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Lauren Boebert celebrates passage of her amendment banning support for LGBTQ+ federal employees
She said that her amendment to an agriculture funding bill will stop “Biden’s rogue bureaucrats” from using “woke courses, books and study guides.”
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House GOP passes bill defunding gender-affirming care for trans military personnel
The law also bans the Pentagon from purchasing any book that “espouses radical gender ideology.”
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Far-right Republicans opposed military funding bill because of trans soldiers. It passed without them.
The House passed a bipartisan military funding bill last night that some Republicans voted against because it doesn’t block “medical expenses for those who engage in transgender surgery.”
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Billy Porter breaks 14 years of silence on HIV status & he’s the healthiest he’s ever been
“I was embarrassed,” Billy Porter said about why he didn’t tell his mother for 14 years. “I was ashamed. I was the statistic that everybody said I would be.”
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The military says that the trans military ban isn’t discrimination against trans people
Instead of defending discrimination directly, the Pentagon is debating semantics and blaming the victims.
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Democrats are pushing back on the trans military ban. Will the military defend it?
Sources say that he didn’t even recommend the trans military ban. But he’s defending it in Congress.
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House, Senate bills aim to equalize benefits for same-sex military families
A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Congress this week would change the definition of “spouse” in four areas of U.S. Code related to recognition, support, and benefits for married service members and veterans, in an effort to provide key military benefits for same-sex spouses of gay service members.
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Defense budget bill includes anti-gay ‘conscience’ provision
The final version of major Pentagon budget legislation includes watered-down “conscience” language similar to the anti-gay provision found in the House version of the bill, according to a top House Democrat on defense issues.
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Arizona business executive fired for video criticizing Chick-fil-A
TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson businessman was fired from his job on Thursday after posting a video online of himself in a Chick-fil-A drive-thru the day prior, in which he voiced his opposition to the company’s CEO and the chain’s financial support of anti-gay organizations.
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Bill introduced to offer equal benefits to gay, lesbian service members
The ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has introduced a bill that would exempt the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs from the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.