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Plaintiff in lawsuit against ‘gay conversion’ practitioners describes therapy methods
One of four plaintiffs who sued a nonprofit that promised to turn them from gay to straight wept on the witness stand Wednesday as he described cutting off contact with his mother after being told she was the cause of his homosexuality.
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Jury to hear opening arguments in New Jersey ‘gay conversion’ trial
Four men and two of their mothers are suing the organization Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), a nonprofit that offers “gay conversion” therapy, under New Jersey’s consumer fraud laws.
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New Jersey trial on gay conversion therapy set to begin
Jurors are expected to hear testimony this week in a lawsuit that claims a nonprofit violated state consumer fraud laws when it offered treatment it said would turn gays into heterosexuals by, among other methods, having them spend more time naked with their fathers.
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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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Federal lawsuit filed against Georgia DOC on behalf of transgender inmate
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections on behalf of a transgender inmate who attorneys allege has been denied medical treatment and has been sexually assaulted by other inmates at her men’s prison.
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N.J. judge: Gay conversion therapy group can’t claim homosexuality is a disorder
A judge in New Jersey has ruled that claims by a gay conversion therapy group that describe homosexuality as a curable mental disorder are fraud.
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N.J. judge excludes key ‘conversion therapy’ experts in consumer fraud case
A New Jersey judge has ruled that several prominent proponents of gay-to-straight conversion therapy will not be allowed to testify in a consumer-fraud case against a conversion therapy organization.
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Legal group files judicial ethics complaint against Alabama chief justice
The complaint to Alabama’s Judicial Inquiry Commission stems from Roy Moore’s criticism of a federal judge’s ruling in favor of a Mobile couple in a same-sex marriage. Moore called it “judicial tyranny.”
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Civil rights groups to RNC: GOP should stop associating with anti-gay groups
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to urge party members to disassociate themselves from groups behind this week’s Values Voter Summit because of their relentless demonization of the LGBT community.