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Bullied transgender teen dies in apparent suicide
Family members confirmed that 16-year-old Taylor Alesana, who spoke on YouTube about being bullied at high school, took her life on April 2.
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Federal judge orders California to pay for transgender inmate’s sex change
A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex reassignment surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state.
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San Francisco mayor Ed Lee bans taxpayer funded city worker travel to Indiana
“We stand united as San Franciscans to condemn Indiana’s new discriminatory law, and will work together to protect the civil rights of all Americans including LGBT individuals.”
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California AG moves to block ‘shoot the gays’ ballot initiative from going forward
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has moved to block a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to amend the California penal code to make gay or lesbian sex a capital offense punishable by “bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.”
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Calif. activist fights ‘shoot the gays’ ballot proposal with ‘intolerant jackass’ initiative
A California activist says she is “fighting fire with fire” by proposing an “intolerant jackass” ballot initiative in response to another ballot proposal that calls for gays to be punished by “bullets to the head.”
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Calif. AG may have no choice but to allow ‘shoot the gays’ proposal to go forward
An Orange County, Calif., attorney filed the proposed measure last month, asking voters to criminalize homosexuality in the state and impose a death penalty sentence.
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San Francisco to consider protections for LGBT seniors in assisted living facilities
Legislation that would offer special protection to gay and transgender seniors in assisted living facilities is headed for the San Francicso Board of Supervisors.
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California may soon ban discrimination against transgender jurors
The measure passed in the state House without debate on a 63-2 vote Thursday. It now goes to the Senate.
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Equality California endorses Hillary Clinton in 2016 presidential race
EQCA is the first major LGBT organization in the nation to endorse the former Secretary of State for President.
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U.S. Reform Jewish rabbis to install first openly lesbian leader
Denise Eger will be installed Monday as the first openly gay president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical arm of Reform Judaism.