lgbt protections

SB 17, a bill that would, among other things, allow student groups at colleges, universities and high schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students—is slated to be signed by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. The state’s House approved the legislation in an 81-8 vote after it passed the Senate last month.

Today, lawmakers in the Missouri Senate voted down an amendment that would have guaranteed non-discrimination protections for state residents based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

SB 694 would bar cities in Oklahoma from offering expanded protections to LGBTQ residents that the state itself currently fails to provide, as well as make Tulsa’s Fair Housing Act illegal.

Nearly two dozen Central Florida Republican officials signed a resolution calling for laws banning discrimination against the LGBT community.

GOP leaders objected to inclusive language for LGBT victims of domestic violence

Ongoing controversy surrounding the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

LGBT advocates in Newark, N.J. issued a letter demanding that the murder of three young men be investigated as an anti-gay crime.

One of three men on trial for murder of a gay man has claimed that he is gay.