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I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House, criticizes former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for her friend’s termination, writing that Kelly “oversaw some activities that were frankly shitty” when he fired or reassigned several staffers as part of a shake-up over issues with some staffers’ security clearances.The move came in response to negative press that the Trump White House received after it was revealed that former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter had

approved during the Obama administration, all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, are entitled to access programs, shelters, or other accommodations made available through HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development.

The New York Times, a White House official said Biden tapped Magnus for the position because of his record reforming police departments in Richmond and Tucson, his embrace of community-policing programs, and because of his experience policing a city close to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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lawsuit was filed in early November by a coalition of LGBTQ groups, as well as a business with federal contracts to provide such training to correctional staff and government agencies, who argue that the order, issued by President Trump on Sept. 22, violates their free speech rights and right to due process under the U.S.

Masterpiece Cakeshop case where a baker refused to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding; the Hobby Lobby decision, in which the Supreme Court found that for-profit closely-held corporations were entitled to religious exemptions; and the Our Lady of Guadalupe School case, where the high court found that schools have a right to designate any employee as a “minister” and may dismiss them if their behavior or lifestyle is in conflict with religious teachings.“In this final rule, OFCCP has sought to

The LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD is airing an ad arguing in favor of the Equality Act on Fox News each morning during the week of the Republican National Convention.The 30-second spot, which premiered during Fox News’ Fox & Friends program on Monday morning, will air during the show each morning in the New York and Washington, D.C. media markets.

ProPublica. “It sends a message when an overarching umbrella policy that is supposed to inform all of USAID’s practices and initiatives is missing those factors,” Gayatri Patel, the director of gender advocacy at CARE, a humanitarian organization, said of the LGBTQ omissions.According to ProPublica, the omission of LGBTQ mentions sparked an internal email exchange among USAID officials, with some noting their exclusion.

lawsuit, both women claim they’ve experience mistreatment, misgendering, and even been denied adequate care on multiple occasions when they interacted with health care workers, which has led them in the past to avoid seeking care except in emergency situations.

memo, authored by retired Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, M.D., the former Surgeon General equivalent of the U.S.

The Fight, a cinema-verité documentary that profiles Strangio and several other lawyers working for the ACLU on some of the most high-profile court cases challenging the Trump administration’s more galling policies and directives.Specifically, the film chronicles cases involving Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, the separation of immigrant children from their parents, abortion access for undocumented minors who have been raped, a proposed Census question on citizenship, and the Pentagon’s ban on

rule that eliminates Obama-era transgender protections from the Affordable Care Act.The lawsuit, filed by Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, the National Women’s Law Center, Transgender Law Center, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, and the law firm Hogan Lovells on behalf of the plaintiffs, alleges that the new rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act because it is contrary to law, as well as arbitrary and capricious.The rule itself revises

announced on Twitter three years ago this month — and whether the president would reconsider the policy after 116 members of Congress wrote a letter last week urging him to allow trans people to serve openly in the military.The press secretary responded by pivoting to the Trump administration’s much vaunted plan to decriminalize homosexuality globally.“I haven’t talked to him about that specific policy, but this president is proud that in 2019 we launched a global initiative to end the

With the Trump administration refusing to take back its rule permitting anti-transgender discrimination in health care following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights effectively countermanding it, LGBTQ legal advocates are returning to the courts to bring the federal government into compliance.

The New York Times.“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

ProPublica reports.

I live a few blocks from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. It’s the epicenter of the epicenter of the pandemic in America. Refrigerator trucks are outside. Testing lines snake around the block. Ambulance sirens persistently fill the air. My home sits directly under the biggest bubble in The New York Times info-map of infection rates. The news reported that when Trump saw pictures of Elmhurst Hospital’s emergency room, he changed his tune and thought, “Maybe there is a public health problem.”

A new report has found that the number of anti-LGBTQ hate groups in the United States rose 43% year-on-year between 2018 and 2019.

The federal Department of Health and Human Services wants to abolish nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans when it allocates $500 million in taxpayer money to organizations, according to a lawsuit filed against the agency by several LGBTQ organizations. Photo: iStock.

(Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

Ernesto Olivares and Evan Minton testified about the discrimination they endured as LGBTQ people. (Blade photo by Michael Key).

Ahead of the 2020 Census, Equality California has launched an outreach campaign on Facebook encouraging the LGBTQ community to answer the Census, which is crucial for funding various programs that help queer people and Congressional representation. Photo: Equality California.

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg –Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr

Four members of a White House panel to end the spread of HIV/AIDS have written a letter urging the Trump administration to avoid hindering the ability of LGBTQ people to receive healthcare.

This editorial cartoon recreates the classic scene from the film “Return of the Jedi” when Princess Leia strangles Jabba the Hutt. Image: Rob Sheridan.