Georgia Blocks Most Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth
Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill Thursday.
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Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill Thursday.
Edwards left a Sarasota County School Board meeting during public comment when a woman suggested he posed a danger to students.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a measure veiled as a parental rights law that is actually a bill meant to exclude transgender people from public education.
Jeff Thomas spoke with a news publication before his recent death and admitted to being the beneficiary of a financial relationship with the gay Republican billionaire.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a bill that included a ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors and restrictions on discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in schools.
Al Roker executive produced Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn, a film that examines Malcolm Kenyatta's political rise.
Sen. Sinema, once a Democrat but now an independent, has been ridiculing Democrats in front of Republican audiences.
Before this year the student group had hosted the same event twice without a problem.
The list of states with bans keeps growing.
Video captured the entire exchange, which the lawmaker now claims was a misunderstanding.
The level of religious rhetoric included in the messages makes for a script from the dystopian story, The Handmaids Tale.
Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, who had been filibustering to keep the bill from coming up, agreed to let debate begin so she could see who would "legislate hate against children."
It comes almost a year after he signed the current "don't say gay" law.
The person threatening the schools was upset about “groomers,” which is a far-right wing slur to attack LGBTQ+ people who work with children.
"Joe Exotic For A Free America," his campaign website reads.
The Republican governor of Arkansas says it’s to protect children from the “left’s woke agenda.”
Former legislator Joe Harding could be sentence to up to 20 years in prison.
In a matter some might call ironic, the conservative administrator’s unilateral action banning drag performance from campus may violate a free expression law signed by the Republican governor.
Democrats hold seven of nine seats on the legislative body but couldn’t pass a ban on the harmful practice.
The east African nation’s leader had earlier described queer people as “deviations from nature.”