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Tennessee is trying a sneaky way to undermine marriage equality & churches are fighting back
The state is trying to regulate what type of minister can officiate a wedding – and churches most likely to marry same-sex couples are the ones being excluded.
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Cracker Barrel isn’t rabidly anti-LGBTQ, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect
The chain is being praised for cancelling an anti-LGBTQ hate church’s meeting, but still struggles with supporting its LGBTQ employees.
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This cop called for America to slaughter all ‘sodomite reprobates.’ They’re letting him ‘retire.’
He’s been placed on paid “sick leave” until his retirement in late July.
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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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Watered down ‘indecent exposure’ bill passes in Tennessee. It still endangers trans people.
Lawmakers removed elements targeting transgender people, but the trans community isn’t out of the woods just yet.
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He put a gay man in the hospital for flirting & bragged about it online. A judge put him in prison.
After Wiley violently assaulted a gay man, he bragged about the attack on social media and sent people selfies of himself covered in the victim’s blood.
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Taylor Swift made a major donation to an LGBTQ group to fight Tennessee’s ‘slate of hate’ laws
She told the LGBTQ org that she is “so inspired by the work you do” and sent them a large check.
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Iconic civil rights institution burned down in possible white supremacist attack
In 2010, the Highlander Center hosted a retreat for LGBTQ activists. A couple of months later, the organization GetEQUAL was formed.
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Tennessee Republicans pass bill to allow adoption agencies to discriminate against gay couples
Despite opposition by clergy and business leaders from around the state, Republicans forced through a measure meant to give Christians a license to discriminate.
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This rural high school athlete is going to prom with his former teammate
“We couldn’t believe that we had been on a team together for three years and not realized we were meant to be. I knew that night that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this amazing boy.”