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The legislation specifies the exact language that must be printed on the classroom displays and outlines that the text of the Ten Commandments must be the central focus of the poster or framed document.
Yella Clark was serving a life sentence — which they had recently appealed — at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
Judge Terry A. Doughty said the rule goes against the original purpose of Title IX by protecting trans students, so he blocked its enforcement in Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, and Montana.
The Louisiana Republican says a flag used by the January 6 insurrectionists is harmless.
These Republican-controlled states are fighting to discriminate against students.
Warren Harris Jr. was convicted in the stabbing deaths of three gay men in the 1970s. He was sentenced to life in prison but became eligible for parole under a Louisiana law passed in 2017.
Thirteen students traveled from New Orleans to Baton Rouge on March 27 to protest several anti-LGBTQ+ bills up for consideration by the Republican-controlled House and Senate.
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama all are advancing bills that "define sex" to exclude transgender people from any legal recognition of their gender.
Queer statehouse candidates in Louisiana say running for office was 'traumatic.'
They've been partners in homophobia for decades, and Johnson recently appeared at a hate-filled "prayer" event cofounded by Perkins, according to a new report.
Rivule Sykes's campaign in the Fifth Congressional District of Louisiana is one that aims to bring "people’s attention to the issues we all face together."
Jacob Carter was on his first vacation to the Crescent City with his husband. His killer is still at large.
Lawmakers passed the legislation over Gov. John Bel Edwards's veto.
Here are the biggest pieces of legislation for bodily autonomy that are now in the law of the land.
Viewers in North Carolina and Montana are no longer able to access Pornhub as the platform protests the states' age verification laws.
One previous client of Johnson's was even reportedly recorded endorsing violence against LGBTQ+ people and abortion providers.
Here's what the new speaker spoke with the embattled queer lawmaker about.
Johnson, now speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, made the comment on a Louisiana radio station in 2016.
Johnson made the remark to a Christian right activist just three weeks before becoming speaker of the House.
A new Data for Progress poll highlights the nation’s split views on a controversial “don’t say gay or trans” bill, as more of Mike Johnson’s record comes under scrutiny.
