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Legal

NYPD Settles Suit With Trans Woman Harassed, Busted for “False Personation”

By Paul Schindler

Housing Works Union oranizers

Health

After Year-Long Organizing Push, Housing Works Employees Get a Union Vote

By Kevin Duggan

Jose Saldana Eddie Conway courtesy RAPP

Legal

That’s Not Gangster, That’s Love

By Susie Day

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Health

De Blasio Team Open but Noncommital to Intersex Outreach Bill

By Matt Tracy

Brad Holyman anti-SLAPP

Hoylman Said Stronger Law Would Protect Lincoln Project’s Ivanka-Jared Billboards

By Paul Schindler

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Health

Women’s Marches Held In Response to Barrett Nomination

By Donna Aceto

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Crime

Jumaane Williams Declares “State of Crisis” in Anti-Trans Violence

By Paul Schindler

Early voting begins in Ohio

Poll Shows Swing State Trump Voters Tolerate Anti-LGBTQ Candidates

By Matt Tracy

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Jim Owles Hosting First Mayoral Forum

By Matt Tracy

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Legal

Appeals Court Win For Bi-National Couple and Their Sons

By Paul Schindler

Creating Change 2020, Dallas – www.devonrowland.com

Autopsy Reveals Monica Roberts Experienced Medical Emergency

By Matt Tracy

Creating Change 2020, Dallas – www.devonrowland.com

Trailblazing Trans Blogger Monica Roberts Dies at 58

By Matt Tracy

Transgender rights activist Sarah McBride speaks on stage at the Women In The World Summit in New York

Record Number of LGBTQ Political Candidates in 2020

By Matt Tracy

Felycya Harris

Crime

Black Transgender Woman Murdered in Georgia

By Matt Tracy

LGBTQ activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case in Washington

Advocacy

Report Documents Persistent, Widespread LGBTQ Discrimination, Healthcare Barriers

By Matt Tracy

JoAnn Wypijewski

Books

Because We Make Monsters

By Susie Day

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