LGBTQ+ – Page 25 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

LGBTQ+-related laws include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.

Court wrestles with protecting gays from jury exclusion

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 19th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

Appellate judges question lawyers about the removal of a gay man during jury selection for an antitrust trial two years ago.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Homecoming queen candidate makes a statement just by running

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 19th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

When the thought of running for homecoming queen first swept through Cassidy Campbell’s mind last year, she pushed the impulse aside. It would just

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Broadening the Transgender Agenda

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 18th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Last week, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students marched the mile from campus to the Board of Governors meeting site to protest the UNC System’s blanket ban, imposed by the board, on gender-neutral housing. The new policy — which overturned the Chapel Hill Board of Trustees’ endorsement of the housing option

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Transgender teen nominated for homecoming queen in Huntington Beach

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:46+00:00 September 11th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

A transgender teen is making history at Marina High School in Huntington Beach after she was selected as one of the top 10 finalists for homecoming queen.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Alternative Boy Scouts of America focused on ‘sexual purity’ talks business in Nashville this weekend

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:47+00:00 September 9th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

An alternative — but still nameless — Boy Scouts of America is holding its inaugural national leadership convention this weekend in Nashville, Tenn.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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Gay-Pride Assignment Did Not Violate Students’ Rights, Tenn. College Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:48+00:00 September 4th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Columbia State Community College, in Columbia, Tenn., has determined that a psychology professor did not violate students’ freedoms of speech or religion when she asked her classes last spring to wear gay-pride ribbons for a day and write an essay about the responses they experienced, The Daily Herald, a local newspaper, reported.

Marriage Licenses for Same-Sex Couples Force Issue to Fore in New Mexico

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:48+00:00 September 3rd, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

ALBUQUERQUE — The decision by clerks in six of New Mexico’s most populous counties to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples has added a sense of urgency to a fight that some of the state’s top political leaders

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Ban on therapy to ‘convert’ gay minors upheld

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:48+00:00 August 30th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

U.S. appellate panel upholds California’s ban on so-called conversion therapy for gays, rejecting arguments that it violated the 1st Amendment or parents’ rights.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Transgender Woman Dies After Beating in Front of NYPD Precinct

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:48+00:00 August 27th, 2013|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Islan Nettles was out in New York City with friends when a group of young men approached her, learned she was a transgender woman and began taunting and maliciously beating her—right in front of a police precinct in Harlem.

Chris Christie signs N.J. bill banning gay conversion therapy

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:43+00:00 August 20th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

New Jersey on Monday became the second state after California to ban so-called conversion therapy aimed at changing the sexual orientation of gay minors after Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill to prohibit the controversial practice.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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