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After suicide of transgender teen, mom sees need for more mental health care
“A child died because mental health issues were not being addressed.”
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Maine Gov. LePage supports Mississippi law allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination
Maine 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.
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Maine GOP leaders call for closed-door meeting with governor over gay slur
In an obscenity-laced tirade last week, LePage called a state representative a vulgar name that can also be used as a gay slur.
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Clinton backers call on Trump to denounce GOP governor’s antigay rant
Republican Gov. Paul Richard LePage called a liberal opponent “cocksucker” among other things in a heated phone call.
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Maine Republican who called gay candidate ‘Little Justine’ apologizes
“The signal, to me, is that these sorts of tactics are OK and that this type of hate-filled rhetoric will continue.”
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Antigay email from Maine Republican mocks out state legislator
In 2012, Justin Chenette became the nation’s youngest openly gay legislator, and his bid for re-election has Republicans scared.
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Maine: Petitioners want to put queer people ‘back in the closet’
“Very simply, it moves a behavior that belongs in the closet back in the closet.”
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Wanted: lawyer to sue Obama, see Mississippi governor
Eleven states are suing the administration over the directive to schools about transgender students. Mississippi won’t be one of them.
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11 states are suing Obama for supporting transgender rights
The challenge asks a judge to declare the administration’s directive is unlawful.
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Maine governor stops rules for protecting transgender students
Rep. Matthea Daughtry (pictured) says the rules are required by the 2013 Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in favor of Nicole Maines, a transgender student.