LGBT Protections

DOVER, Del. -- Transgender people in Delaware are now a protected class under the state's anti-discrimination laws. [ Read more → ]

DOVER, Del. -- The state House has approved a Senate bill outlawing discrimination against transgender people in Delaware. [ Read more → ]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Grand Forks has become the first city in North Dakota to protect city employees and city job applicants from discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

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 → ]

HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Legislators in Bermuda have approved a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. [ 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 → ]

DOVER, Del. -- Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden is urging state lawmakers to pass legislation that would establish legal protections based on gender identity. [ Read more → ]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Crimes that target transgender person because of their sexual identity now carry an extra penalty in Nevada. [ 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 → ]

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Nevada lawmakers made a strong statement Tuesday, passing a bill that says crimes motivated by hatred of transgender people will not be tolerated in the Silver State. [ Read more → ]

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A bipartisan group of more than 100 Pennsylvania lawmakers have reintroduced bills in both the state House and Senate that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill protecting all workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be introduced in the South Carolina House of Representatives next Tuesday, according to staff at a state LGBT equality group. [ 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 → ]

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas state Senate panel on Wednesday began formal consideration of a bill that would ban discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation of gender identity, but the committee chair said the measure does not have the votes to pass. [ Read more → ]

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina state lawmakers have introduced bills that would extend non-discrimination protections to LGBT state employees. [ 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 → ]