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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 withdraws lawsuit against N.C. over anti-trans bathroom law

Although North Carolina replaced anti-LGBT House Bill 2 with a law that critics say still enables anti-LGBT discrimination, the U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn the lawsuit against the state filed last yea...

Justice Dept. to give $8.5 million to Pulse nightclub victims

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it will give more than $8 million to the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre. A Justice Department press release says its Office of Victims of Crime will provi...

Another anti-transgender move from Trump Justice Department

After revoking guidance barring schools from discriminating against transgender students, the U.S. Justice Department has now backed off its legal challenge to the controversial anti-LGBT North Carolina state l...

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...