Tag: anti-LGBT
Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Challenging North Carolina’s Sweeping Anti-LGBT Law
Today, Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, HB 2. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Attorney General Roy Cooper, and the University of North Carolina, is on behalf of two transgender North Carolinians, Joaquín Carcaño, a UNC-Chapel Hill employee, and Payton McGarry, a UNC-Greensboro student, and Angela Gilmore, a lesbian and North Carolina Central University law professor.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Said He Will Veto ‘Anti-LGBT’ Bill
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said Monday morning he will veto H.B 757, also known by critics as the “anti-LGBT” bill.
NC Gov. Signs Radical Bill Into Law Attacking Transgender Students & Overturning LGBT Protections
New law not only rips away local non-discrimination ordinances and writes discrimination against LGBT North Carolinians into state law, but it also puts the state’s public schools at risk of losing $4.5 billion in critical federal funds under Title IX.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Signs Attack on LGBT College Students Into Law
As the first explicitly anti-LGBT bill signed into law this year, the measure puts LGBT people and other minority college students at even greater risk of unfair and unjust discrimination by university-funded student groups.
Disney Threatens to Stop Filming in Georgia Over Bill Considered Anti-LGBT
Disney says it will not film in the state of Georgia if a bill, which critics say would effectively legalise discrimination based on sexual preferences, becomes law.
Only in America : Anti-LGBT “Religious Liberty Accommodations Act” Advances to the Mississippi Senate
Following a vote today by Mississippi Senate Judiciary A to advance H.B 1523, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Mississippi called on the Mississippi Senate to put a stop to the discriminatory anti-LGBT bill. If passed, H.B. 1523 would allow individuals, religious organisations and private associations to use religion to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Mississippians, in some of the most important aspect of their lives, including at work, at school, in their family life and more. The bill passed out of committee by a voice vote.