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Aug 04 2023
News
Drag ban would hurt North Texas economy, says LGBTQ+ group in lawsuit against state
Texas’ drag ban would hurt North Texas’ economy and entertainment scene, LGBTQ+ advocates argue in one of two lawsuits filed this week against the new legislation. The Texas Civil Rights Project filed a lawsuit Friday against the state of Texas in U.S. Districti Court in Austin. The lawsuit follows a lawsuit filed Thursday by the ACLU of Texas in U.S. District Court in Houston. The ACLU seeks
Jun 30 2023
News
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
AlterNet
Jul 17 2023
News
Pontiac man in wheelchair shot with pellet gun, called anti-LGBTQ+ slurs
PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) — Detectives with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office are asking for help in the search for a group of people who allegedly used a pellet gun to shoot a man in a wheelchair and then laughed at him as they drove off. It happened early Saturday morning on Bennet Road in Pontiac. The 30-year-old victim Andrew Blake-Newton, who is a transgender man, says the suspects also
ABC 7 WXYZ
Jul 06 2023
Opinion
Five key takeaways from the Supreme Court’s anti-LGBTQ decision
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow a homophobic website designer to discriminate against gay couples because it violated her faith was hardly a surprise. The conservative majority on the Court has made it loud and clear that its role is to fulfill the fantasies of the right. It may draw the line at some of the wilder dreams, like the idea that legislatures can overturn popular votes,
LGBTQ Nation
Jun 26 2023
News
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 Jazeera
Jun 26 2023
News
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
The Patriot-News
Jul 05 2023
News
North Carolina governor vetoes three bills aimed at LGBTQ+ youth
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Wednesday a trio of bills aimed at LGBTQ+ youth that would ban gender-affirming health care for minors, restrict transgender participation in school sports and limit classroom instruction about gender identity and sexuality. While LGBTQ+ rights advocates say Cooper’s attempt to block the bills demonstrates his support amid
Daily Press
Jul 05 2023
News
NC Gov. Cooper vetoes three LGBTQ bills, but overrides are likely
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed three Republican-sponsored bills on LGBTQ issues. He calls the measures a "triple threat of political culture wars using government to invade the rights and responsibilities of parents and doctors, hurting vulnerable children and damaging our state’s reputation and economy like they did with the harmful bathroom bill." One of the bills would prevent teachers in
WFAE
Jun 23 2023
News
NHL Teams Will No Longer Wear LGBTQ Pride-Themed Jerseys
National Hockey League (NHL) teams will no longer wear rainbow-colored LGBTQ-themed jerseys during pregame warmups for Pride nights. NHL Pride Nights became a hot topic of conversation earlier this year when Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov refused to participate in his team’s Pride Night due to his orthodox Christian faith, sparking outrage from leftists who proceeded to accuse
Breitbart News
Jun 21 2023
News
Man charged with threatening to bomb Nashville LGBTQ Pride event
A Kansas man was charged Tuesday for making threats to bomb a Nashville pride event, federal prosecutors announced. Joshua Hensley was charged with two counts of transmitting an interstate threat. In two separate Facebook comments from April, Hensley said he would commit a mass shooting and build pressure cooker bombs for the Nashville Pride Festival & Parade scheduled for this weekend. “
The Hill