16 April 2019

civil rights - Examining Transgender Civil Rights

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New York - Five harsh facts of transgender life in New York City

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lead story - Man was offered $200 to beat transgender woman: cops

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Aftermath of Notre-Dame (VIDEO)

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15 April 2019

Notre-Dame, Paris

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14 April 2019

Donald Trump - Could Bernie Sanders really be elected president? There's a narrow but plausible pathway

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Matthew Rozsa Salon ezs note:  Sure, Bernie's a bit of a longshot... but Trump does something colossally stupid every... single...

Zimbabwe - LEAD Reclaims People’s Revolution

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civil rights - Transgender Rights Activist Sarah McBride to Give Talk at Rutgers–Camden

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Virginia - Transgender Bathrooms: A Local Matter?

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lead story - Police determining if assault on transgender woman a hate crime

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13 April 2019

Mississippi - Woman sues McDonald's, alleges discrimination because she's transgender

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lead story - Everything you need to know about the transgender military ban

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12 April 2019

Paraguay - Paraguay's LGBT community feels outcast amid conservative shift: 'We are forgotten'

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civil rights - BETSY DEVOS SAYS SHE KNEW OF POTENTIAL HARMS—LIKE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, LOWER TEST SCORES—WHEN SHE RESCINDED OBAMA-ERA PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS

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Maryland - Baltimore City schools board passes policy protecting transgender students

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lead story - Stop pretending the transgender ban isn’t a ban

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11 April 2019

Donald Trump - Trump’s sister quietly retired in February, and it’s actually a really big deal

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Italy - WCF Verona: Where the 'Wind of Change' Marked a Sea Change in Hate Group's Strategy

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civil rights - Attorneys: Honduran transgender migrant unlawfully detained

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New Hampshire - HB 446: Allow trans, non-binary people to correct birth records

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lead story - Trump’s Transgender Ban Brings Chaos and ‘a Lot of Fear’ to Troops’ Families

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10 April 2019

LIVE - Donald Trump's brain!

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Donald Trump - Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon

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Eliana Johnson, Daniel Lippman Politico Bizzarro ezs note:  Can Connecticut go to another country?  Please? We'll be good.....

Cuba - Cuba begins distributing PrEP through pilot program

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civil rights - DeVos defends controversial guidance on transgender students

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Rhode Island - Vella-Wilkinson bill would extend benefits to gay, transgender veterans without honorable discharges

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lead story - 'Very Important Precedent:' Russian Court Rules Transgender Woman Was Fired Illegally

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09 April 2019

Brunei - Brunei’s death by stoning, anti-LGBTQ law sparks outrage, boycotts

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Lucy Martirosyan PRI The Stoning Of An Adulteress Abu'l Hassan Ghaffari (abt. 1853-1857) Credit:   https://upload.wikimed...

civil rights - HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow to Testify at Congressional Hearing on the Bipartisan Equality Act

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Maryland - Md. House Speaker Michael Busch dies

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lead story - Trump’s Transgender Troop Ban Marks the Dark Return of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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08 April 2019

Donald Trump - Secret Service director out less than 24 hours after DHS secretary resigns

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Bosnia and Herzegovina - 'Door, please!': Sarajevo to host Bosnia’s first-ever LGBTQ pride parade

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civil rights - How Tasmania is going from worst to best on transgender human rights

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Vermont - John Killacky: Out in the Legislature

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lead story - Although transgender workers face steep barriers, corporate America wants to hire them

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07 April 2019

Donald Trump - Whatever Trump Is Playing, It Isn’t Golf

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Saint Lucia - Saint Lucia’s ‘Dangerous & Discriminatory Laws Against Marginalised Populations’ Under Fire

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civil rights - Giant Food Stores earns top marks in Corporate Equality Index

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Arizona - Arizona filmmakers spark discrimination discussion at ACLU event

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lead story - Charlotte Clymer: Being transgender shouldn't matter in the military

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06 April 2019

Donald Trump - ‘No Celebrities’: Embarrassing Turnout at Trump’s Beverly Hills Fundraiser

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Kenya - Worlds apart between conservatives and LGBT community in Kenya

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civil rights - U.S. attorney general orders probe into mistreatment of gay employees

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Illinois - Pritzker to change state's Medicaid policy to cover sex reassignment surgery

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lead story - As a homeless transgender woman, she had turned to sex work to survive. Then she was killed.

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05 April 2019

Donald Trump - How Trump Conspired with the Freedom Caucus to Shut Down the Government

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France - Transphobic Paris attack sheds light on LGBT+ attitudes in France

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civil rights - Montana Human Rights Bureau finds Yellowstone County discriminated against trans employee

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Florida - City of Orlando poised to embrace LGBT-certified businesses

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