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... a drop in sales in the spring and summer quarter of 2023 that the discounter attributed in part to customer backlash over a collection honoring LGBTQ+ communities for Pride Month. As a result, Target didn’t carry Pride merchandise in all of its stores the following year.Tuchman studied the ...
... identity, less than an hour after the state Senate backed the legislation. First introduced last week, the measure raced through the legislative process. Hundreds of LGBTQ+ advocates streamed into the Capitol rotunda on Thursday waving signs reading “Trans rights are human rights” and chanting slogans including “No hate in our ...
The question for the justices is that the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit and several other appeals courts covering 20 states and the District of Columbia apply a higher standard when members of a majority group make discrimination claims. People alleging workplace bias have to show “background circumstances,” including that LGBTQ ...
... message of peace,” said Villanueva, who praised his empathy for migrants. Francis' papacy has also emphasized the defense of the environment and partial openness to LGBTQ+ rights. Outside of the Vatican, Romans, pilgrims and even non-Catholics said they were offering special prayers for the hospitalized pope. “We are all ...
... That's according to results of a 2024 Gallup survey out today, which says that share of the population is up by two-thirds since 2020. The trend is driven mostly by Generation Z, which Gallup defines as 18-to-27-year-olds. Nearly one in four identify as LGBTQ.
... Buttigieg and his husband earlier that day. The coffee shop may be a welcoming environment, but some warn of safety concerns for members of the LGBTQ+ community and other prominent Democrats in the current political environment. WATCH: Why Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg believes he’d make a good president Aaron ...
... to erase trans people are deeply harmful to a vulnerable community and inconsistent with governing law," she said. Sarah Warbelow, vice president of legal at LGBTQ+ rights group Human Rights Campaign, added in an emailed statement: “This is the inevitable outcome when the EEOC is weaponized to greenlight discrimination against ...
... religious leaders. He assailed the Rev. Mariann Budde for her sermon the day after his inauguration, when she called for mercy for members of the LGBTQ+ community and migrants who are in the country illegally. Vice President JD Vance, who's Catholic, has sparred with top U.S. leaders of ...
Trump and his administration have already clashed with religious leaders, including him disagreeing with the Rev. Mariann Budde’s sermon the day after his inauguration, when she called for mercy for members of the LGBTQ+ community and migrants who are in the country illegally. Vice President JD Vance, who's ...
... opposition to Trump’s agenda, protests have also begun. In Alabama, several hundred people gathered outside the Statehouse to protest state and federal actions targeting LGBTQ people. On Tuesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey promised to sign legislation declaring that there are only two sexes, male and female — echoing Trump's ...
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