Tagged Mississippi
Clarksdale is third Mississippi city to pass LGBTQ-Inclusive Ordinance
Mississippi is one of thirty states not legally bound by LGBTQ-inclusive non-discrimination protections. However, the state is slowly changing. Local communities are moving to guarantee protection toward all ci...
5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, April 10
1. Police say that two gay men were assaulted during Miami Beach Pride. The attackers were said to be three men. Several witnesses saw the attack. The victims were in line for the restroom in the 500 block of O...
5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 22
1.Former Google engineer Tim Chevalier, who is disabled, transgender and identifies as queer, says he was fired from the tech giant in November 2017 for defending LGBTQ employees, people of color, women and dis...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 9
1. The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up a challenge to Mississippi's controversial HB 1523 law, which will go into effect in October. The Republican-backed law permits government employees and businesses to ...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 3
1. The U.N. condemned the death penalty as punishment for same-sex relations, blasphemy, and adultery in a resolution 27 to 13. Among the 13 opposing was the United States with China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan,...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 23
1. The Mississippi governor signed House Bill 1523 a year ago, and this week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals made the so-called "religious freedom" bill law. Advocates are calling it "the worst anti-LGBT law...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, May 5
1. After yesterday's House vote on a new healthcare plan, LGBT activists and individuals are on high alert. Here's what the Los Angeles LGBT Center had to say on the subject. 2. Meet the trans activist who w...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 2
1. A leaked document from the Trump administration, which is allegedly a draft of a discriminatory executive order, hit the Internet yesterday. Contraception, adoption by LGBT parents, pre-marital sex, same-sex...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 1
1. "Religious freedom was one of the building blocks of this great nation, and after the nation was torn apart, the guarantee of equal protection under law was used to stitch it back together. But HB 1523 does ...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 2
1. Northern Ireland lifted its ban on gay and bisexual men from donating blood. Meanwhile in the states, gay and bi men can give blood...if it's been more than a year since they had sex with a man. 2. PRIDE....
5 LGBT things you need to know today, May 10
1. The ACLU filed suit against Mississippi over a bill that allows certain businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples based on religious grounds. 2. A Boston man has been indicted for a scheme in which...