It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
Here in Connecticut it is the best of times there are five pro LGBTQ+ bills advancing through the legislature including a bill to add a third gender option to IDs and a bill to ban Trans/Gay Panic defense in court, but in other states and countries it is the worst of times.
Tennessee Is Trying to Pass a Bathroom Bill by Pretending It’s Not a Bathroom BillDown in Tennessee they took that warning to heart and instead of a direct attack on us they are,
Yikes.
NewNowNext
By Nico Lang
April 18, 2019
After Massachusetts voted to keep in place laws protecting its transgender citizens last year, anti-LGBTQ activists were faced with a choice: whether to keep lying or start telling the truth.
In a November op-ed for the right-wing website LifeSiteNews, MassResistance—which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBTQ hate group—acknowledged that the attempt by conservatives to convince the public that trans people pose a threat to the safety of women and children had largely failed. Massachusetts voters upheld a 2016 law allowing transgender people to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity by a 35-point margin. Just months earlier, Anchorage defeated a “bathroom bill” voter referendum 53% to 47%.
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“We need to learn from this,” MassResistance concluded. If anti-LGBTQ campaigns hoped to avoid further losses, MassResistance claimed they needed to stop hiding behind half-hearted rhetoric and be honest about their real target: “the bizarre and delusional nature of transgenderism itself.”
On Wednesday, April 17, the Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee in the Tennessee House held the final hearing on House Bill 1274, which has rapidly been gaining momentum in the legislature. If passed, it would direct the Tennessee Attorney General to defend school districts who are sued for refusing to allow trans students to use restrooms and locker rooms that align with their sense of self.
Kasey Suffredini, president of strategy at Freedom for All Americans, claims that while the strategy might be different, there’s no mistaking that this proposal is, in effect, a bathroom bill. He says it passes the buck onto local school districts to administer their own anti-trans policies.
Meanwhile north of the border they are following in Trump’s footsteps…
Alberta candidate who compared homosexuality to paedophilia wins electionIt is the best of time, it was the worst of times.
Pink News
By Nick Duffy
18th April 2019
A candidate who has compared homosexuality to paedophilia and claimed Christian schools should be able to fire gay teachers has won election to the legislative assembly in Alberta, Canada.
United Conservative Party candidate Mark Smith won the Drayton Valley-Devon seat in Tuesday’s (April 16) Alberta general election, despite his anti-gay views emerging days before polling day.
Smith received more than 70 percent of the vote according to initial counts, well ahead of second-placed candidate Kieran Quirke, on just 17 percent.
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Ahead of election day, the right-wing party pledged to axe a law that prevents teachers from outing school children in gay-straight alliance groups to their parents.
UCP leader Jason Kenney, who is now set to become Premier of Alberta, has vowed to repeal the 2017 law protecting the rights of students to form GSAs, and introduce a replacement law that opponents say is much weaker.
Kenney’s plan would remove part of the law that prohibits schools from notifying parents about whether their child has joined a gay-straight alliance, which was put in place to protect LGBT+ children from ‘outing’.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
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