Senate Approves Gay Panic Defense Ban

Daisy Contreras
NPR Illinois

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Transgender Patients 'Are Like Everyone Else'

Rachel Levine
Medscape

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LifesiteNews polemicist confuses gender identity with sexual orientation

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The Slowly Boiled Frog

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ezs note:  Thank you, Slowly Boiled Frog, for poking a needle into that gasbag LifeSiteNews!

Arkansas Attorney General Seeks to Block Protections for Gays and Lesbians

Press
NBC

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ezs note:  Arkansans - when election day rolls around, I hope you'll remember to vote for attorney general.  Here's a hint - it ain't Leslie Rutledge.

Transgender, Sex Discrimination at Work on Monday's 'The American Law Journal'

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The Legal Intelligencer

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Letter - Let transgenders go to appropriate bathrooms

Kelly End
Union-Bulletin

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Understanding transgender: who, what, why and how

Karen Siegfriedt
Amador Ledger Dispatch

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Survey: Same-sex home buyers fear discrimination

Nicholas Nehamas
Miami Herald

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Don Bosco teen trying to bridge gap between faith, wrestling and his sexual orientation

Scott Westeberg

KORG.com

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Transgendered deserve protection from discrimination

Pat Pryor
Ithaca Journal

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Brownback rescinds executive order that offered protections on basis of sexual orientation

Jonathan Shorman
cjonline

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New group to fight discrimination of Wyoming gays in workplace

Laura Hancock
Casper Star-Tribune

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Charlotte looks to expand protection for gay, transgender residents

Steve Harrison
The Charlotte Observer
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Sen. Merkley doubles down on LGBT nondiscrimination law

Anna Staver
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FBI: One in five hate crimes motivated by anti-gay bias

Patrick Saunders

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Argentina gives asylum to gay Russian who claimed he was persecuted (India)

http://zeenews.india.com

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Gay rights vote postponed by Jackson City Council.... (unrelated)

Will Forgrave
http://www.mlive.com

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UN Rights Council: Landmark Resolution on Anti-Gay Bias

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Barring anti-gay discrimination tenuous in Capitol

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We Should All Be Free and Equal

Erin Wilson
http://www.curvemag.com

to read more, go to:  http://www.curvemag.com/News/We-Should-All-Be-Free-and-Equal-144/