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Bias Watch
Becki Falwell calls 911 after drunken Jerry hurts himself
She wouldn’t answer the dispatcher’s questions about how much the former evangelical leader had consumed out of fear for her reputation.
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Politics
Trans student wins in federal court after Trump administration tried to thwart his case
Gavin Grimm was called a “freak” by his school and told to use the bathroom in a closet. Now a federal court ruled in his favor, citing last month’s historic LGBTQ Supreme Court victory.
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News (USA)
Federal appeals court rules that anti-trans school bathroom policies are unconstitutional
Gavin Grimm just won another court victory against the Gloucester County School Board of Virginia and its transphobic student bathroom policy.
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News (USA)
Liberty University’s Black staff members are quitting over Jerry Falwell’s racist tweet
Jerry Falwell Jr. has “brought further disgrace to Jesus Christ and Liberty University,” students say.
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Politics
Virginia Republicans are targeting one of their own because he officiated a gay wedding
Rep. Denver Riggleman is hardly a flaming liberal. But, his challenger works for Jerry Falwell Jr. at the notorious Liberty University.
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News (USA)
Amazon is paying a gay bar to make 10,000 free meals for first responders
The meals are going to police, medical workers and “neighbors in immediate need” during the coronavirus epidemic.
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News (USA)
Virginia is the first state in the South to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people
“No longer will LGBTQ Virginians have to fear being fired, evicted, or denied service in public places because of who they are.”
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News (USA)
Politician claims school’s rainbow flag sticker is a sign of the “collapse of humanity”
Students and parents slammed him at a board meeting: “My daughter did not choose to be gay.”
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News (USA)
Virginia bans conversion therapy for minors. It’s the first southern state to do it.
40% of U.S. states now ban the pseudoscientific torture, but anti-LGBTQ forces are trying to have them overturned in the courts.
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LGBTQ History
Virginia passed a statute governing trans birth certificates in 1979. It wasn’t controversial then.
Virginia protected trans people in the 70s without any political opposition. The Old Dominion state is coming full circle.









