the first openly transgender people to win seats in their states’ Houses: Taylor Small in Vermont and Stephanie Byers in Kansas. And in New York, Jabari Brisport, a gay math teacher, became the first openly LGBTQ person of color elected to the legislature. And in southwestern Michigan’s 6th District, Jon Hoadley, seeking to become the state’s first openly gay congressman, lost to 17-term GOP Rep. Fred Upton.
