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Ben Carson suggested creating transgender bathrooms in an interview Thursday with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos. Questioned about Houston voters’ rejection of a law banning LGBT discrimination this week, Carson said: “How about we have a transgender bathroom?” “It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable,” Carson said of transgender people. “It’s one of…
Pants or skirt, this room is available to whoever needs it. Photo by James Knopf/Thinkstock Houston voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in part because, as the New York Times observed, “Opponents said the measure would allow men claiming to be women to enter women’s bathrooms and inflict harm, and that…
A lesbian couple from Los Angeles say in a lawsuit that a Honolulu police officer harassed and arrested them because of their displays of affection at a grocery store, forcing the women to live in Hawaii for months, mostly homeless, while their legal case was sorted out. On March 3, the second day of their…
Former secretary of education and new president of the University of North Carolina System Margaret Spellings, photographed in 2011.Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images When Republicans gained supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina legislature in 2012, they stacked the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors with extremely partisan, conservative appointees. Those…
“I have to tell you something,” I said. He looked at me, eyes narrowing. We’d just met, so I can only imagine the infinite possibilities swirling in his head. He had just moved to Atlanta from Chicago and had this whole stereotypical macho thing about him. He was an amateur MMA fighter, came from the…
Gay rights drama Stonewall has failed to make any significant impact at the US box office, amid a sustained boycott. The Roland Emmerich film is based on the 1969 Stonewall riots, which are often considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement. Prior to release, the film came under fire amid claims of whitewashing and trans-erasure,…
They say it’s because she’s transphobic The SU are not allowing Julie Bindel to talk at a Free Speech and Secular society event. They released a statement explaining that Bindel was “flagged as potentially in breach of [their] safe space policy.” The activities and development officer and the SU decided to ban her from the uni based…
Exactly one year ago*, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox publicly apologized for the company’s discriminatory “real names” policy. I should know: not only was I personally mentioned in Cox’s note, but I was one of the drag queens — along with a broader coalition of artists and activists representing queer and transgender people, survivors of domestic…
Turns out the Vatican has one final burn for Kim Davis, the anti-gay clerk who flew a little too close to the sun when she released the news that the pope had acknowledged her existence. Not only was her meeting not a “real audience” with the cool guy, the day before, the Vatican confirms, the…
Tiffany Santiago and her mother This week, two women were attacked in a Midtown East restaurant in what police say was an anti-gay attack. And the victims, a mother and daughter, believe that the attackers mistook them for a couple: “As soon as I sat down, I heard the word ‘lesbian,’” victim Tiffany Santiago…