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Comedian Tracy Morgan scraps planned Mississippi performance
Morgan is the latest artist to cancel plans to perform in the state in response to new anti-LGBTQ legislation.
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Why are pro-equality companies donating to the political party pushing discrimination?
Why are companies like Coca-Cola supporting the Republican National Convention when the party platform calls for more laws like North Carolina’s?
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State proposals on LGBTQ rights push businesses into the spotlight
Companies are speaking up loudly in states where bills have been proposed as part of a backlash to the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
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How Massachusetts and Mississippi treat trans people the same
Democracy can only begin when those at the margin can experience what others take for granted.
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Democrats work to undo Mississippi antigay law — but success is ‘not very likely’
Rep. Jay Hughes of Oxford says Tuesday that he will try to undo the measure before it becomes law July 1.
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95 Mississippi authors call for repeal of religious exemptions law
A former U.S. poet laureate, winners of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and best-selling authors including John Grisham are among the authors urging state officials to repeal a new religious exemptions law.
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Mississippi church a window into national gay rights debate
The Governor sits a few pews away from the lesbian couple who sued to overturn the state’s ban on adoption by same-sex parents.
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Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi show over state’s new law
The singer says he can’t “in good conscience” perform in a state where “certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation.”
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Don’t miss Funny or Die’s ‘Mississippi Antigay Tourism Video’
“Why being different is bad and sex is scary.”
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Ellen speaks up about Mississippi’s new religious discrimination law
Ellen Degeneres isn’t known for her political stances, but the recent spate of laws allowing discrimination against LGBT people has the mild mannered comic taking a stand.