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|  | Wisconsin governor challenges abortion ban
2022-06-29
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the state's 173-year-old ban on abortions, asking a state court to declare the law unenforceable, ABC 7 Chicago reported. In ...
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| | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission adds X gender marker to charge intake process
2022-06-28
-- From a press release - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today full implementation of the opportunity to select a nonbinary "X" gender marker during the intake process for filing a charge of discrimination. "By adding a ...
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| | HRC on how the end of Roe v. Wade impacts the LGBTQ+ community
2022-06-28
-- From a press release. Video below. - WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, in light of the dangerous Supreme Court decision in Dobbs ...
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| | Task Force issues reaction to religious-freedom SCOTUS rulings
2022-06-28
-- From a National LGBTQ Task Force press release - Statement from the National LGBTQ Task Force Policy Director Liz Seaton on the recent religious-freedom SCOTUS rulings: Upending decades of precedent that protected the religious freedom of students across the country and strongly supported our Democracy ...
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| | Twenty-six people arrested following Chicago Pride Parade
2022-06-28
Chicago Police Department (CPD) made 26 arrests in the evening hours following the 51st annual Pride Parade on June 26, according to CPD Superintendent David Brown. Although few incidents occurred during the parade itself, "the drunk ...
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| | VIEWS Workers' rights are LGBTQ+ rights
2022-06-27
June usually marks a joyous month for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies as we reflect on the decades of hard work that our community and movement have put into securing and promoting our civil rights. ...
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| | NATIONAL Biden's proposal, VP Harris, Elizabeth Taylor, outbreak, candidates
2022-06-26
Lambda Legal issued a press release lauding the Biden administration for issuing proposed regulations that will help protect LGBTQI+ youth against unlawful discrimination. The proposed rules, issued by the U.S. ...
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| | Supreme Court justice says marriage-equality ruling should be reconsidered
2022-06-24
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a concurring opinion regarding the revocation of the constitutional right to abortion that the U.S. Supreme Court "should reconsider" its past rulings codifying rights to contraception access, same-sex ...
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| | Abortion decision called 'full scale assault' on rights
2022-06-24
In a ruling that one legal activist said will put LGBT rights "on the chopping block," the U.S. Supreme Court today (June 24) ruled 6 to 3 that the U.S. Constitution "does not prohibit" states from ...
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| | BREAKING U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
2022-06-24
On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The decision means that states will determine abortion rights, which may prompt many women to go ...
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| | North Carolina to issue accurate birth certificates for transgender people without requiring surgery
2022-06-24
-- From a press release - (Greensboro, NC — June 23, 2022) — Transgender people born in North Carolina will now be able to correct the gender marker on their birth certificates without the need for surgery under a consent judgment issued ...
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| | Gov. Pritzker expands state license plate options to include Chicago Sky, Red Stars and Fire
2022-06-24
-- From a press release - CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker signed HB4434 into law today, expanding the options of professional sports team license plates Illinoisans can choose from at the Secretary of State. The change, which adds the Chicago Fire, the ...
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| | Illinois' Kwame Raoul joins VP Harris, other attorneys general to discuss reproductive rights
2022-06-24
-- From a press release - Washington — Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined Vice President Kamala Harris as well as Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and California Chief Deputy Attorney General Venus Johnson for a roundtable discussion ...
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| | Supreme Court strikes down N.Y. gun law; LGBTQ+ groups react
2022-06-23
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court eased restrictions on carrying firearms in public, continuing a trend by the court in recent years of weakening gun restrictions, according to Yahoo! News. The court's conservative majority ruled ...
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| | NATIONAL Sec. of state; Palm Center; judicial nominees; Detroit bar
2022-06-19
Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a roundtable with six LGBTQI reporters at the State Department, according to The Washington Blade. It was the first time a secretary of state sat down with a group of ...
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