FedEx Takes Needlessly Cruel Swipe At A Grieving Lesbian Widow
Stacey Schuett and Lesly Taboada-Hall were married before the latter’s death. But FedEx thinks their marriage doesn’t count because they are lesbians.
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Schoolgirl, 13, exposes troll who mocked her mother as 'a prossie with all the AIDS' just days after she died of cancer
The 13-year-old, from Falkirk, Scotland, was left in tears after receiving the message via video chat application ooVoo. The clip, which also contained derogatory remarks about Aids, has since been viewed nearly 16,000 times. Her sister Aimee, 18 …
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Indiana Legislature Takes Aim at Transgender People
While many people were focused on celebrating the holidays at the end of December, some legislators in Indiana had other things on their mind. Indiana Senate Bill 35, which Senator Tomes introduced, would require transgender individuals to use restrooms and locker rooms designated for the gender they were assigned at birth. For adults, a violation could be punishable with up to one year in jail and $5,000 in fines. During the same period, Senators Young, Boots and Banks filed SB 66, which, if passed, would place the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that legislators passed in March into the state’s constitution after stripping out the exemption for non-discrimination protections.
Last November, Republican lawmakers pre-filed legislation that purports to address discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, but the proposal includes religious carve-outs that would allow some for-profit businesses to refuse LGBT people service, among other issues. The bill’s religious exemptions go far beyond those already found in existing Indiana law, would nullify existing local non-discrimination ordinances, and prohibit others from being enacted. Democratic lawmakers have proposed simply adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected characteristics under the state’s civil rights law, while Governor Mike Pence has made no mention of LGBT non-discrimination protections in his 2016 legislative agenda.
HRC, along with the ACLU of Indiana and Lambda Legal, is a founding member of Freedom Indiana. We’re on the ground working with local partners to fight back this discriminatory legislation and secure anti-discrimination protections for LGBT Hoosiers and visitors in state law.
Cricketer fined for asking reporter on date live on air and people are divided about it
The live chat-up has caused quite a stir on social media. 1/ Nothing wrong in asking a woman out for a drink. EVERYTHING wrong with asking her in the middle of a prof discussion, on air. #chrisgayle
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Man posed as 'Chloe, 16' to lure young girls into sending him intimate pictures
Hull Crown Court heard how 23-year-old James Hewson, of Lilac Avenue, Willerby, posed as “Chloe” in order to speak to younger girls in chat rooms. He chose the fake identity because, in Hewson’s experience, girls were more likely to speak to other girls …
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The new Hope Mill Theatre @hopemilltheatr1 @shayster57 @GMFringe is back 1-31 July 2016
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Mother wins compensation after headteacher insults gay son
A teacher from Ireland says she was discriminated against by the head at her school because her son is gay. The mother says there was an ongoing issue of homophobia throughout her employment, with repeated comments made by the head “relating to her son …
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Black Missionaries add voice to Lucius anti-gay stance: ‘Mathanyula has no place in Malawi’
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu announced amid pressure from several Western countries—including the United States of America (USA … that Malawi suspended enforcement of anti-gay laws, among them Sections 137(a), 153 …
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Strength and longevity of legal gains may change in 2016 politics and lawsuits
But the judge agreed with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders … issue corrected birth certificates for two children born to a lesbian couple who married in Canada in 2003. The National Center for Lesbian Rights has one of the more important post …
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