Category: USA – LGBTQ Rights
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LGBTQ migrants stick together for safety in Migrant Caravan
Dozens of transgender women and gay men in the caravan moving through Mexico with hopes of seeking asylum in the United States have banded together for protection — not from the uncertainty of a journey fraught with danger from the gangs who prey on migrants but from their fellow travellers.
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OutRight Reacts to Donald Trump’s Address at the UN General Assembly
Today, Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the opening of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City.
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California: Resolution Affirms Intersex Rights
California’s legislature passed a resolution on August 28, 2018 that supports the autonomy of intersex people and their right to decide about cosmetic surgical alteration, Human Rights Watch said today.
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U.S National LGBT Bar Association Launches COMMIT to INCLUSION Campaign
The National LGBT Bar Association announces a new campaign that asks attorneys across the nation to COMMIT to INCLUSION by repudiating anti-LGBT legal groups like Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Liberty Counsel and pledging never to support them through pro bono services.
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LGBTIQ People Will Suffer from SCOTUS Decision to Uphold Travel Ban
Today the Supreme Court of the US upheld President Trump’s travel ban which strictly limits travel to the U.S from five majority Muslim nations as well as North Korea and Venezuela, in the name of national security and «counter-terrorism».
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American Medical Association Passes New LGBTQ Policies
Transgender Prisoner Rights and LGBT Family Paid Leave Efforts Get AMA’s Boost.