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Transgender man sues loan company after executive demands he ‘dress and act like a woman’
Tristan Broussard alleges he was forced to leave his job at First Tower Loan in Lake Charles, Louisiana, offices after a company executive found out he was listed on his driver’s license as female.
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Civil rights groups seek class action status, demand for marriage equality in Alabama
The motion requests that the federal district court expand their lawsuit to cover all county probate judges in the state.
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Florida judge lifts stay, same‑sex marriages begin in Miami‑Dade County
Lesbian and gay couples were wed in Miami on Monday by the same judge who approved their marriage licenses, hours before Florida’s coming-out party as the nation’s 36th state where same-sex marriages are now legal statewide.
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Wrangling continues over Florida clerks’ obligation to federal gay marriage ruling
The memo advises that a federal ruling striking down Florida’s gay marriage ban compels and permits Court Clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning January 6, 2015.
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D.C. mayor signs bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBT youth
The District of Columbia becomes the third U.S. jurisdiction — behind California and New Jersey — to pass legislation protecting LGBT youth from being subjected to conversion therapy.
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LGBT advocacy groups give Obama’s immigration order a lukewarm reception
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s announcement Thursday that he is issuing an executive order to take action on immigration, including temporarily protecting about 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation, was met with a lukewarm reception from LGBT rights groups.
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Idaho couples ask U.S. Supreme Court to lift stay, allow same-sex marriages
BOISE, Idaho — Four Idaho couples who sued over the state’s gay marriage ban are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages to begin in accordance with a lower court’s ruling earlier this week. Attorneys for the couples filed the opposition to an emergency stay with the high court Wednesday afternoon.
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Idaho, Nevada, Hawaii same-sex marriage cases go before appeals court
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Monday is set to consider same-sex marriage bans in Idaho, Nevada and Hawaii. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled two hours of arguments Monday on whether such bans should be struck down in Idaho and Nevada. Hawaii legalized same-sex marriage in December so that appeal may be dismissed. The appeals court…
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Miss. man says he was sexually abused in gay ‘conversion therapy’
HERNANDO, Miss. — A Mississippi man has filed a complaint alleging that a teacher at a church-run school sexually abused him in an attempt to change his sexual orientation from gay to straight. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) assisted in filing the complaint Friday with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Jeff White, 32, a former student of …
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Plaintiffs in Utah same-sex marriage case ask for Supreme Court review
SALT LAKE CITY — Attorneys for three Utah gay and lesbian couples formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take Utah’s appeal of a favorable same-sex marriage ruling, following through on what they said they would do earlier this month. The plaintiffs say they are taking this somewhat unusual step of asking for a review even though they won at …