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CPCC transgender discrimination cited in new short documentary

An incident of anti-transgender discrimination at Central Piedmont Community College last year is cited in a new short documentary produced in collaboration with the Chronicle of Higher Education and Campus Pride.

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Analysis and Commentary

Kim Davis goes to jail in Kentucky, but her anti-gay actions are legal in North Carolina

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is in jail for repeatedly disobeying a court order to do her job. In North Carolina, her actions are completely legal.

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Thoughts and whatever

North Carolina’s sodomy law and the religious motivation of anti-LGBT oppression

Religion-based prejudice against LGBT people isn’t new. For millennia, anti-LGBT practices, teachings and beliefs of the Christian church have been at the root and the basis of anti-LGBT oppression. This basis is obviously and abundantly clear, even in the present day. In every state and in cities across the country, each and every movement to adopt […]

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Satire and Stuff

American Family Association proclaims the Carolinas a safe, queer-free zone

There are no LGBT people in the Carolinas. Certainly, there are no LGBT organizations in the Carolinas. At least that’s what you might think looking at the American Family Association’s ridiculous “bigotry map.”

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Analysis and Commentary

South Carolina’s Old South is rising to rout the gays

South Carolina isn’t going to let its last states’ rights hurrah go down without a fight. In sleepy downtown Columbia, as statues of segregationist Strom Thurmond and violent Red Shirter Ben Tillman look on, a showdown is blossoming between the Palmetto State’s anti-LGBT status quo and the federal government’s continued march toward full equality for LGBT couples.