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News (USA)
Police guard school from right-wing violence over teacher’s LGBTQ-inclusive flashcards
“They’ve put a target on our children’s backs where our teachers are being called groomers and saying that our children are being brainwashed,” one angry parent said.
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Commentary
The leaders in GOP voter suppression efforts are anti-LGBTQ activists
The attempt to stop some people from voting is part of the party’s increasing belief that only a minority of Americans should be entitled to key constitutional rights.
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Transgender people in North Carolina just won a victory against HB2 in court
A lawsuit in North Carolina ended part of the state’s infamous bathroom bill.
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News (USA)
North Carolina Republican compares Lincoln to Hitler in defense of marriage ban
The legislator from the Party of Lincoln thinks the former president was a “tyrant” responsible “for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans.”
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News (USA)
HB2 ‘compromise’ is just another version of hate in North Carolina
How can you tell it’s a bad deal? Former Gov. Pat McCrory came out in favor of it, while LGBTQ groups and allies are sounding the alarm against it.
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News (USA)
Republicans claim compromise reached to repeal HB2
No comment yet from North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper.
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News (USA)
NCAA gives North Carolina a deadline to repeal HB2
The NCAA will be setting championship locations for the next six years soon, and it won’t consider a state with a hateful law like HB2.
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News (USA)
NC Governor tries to negotiate repeal of anti-trans bathroom law, fails again
The Republican House Speaker called the meeting “constructive” but neither side gave an inch.
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News (USA)
Will NCAA decision be the tipping point for North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law?
It will be hard for moderate voters who are passionate about sports to ignore the law’s repercussions.
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News (USA)
Republicans renew trans predator myth after judge’s HB2 injunction
N.C.s GOP leaders said HB2 offered “commonsense protections to keep grown men out of bathrooms and showers with women and young girls.”
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News (USA)
North Carolina lawmakers and magistrates banned from gay marriage case
The judge rejected arguments by House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger that Attorney General Roy Cooper isn’t adequately defending the law.
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News (USA)
Republicans seek to combine North Carolina bathroom lawsuits
The move could help steer the cases to a judge who twice ruled against the federal government in recent years.
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News (USA)
North Carolina leaders show no sign of surrender on anti-trans law
No signs of backing down.
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News (USA)
North Carolina Dems criticize ‘keep our state straight’ comment
Meanwhile, police have arrested 54 protesters who came to voice opposition to the law late Monday.
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News (USA)
Lawmakers meet to take up Charlotte transgender ordinance
If the bill passes, it will deal a significant blow to the transgender movement.
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News (USA)
Lawmakers return to work on Charlotte transgender act
Social conservatives are upset because the bill allows transgender people to use restrooms that align with their gender identity.
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News (USA)
N.C. GOP lawmakers want Supreme Court to reinstate same-sex marriage ban
Senate leader Phil Berger and likely House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday the two Republicans will ask the nation’s highest court to hear the North Carolina case.