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Who’s your Newsmaker of the Year?
The LGBTQ Nation Newsmaker of the Year honors the person or people who most effectively advanced public dialogue around LGBTQ equality over the past year.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of LGBTQ rights in landmark decision
“Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear.”
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Will the conservative majority Supreme Court abandon Anthony Kennedy’s support for equality?
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments this week on whether the 55-year-old federal civil rights law extends job protections to LGBT and transgender workers nationwide.
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The Trump administration told the Supreme Court that gay discrimination should be legal
If an employer would fire both gay men and lesbians, the Trump administration says that’s not discrimination, it’s perfectly legal.
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The Supreme Court is going to rule on LGBTQ job discrimination. This could end badly.
The Supreme Court announced that it will be hearing three cases about anti-LGBTQ discrimination this year in what could be a dramatic blow against LGBTQ discrimination protections. The three federal cases all involve questions about how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to LGBTQ people. Title VII bans discrimination on the […]
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These 6 possible U.S. Supreme Court cases could determine the future of LGBTQ rights
There are cases on workplace discrimination, trans bathroom rights and (of course) gay wedding cake.
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Federal courts are standing up to Trump & Sessions’ anti-transgender agenda
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions may be anti-trans, but federal courts aren’t playing along.
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Major court ruling sides with LGBTQ people despite Trump administration’s opposition
A federal appeals court has ruled that LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace is sex discrimination despite the Trump administration’s claim that it isn’t.
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The Trump Administration argues that businesses can fire people for being gay
The Justice Department argued that it’s perfectly legal for employers to discriminate based on off-the-job, private “sexual behavior.”
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Will Jeff Sessions intervene in landmark gay rights case?
The case will determine if sexual orientation is protected under longstanding civil rights laws.