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Majorities oppose licensed discrimination of LGBTQ community

A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute for its 2017 Atlas of American Values found that a 2-to-1 majority of American adults were against license-based discrimination for LGBTQ people. The...

Jameka Evans and Lambda Legal's Greg Nevins

US Supreme Court declines to hear Georgia lesbian’s employment discrimination case

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it will not review the case of Jameka Evans, the Georgia woman who claims she was harassed in the workplace and fired from her security officer position at G...

Rami Malek

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Dec. 5

1. Laurel Hubbard, a trans woman from New Zealand, will compete against American weightlifting Olympian Sarah Robles in the World Weightlifting Championships today in Anaheim, California. Some athletes say it's...

Devan Shimoyama

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 28

1. The Nation examines the Christian legal team behind the "Masterpiece Cakeshop" case set to begin Supreme Court proceedings on Tuesday, Dec. 5. The case involves a Colorado baker who refused service to a gay ...

Jameka Evans and Greg Nevins

Facebook, Google, Starbucks join in Georgia lesbian’s US Supreme Court fight

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Starbucks and Viacom have joined 71 other companies in an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief supporting Georgia lesbian Jameka Evans in her efforts to ask the US Supreme Court to ...