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UPDATE: Texas lawmakers do not pass anti-trans marriage bill
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:40pm

SB 1218, a Texas bill which was geared to restrict transgender Texans from getting marriage licenses has died.

06/29/11
Religion News Updates for June 29, 2011 | 06/29/11

Ecumenical clergy

06/29/11
Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality Seeking Marriage Equality in New Jersey | 06/29/11

06/28/11
GLAAD Staff Celebrate the Trans Day of Action with the Audre Lorde Project in NYC | 06/28/11

06/28/11
Demand the Batesville Daily Guard Show Respect to Grieving Partner | 06/28/11

Last week, the Batesville Daily Guard took used its platform to insult and attack a local gay man – only da

06/27/11
LGBT Affirming People of Faith Speak Out on Marriage Equality | 06/27/11

In light of recent media portrayal of opponents of marriage equality as predominantly religious, GLAAD would like to

06/25/11
Hollywood Allies Celebrate NY Marriage Equality | 06/25/11

LGBT celebrities aren't the only ones excited about gaining marriage equality in New York state.  Many of the LGBT c

06/25/11
LGBT Celebs Respond to the NY Marriage Victory | 06/25/11

It's been less than 24 hours since NY signed legalized marriage for gay and lesbian couples into law, but thanks to

06/25/11
Marriage Equality at the Stonewall Inn | 06/25/11

The following is a reflection from Ross Murray, Director of Religion, Faith and Values at GLAAD:

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Discrimination of gay Utahns to enter pending Supreme Court debate on marriage equality
01/30/13

Pointing to incidents of discrimination toward gay people, Utah Pride Center officials announced Wednesday they will file a court brief on impending cases before the U.S. Supreme Court involving gay marriage: California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Tennessee ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Now Requires Teachers To Inform Parents If Their Child Is Gay
01/30/13

Tennessee’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay‘ bill died with the adjournment of the state assembly last year. But now the measure is back — with new, harsher requirements.

First openly gay candidate running in Niagara Falls
01/30/13

Niagara Falls has a reputation as being slow to change. That’s why a 23-year-old city resident is turning heads as the first openly gay political candidate in city history.

PA school board to make decision on Gay-Straight Alliance club
01/30/13

Chambersburg Area school board will vote Wednesday whether to approve a new Gay-Straight Alliance club for Chambersburg Area Senior High School.

Delay in Transgender Stabbing Trial
01/30/13

Gary Niles Montgomery, the 56-year-old Washington man accused of stabbing and killing Deoni Jones, a transgender woman, at a Northeast D.C. bus stop, was today remanded to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for follow-up mental evaluations, nearly a year to the date after Jones was murdered.

Maryland lawmakers introduce transgender rights bill
01/30/13

Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban anti-transgender discrimination in the workplace, housing and public accommodations.

Formal charges filed against bar in transgender complaint case
01/30/13

Oregon's labor commissioner has filed formal charges of unlawful discrimination against a north Portland bar.

Gay-Straight Alliance says Wisconsin schools unsafe
01/30/13

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students are not safe in Wisconsin schools, representatives of the new Ashland High School Gay-Straight Alliance told the Ashland School Board on Monday night.

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