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Equality Utah sues education department over anti-LGBT curriculum law
Utah is one of eight states with so-called “no promo homo” laws, but the first to see a court challenge to its anti-LGBT curriculum law.
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Equality Utah argues DEA drug database searches violate trans privacy
“That’s a mind-boggling quantity of highly sensitive medical information,” said the ACLU’s Nathan Freed Wessler.
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A Mormon mom’s story of unconditional love for her transgender son
From Equality Utah and the Transgender Awareness Project comes the story of Grayson Moore, a self-described “sheltered, Utah Mormon boy,” and his mother Neca Allgood, who realized Grayson was transgender long before he told her. In the video, Neca recalls how after they discussed her revelation: “I assumed (Grayson) would say ‘I have a boy brain.’ But he didn’t. He said ‘I have a boy’s soul.'”
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Protesters calling for statewide LGBT protections arrested at Utah capitol
SALT LAKE CITY — About a dozen protesters calling for a statewide anti-discrimination law that includes sexual and gender orientation protections were arrested Monday after blocking the doors to a committee meeting room at the Utah Capitol.
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ACLU warns Utah schools: Banning same-sex couples at school functions ‘unconstitutional’
The ACLU of Utah has sent a warning to the state’s school district superintendents, cautioning them that banning same sex couples from being attending proms, dances and other school functions violates their constitutional rights.
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Utah Democrats elect state’s first openly gay political party leader
The Utah Democratic Party on Saturday voted in favor of electing as its new chairman an art dealer who is believed to be the first openly gay leader of a political party in the state.