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Not a Crime To Be Gay In Pennsylvania After Gov. Tom Wolf Signs Legislation Decriminalising Homosexuality
It is no longer a crime to be gay in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation earlier this month that decriminalised homosexuality in the state. It was a law that some lawmakers didn’t even know was on the books.
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Donald Trump Fired and Joe Biden elected president
Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in the state where he was born put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
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So-called Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visits school with anti-transgender policy
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has embarked on her third annual «back-to-school» tour, and on Thursday, she stopped by Harrisburg Catholic Elementary School — a school with a strict policy on transgender students.
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Pennsylvania Name Change Law Challenged on Behalf of Three Transgender Women
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Pro Bono partner Reed Smith in end of May 2019 filed a court challenge to Pennsylvania’s name change law, which bars name changes for people who have certain felony convictions.
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«I’m From Driftwood» to Host 50-State Story
«I’m From Driftwood», the U.S online LGBTQ story archive, is gearing up for a 50-State Story Tour Exhibition in four U.S. cities during the month of May. The free events are part of a series of celebrations marking the organisation’s 10th anniversary. «I’m From Driftwood» has spent the last decade producing, curating, and publishing first-person stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of all backgrounds.
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Matthew Ryan – Hustle Up Starlings & UK tour
Matthew Ryan is experiencing a kind of noisy renaissance. It began in 2014 with the release of Boxers, a fevered and smart rock ‘n’ roll record about the working class, produced by Kevin Salem. May 2017 we saw the follow-through with Hustle Up Starlings, a heart-on-the-sleeve collection of silvery anthems that further illustrate Ryan’s reinvigorated love of language, noise, and cinema.