Tag: LGBT Issues

Twitter is working on a policy for cryptocurrency ads following a decision by social media giants Google and Facebook to ban them amid growing fraud concerns.

Beltway Confidential

Twitter’s thought police descend on transgenderism skeptics

Kimberly Ross · November 26, 2018 10:43 am

The article "explores how to create a classroom grounded in social equality and guided by social work values to foster participation from students across all social identities."

Beltway Confidential

Professor wanted to use a student’s name instead of transgender pronoun — now he’s suing the school for forcing him to use it

Nicole Russell · November 24, 2018 5:00 am

The goal in Somalia is to help fight the extremist group al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

National Security

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to take up transgender military ban, bypass appeals courts

Vaishnavee Sharma · November 23, 2018 10:27 pm

Carmen Perez, Bob Bland, Tamika D. Mallory, and Linda Sarsour attend the TIME 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in New York.

Women’s March founder calls for co-chairs to resign

Diana Stancy Correll · November 20, 2018 1:40 am

Protesters shout before a speaking engagement by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on the campus of the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Sept. 14, 2017.

At Berkeley, rational discussion descends into darkness

Mark J. Perry and Sean Kennedy · November 19, 2018 5:00 am

U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, center, gestures while speaking after President Donald Trump, left, announced a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Also on stage is White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump had called a job-killing disaster.

Dozens of House Republicans object to gay rights language in NAFTA replacement deal

Sean Higgins · November 16, 2018 7:48 pm

Conservative campus leaders increasingly threatened with impeachment

Lauren Cooley · November 16, 2018 4:08 pm

HRC president Chad Griffin appears at a phone bank event for HRC-endorsed candidate Kate Brown for Oregon governor in Portland, Ore.

Human Rights Campaign president announces exit

Diana Stancy Correll · November 15, 2018 6:05 pm

A woman and her children pause Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, to take in a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue honoring the 11 people killed Oct 27, 2018 while worshipping in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Hate crimes reported to FBI jumped 17 percent in 2017

Kelly Cohen · November 13, 2018 5:18 pm

U.S. Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks after being declared the winner.

Kyrsten Sinema hailed as first openly bisexual senator

Diana Stancy Correll · November 13, 2018 4:19 am

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

National Security

House Democrats prepare to battle Trump’s transgender military ban

Travis J. Tritten · November 10, 2018 5:00 am

Rep. Adam Smith speaks to the crowd at an election night party for Democrats Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Bellevue, Wash.

Energy and Environment

Adam Smith pledges to reduce nuclear weapons, push green energy as House Armed Services Committee chairman

Travis J. Tritten · November 8, 2018 9:22 pm