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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 ...

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 ...

Supreme Court begins ‘potentially momentous’ term for LGBT rights

A plethora of cases related to LGBT rights are awaiting the Supreme Court after its summer recess ended Oct. 2, which could lead to the most monumental term for justices since the landmark 2015 ruling in favor ...

Lambda Legal petitions US Supreme Court to review Georgia lesbian’s employment rights case

Lambda Legal on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to review the case of Jameka Evans, a Savannah security guard who was reportedly physically assaulted, harassed, denied equal pay and forced to leave her job ...

Lambda Legal to take Georgia anti-LGBT discrimination case to US Supreme Court

The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied an en banc petition asking the full court re-hear a Georgia anti-LGBT discrimination case — so Lambda Legal is going straight to the top.On July 6, Lambda Leg...

Supreme Court agrees to hear gay wedding cake refusal case

On the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping decision in favor of marriage equality, the court announced Monday it had agreed to review a case in which a Colorado bakery refused to sell a we...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, March 1

1. Barely three months into 2017 and six transwomen of color have been killed. Ciara McElveen was stabbed to death. Her murder is the second reported death of a black transwoman in New Orleans this month, occur...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 17

1. Remember that florist in Washington state who refused service to a gay couple in 2013? The state Supreme Court ruled this week that she broke Washington's anti-discrimination law. Her lawyers plan to take th...

Ryan Lee: Matching the supreme pettiness of old white men

Donald Trump nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court a judge who colleagues and legal observers characterize as a stricter constructionist than Antonin Scalia is the first relief I've felt since the election. When...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 6

1. Prairieland, America's newest detention center for immigration detainees, opened last week in Texas. It has a separate, remote pod specifically for transgender detainees, which some LGBT advocates say may do...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 1

1. Last night, President Trump named Neil Gorsuch his pick to the Supreme Court. The folks over at Lambda Legal have some concerns about this choice, namely for his past anti-LGBT and religious exemption ruling...

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

Non-Binary “They” Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Angelica Ross to Host LGBTQ Presidential Forum

Mike Pence Called Homosexuality “A Choice” in the ’90s

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Queer Eye’s Fab Five Makes Cameo in Big Mouth Season Three

LGBTQ TV Wins Big at 71st Creative Arts Emmys

Getting to Know the Creator of “For They Know Not What They Do”