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Democratic congressional candidate offers heartfelt apology for previous anti-LGBTQ vote
As a state legislator, Charles Graham voted in favor of North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law. Within days, he realized the harm he had done & started working to fix it. He still is.
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California is banning state-sponsored travel to Ohio over their anti-LGBTQ law
California previously enacted such a ban against 17 other states, including Texas and North Carolina. Now Ohio is on their naughty list.
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Senate confirms Trump appointee to federal court who defended anti-LGBTQ laws for years
Stephen Schwartz defended North Carolina’s H.B.2 discrimination law & fought against trans student Gavin Grimm in court. Now he’s going to be a federal judge.
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North Carolina’s ban on LGBTQ rights ordinances has expired & cities are ready to pass new ones
Some cities are already looking at expanding their local nondiscrimination ordinances to include LGBTQ protections.
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Gray Ellis wants to be the first trans man to be a state senator in the U.S.
“If we don’t come out and let people know, then people’s hearts and minds are not likely to change.”
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Charles Barkley was ready to quit the All-Star Game over an anti-LGBTQ law
He said he had “to stand up for other people because Black people know what discrimination is like.”
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The “Bad Wig Bandit” has robbed three North Carolina banks & the FBI can’t find them
While their wigs are laughably bad, conflating trans and non-binary people with criminals is dead serious.
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Students protest their school’s trans bathroom policy after vicious rumors about it spread
The school has had a trans-inclusive policy for years, but students are making things up about it now.
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Transgender people in North Carolina just won a victory against HB2 in court
A lawsuit in North Carolina ended part of the state’s infamous bathroom bill.
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Republican claims that stopping LGBTQ equality is like saving Jews from the Holocaust
The author of North Carolina’s anti-trans law compared himself to Oskar Schindler, but is an investor in an app used by white supremacists.