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US: In Historic Win With Shock Majority, Supreme Court Rules It’s Illegal to Fire Employees for Being Gay or Trans

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There is no question that Congress did not have gay or trans people in mind when the law was passed. So from an ideological point of view, the case presented a conflict between two conservative judicial philosophies: textualism (what the words on the page actually say) and originalism (what the writers of the law meant).

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Ghana: With blackmail list, gay men in Ghana fight conmen posing as lovers

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Alex Kofi Donkor, head of local activist group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, decided to fight back last year on Twitter and Facebook with the Ghana Gay Blackmail List, which exposes “notorious persons who steal, abuse & blackmail gay men”.

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OHCHR: Threshold test on hate speech now available in 32 languages

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A "practical and useful tool" in the fight against incitement to hatred and violence has been translated in 32 languages.

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US: Same-sex weddings have boosted economies by $3.8 billion since gay marriage was legalized five years ago this month, a new study says

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The same-sex wedding industry also supported at least 45,000 jobs and generated more than $244.1 million in state and local sales tax since June 2015, according to the report from the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy.

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South Korea: Layoffs at Lotte Dept. Store stir controversy

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A recent infection cluster linked to nightclubs and bars in Itaewon, Seoul, has caused a ripple effect with the laying off of a considerable number of employees at luxury boutiques in Lotte Department Store in Myeong-dong, Seoul, that is stirring controversy here.

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US: Aimee Stephens, the center of landmark transgender rights Supreme Court case, dies before the ruling

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For the better part of the past decade, Aimee Stephens was fighting two battles: one against kidney disease, and another that went to the Supreme Court, a potential landmark case over her 2013 firing after coming out to her boss as transgender.

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US: Supreme Court Takes On Employment Bias at Religious Schools

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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday on how broadly federal employment discrimination laws apply to schools run by churches in two cases that will give the court another opportunity to rule on the proper relationship between church and state, a topic that has deeply engaged the justices.

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Indonesia: YouTube prankster arrested after giving out garbage-filled 'aid packages' to transwomen

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Vlogger Ferdian Paleka has been arrested after posting a YouTube video of him and his friend apparently pulling a "prank" on transwomen by giving them fake staple food donations in the form of boxes containing garbage.

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US: In 2 cases that await Supreme Court decision, the stakes are enormous for LGBTQ employee protection

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While COVID-19 has our full attention, two cases with potentially disastrous consequences for the LGBTQ community sit in the U.S. Supreme Court like a ticking bomb.