Idaho

MCCALL, Idaho — Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to put a stop to local communities' efforts to provide discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. [ Read more → ]

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The city of Idaho Falls could become the seventh in the state to enact an ordinance banning discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender. [ Read more → ]

POCATELLO, Idaho — The city of Pocatello has passed an ordinance banning discrimination against a person because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. [ Read more → ]

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Coeur d'Alene has become the fifth city in Idaho to pass a law that bans discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. [ Read more → ]

POCATELLO, Idaho — Pocatello city officials met with an attorney for a Washington, D.C.-based conservative group brought in by the Mormon church a few weeks before councilors rejected an ordinance intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW, Idaho — The Latah County, Id., Republican Party has voted to censure its chairman for his vote as a Moscow city councilor supporting an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Coeur d'Alene officials are considering joining three other Idaho cities in outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho Transportation Department this week agreed to new regulations allowing transgender individuals to change the gender designation on their driver's licenses without a note from a surgeon. [ Read more → ]

POCATELLO, Idaho — The Pocatello City Council in southeast Idaho has rejected an ordinance that would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations. [ Read more → ]

LEWISTON, Idaho -- A transgender woman was banned from a western Idaho grocery store after customers complained she used the women's restroom, police in Lewiston said. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW, Idaho — The Moscow City Council has passed an anti-discrimination ordinance that makes it illegal to make housing and employment decisions based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [ Read more → ]

The forum in the Idaho Capitol's Lincoln Auditorium came a year after Republican senators rejected introducing a bill to revamp the Human Rights Act. Advocates requested Wednesday's session in hopes of one day winning enough support, even though GOP members who control the committee say there will be no renewed vote on the issue this year. [ Read more → ]

BOISE, Idaho — Adding protections for gays and lesbians to Idaho's Human Rights Act won't get a vote this year. But it is due be discussed, at least informally. [ Read more → ]

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Idaho businessman Frank VanderSloot is suing Mother Jones magazine because he contends that he was defamed by an article that depicted him as a “gay-basher.” [ Read more → ]

KETCHUM, Idaho -- LGBT folks who live, work and play in the south-central Idaho town of Ketchum will soon be included in a city wide non-discrimination policy. [ Read more → ]

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Twin Falls and Lewiston are the latest cities in Idaho to take steps to prohibit discrimination for hiring of city jobs based on a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. In meetings in both cities earlier this week, city councils approved... [ Read more → ]

The city of Moscow, Idaho, is considering a measure to prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing and employment based on an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. [ Read more → ]

The Boise, Idaho city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance, which prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [ Read more → ]

WAHA, Idaho -- A popular bar in Northern Idaho is no longer selling products from MillerCoors brewing or PepsiCo., because those corporations support the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. [ Read more → ]

BOISE, Idaho -- Republican senators on the Senate State Affairs Committee killed a bill on Friday that would have prohibited discrimination against LGBT persons in Idaho. [ Read more → ]