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High school takes down rainbow flag after trans student complains
Wednesday, March 8, 2017The unnamed student was uneasy with the media's reporting on the gesture of solidarity. -
Attorneys general file brief in support of trans teen Gavin Grimm’s SCOTUS case
Saturday, March 4, 2017The friend-of-the-court brief, filed by 19 attorneys general, says that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender creates no public safety, privacy or financial burdens. -
Smoke ’em if ya got ’em: Marijuana is now legal in Maine
Monday, January 30, 2017It's a green Monday in Maine. -
For trans teens, America’s juvenile detention centers are hell on earth
Tuesday, December 13, 2016Some centers house trans teens in hallways or handcuff them to desks because the institutions don't know where to put them. -
Maine basketball uses game in North Carolina to show LGBTQ support
Saturday, December 3, 2016"Boycotting is one way to stand up to [HB2]. Another type of pressure is to go stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Duke and show our support." -
Maine official promises review following transgender teenager’s suicide
Wednesday, November 23, 2016The corrections commissioner called Charles Knowles' death a "tragedy" and says he was the first young resident to die in detention in two decades. -
After suicide of transgender teen, mom sees need for more mental health care
Thursday, November 17, 2016"A child died because mental health issues were not being addressed." -
Maine Gov. LePage supports Mississippi law allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination
Saturday, November 5, 2016Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is backing Mississippi's appeal to reinstate a law letting merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples. -
Maine GOP leaders call for closed-door meeting with governor over gay slur
Tuesday, August 30, 2016In an obscenity-laced tirade last week, LePage called a state representative a vulgar name that can also be used as a gay slur. -
Clinton backers call on Trump to denounce GOP governor’s antigay rant
Saturday, August 27, 2016Republican Gov. Paul Richard LePage called a liberal opponent "cocksucker" among other things in a heated phone call.
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