Editor's Letter: Life After Marriage Equality
Panti — the alter ego of bar owner and activist Rory O’Neill — had become the bewigged figurehead of marriage equality in Ireland. Yet it was a quiet if jovial night. But on November 17, 2015, Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling, a gay couple who had …

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What’s at Stake in the 2016 Legislative Session

This year brought many ups and down for the LGBT community. Though marriage equality won at the U.S. Supreme Court, state lawmakers also introduced more than 115 anti-LGBT bills during the legislative session. The largest number of these bills were aimed to authorize individuals, businesses and taxpayer-funded agencies to cite religion as a reason to refuse goods or services to LGBT people.

Other anti-LGBT bills sought to restrict restroom usage by transgender people and to eliminate the ability of local governments to protect their LGBT residents and visitors.

And though we won many of these battles in 2015, the fight isn’t over. Forty-seven legislatures will be in session in 2016. And many state legislatures have provisions that allow bills introduced in 2015 to carry over into 2016 if they were neither enacted nor defeated. Thus, many of the more than 115 anti-LGBT bills introduced this year are still pending and we expect new anti-equality bills to be introduced in other states.

This year, as in 2015, HRC will work to defeat the anti-LGBT bills cropping up state by state, by we need your help. Make the fight for LGBT equality your new year’s resolution.

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Labour attack ad is `not homophobic' say LBGT groups
“Labour ad is not offensive to gay people – but it is offensive to all who don’t want Ireland to import US/Tory attack style politics in 2016.” Colm O’Gorman, Amnesty Ireland executive director, who co-parents a daughter and son with his husband Paul …

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Report: Islamic State executes teenager for ‘homosexuality’
Canada in September 2014 granted Ahmed “Danny” Ramadan, a gay Syrian man who fled his war-torn homeland two years earlier, and his boyfriend refugee status. Ramadan on Sunday described the Islamic State as “a terrorist organization” that is “yet …

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'Racing Extinction' composer J. Ralph on reuniting with 'The Cove' director Louie Psihoyos (Exclusive Video)
And, as he explains in our recent webcam chat (watch below), “Both of those are intended to help bring awareness to the message.” The song “One Candle,” as performed by Sia, plays over the ending of the film, which Ralph describes as an …

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Catholic honor bestowed upon 'gay' couple
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex “marriage,” the National Catholic Reporter has taken it upon itself to honor two homosexuals from Canada who have lived together for 33 years, exchanged vows in Canada, and are active in a …

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Semper Fi All-American Bowl : Live updates and fan chat
The fifth annual edition of the Semper Fi Bowl, presented by the United States Marines Corps, is scheduled for an 8 p.m. kickoff at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. Bastrop wide receiver Isaiah Graham, a TCU commitment, and Parkway wide receiver C.J …

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Trail Blazers 112, Denver Nuggets 106: Live chat recap
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Denver Nuggets 112-106 Sunday night at the Pepsi Center. CJ McCollum finished with 25 points and seven assists and Gerald Henderson scored a season-high tying 19 points off the bench for the Blazers (15-21), who beat …

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IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment
Some applications, especially ones that want to receive incoming connections, such as video chat, may not work well through certain CGNs. If a 67 percent increase per year is the new normal, it’ll take until summer 2020 until the entire world has IPv6 and …

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Labour's gay marriage 'attack ad' electoral desperation, says Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein has dismissed plans by the Labour Party in the Republic for election posters portraying Gerry Adams and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin as a gay couple getting married. The attack ad was blasted by republicans as a sign of Labour’s “increasing …

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