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Politics
Democratic congressional candidate offers heartfelt apology for previous anti-LGBTQ vote
As a state legislator, Charles Graham voted in favor of North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law. Within days, he realized the harm he had done & started working to fix it. He still is.
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News (USA)
California is banning state-sponsored travel to Ohio over their anti-LGBTQ law
California previously enacted such a ban against 17 other states, including Texas and North Carolina. Now Ohio is on their naughty list.
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News (USA)
Senate confirms Trump appointee to federal court who defended anti-LGBTQ laws for years
Stephen Schwartz defended North Carolina’s H.B.2 discrimination law & fought against trans student Gavin Grimm in court. Now he’s going to be a federal judge.
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News (USA)
North Carolina’s ban on LGBTQ rights ordinances has expired & cities are ready to pass new ones
Some cities are already looking at expanding their local nondiscrimination ordinances to include LGBTQ protections.
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Politics
Gray Ellis wants to be the first trans man to be a state senator in the U.S.
“If we don’t come out and let people know, then people’s hearts and minds are not likely to change.”
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Life
Charles Barkley was ready to quit the All-Star Game over an anti-LGBTQ law
He said he had “to stand up for other people because Black people know what discrimination is like.”
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Life
The “Bad Wig Bandit” has robbed three North Carolina banks & the FBI can’t find them
While their wigs are laughably bad, conflating trans and non-binary people with criminals is dead serious.
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News (USA)
Students protest their school’s trans bathroom policy after vicious rumors about it spread
The school has had a trans-inclusive policy for years, but students are making things up about it now.
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Transgender people in North Carolina just won a victory against HB2 in court
A lawsuit in North Carolina ended part of the state’s infamous bathroom bill.
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Bias Watch
Republican claims that stopping LGBTQ equality is like saving Jews from the Holocaust
The author of North Carolina’s anti-trans law compared himself to Oskar Schindler, but is an investor in an app used by white supremacists.
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News (USA)
Denny’s stood up for a trans woman who was arrested after she used the bathroom
Someone called the cops on a trans woman at Denny’s. So Denny’s made it clear that trans people can use the right bathroom.
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Politics
The extremist behind North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law is running for the House
He’s also an investor in the favorite social media platform for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Go figure.
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News (USA)
Tennessee moves forward on anti-trans bills, while LGBTQ adoption ban stalls
Two bills related to transgender bathroom use advanced in the state that advocates say will lead to “harassment of transgender people.”
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News (USA)
A North Carolina prison forces this woman to shower with dozens of men
She bunks with 38 male inmates. North Carolina seems to think this is okay.
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News (USA)
Netflix refuses to film new show in North Carolina over anti-LGBTQ law
The law forbidding local governments from protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination will cost the state over $60 million in lost revenue.
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News (USA)
New Texas Republican House Speaker says transgender bathroom access is not a ‘real issue’
The incoming Texas House Speaker has a long list of “to dos” — but an anti-transgender bathroom bill isn’t one of them.
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News (USA)
The Republican behind North Carolina’s bathroom law invested in a neo-Nazi social media site
The synagogue shooter was a member of the site and regularly posted anti-Semitic memes and hate speech on the platform.
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News (USA)
Lawyer who fought to ban trans people from bathrooms will lead DOJ civil rights division
He will head up the Department of Justice’s efforts to fight discrimination, even though he has spent his life defending it.
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Mike Pence’s wife is campaigning for one of the most anti-LGBTQ & sexist Republicans
He reminisces about the days when homosexuality was illegal and he’s associated with a hate group.
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News (USA)
Texas governor says he won’t champion transgender bathroom bans any longer
But he wouldn’t say he wouldn’t sign one if the legislature put one on his desk.