Illinois

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  Police didn’t arrest a lesbian girl’s adult attackers. Now her mom is stepping up.

  A classmate and some adults beat, maced, and tore the clothes off a girl. Police know who the attackers are, but won't arrest them.

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  A gay Republican called the cops on a black woman with a coupon. He just lost everything.

  The gay Republican lost his job and his status in the Log Cabin Republicans.

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  A gay Republican called the cops on a black woman… for using a coupon

  The white store manager is a Log Cabin Republican with a shady history.

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  Illinois’s Republican governor married a gay couple & the religious right is really miffed

  Conservatives have accused him of "cultural Marxism" for officiating the wedding.

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  Democrats introduce a bill to ban the gay & trans panic defense

  Killing someone because they're LGBTQ "is not a defense, it is a hate crime."

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  Massachusetts could become the 14th state to ban conversion therapy

  A huge majority in the Massachusetts House just passed a conversion therapy ban.

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  Pride in Pictures 2006: Chicago — Oh, My

  George Takei takes centerstage.

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  This state just reminded us how connected LGBTQ rights & feminism are

  While Illinois just passed the Equal Rights Amendment, the battle to defeat it relied heavily on making women's rights and LGBTQ rights twin evils.

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  Hawaii poised to ban ‘ex-gay’ conversion therapy

  The Aloha state joins Maryland as bans on the harmful practice await the Governors' signatures.

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  Parents took over a school board meeting to support a gay teacher & his husband

  When the teacher was reprimanded for telling his students not to say "gross" when he mentioned his husband, the parents weren't having any of it.

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