... event’s Facebook page that he drew inspiration from the worldwide Women’s March in January and hoped to create a similar event for the LGBTQ community. The march’s platform highlights a number of causes, including disability rights, preventing violence against LGBTQ people, and support for LGBTQ immigrants. The ...
... driven homophobia within Africa, there are fewer studies on African members of the LGBTQ community who have left the continent. Owunna believes that through fashion, LGBTQ Africans are visually deconstructing the idea of what it means to be both African and a member of the LGBTQ community. He hopes that ...
... accept all students, including students with disabilities, DeVos would not directly answer the question, saying only that schools accepting federal money should follow federal law. LGBTQ advocates slammed DeVos. "By once again turning a blind eye to LGBTQ students who experience discrimination in school, Secretary DeVos continues to prove why ...
... that works for racial justice and LGBTQ acceptance within Christian institutions. The group traveled to religious universities whose policies allowed them to discipline or expel LGBTQ students. They would hold Bible study and educate students on LGBTQ identity, encountering frequent resistance from school authorities, some of whom forced them off ...
... dissent,” USA Today reported. But experts say the biggest legal consequence of HB 1111 is that it is redundant, confusing and riddled with conflicts. Still, LGBTQ groups are urging Gov. Bill Haslam to veto it on the basis that it could perpetuate the mistreatment and civil rights abuses of LGBTQ ...
... pass anything, they needed to get Democratic support. And what we really needed to have happen was for the governor, who is someone who the LGBTQ community worked very hard to get elected, someone who many people put their hope in as being someone who would help repeal HB-2 ...
... their gender. Meanwhile, “I wake up every day to go to school terrified,” Davis said. This Saturday, the deadline passed to move West Virginia’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination bills out of committee, which stops it from moving to the House for a vote. (A spokesperson for West Virginia House Speaker Tim ...
... still work to be done. “What we know is that there are student groups, particularly those religiously affiliated groups that want to discriminate based on LGBTQ status or religious affiliation as well,” Warbelow said. “When you do away with ‘all comers,’ you send a message that LGBTQ students aren't ...
... law remains in the state code, students and outside groups -- mostly centered in cities like Birmingham or Huntsville -- have mobilized to provide sexual education for LGBTQ students. Raven Rice, 17, and a senior at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama, came out as bisexual toward the end of middle school ...
... Jason Lyndon, and Janetta Johnson, executive director of the TGI Justice Project, a group that advocates for transgender prisoners -- spoke about the elevated risks that LGBTQ prisoners face of assault, harassment and solitary confinement. Black and Pink’s 2015 survey of 1,100 LGBTQ prisoners found that respondents were six ...
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