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Apr 28 2024
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Stat du jour: 20,000 room nights
The United Methodist Church is holding its General Conference in Uptown now through May 3. It's brought in nearly 5,000 visitors — including delegates, official attendees and the public, according to Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. • This citywide convention is using 11 hotels in Uptown. • CRVA expects the conference to use more than 22,000 room nights across those hotels. The big
AxiosMay 04 2023
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Louisiana Republicans Vote Against LGBTQ+ Workplace Protections
The Louisiana state House of Representatives committee failed to approve a bill aimed at improving workplace protection for LGBTQ+ employees on Wednesday in a vote 7-5. The bill would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's current employment discrimination law, which bans discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, or cultural hairstyle. Opponents
AdvocateAug 17 2023
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Woman charged with threatening judge, Democratic congresswoman, LGBTQ people, others
By Eleanor Klibanoff and William Melhado | Several families with transgender children are asking a judge to block a new Texas law that would stop minors from accessing many types of transition-related health care, including puberty blockers and hormone therapies. The families argue the new law, which goes into effect Sept. 1, violates their parental rights by stopping them from providing
Washington BladeJul 02 2023
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GOP candidates hit DeSantis, Trump over LGBTQ debate
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday condemned the campaign video Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released bashing Donald Trump for voicing support for the LGBTQ community. “I’m not comfortable with [the video], and I’m not comfortable with the way both governor DeSantis and Donald Trump are moving our debate in this country,” Christie said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union
PoliticoNov 20 2023
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Celebrating lives, reflecting on loss: How LGBTQ+ people and their loved ones are marking Trans Day of Remembrance
Promise Edwards, a single mother of three living in Laurens, South Carolina, spends her spare time passing QR codes out to schools, churches and members of her local community. Scan one, and you'll be led to an online document full of LGBTQ+ resources across the state — which Edwards hopes to expand to a nationwide list by 2024.
The heart-shaped codes — on stickers, embedded in
CBS News (Online)Apr 27 2024
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4/27/24
In celebration of the week, check out this photo gallery of lesbian marches around the world. The Republican-controlled Georgia legislature ended its session in March without passing any anti-LGBTQ+ bills — and a groundbreaking transgender minister believes she contributed just a little to that outcome. Rev. Andi Woodworth has been co-pastor of Neighborhood Church, a United Methodist
AdvocateJun 30 2023
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Biden blasts SCOTUS decision allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination
President Joe Biden issued strong criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court’s anti-LGBTQ decision Friday that sided with a Colorado evangelical Christian designer who wants to sell wedding websites but only to opposite-sex couples. The Court ruled the First Amendment prohibits the State from “forcing” her to produce websites for same-sex couples, effectively “issuing” a “new license to discriminate
AlterNetApr 20 2024
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Queer Arts Featured, a bright light in the struggling Castro, enters new chapter
There have been calls for the building at 575 Castro St., where the pioneering gay San Francisco Supervisor also lived, to be made the second National Landmark associated with LGBTQ history after New York City’s Stonewall Inn. But Shand was never interested in creating a shrine or commercializing its history. Instead, he has turned it into an LGBTQ gallery, an artisan boutique, a cabaret and a
San Francisco ChronicleJun 26 2023
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US: Suspect in deadly LGBTQ nightclub shooting pleads guilty
Anderson Lee Aldrich faces life in prison over 2022 attack that killed five at Club Q in Colorado Springs. The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in the United States last year has pleaded guilty, averting the possibility of a prolonged and emotional trial. In a plea deal with prosecutors, Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to five charges of murder and
Al JazeeraJun 26 2023
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Suspect pleads guilty in attack that killed 5 at sanctuary for LGBTQ+ community
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub last year has pleaded guilty in the attack. Monday’s plea by Anderson Lee Aldrich comes just seven months after the shooting and spares victim’s families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial. The plea entered during a court hearing follows a series of
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