NEW YORK — The Trevor Project released a study on Wednesday that found that one in four LGBTQ youth use pronouns that fall outside the traditional gender binary.
courts
SCOTUS splits decision on Trump’s tax returns
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court issued a split decision on the release of Trump’s tax returns, saying there wasn’t “absolute immunity” but saying lower courts didn’t study the subpeonas enough.
National
Trump administration rule would allow homeless shelters to deny trans people
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WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a rule that would allow homeless shelters that get federal money to deny entry to transgender people.
courts
‘Attacking the very foundations’ of church-state separation, SCOTUS delivers ‘seismic shock’ ruling on religious schools
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a ruling civil liberties advocates warned could make taxpayers “underwrite religious education”—opening a massive crack in the bedrock principle of church and state separation.
abortion
SCOTUS overturns restrictive Louisiana abortion law
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WASHINGTON — On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that that could have forced almost all abortion providers to close.
Homepage Featured
Large majority of people, including GOPers, oppose anti-LGBTQ discrimination
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SAN FRANCISCO — A poll released last week shows that large majorities of Americans think it should be illegal for either employers or health care providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
ACA
‘Unfathomable cruelty’: Trump files legal brief aiming to kick 20 million off health insurance in middle of pandemic
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The Trump administration late Thursday night filed a legal brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.
National
Pulse nightclub now a National Memorial
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ORLANDO — The site of the Pulse massacre in 2016 is now a National Memorial.
Statewide
81,000 DACA recipients identify as LGBTQ
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LOS ANGELES — There are an estimated 81,000 LGBTQ Dreamers in the U.S., including about 39,000 who have participated in DACA, according to the Williams Institute.
Denver
Lambda Legal to Colorado Supreme Court: Marriage is marriage
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DENVER — Lambda Legal filed amicus briefs in two Colorado Supreme Court cases about the recognition of common law marriages with same-sex couples on Wednesday.