All posts by John Riley
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API Queer Support Group to tackle mental health
The DC Center's new API Queer Support Group hopes to start conversations around mental health and other taboo topics
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Wisconsin gay priest gets standing ovation after coming out
The Rev. Gregory Greiten hopes to serve as a role model for other priests struggling with their sexual orientation.
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Judge upholds firing of anti-gay fire chief in Atlanta
But court also finds rule requiring employees to receive permission for outside employment is unconstitutional
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Year in Review: The Highs and (many) Lows of 2017
From Trumpâs rise to power to battles on every front, the LGBTQ community spent the year fighting back attempts to deny equality.
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LGBTQ groups demand documents about CDC censorship
Lambda Legal and others file FOIA request to see who proposed and approved ban on certain words
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Congressmen ask Mike Pence to raise human rights abuses on Egypt trip
A bipartisan group of members of Congress has written a letter to Vice President Mike Pence asking him to bring up concerns about recent human rights...
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U.S. sanctions Chechen leader behind anti-gay purge
Ramzan Kadyrov has been barred from entering the United States and had assets in U.S. banks frozen under the Magnitsky Act
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LGBTQ advocates slam passage of GOP tax bill
Bill's provisions threaten LGBTQ people's access to health care and do not benefit lower-income individuals
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Senate Banking Committee rejects anti-gay Scott Garrett for Export-Import Bank head
Just as with his last congressional campaign, Garrett garnered much opposition from the business community
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Virginia Senate candidate E.W. Jackson “regrets” anti-gay rhetoric
Conservative pastor still opposes LGBTQ rights, but hopes to communicate his views in a less strident way
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Ohio transgender teen fighting parents in court over right to therapy
Teenager's parents want him to receive "Christian-based" therapy that does not affirm his gender identity
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Houston woman is 28th transgender person killed this year
Assailant shot six times during attack, killing 26-year-old Brandi Seals
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Hawaii Supreme Court hears same-sex parenting dispute over child support
Non-biological mother is asking the court not to recognize her parental rights
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White House withdraws Jeff Mateer nomination, but Senate confirms Don Willett
Following a request by the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the White House has agreed to withdraw its backing of two controversial judicial...
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WATCH: Roy Moore: “Abortion, sodomy and materialism” have replaced our country’s values
Alabama Republican Roy Moore is refusing to concede defeat after losing to Democrat Doug Jones in Tuesday’s special election for the U.S. Senate. In a...
