All posts tagged "Equality"
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DEMOCRACY
She Spent Half Her Life In San Fran’s Worst Public Housing, Then Became The City’s First Black Female Mayor
June 14, 2018San Francisco Board of Supervisors president London Breed (D), who spent half her life in what...
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EQUALITY
Maine Becomes Third State To Offer Nonbinary Gender Option On IDs And Driver’s Licenses
June 11, 2018Maine’s bureau of motor vehicles announced on Monday that it will begin issuing stickers for driver’s licenses or...
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EQUALITY
Arizona Appeals Court Rules That Business Cannot Refuse Service To Same-Sex Couples
June 7, 2018The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a Phoenix-based calligraphy business cannot refuse service to...
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DEMOCRACY
More Than 100 Lawmakers Call On Defense Sec. James Mattis To Reverse Transgender Troop Ban
June 5, 2018More than 100 members of Congress, led by Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), signed a letter Tuesday...
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EQUALITY
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Refused To Make Cake For Gay Couple In 7-2 Decision
June 4, 2018In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court said the Colorado Civil...
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Authoritarianism
More Than 20 Retired Generals And Admirals Rip Trump’s Latest Transgender Ban As A ‘Troubling Move Backward’
March 27, 2018More than 20 retired generals and admirals have released a statement Tuesday opposing President Trump’s latest...
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DEMOCRACY
Miss. Gov. Replaces Retiring GOP Senator With 1st Female Senator In State History, Deep South
March 21, 2018Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) has replaced retiring Sen. Thad Cochran (R) with Cindy Hyde-Smith, the...
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DEMOCRACY
Historic Number Of Native American Women Are Running For Office In 2018
March 21, 2018Nearly 40 women have set a record for the most Native American women to ever run...
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DEMOCRACY
Ben Carson Tells Lawmakers Transgender People In Homeless Shelters Make Others ‘Not Comfortable’
March 21, 2018When asked by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) about a move to take away training materials meant...
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EQUALITY
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Trump, Declares Civil Rights Act Bans Anti-Gay Discrimination
February 26, 2018In a major setback for President Trump’s Justice Department, a federal appeals court in New York...
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EQUALITY
Nearly A Third Of Trump Judicial Nominees Are Anti-LGBT: Report
December 21, 2017One in three — or 16 of the 59 — judicial nominees that President Trump has...
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DEMOCRACY
‘Transgenders Don’t Have Rights’ Says Moore Who Refuses To Debate Opponent Over Stance On ‘Transgenderism’
November 10, 2017Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore said in an iHeartRadio interview with Sean Hannity Friday that...
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EQUALITY
GOP Alabama Senate Nominee Roy Moore: ‘The Transgenders Don’t Have Rights’
November 9, 2017Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore said Wednesday during a press conference that transgender people don’t have...
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EQUALITY
Roy Moore Ruled Lesbian Couldn’t See Children Unsupervised Because Of Her ‘Present Lifestyle’
November 9, 2017Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, once ruled...