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Tennessee Becomes First Southern State to Protect Trans People from Hate Crimes

Tennessee has become the first southern state to protect transgender individuals from hate crimes, reported the Tennessean.Tennessee attorney General Herbert Slatery issued a statement confirming trans peop...

LGBTQ Groups Denounce Confirmation of William Barr as Attorney General

William Barr, President Donald Trump’s pick for Attorney General, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday (February 14).The vote for the most part followed party lines, with Republicans voting to confi...

New Attorney General Nominee has Discriminatory Past Regarding HIV/AIDS

Donald Trump announced on Friday that he nominated William Barr as the new Attorney General of the United States. According to Gay Star News, Barr has a discriminatory history against people living with HIV. ...

Legal Group is Challenging Attorney General Appointment

After Jeff Sessions stepped down as the U.S. Attorney General, President Trump appointed Matthew G. Whitaker as AG temporarily. However, according to legal group Attorney IO, this appointment was unconstitution...

Anti-LGBTQ Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns

The day after the midterm elections, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions turned in his resignation to President Donald Trump, reported Gay Star News.According to Sessions’ letter, his resignation was reques...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 14

1. The Justice Department refused to release a copy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' speech to the anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, but “somehow” conservative magazine The Federalist got a hol...

DOJ lets stand court order against transgender health care

In yet another blow from the Trump administration to transgender rights, the U.S. Justice Department under U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has let stand a court order against the implementation of an Obamac...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 13

1. LGBT residents in Jacksonville are close to getting a city-wide ordinance to protect them against discrimination. Predictably, the religious right claim that such an ordinance would result in discrimination ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 18

1. President-elect Trump chose Sen. Jeff Sessions as his attorney general, a man who voted for a Constitutional ban on marriage equality, voted against expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation and ge...

Hecht blasts Attorney General Olens on marriage ban, memo controversy

Greg Hecht, Democratic nominee for Georgia Attorney General, spoke at length with the GA Voice on his support of same-sex marriage, and he had strong words for his Republican opponent and current Attorney Gener...

Dear Sam Olens: Time to open your heart and mind on gay marriage

An open letter to Georgia Attorney General, Sam Olens:As I returned from voting this morning, a friend of mine shared the letter that they had written to you via Facebook regarding your support of upholding...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Health Dept. Proposes Removing Data Collection on LGBTQ Foster Kids

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Affect Naval Academy

Same-Sex Couples More Likely To Be Denied a Loan, Study Says

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Nintendo Faces Backlash After Removing Trans Flag Level from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Converse Releases New Pride and Trans Pride Sneakers

Frank Ocean Reveals He’s Been in a Relationship for Three Years